by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Anne Renaud, Lorna Schultz Nicholson + eight more

Reycraft Books’s Wiley Blevins has acquired world English rights to Anne Renaud’s Ferdinand Cheval: The Postman Who Delivered a Palace. The picture book is described as a biography of Cheval, the forerunner of the Naïve ... Read More »

June 17, 2021

Souvankham Thammavongsa wins $20,000 Trillium Book Award

By Cassandra Drudi

Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $20,000 Trillium Book Award for her short-fiction collection How to Pronounce Knife (McClelland & Stewart). Poet Jody Chan was awarded the Trillium Book Award for Poetry for her collection, Sick ... Read More »

June 16, 2021

Rights Deals: Michael Wilson, Jen Gerson + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

University of Toronto Press has acquired world rights to the late Honourable Michael Wilson's Something within Me: A Personal and Political Memoir. The memoir is described as a candid account of Wilson's years as federal ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Distribution change: Baker & Taylor

By Cassandra Drudi

Baker & Taylor Publisher Services has announced a new sales and distribution client, with Canadian sales representation to the trade provided by Ampersand Inc. and by Parasource for the Christian market. Effective July 1, BTPS ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Talia Abramson has joined the design team at Penguin Random House Canada as a full-time junior designer. She was previously with ... Read More »

June 14, 2021

Rights Deals: Thomas King, Eric Walters + nine more

By Cassandra Drudi

HarperCollins Canada’s Iris Tupholme has acquired Canadian English rights to Thomas King’s Deep House. The novel, the sixth book in the award-winning DreadfulWater series, is described as the story of Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater who ... Read More »

June 10, 2021

Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians optioned for TV adaptation

By Cassandra Drudi

Just weeks after winning the Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Governor General's award for fiction, Michelle Good's debut novel Five Little Indians (HarperCollins Canada) has been optioned for the screen by Prospero Pictures ... Read More »

June 9, 2021

Anakana Schofield wins €15,000 Irish Novel of the Year

By Cassandra Drudi

Irish-Canadian novelist Anakana Schofield has won the €15,000 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Schofield won the award for Bina: A Novel in Warnings (Knopf Canada), a novel comprised of the scribbles the ... Read More »

June 9, 2021

Rights Deals: Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Joe Schwarcz + one more

By Cassandra Drudi

MIT Press’s Matthew Browne has acquired world English rights to Tahira Rehmatullah and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah's Waiting to Inhale: Race, Cannabis, and the End of Prohibition. The nonfiction book looks at the past, present, and future of ... Read More »

June 7, 2021