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Five Canadian titles nominated for Banff Mountain Book awards

Five Canadian titles have risen to the top of the 2013 Banff Mountain Book Competition. Allen Smutylo's The Memory of Water (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) is nominated for best adventure-travel book. In the fiction category, ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

2013 Sunburst Award winners announced

By Sue Carter

This year's Sunburst Awards for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic were presented to Martine Desjardins for her novel Maleficium (Talonbooks) and, in the Young Adult category, to Rachel Hartman for Seraphina (Doubleday Canada).Selected by a jury ... Read More »

September 19, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Priscila Uppal, Thomas King make Weston Prize shortlist

By Sue Carter

The shortlist for the third annual Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction was announced this morning at the Loblaws flagship store in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. Penguin Random House Canada imprints dominate the shortlist ... Read More »

September 18, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Meet the 2013 Giller Prize longlist

By Sue Carter

Click on the thumbnails to read more about ... Read More »

September 17, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Boyden, Messud land on Giller longlist that also contains some surprises

By Stuart Woods

The awards season is officially underway with this morning's announcement of the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The list includes the fall's most buzzed about Canadian novel (Joseph Boyden's The Orenda), as well as past nominees Lynn ... Read More »

September 16, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Arc reveals Archibald Lampman Award shortlist

By Sue Carter

Arc Poetry Magazine has announced the shortlist for the Archibald Lampman Award, an annual prize recognizing the year's best English-language poetry collection written by an Ottawa-region resident. Selected by jurors Priscila Uppal, Andris Taskans, and ... Read More »

September 13, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Poet Ann Shin wins Wordfest’s Anne Green Award

By Sue Carter

Toronto poet Ann Shin has won the Anne Green Award for her collection, The Family China (Brick Books). Named after the founding director of Calgary's Wordfest, the multidisciplinary award honours artistic works that "explore and ... Read More »

September 12, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian Children’s Book Centre Awards finalists announced

By Julie Baldassi

The finalists have been announced for the 2013 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards. The honours will be handed out at two gala events on Oc. 22 in Toronto and Oct. 29 in Montreal. This year ... Read More »

September 11, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Man Booker shortlist includes Canadian connections

By Julie Baldassi

The Man Booker Prize jury has whittled down the 13-book longlist, released in July, to six titles. The shortlist is being billed as the most diverse in recent memory, and includes a pair of authors ... Read More »

September 10, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Giller jury to speak publicly for the first time in the prize’s history

By Steven W. Beattie

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, currently the country's richest prize for fiction. To mark the occasion, the Giller administration is making some changes, including one that will likely come ... Read More »

September 10, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

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