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Awards

Powers wins big in U.S.

Down in the U.S., the National Book Award winners have been named. They include Richard Powers' The Echo Maker for fiction; Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time (a history of the Dust Bowl storms of ... Read More »

November 16, 2006 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Booker shortlist announced

By Leigh Anne Williams

Well, Mary Lawson's The Other Side of the Bridge didn't manage to make the jump from the Man Booker Prize longlist to the just-announced shortlist. But there is good news for a couple of Canadian ... Read More »

September 14, 2006 | Filed under: Awards

2006 Libris Awards

By Q&Q Staff

The CBA honours the best of the past year in book publishing. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) The Libris Awards await their winners. Libris host Bill Richardson has the crowd in his sway. Designer and now ... Read More »

June 11, 2006 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Black bile? Yes, indeed.

By Scott MacDonald

In an essay originally published in his magazine Front & Centre and republished on The Danforth Review, Ottawa writer and Black Bile Press editor Matthew Firth calls for the end of literary prizes and contests ... Read More »

January 24, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Book news, Opinion

Whitbread could be toast

By Scott MacDonald

Big news on the book-award front: sponsorship of the Whitbread Awards, the second-most prestigious book awards in Britain after the Man Booker, is up for grabs. A sponsor for the honours since their inception in ... Read More »

December 14, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Win an award. Sell some books?

By Scott MacDonald

We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

What an award means (if anything)

By Leigh Anne Williams

How reliable are literary awards as an index of quality? Not very, suggests one Toronto blogger, who argues that Kazuo Ishiguro was robbed in the recent Man Booker race (his Never Let Me Go lost ... Read More »

October 20, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Two parts sugar, three parts flour…

By Scott MacDonald

On the CBC website, Rachel Giese tells us what everyone in the Canadian book biz should already know: how to spot award-winning Canadian works of fiction. Taking a tally of 31 past winners of the ... Read More »

October 18, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

Booker shortlist announced

By Scott MacDonald

In a year that saw landmark books written by the big names of British fiction -- Rushdie, Barnes, Coetzee, McEwan, and Ali and Zadie Smith to name a few -- the big question preceding this ... Read More »

September 9, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

From Giller glitz to Da Vinci decoding

By Leigh Anne Williams

With award season now having wound fully down, readers who missed Toronto Star columnist Philip Marchand's post-Giller musings will find them worth a look. He writes: "Literary scholars have a word for those little parts ... Read More »

November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

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