A pair of Canadian authors have been named to the shortlist of the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Victoria's Esi Edugyan has been nominated for her second novel, Half-Blood Blues, about an interracial troupe of jazz ... Read More »
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The shortlists for the 2011 ReLit awards were announced today. The annual awards recognize books published by Canadian independent literary presses. Winners will be announced at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival in October. The nominees ... Read More »
August 26, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton has won her first Harvey Award for her entertaining history webcomic Hark! A Vagrant. Beaton took home the prize for Best Online Comics Work, a category in which she was nominated ... Read More »
August 23, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
The very long list of nominees for the 2011 ReLit Awards, which celebrates novels, poetry, and short fiction titles published by Canadian independent presses, has been announced. ECW Press leads this year's longlist with nine ... Read More »
August 8, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Cuisine Canada and the University of Guelph released the shortlists for this year's Canadian Culinary Book Awards on Wednesday. Vancouver's Whitecap Books leads the list of nominees with five titles in the running, including 3 ... Read More »
August 3, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
The Saskatchewan Writers' Guild has named Ryshia Kennie winner of the 2011 City of Regina Writing Award. Kennie has written two romance novels, From the Dust (2007) and Ring of Desire (2009), both published by ... Read More »
Alexander MacLeod has been shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award for his Scotiabank Giller Prize“nominated collection, Light Lifting (Biblioasis). The Frank O'Connor Award is "presented each year to an original collection of ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Author Nino Ricci and poet Lorna Crozier are among the 50 new nominees appointed to the Order of Canada. Crozier was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for "her poetry and for her ... Read More »
June 30, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
On June 15, Rabindranath Maharaj won the Trillium Book Award for his fourth novel, The Amazing Absorbing Boy (Knopf Canada). Here is Micah Toub's January 2010 profile of the Toronto writer: You expect some kind ... Read More »
June 21, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Novelist Rabindranath Maharaj beat out heavy hitters Emma Donoghue and Michael Winter to take the 24th annual Trillium Book Award. Maharaj won the prize, which honours the best writing by Ontario authors, for his fourth ... Read More »
June 17, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
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