City of Vancouver Book Award – First-time author Madeleine Thien has won the annual $2,000 award for her short-story collection Simple Recipes (McClelland & Stewart).Orange Futures List – Britain’s Orange Prize has included two Canadian ... Read More »

Gorrell wins Fleck AwardThe Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction was presented yesterday at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Gena K. Gorrell won this year’s $10,000 prize for Heart and Soul: The Story of ... Read More »

City of Toronto Book AwardA.B. McKillop has won the $10,000 prize – announced on Sunday at Toronto’s Word on the Street festival – for The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the ... Read More »

For Samantha Holmes at Bolen Books in Victoria, the importance of local appeal was one of the big trends of the season. It’s an encouraging sign for indie stores, which can typically react to regional ... Read More »

One of the long-standing raps against the Canadian book industry is that it produces too many books for the size of the market. But DCH this year compiled international data, comparing the number of books ... Read More »

Carson wins again – Poet Anne Carson has won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, worth £10,000, or approximately $23,000 Cdn., for her latest book, The Beauty of the Husband. Published in hardcover by Knopf last ... Read More »

The annual Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards were presented last night at a ceremony at the Lion d’Or in Montreal. Jack Todd, an American-raised author who now lives in Montreal, won both the non-fiction and first ... Read More »