Awards

Ali Smith among Giller jurors

Scotiabank Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch announced the jurors for this year's prize this morning. They are: Michael Enright, host of CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition, Canadian-born U.S. author Claire Messud (The Emperor's Children), and ... Read More »

March 8, 2010 | Filed under: Awards

Atlantic Book Awards Society names finalists

By Scott MacDonald

The shortlists for the 2010 Atlantic Book Awards have been announced. The winners will be named at a ceremony on April 14, 2010, at the Alderney Landing Theatre in Dartmouth, N.S. Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic ... Read More »

March 2, 2010 | Filed under: Awards

Event photos: Michael Ondaatje, Bruce Cockburn, Annabel Lyon, Joy Fielding, and … Q&Q

By Nathan Whitlock

Backstage at the PEN Canada benefit "Cockburn & Ondaatje: An Evening of Music and Words", which was held at Toronto's Glenn Gould Theatre on Nov. 21. From left: Bruce Cockburn, Lydia Cacho (the recipient of ... Read More »

December 2, 2009 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Wayson Choy, Ann-Marie MacDonald among Canada Reads finalists

By Scott MacDonald

The five finalists for the 2010 CBC Canada Reads competition have been unveiled. Take a look: Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault (Freehand Press), defended by Simi Sara Nicolas Dickner, Lazer Lederhendler, trans., Nikolski (Random ... Read More »

December 1, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

LaferriÃ¨re wins Medicis

By Scott MacDonald

Montreal author (and recent Q&Q cover star) Dany LaferriÃ¨re is on a roll lately. After winning the $10,000 Blue Metropolis Literary Grand Prix last week, he has now been named recipient of France's illustrious Prix ... Read More »

November 4, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

IFOA news: Geoffrey Taylor to receive honorary degree, Urquhart to read Munro

By Alison Potstra

Geoffrey Taylor, director of Harbourfront's Reading Series, is to receive an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Taylor, who has been with ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Events

“High in antioxidants, low on caffeine”: Leah McLaren weighs in on CanLit

By Alison Potstra

Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren is the latest public figure to opine on the state of Can Lit. Prompted by this year's awards season, McLaren takes the discussion one step further (or, perhaps backward) by ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Awards, Libraries

Atwood snubbed by GG Awards jury, too

By Scott MacDonald

[This post has been updated. For Q&Q's complete coverage of the 2009 GG shortlists, see here.] The shortlists for the Governor General's Literary Awards were announced this morning at Ben McNally Books in Toronto, and ... Read More »

October 14, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

Who will win the Nobel?

By Nathan Whitlock

It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »

October 7, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Brit literary judges gone wild: the Man Booker edition

By Steven W. Beattie

Although it apparently comes as a surprise to some sensitive souls in this country, British literary types tend to be fairly plain-spoken; no less so when they are sitting on an award jury. Almost two ... Read More »

October 5, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

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