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 »
Charlotte Gill's memoir about tree-planting in the Pacific Northwest is the winner of the 2012 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, published ... Read More »
The Lionel Gelber Prize, a Canadian award that celebrates the best English-language non-fiction on foreign affairs, has released its shortlist for books published in 2011. This year's finalists are: Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: ... Read More »
The Ontario Library Association has announced its shortlist for the 2012 Evergreen Award, which honours the best in Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles. Selected by a committee of librarians, this year's nominees are: The Accident, ... Read More »
B.C. author Bernadette McDonald has won the 2012 American Alpine Literary Award. McDonald, founding vice-president of mountain culture at the Banff Centre and the author of seven books, has received the honour for her book ... Read More »
Guy Delisle's latest graphic novel, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, has been named best comic book of the year at the 39th Angoulême International Comics Festival. The Quebec-born artist was presented with the Fauve ... Read More »
Children's author and illustrator Barbara Reid is set to be appointed to the Order of Ontario. Reid will receive the province's highest honour for her "unparalleled" influence on children's publishing in Canada over the past ... Read More »
Just as a pair of novels came to dominate the past fall's literary awards season, so too has a pair of non-fiction titles, about tree-planting in the Pacific Northwest and a group of chimps living ... Read More »
Last week, Governor General David Johnston announced that he will appoint prolific children's writer Tim Wynne-Jones an Officer of the Order of Canada. Wynne-Jones has written more than 25 books, twice received the Governor General's ... Read More »
Canadian-born author and former opera singer Moira Young has won the U.K.'s Costa Book Award for children's literature for her debut novel, Blood Red Road. Young's post-apocalyptic dystopian story, which has been compared to Suzanne ... Read More »