CBC Books has announced the longlist for the 14th annual Canada Reads competition. This year's edition, hosted by journalist Wab Kinew, intends to recognize "one book to break barriers." Members of an as yet anonymous ... Read More »
The B.C. Achievement Foundation announced the shortlist for the 11th annual B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction on Wednesday. The award aims to "celebrate a genre that stimulates our national conversation and shares knowledge about ... Read More »
December 11, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
The longlist for the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize, recognizing excellence in Canadian literary non-fiction, has been announced. A jury comprising arts executive Kevin Garland, editor and columnist Martin Levin, and 2013 Taylor Prize winner Andrew ... Read More »
December 10, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the winners of the annual Heritage and History Book Awards at a ceremony at the Ship Pub in St. John's last night. The awards "acknowledge the important ... Read More »
December 10, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced the shortlists for the 2014 Heritage and History Book Awards. The prize alternates annually between fiction and children’s/YA literature, and non-fiction and poetry, with this year’s awards ... Read More »
November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
The famed "Giller effect"– a term used to describe the dramatic spike in sales for a book after it wins the Scotiabank Giller Prize – is alive and well. According to the Nov. 21 bestsellers ... Read More »
November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Awards, Bestsellers
Vancouver author Christine Leclerc was announced winner of the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Oilywood (Nomados Books) at the annual Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market, held at Toronto's Tranzac Club on Saturday. Leclerc is the ... Read More »
November 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
The longlist for the 19th International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a prize of €100,000, was announced today. Each year, public libraries worldwide nominate titles of "high literary merit" this year Canadian libraries in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, ... Read More »
November 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
Gary Bass is the recipient of the seventh annual Cundill Prize in Historical Literature for The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Knopf). McGill University chancellor Michael Meighen and McGill dean of arts ... Read More »
November 21, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
The Quebec Writers' Federation announced the winners of its 16th annual literary awards at a gala at Montreal's Corona Theatre Tuesday night. The awards intend to honour the best English-language writers from Quebec with a ... Read More »
November 19, 2014 | Filed under: Awards
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