On Nov. 28, this year's Governor General's Literary Award recipients were celebrated at ... Read More »
December 3, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
The ReLit Awards has abandoned its infamously thorough longlists in favour of 10-title shortlists. Founded by writer Kenneth J. Harvey, the annual awards recognize novels, short fiction, and poetry published by Canadian independent literary presses. ... Read More »
November 25, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
The busy awards season continued Wednesday night with a gala ceremony at Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio, celebrating ... Read More »
November 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
Anne Applebaum is the recipient of the 2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature for Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944"“1956 (McClelland & Stewart), announced at an award ceremony in Toronto on Wednesday night. ... Read More »
November 21, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
Colin McAdam has won the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for A Beautiful Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada), which tells the parallel stories of a couple who adopt a chimpanzee named Looee and the primates at ... Read More »
November 21, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
The longlist has been announced for the 10th annual B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, worth $40,000. The jury, comprising The Globe and Mail books editor Jared Bland, journalist and author Daphne Bramham, and publishing veteran ... Read More »
November 20, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
The Quebec Writers' Federation's annual literary awards, recognizing the best English-language works published by Quebec writers, were presented at a gala in Montreal on Tuesday night. The evening also served to celebrate the 15th anniversary ... Read More »
November 20, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
Two winners tied for the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award, announced at Meet the Presses collective's Indie Literary Market in Toronto this weekend. The winners are: Sandra Allard for Naturally Speaking, published by Toronto's espresso/paperplates press; and ... Read More »
November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
Terry Fallis's novel Up and Down (Random House Canada) has won the Forest of Reading's 2013 Evergreen Award, which celebrates the best in Canadian fiction and non-fiction as voted by Ontario library patrons. Up and ... Read More »
November 18, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
The Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador has announced the finalists for the 2013 Heritage and History Book Awards in the categories of non-fiction and poetry. The awards, which honour works that "exemplify excellence in ... Read More »
November 14, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
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