Awards

Claire Cameron joins Atwood, Catton on Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist

Claire Cameron's novel The Bear (Doubleday Canada) has been longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the U.K."s only annual book award for fiction written by women. The 20-title list also includes Margaret Atwood's ... Read More »

March 7, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian Library Association announces kids’ book award finalists

By Sue Carter

The Canadian Library Association has announced the shortlists for its three annual children's book awards. The finalists for the the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, and ... Read More »

March 7, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Canadians among finalists for 26th annual Lambda Awards

By Julie Baldassi

The finalists were announced today for the 26th annual Lambda Literary Awards, which honours LGBT books published in 2013. Out of more than 700 submissions in 24 categories, at least 11 Canadian publishers and authors ... Read More »

March 6, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Luba Goy play wins Kobzar Literary Award

By Sue Carter

As international attention focuses on the Ukraine, the winner of the Shevchenko Foundation's biennial Kobzar Literary Award, which celebrates Canadian literature with a "Ukrainian theme," was announced last night at a ceremony in Toronto. Playwright ... Read More »

March 6, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Amazon.ca First Novel Award shortlist announced

By Emma Renda

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist Krista Bridge and prolific non-fiction author and translator Wayne Grady are among the nominees for the 2013 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, announced this morning. Selected by Q&Q editor Stuart Woods, ... Read More »

March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Lisa Moore nominated for Winterset Award

By Sue Carter

Two authors and a poet have been nominated for this year's BMO Winterset Award, which celebrates excellence in Newfoundland writing. The nominees are: Lisa Moore, for her novel Caught (House of Anansi Press); Paul Bowdring, ... Read More »

March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Jeremy Stewart wins Robert Kroetsch Award

By Sue Carter

British Columbia poet Jeremy Stewart has won this year's Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry for his manuscript Hidden City. He receives a contract with Invisible Publishing's Snare imprint and a $500 advance. In a ... Read More »

February 28, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Thomas King wins $40,000 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction

By Julie Baldassi

On Feb. 21, Thomas King was awarded the 2014 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-fiction for his work of narrative history, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Doubleday Canada). The jury, ... Read More »

February 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

David Rakoff posthumously nominated for Audie Award

By Sue Carter

Several Canadian-authored titles are up for 2014 Audie Awards, including a posthumous nomination for David Rakoff's final narrated audiobook, Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish. Organized by the Audio Publishers Association, the U.S. awards recognize ... Read More »

February 20, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Anne Carson shortlisted for new international Folio Prize

By Emma Renda

Canadian poet Anne Carson is among the nominees for the inaugural Folio Prize honouring the best English-language books published in Britain. Carson's long-form poem Red Doc> made the shortlist of eight finalists "” including five ... Read More »

February 10, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Prev 67 686970 71....118 119 Next