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Vincent Lam up for Story Prize in the U.S.

From CBC.ca: Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam has been shortlisted for the Story Prize for short fiction for his book, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures. The Story Prize is an annual U.S. book award for short ... Read More »

January 10, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Stop reading this blog, says Doris Lessing

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Guardian: The inanities of the internet have seduced a generation, and we live in a fragmenting culture where people read nothing and know nothing of the world, the new Nobel laureate novelist Doris ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

Alexie, Johnson win top U.S. prizes

By Leigh Anne Williams

The American National Book Awards were bestowed in New York City last night. The big winners were Denis Johnson's Vietnam epic Tree of Smoke for fiction; Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Giller speculation

By Stuart Woods

It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

The Scotiabank Giller Light bash

By Nathan Whitlock

CanLit fans and publishing types who are not attending the Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony will have two other opportunities to get together, eat, drink, and merrily debate which book should win. The Scotiabank Giller Light ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Have your say: guess the Giller winner

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's participation time. With the Scotiabank Giller Prize coming up in less than a week, we'd like to ask our readers (a) which book should win the prize, (b) which one will win, and what ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Giller shortlist sales statistics

By Nathan Whitlock

According to just-released statistics from BookNet Canada, the shortlist announcement for the Scotiabank Giller Prize sparked a sales spike that averaged a 388% increase in weekly sales for the listed titles. In the week ending ... Read More »

October 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Industry news

Anne Enright's tale of grief wins the Man Booker

By Nathan Whitlock

Irish writer Anne Enright is the surprise winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, beating out bookie favorites Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip, The Guardian ... Read More »

October 17, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Doris Lessing captures Nobel Prize in Literature

By Stuart Woods

Doris Lessing is the 2007 Nobel laureate in literature – and only the 11th woman in the prize's 106-year history. Presented this morning in Stockholm, the citation describes Lessing as "that epicist of the female ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

By Stuart Woods

Not content to be sidelined by the literary establishment any longer, Amazon announced on Monday that it is teaming up with Penguin Group to launch a new prize for unpublished novelists. Appropriately, the "jury" is ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

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Quill and Quire

Vincent Lam up for Story Prize in the U.S.

Stop reading this blog, says Doris Lessing

Alexie, Johnson win top U.S. prizes

Giller speculation

The Scotiabank Giller Light bash

Have your say: guess the Giller winner

Giller shortlist sales statistics

Anne Enright's tale of grief wins the Man Booker

Doris Lessing captures Nobel Prize in Literature

Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

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