Dundurn Press is looking for a new publisher, as president and publisher Kwame Scott Fraser relocates to Jamaica and steps down from the role he has held for five years. Fraser will remain at Dundurn ... Read More »
November 13, 2023
Random House Canada’s Craig Pyette has acquired English Canadian rights to Dennis Molinaro’s Shadows of the Dragon: China’s Secret Operations in Canada. The nonfiction book is described as a definitive account of Chinese interference over ... Read More »
November 9, 2023
Literary festival Word on the Street Toronto will be moving to a collective leadership structure. Effective immediately, Sienna Tristen, Haley Richardson, and Sarah Mosher take on new leadership positions within the organization. Tristen will set ... Read More »
November 9, 2023
Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has won the $30,000 National Business Book Award. Poloz was awarded the 2023 prize at a luncheon in Toronto on Nov. 8 for his book The Next Age ... Read More »
November 9, 2023
Guardian editorial writer Tania Branigan has won the $75,000 (U.S.) Cundill History Prize for her book Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution. Branigan received the award at a ceremony in Montreal on ... Read More »
November 8, 2023
Breakwater Books co-founder and longtime president Clyde Rose has died. He was 86. Rose died on Oct. 25 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, Breakwater said. In 1973, he founded the St. John's-based press ... Read More »
November 8, 2023
George Galt took the leap into independent publishing with no illusions. The 75-year-old writer and editor, a longtime “part of the literary ecosystem” – he is the author two nonfiction books and one novel, and ... Read More »
November 8, 2023
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 14 winners of the 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards. The winners were selected from finalists announced last month. Winners receive $25,000, and publishers of the winning ... Read More »
November 8, 2023
Emily Bossé will be joining Biblioasis as sales director as of November 13, 2023. Bossé will oversee the process of bringing Canadian sales in house beginning January 1, 2024. She comes to Biblioasis from Penguin ... Read More »
November 7, 2023
Dundurn Press’s Kwame Scott Fraser and Julia Kim have acquired world English and world French rights to Sam Chaiton’s We Used to Dream of Freedom: Not Just Another 2G Memoir. The memoir is described as ... Read More »
November 2, 2023
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