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Fleck finalists announced

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A Bethune biography, a sexuality guide, and a Holocaust victim’s story are among the finalists for this year’s Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. The shortlisted titles, announced yesterday, are Jack Batten’s The Man ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Award file

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A Nova Scotia author and illustrator has won the Canadian Library Association’s annual illustration prize for her first book.Frances Wolfe won the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Medal this week for Where I Live (Tundra Books), ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Award file

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Five authors, including Margaret Sweatman and Robert Charles Wilson, have made the shortlist for this year’s Sunburst Award. Presented annually for “Canadian literature of the fantastic,” the Sunburst – now in its second year – ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Timothy Findley bibliography

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NovelsThe Last of the Crazy People (1967)The Butterfly Plague (1969)The Wars (1977)Famous Last Words (1981)The Telling of Lies (1984)Not Wanted on the Voyage (1986)Headhunter (1993)The Piano Man’s Daughter (1995)You Went Away (1996)Pilgrim (1999)Spadework (2001)Short storiesDinner ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Award file

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Memoir, poetry, biography, and fiction were all recognized in the City of Toronto Book Award shortlist, announced this week. Six titles made the cut; the winner will be announced at Toronto’s Word on the Street ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Award file

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Nancy Lee’s story collection Dead Girls, Christian Bök’s poetry volume Eunoia, and Margaret Atwood’s essay collection Negotiating with the Dead have made the shortlist for this year’s Pearson Canada Readers’ Choice Book Award, announced this ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Obituary / Joan Bodger

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Storyteller and children’s author Joan Bodger died in Tofino, B.C., in July – just two years after publishing a well-received autobiography. She was 79.How the Heather Looks, Bodger’s look at the English countryside and the ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Awards