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Awards

Giller speculation

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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

Toronto Book Awards

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Michael Redhill's novel Consolation was the winner at this year's Toronto Book Awards presented at the Toronto Reference Library. (Photos by Michaela Cornell) Sally Gibson, whose book Inside Toronto was shortlisted, is congratulated by David ... Read More »

September 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events

IMPAC goes to Norway

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Norwegian author Per Petterson has won this year's IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, one of the world's richest book prizes. Petterson won the €100,000 prize for his novel Out Stealing Horses; the book's translator, Anne Born, ... Read More »

June 14, 2007 | Filed under: Awards