For the first time since 2004, the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist includes six ... Read More »
October 5, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
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In introducing the jury for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, founder Jack Rabinovitch told a crowd of media and publishing professionals assembled in Toronto that this year's crop of nominees "dignifies world literature, not only ... Read More »
This morning, at the press conference announcing the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize shortlist, juror Rabindranath Maharaj told Q&Q, Four out of five people on this list aren't recognizable names in Canadian literature. I don't ... Read More »
September 28, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Heritage Toronto, a city agency tasked with the preservation and promotion of local history, has released the list for the 2011 Heritage Toronto Awards. In the book category, which recognizes "well-written non-fiction books published in ... Read More »
Organizers at the International Festival of Authors have named cartoonist and graphic novelist Seth the winner of the 2011 Harbourfront Festival Prize. The $10,000 prize honours an individual whose work has substantially contributed to the ... Read More »
British Columbian ecologist Don Gayton's Okanagan Odyssey: Journeys Through Terrain, Terroir and Culture (Rocky Mountain Books) has won the 2011 Peace Corps Travel Book Award. The prize is presented annually to an author with Peace ... Read More »
September 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
The City of Edmonton has renamed its annual book prize after the late author and poet Robert Kroetsch, who died in a traffic accident in June at age 83. Kroetsch, who won the 1969 Governor ... Read More »
The City of Vancouver's Cultural Services department released the shortlist for the 2011 City of Vancouver Book Award today. The award recognizes the year's books that best "demonstrate excellence and enhance readers' understanding of Vancouver's ... Read More »
Make no mistake, literary award season has arrived. Along with yesterday's Scotiabank Giller Prize and Man Booker Prize announcements, the finalists for the 2011 Toronto Book Awards were also released. The awards honour authors of ... Read More »
September 7, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
A sure sign the fall literary season is underway, the Scotiabank Giller Prize has announced its first round of nominees for 2011. The 17-title longlist “ the largest since the prize began announcing it in ... Read More »
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