Awards

Just a Larger Family receives Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence

Wilfrid Laurier University Press has received a Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence for Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front, 1940“1944. The book was edited by Marie's Williamson's daughter, ... Read More »

October 11, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Madeline Sonik and Caitlyn Vernon win Victoria Book Prizes

By Sue Carter

Madeline Sonik's collection of first-person essays, Afflictions and Departures (Anvil Press), has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, beating Esi Edugyan's Scotiabank Giller Prize“winning novel Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers). Sonik received the ... Read More »

October 11, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

China’s Mo Yan wins Nobel

By Stuart Woods

A Chinese author whose name, until this morning, was likely unfamiliar to many in the West has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Mo Yan is arguably best known for his novel Red Sorghum, which ... Read More »

October 11, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian books win Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards

By Sue Carter

Five Canadian titles were honoured by the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, which recognize the best in North American children's and YA writing and illustration. A panel of educators, librarians, booksellers, and reviewers selected Run Marco ... Read More »

October 9, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Ottawa Book Awards unveil finalists

By Sue Carter

The City of Ottawa today announced the finalists for the 2012 Ottawa Book Awards and Prix du livre d'Ottawa. The awards recognize the top fiction and non-fiction books written by local authors, in both official ... Read More »

October 2, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Dobozy, Spalding, Lam vie for GG award

By Sue Carter

The Governor General's Literary Awards announced its 2012 finalists this morning, adding several first-time nominees to the betting pool. In the fiction category, Tamas Dobozy and Linda Spalding, both shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust ... Read More »

October 2, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: introducing the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists

By Sue Carter

This morning, a group of literary insiders joined Scotiabank Giller Prize jurors Anna Porter and Gary Shteyngart at Toronto's ... Read More »

October 1, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Ferguson, Ohlin, and Wangersky find spots on Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist

By Steven W. Beattie

At a press conference held in Toronto's tony Ritz-Carlton Hotel, two thirds of this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize jury “ Canadian author Anna Porter and American author Gary Shteyngart (the third juror, Irishman Roddy Doyle, ... Read More »

October 1, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Harry Thurston, Caitlyn Vernon win Lane Anderson awards

By Sue Carter

Organizers of the Lane Anderson Award have announced the two winners of the annual Canadian science-writing prize. The award honours two jury-selected books in the categories of adult and young reader. Each winner receives $10,000. ... Read More »

September 28, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Austin Clarke wins $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize

By Sue Carter

Toronto's International Festival of Authors has named Austin Clarke this year's recipient of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize. According to an IFOA press release, Clarke was selected by the jury “ television producer Denise Donlon, ... Read More »

September 27, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

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