The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council has revealed its shortlist for this year's BMO Winterset Award. The finalists are: Edward Riche, Easy to Like (House of Anansi Press) Don McKay, The Shell of the Tortoise ... Read More »
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The West Coast Book Prize Society has announced the shortlists for the 28th annual B.C. Book Prizes, and for Esi Edugyan, the competition cuts close to home. Edugyan, whose novel Half-Blood Blues won the 2011 ... Read More »
March 8, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Esi Edugyan In honour of International Women's Day, the Orange Prize for Fiction, celebrating "excellence, originality, and accessibility in women's writing," has announced its 2012 longlist, which includes two celebrated Canadian authors. Emma Donoghue, whose ... Read More »
March 8, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The Canadian Library Association has revealed the shortlists for this year's children's, YA, and illustrated book awards. The lists feature the best English-language books by Canadian authors published in Canada in 2011, as decided by ... Read More »
The $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction was awarded to Andrew Westoll for his book The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery at a ceremony in Toronto this afternoon. ... Read More »
March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Jack Rabinovitch, founder of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, has announced the jury for 2012 is Gary Shteyngart, Anna Porter, and Roddy Doyle. Shteyngart is an American writer whose most recent novel, Super Sad True Love ... Read More »
March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Shandi Mitchell holding the Kobzar Literary Award statue (Photo: James Di Donato) Nova Scotian filmmaker Shandi Mitchell has won the Kobzar Literary Award for her 2009 debut novel, Under This Broken Sky (Penguin Canada). The ... Read More »
March 2, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
The 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize has been awarded to Ezra F. Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, published by Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press. Vogel's book about the history and ... Read More »
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 »
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
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