Awards

Paul Wells wins $10,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize

Two weeks after receiving the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, Maclean's politics editor Paul Wells has won the 2014 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006“ ... Read More »

April 15, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch wins Pulitzer

By Sue Carter

Donna Tartt's third novel, The Goldfinch (Little, Brown), has won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The 784-page bestseller, which beat out Philipp Meyer's The Son and Bob Shacochis' The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, was recently ... Read More »

April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Arthur Ellis Awards announce longlist for best novel

By Julie Baldassi

Crime Writers of Canada has announced the longlist for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing in the best novel category. For the first time this year, the 10-book longlist is being ... Read More »

April 11, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Wayne Johnston, Red Green, Arthur Black among nominees for Stephen Leacock humour award

By Courtney Harper

The nominees for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour were announced today at Lakehead University in Orillia, Ontario. Black's latest, Fifty Shades of Black, is up against previous nominee Bill Conall's The Promised Land and Wayne ... Read More »

April 9, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Carson, Michaels, Goyette among Griffin nominees

By Julie Baldassi

The Griffin Poetry Prize finalists were announced today, revealing a strong all-female Canadian shortlist that includes two McClelland & Stewart authors and a third from Nova Scotia's Gaspereau Press. Poet Jeramy Dodds, a finalist for ... Read More »

April 8, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Politics and the Pen gala

By Julie Baldassi

Politicians and writers gathered at the Fairmont ChÃ¢teau Laurier in Ottawa last week for the black-tie Politics and the Pen gala, a fundraiser for The Writers' Trust of Canada. Maclean's journalist Paul Wells was awarded the $25,000 ... Read More »

April 7, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Atlantic Book Awards reveals shortlists

By Sue Carter

The Atlantic Book Awards Society has announced the nominees for this year's shortlists for its 10 literary prizes. The winners will be revealed May 21 in Charlottetown during the week-long Atlantic Book Awards and Festival. ... Read More »

April 4, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Paul Wells wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

By Julie Baldassi

Journalist and Maclean's politics editor Paul Wells has won the Writers' Trust's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 ”, published by Random House Canada. ... Read More »

April 3, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

2014 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Gary J. Bass

By Julie Baldassi

Princeton University politics professor Gary J. Bass is the winner of the 2014 Lionel Gelber Prize for The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Alfred A. Knopf). The $15,000 prize is awarded to ... Read More »

April 1, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

League of Canadian Poets reveals award shortlists

By Sue Carter

The League of Canadian Poets kicked off National Poetry Month by announcing the shortlists for its three annual awards. The Raymond Souster Award is given for a book of poetry by an LCP member published ... Read More »

April 1, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

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