Shelagh Rogers announced the winners of this year's CBC Literary Awards this morning on CBC Radio's Q. The awards, started by editor, publisher, and CBC producer Robert Weaver in 1979, recognize original unpublished work by ... Read More »
Search Results by tag: Michael Ondaatje
McClelland & Stewart has announced that the sixth novel by Michael Ondaatje will be published in Canada on Aug. 30, 2011. Plot details for the novel, titled The Cat's Table, are still pretty scarce, but ... Read More »
January 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
This summer, Ontario's literary history will become a permanent part of the province's physical landscape with a new project called Ontario: Read It Here. A series of eight plaques will be installed across the province ... Read More »
February 12, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »
Bookish links from around the Web: The foodie bride's lament: Condé Nast-owned magazines Gourmet, Cookie, Elegant Bride, and Modern Bride all cease publication More book banning madness: Toronto parent wants Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird ... Read More »
October 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news
Quillblog is a bit late with this one, but would be remiss not to acknowledge the unveiling last Thursday of a plaque commemorating Michael Ondaatje's iconic Toronto novel In the Skin of a Lion. The ... Read More »
April 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Hot Docs, the annual documentary film fest in Tornto, has released its spring lineup of 150 films. A couple of films with CanLit tie-ins have caught Quillblog's attention: Inside Hana's Suitcase tells the story behind ... Read More »
March 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The longlist for the richest award for writing in English has been announced. And the longlist is, in fact, long, with 147 authors in contention for the 2009 Impac Dublin prize of £100,000. From the ... Read More »
Following up on our earlier post about the new Danielle Steel perfume, we thought we'd offer some fragrance suggestions for our own literary stars: Wayne Johnston's Terre Neuve “ Cod oil, salt water, and seal ... Read More »
October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Authors
Booksellers must have been in a share-the-wealth mood when they voted on this year's Libris Awards, as all three nominees for Author of the Year went home with a prize. It was Lawrence Hill who ... Read More »
June 15, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news
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