Awards

Faith Erin Hicks, Darwyn Cooke, Chip Zdarsky win Eisner comic awards

Halifax graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks has won her first Will Eisner Comic Industry Award. Hicks's The Adventures of Superhero Girl was named best kids' publication (ages 8–12) at the San Diego Comic-Con gala on ... Read More »

July 28, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Andrew Pyper wins ITW Thriller Award for The Demonologist

By Sue Carter

Andrew Pyper’s novel The Demonologist has won the 2014 International Thriller Writers' Thriller Award for best hardcover novel, beating finalists Stephen King and Lee Child. The award was presented July 12 at the ThrillerFest IX conference ... Read More »

July 21, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Familiar faces for Weston Prize jury

By Sue Carter

The Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction has announced its 2014 jury. The three-member jury is composed of faces familiar to the Weston Prize, considered the richest non-fiction literary award in Canada. Charles Foran ... Read More »

July 15, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Adam Sternbergh, Louise Penny, Will Ferguson make U.K. Crime Writers’ Association awards longlists

By Dory Cerny

Three Canadian authors are included on longlists for the upcoming 2014 Dagger Awards, presented by the U.K. Crime Writers' Association. The first batch of this year's Daggers were bestowed at a gala dinner Monday, where ... Read More »

July 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Guy Gavriel Kay, Chris Hadfield given Order of Canada honours

By Dory Cerny

Lauded author Guy Gavriel Kay was one of several members of the Canadian literary community appointed to the Order of Canada on Monday. Recognized "for his contributions to the field of speculative fiction as an ... Read More »

July 2, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Dany Laferriere wins 2014 International Literature Award

By Julie Baldassi

Germany’s International Literature Award (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) has been awarded to Canadian author Dany Laferrière and translator Beate Thill for Das Rätsel der Rückkehr, which appeared as The Return (Douglas & McIntyre) in 2011. (The novel was first published ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers

By Julie Baldassi

Tamai Kobayashi was awarded The Writer’s Trust of Canada’s $4,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers yesterday at a ceremony hosted by NOW magazine editor Susan G. Cole. Honours of distinction went to Rae Spoon ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Jon Klassen wins CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal

By Steven W. Beattie

Jon Klassen has become the first Canadian to win the U.K.'s prestigious CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, awarded for "distinguished illustration in a book for children." The Winnipeg-born author won the prize for his 2012 book, ... Read More »

June 23, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

2014 Rainbow Caterpillar Multilingual Kid Lit Award winner announced

By Julie Baldassi

Aurora, Ontario, writer Yulia Kapridov’s Russian-language story “Giant’s Granny” is the winner of this year’s Rainbow Caterpillar Multilingual Kid Lit Award. Formerly an editor of a Russian newspaper for young adults, Kapridov immigrated to Canada ... Read More »

June 19, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian Scholars’ Press immigration title wins Nathan Keyfitz Book Prize

By Sue Carter

York University sociology professor Alan B. Simmons has won the Nathan Keyfitz Book Prize for his 2010 title Immigration and Canada: Global and Transnational Perspectives, published by Canadian Scholars' Press. The biannual award, given to ... Read More »

June 18, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

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