by Attila Berki

Myrna Kostash wins 2024 Kobzar Book Award

The biennial Kobzar Book Award has been awarded to Ghosts in a Photograph: A Chronicle by Myrna Kostash. The $25,000 prize, sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian ... Read More »

March 26, 2024

2023–24 New Brunswick Book Awards shortlists announced

By Attila Berki

The titles shortlisted for the ninth annual New Brunswick Book Awards have been announced by the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick (WFNB). The finalists are: Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction Valerie Sherrard, Standing on Neptune ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

New Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize to honour Canadian poets

By Attila Berki

Eurithe Purdy, Al Purdy's widow, has announced the creation of a major new Canadian literary prize to honour poets “who embody exceptional talent and a profound connection to the Canadian spirit, a spirit that Purdy ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

2024 Griffin Poetry Prize longlist announced

By Attila Berki

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced a longlist of 10 titles for the 2024 prize. The two Canadians on the list are translators George McWhirter and Emilie Moorhouse. The longlisted titles are: A Crash Course ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

Neil Longley wins Axiom Business Book award

By Attila Berki

A Whole New Game: Economics, Politics and the Transformation of the Business of Hockey in Canada by Neil Longley (Douglas & McIntyre) has been announced as co-winner of the Axiom Book Award in the business ... Read More »

March 20, 2024

Rights deals: Susin Nielsen, Scott McIntyre + 7 more

By Attila Berki

HarperCollins Canada’s Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canada English rights to Susin Nielsen’s adult debut SNAP in a six-figure two book deal. The book is described as a laugh-out-loud novel about three unlikely people, a children’s author, ... Read More »

March 15, 2024

Wayne McCrory wins Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize

By Attila Berki

The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize has announced Wayne McCrory’s The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future (Harbour Publishing) as the winner of the 2024 award. The $3,500 prize, given by UBC Library and ... Read More »

March 13, 2024

Obituary: Reginald John (Rex) Williams

By Attila Berki

Reginald John (Rex) Williams died peacefully on Saturday, 17th February. He was in his 97th year. For the past few years, Rex resided at the Veterans Centre at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, where he was ... Read More »

March 12, 2024

Rights Deals: Téa Mutonji, Kagiso Lesego Molope + five more

By Attila Berki

Random House Canada’s Sarah Jackson and Sue Kuruvilla have acquired Canada, English rights to Téa Mutonji’s novel, My Person as part of a two-book, six-figure deal. The novel is described as relaying, in a deeply ... Read More »

March 12, 2024

Catherine Leroux’s The Future wins 2024 Canada Reads

By Attila Berki

The 2024 Canada Reads battle of the books concluded with The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou and championed by novelist Heather O’Neill, named as the winner. The novel, published last fall, is only ... Read More »

March 7, 2024

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