As the spring season winds down, here are just a few highlights from the past ... Read More »
June 19, 2013 | Filed under: Events
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Yesterday at the Toronto Congress Centre, Terry Fallis was awarded the Libris Author award, beating out Will Ferguson, Alice Munro, and Nancy Richler. Ferguson had his own victory when he took home the fiction prize ... Read More »
June 4, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
The Trillium Book Award shortlists have been released for English- and French-language books, English-language poetry and French-language children's literature. English finalists: Tamara Faith Berger, Maidenhead (Coach House Books) Steven Heighton, The Dead Are More Visible ... Read More »
May 30, 2013 | Filed under: Awards
Sustainable paper advocate Canopy has two new high-profile faces to add to its conservation initiative. Yann Martel and Alice Munro have partnered with the Vancouver-based not-for-profit to release special, signed editions of Life of Pi (Knopf ... Read More »
March 6, 2013 | Filed under: Book news
In the December issue of Q&Q, Scott MacDonald asks: how do you edit one of the most precise writers working in the English language? According to Alice Munro's long-time U.S. and Canadian editors, even a ... Read More »
December 17, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Books of the Year
Actors Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld, Guy Pearce, and Nick Nolte have signed on to star in the indie film Hateship, Friendship based on Alice Munro's short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage." The screenplay was ... Read More »
October 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
This review of Alice Munro's new collection of short stories, Dear Life (McClelland & Stewart), appears in the November issue of Q&Q. Feature reviewer James Grainger writes: Critics have been saying for so long that ... Read More »
October 16, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Alice Munro's sold-out appearance at Toronto's International Festival of Authors has been cancelled. In a press release from the IFOA, Munro's friend and editor, Douglas Gibson, says, "Alice is 81 years old now, and her ... Read More »
October 12, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
A Chinese author whose name, until this morning, was likely unfamiliar to many in the West has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mo Yan is arguably best known for his novel Red Sorghum, which ... Read More »
October 11, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
FALL PREVIEW A first look at the season's most anticipated books Fiction: Susan Swan's long-awaited prequel to The Wives of Bath; Alice Munro's new collection; Matthew Tierney's science-inspired poetry; and more Non-fiction: Neil Young's rock ... Read More »
July 4, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
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