Donner Prize announces shortlist – Taxation, the Supreme Court, and child pornography are among the issues tackled by the seven nominees for the 2001-2002 Donner Prize. The $25,000 award, which recognizes the best book on ... Read More »

Scientific entrepreneurship, the head of Canadian Tire, an infamous swindler, and the sorry state of Canadian farming are the subjects covered in this year’s nominees for the National Business Book Awards. Four finalists were named ... Read More »

Ed Kavanagh’s first novel, The Confessions of Nipper Mooney (Killick Press), has won the Bennington Gate Fiction Award, while Janet McNaughton garnered the Bruneau Family Children’s Literature Award for The Secret Under My Skin (HarperCollins ... Read More »

Donner winner named – Marie Mc Andrew has won the $25,000 Donner Prize for her book Immigration et diversité a l’école: le débat québécois dans une perspective comparative, published by Les Presses de l’Université de ... Read More »

Lower spending on its eHarlequin Internet portal helped offset falling book club and overseas sales for Harlequin Enterprises, whose first-quarter gross earnings increased 4.5%, Torstar announced Wednesday.Revenues in the first quarter, which ended March 31, ... Read More »

He’s already won the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award. And on June 6, Richard B. Wright will try for a hat trick when the Trillium Book Award is announced.Wright’s novel Clara Callan has ... Read More »

Gaspereau Press and Douglas & McIntyre are among the big winners in the Alcuin Society’s annual Canadian book design awards, announced this week. Gaspereau took first place in the poetry category and tied with D&M ... Read More »