Search Results by tag: Awards

Wang Ping joins Griffin Prize jury

Chinese-born novelist, academic, and poet Wang Ping has been tapped as a judge for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize, replacing Breyten Breytenbach on the three-person jury. According to a press release, Breytenbach, who was named ... Read More »

December 20, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Nancy Huston beats Tom Wolfe for Bad Sex in Fiction Award

By Sue Carter

Calgary-born novelist Nancy Huston has won the 20th annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award for her novel Infrared (McArthur & Company), about a photographer who takes photos of her lovers' bodies using an infrared camera. ... Read More »

December 5, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Kim Thuy makes Man Asian Literary Prize longlist

By Sue Carter

Quebec author Kim Thuy and Toronto novelist Musharraf Ali Farooqi are longlisted for this year's 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.* Thuy's debut novel, Ru, was first published in 2009 by Quebec's Libre Expression, winning the ... Read More »

December 4, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Charles Taylor Prize names 2013 longlist

By Sue Carter

It's a good day for Modris Eksteins and Robert Fowler, who today were both nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction and the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. Eksteins and Fowler are joined ... Read More »

December 4, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Candace Savage, Modris Eksteins make shortlist for B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction

By Sue Carter

Personal memoirs dominate the shortlist for the 2013 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. Selected from a longlist of 10 titles, this year's finalists includes Modris Eksteins and Robert Fowler, who today were both nominated ... Read More »

December 4, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Stephen Platt wins 2012 Cundill Prize in History at McGill

By Safa Jinje

Stephen Platt has won the Cundill Prize in History at McGill University for Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, The West, And the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War (Knopf). The $75,000 award, which is ... Read More »

December 3, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Trilby Kent, GeneviÃ¨ve CÃ´tÃ© big winners at Canadian Children’s Literature Awards

By Dory Cerny

It was an evening of sparkling lights, flowing wine, and eloquent speeches as the kid-literati gathered at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Toronto for the annual Canadian Children's Literature Awards, administered by the Canadian Children's Book ... Read More »

November 22, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Winners of the 2012 Canadian Children’s Literature Awards

By Safa Jinje

The Canadian Children's Literature Awards were handed out at a ceremony at The Ritz-Carlton in Toronto last night. Tim Hockey, president and CEO of TD Canada Trust, announced that the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award ... Read More »

November 22, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Rawi Hage among winners at Quebec literary awards

By Safa Jinje

The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards gala was held on Tuesday in Montreal. Rawi Hage won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for his novel Carnival (House of Anansi Press). Hage previously won the ... Read More »

November 22, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction

By Sue Carter

On Nov. 12, Toronto's Koerner Hall was the place to be as the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction was presented to Candace Savage for her personal narrative on the history of Saskatchewan's ... Read More »

November 15, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

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Search Results by tag: Awards

Wang Ping joins Griffin Prize jury

Nancy Huston beats Tom Wolfe for Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Kim Thuy makes Man Asian Literary Prize longlist

Charles Taylor Prize names 2013 longlist

Candace Savage, Modris Eksteins make shortlist for B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction

Stephen Platt wins 2012 Cundill Prize in History at McGill

Photos: Trilby Kent, GeneviÃ¨ve CÃ´tÃ© big winners at Canadian Children’s Literature Awards

Winners of the 2012 Canadian Children’s Literature Awards

Rawi Hage among winners at Quebec literary awards

Photos: Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction

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