Search Results by tag: Awards

Canadian Culinary Book Awards renamed for 15th anniversary

The Canadian Culinary Book Awards has cooked up a new name and brand identity in time for its 15th anniversary. Now known as Taste Canada “ The Food Writing Awards, the prizes will "further celebrate ... Read More »

January 3, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Arabic short story wins inaugural Rainbow Caterpillar kidlit award

By Natalie Samson

Toronto-based Rainbow Caterpillar Multilingual Children's Bookshop named Ahmad Marouf the winner of the first Rainbow Caterpillar Children's Literature in a Mother Language Award. The bookshop presented Marouf with the $750 prize at the Canadian Ethnic ... Read More »

December 14, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Events

Quillcast episode four: Clark Blaise and The Meagre Tarmac

By Sue Carter

Quillcast is a podcast series from Quill & Quire featuring behind-the-scenes conversations with authors and publishing insiders. In this episode, recorded during Toronto's International Festival of Authors in October, Catherine Bush interviews Clark Blaise about ... Read More »

December 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Quillcast

Charles Taylor Prize reveals first ever longlist

By Stuart Woods

Since it was launched in 2000, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction has traditionally been among the first major literary prizes celebrated in the new year. Now, for the first time, organizers have revealed ... Read More »

December 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction finalists announced

By Sue Carter

The B.C. Achievement Foundation has announced the shortlist for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction. Chosen from a longlist of 10 titles, the finalists are: Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism by ... Read More »

December 8, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Slideshow: Introducing the 2012 Canada Reads finalists

By Sue Carter

If yesterday's CBC Canada Reads public meet-and-greet in Toronto was any indication, the non-fiction contest, which airs in February 2012, will be a battle fuelled by strong personalities. Canada Reads host Jian Ghomeshi introduced the ... Read More »

November 24, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Canada Reads announces non-fiction nominees

By Stuart Woods

The first ever non-fiction edition of CBC Canada Reads features five titles that chronicle everything from a cross-Canada musical tour, a woman's harrowing experience in an Iranian prison, the hunt for a Siberian tiger, a ... Read More »

November 23, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Foran, deWitt add GGs to literary accolades

By Stuart Woods

Two of the most high-profile winners of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards have already won major literary prizes this season. Charles Foran won the non-fiction prize for Mordecai: The Life & Times (Knopf Canada), which ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

$10,000 Alberta prize now open to books published out of province

By Stuart Woods

Organizers of the Alberta Readers' Choice Award, now in its third year, have taken steps to quiet a muted strain of controversy that has attached itself to the prize since its inception. The $10,000 award, ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Libraries

“Giller effect” boosts e-book sales of Half-Blood Blues

By Sue Carter

The so-called "Scotiabank Giller Prize effect" is already helping e-book numbers for Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers). Yesterday, Half-Blood Blues was listed 3,376 on Amazon's bestsellers list for Kindle e-books. As of noon ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Digital publishing and technology

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