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Library and Archives Canada to eliminate more than 100 positions

The Globe and Mail is reporting that the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the country's largest union of federal workers, has given layoff notices to 235 of its members at Library and Archives Canada. According ... Read More »

April 30, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links roundup: Barnes & Noble spins off Nook, Byliner removes Bissinger’s ebook from Amazon, and more

By Sue Carter

Barnes & Noble spins off Nook subsidiary with $300 million investment by Microsoft Byliner takes ebook by Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger off Amazon The Millions' step-by-step guide to introducing an author Comparing foreign ... Read More »

April 30, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Winners of Manitoba Book Awards announced

By Natalie Samson

The Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Publishers handed out the 24th annual Manitoba Book Awards on Saturday, April 28. Notable among the night's 13 winners are Esmé Claire Keith, whose debut novel, ... Read More »

April 30, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Titles Bookstore in Peterborough to close

By Natalie Samson

Peterborough, Ontario, is set to lose another bookshop this season. Titles Bookstore, an independent bookseller in the city's downtown core, will close in May, just shy of its 25th anniversary. Owners Anne and Dave Heuft ... Read More »

April 27, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling

Q&A: Maya Gallus, director of literary doc The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche

By Sue Carter

Severn Thompson stars as Mazo de la Roche (Photo: NFB) Mazo de la Roche was one of Canada's most famous and prolific authors, penning 23 novels, 13 plays, and more than 50 short stories. Her ... Read More »

April 27, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Canadian literary event roundup: April 27-May 3

By Sue Carter

Canadian Literature Symposium - The Worlds of Carol Shields, University of Ottawa (April 27“29, $100, details available on the website) Manitoba Book Awards, Centre culturel franco-manitobain, Winnipeg (April 28, 7 p.m., free) Barbara Reid reads ... Read More »

April 27, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Brian Brett wins B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

The West Coast Book Prize Society has awarded Brian Brett British Columbia's ninth annual Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. Brett is a writer, publisher, journalist, and teacher. He initiated the B.C. Poetry in the ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Q&A: poet and Book Fridge founder Kerri Cull

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Labrador writer Kerri Cull, founder of the literary blog The Book Fridge, recently released her debut collection of poems, Soak (Breakwater Books). Quillblog caught up with Cull before her reading tonight at the White Horse Lounge ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Patrick deWitt wins Leacock

By Sue Carter

Patrick deWitt is the recipient of some new bling, in the form of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. This is the third Canadian award win for deWitt's novel The Sisters Brothers (House of ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Richard Gwyn wins $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen prize

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Richard Gwyn's Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867 - 1891 (Random House Canada), the second volume in the two-part biography of Canada's first Prime Minister, is the recipient of ... Read More »

April 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

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Library and Archives Canada to eliminate more than 100 positions

Book links roundup: Barnes & Noble spins off Nook, Byliner removes Bissinger’s ebook from Amazon, and more

Winners of Manitoba Book Awards announced

Titles Bookstore in Peterborough to close

Q&A: Maya Gallus, director of literary doc The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche

Canadian literary event roundup: April 27-May 3

Brian Brett wins B.C.’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence

Q&A: poet and Book Fridge founder Kerri Cull

Patrick deWitt wins Leacock

Richard Gwyn wins $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen prize

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