A pair of Canadians are among the 20 women on the 16th annual Orange Prize for Fiction longlist. Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel) are both in contention for the book award, which recognizes ... Read More »
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Griffin Poetry Prize founder Scott Griffin has lined up an impressive group of judges for the inaugural Poetry in Voice, the high-school poetry recitation competition. On April 12, winners from 12 Ontario high schools will ... Read More »
March 15, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
CanLit heavy-hitters and a few breakthrough newcomers mix it up as finalists for this year's B.C. Book Prizes. The nominees across seven categories include Douglas Coupland, George Bowering, John Vaillant, and Maggie de Vries, as ... Read More »
March 10, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
From March 3-6, booksellers, publishers, chefs, and other foodie types descended on the City of Lights for the annual Paris Cookbook Fair, the largest event of its kind in the world. The culinary weekend kicked ... Read More »
March 7, 2011 | Filed under: Awards
Vikings of the Ice by George Allan England (Rattling Books) is the only a Canadian finalist for the 2011 Audie Awards, which honours the year's best audiobooks. Narrated by actor Frank Holden, the Newfoundland and ... Read More »
Charles Foran was awarded this year's $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction for his biography Mordecai: The Life and Times (Knopf Canada) at a lunchtime ceremony in Toronto today. He beat out Stevie Cameron ... Read More »
The nominees for the tenth Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction were announced in Toronto this morning. The five-title shortlist was selected from 153 submissions by jurors Neil Bissoondath, Eva-Marie Kröller, and David Macfarlane, who ... Read More »
The 18th annual Saskatchewan Book Awards were held in Regina on Saturday. The winners were as follows: Book of the year: David Carpenter, A Hunter's Confession (Greystone Books) Fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Waiting for Joe (Random ... Read More »
CBC Canada Reads host Jian Ghomeshi announced the five finalists this morning, selected from a previous listener-chosen shortlist of 10 titles. Happily, the panelists have mostly avoided the Canada Reads candidates of prior years, which ... Read More »
November 24, 2010 | Filed under: Awards
Governor General's Literary Award“winning poet Jacob Scheier has weighed in on the Ali Smith/Giller Prize controversy on Now Magazine's website. As you may recall, Scheier himself was at the centre of an awards scandal after ... Read More »
November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Awards
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