Lawrence Hill has been named the recipient of this year's Freedom to Read Award for his "reasoned and eloquent response to the threat to burn his novel The Book of Negroes, according to a statement ... Read More »
The unfinished border between Maine and New Brunswick, a biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, a pine beetle epidemic, and two biographies on Pierre Trudeau make up The Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize ... Read More »
February 22, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Saltspring Island launches new literary festival with a political bent Parent & Child Magazine announces top 100 children's books of all time Abraham Lincoln honoured on President's Day with a 34-foot tower of books Dominique ... Read More »
February 22, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Michael Ondaatje's The Cat's Table nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize Don DeLillo and Russell Banks among finalists for 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award The Order of the Stick Reprint Drive becomes first book project on ... Read More »
February 21, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
If the Toronto Public Library has its way, this spring's must-read book will be Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down (Coach House Books). The 2008 novel has been selected for this year's One Book initiative, a ... Read More »
February 21, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries
Governor General's Literary Award nominees David Bezmozgis and Alexi Zentner can now add the Amazon.ca First Novel Award shortlist, announced this morning, to their list of accolades. Bezmozgis was also shortlisted for last year's Scotiabank ... Read More »
February 21, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Last week librarian Louis Choquette was searching for a book on Greek philosophy and came across an intriguing note wedged between the pages of a well-worn edition of Plato's Symposium at Toronto Public Library's Agincourt ... Read More »
February 17, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
This week, Quillblog went back to March 1984, and discovered an article about Q&Q's collection of literary portraits, which had been recently purchased by the National Library of Canada. The 72 photographs, some of which ... Read More »
February 17, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
The shortlists for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards were announced this morning at a press conference held at the University of Regina. According to organizers, this year's 61 nominees, selected from 233 submissions, represent a ... Read More »
February 17, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
It's another busy week for literary events. Here's a sample of what's going on across the country: Esi Edugyan reads and signs her Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel Half Blood Blues, Indigo Manulife, Toronto (Feb. 17, ... Read More »
February 17, 2012 | Filed under: Events
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