A novel that, less than a year ago, was without a Canadian publisher has won the country's most prestigious literary prize. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, about a jazz musician who disappears in Nazi-occupied France, was ... Read More »
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Tomorrow night's Scotiabank Giller Prize awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBC's new cable channel Bold at 9 p.m. (EST), followed by a rebroadcast on the same channel at 11:05 p.m. For viewers with ... Read More »
Patrick deWitt has won the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Sisters Brothers (House of Anansi Press), kicking off the prize season for Canadian literary fiction and setting up a possible awards sweep ... Read More »
Tony Burgess has added a second ReLit ring to his collection of awards. Having won the prize in 2004 for his story collection Fiction for Lovers, he nabbed a second for his 2010 story collection, ... Read More »
The Ontario Library Association has announced its shortlists for its 2012 Forest of Reading program. The winners, as chosen by Ontario school children, will be announced during the Forest of Reading Festival, May 15“16, 2012. ... Read More »
October 17, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Libraries
The Canada Council for the Arts has responded to allegations of a conflict of interest with this year's Governor General's Literary Award for poetry shortlist. Small Toronto publisher BookThug surprised many with three entries on ... Read More »
October 14, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
The City of Toronto has awarded the 2011 Toronto Book Award to Rabindranath Maharaj. City councillor Gary Crawford presented the $11,000 award to Maharaj for his Trillium Book Award“winning novel The Amazing Absorbing Boy (Knopf ... Read More »
The Victoria Book Prize Society announced author Jack Hodgins and illustrator Kristi Bridgeman as the winners of the 2011 Victoria Book Prize Awards at a gala on Wednesday evening. Victoria mayor Dean Fortin and Brian ... Read More »
Two Canadian novelists few people had heard of before this summer continue rack up acclaim from international prize juries. Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt “ authors of the novels Half-Blood Blues and The Sisters Brothers, ... Read More »
October 11, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Erin Bow has won this year's TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for her historical fantasy YA novel Plain Kate, published by Scholastic Canada. Bow received her $25,000 prize at a gala event in Toronto last ... Read More »
October 5, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
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