A novel that, less than a year ago, was without a Canadian publisher has won the country's most prestigious literary prize. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, about a jazz musician who disappears in Nazi-occupied France, was ... Read More »
The Donner Canadian Foundation has increased the purse for its prize in public policy writing from $35,000 to $50,000. Allan Gotlieb, chair of the foundation, also announced Monday that the amount awarded to shortlisted authors ... Read More »
November 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Tomorrow night's Scotiabank Giller Prize awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBC's new cable channel Bold at 9 p.m. (EST), followed by a rebroadcast on the same channel at 11:05 p.m. For viewers with ... Read More »
Prosecutors in Georgia are alleging that a group of four would-be terrorists found inspiration for planned attacks in a violent online novel called Absolved. Written by Mike Vanderboegh, a former leader of a militia group ... Read More »
November 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Internationally best-selling author Deepak Chopra has signed a deal to publish an upcoming memoir with Amazon. The book will be titled Brotherhood: A Tale of Faith, Big Dreams, and the Power of Persistence, and will ... Read More »
November 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include a gastronomical homage to Ferran Adrià at the Cookbook Store and the unveiling of ... Read More »
November 5, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The Writers' Trust of Canada handed out $100,000 in awards Tuesday night (read ... Read More »
November 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
A week after the new kid on the awards block was handed out, the long-list for Canada's second richest prize for non-fiction, the $40,000 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, has been announced. D&M Publishers ... Read More »
November 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Toronto's International Festival of Authors has wrapped up for another year. Here ... Read More »
Patrick deWitt has won the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Sisters Brothers (House of Anansi Press), kicking off the prize season for Canadian literary fiction and setting up a possible awards sweep ... Read More »
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