The nearly $100,000 Cundill History Prize is awarded to the best English-language history writing.
David Homel, Lindsay Nixon, Tess Liem among winners of Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards
Six prizes of $3,000 each were presented at the QWF Literary Awards gala in Montreal on Nov. 5.
André Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills win 2019 Writers’ Trust awards
André Alexis wins his second Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize while Jenny Heijun Wills wins the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for her debut.
Amanda Parris, Gwen Benaway, and Erin Bow among crop of first-time Governor General’s Literary Award winners
The winners will be celebrated at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Dec. 12 to be hosted by Governor General Julie Payette.
B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes announces purse increases and a new award for “Writing That Provokes”
The seven juried prizes, which cover fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and kidlit categories, will each be worth $3,000.
Finalists announced for $100,000 Cundill History Prize
Three finalists have been announced for the Cundill History Prize.
The 2020 Forest of Reading nominations shine a light on the best in Canadian kidlit
Books by Kenneth Oppel, Jonathan Auxier, Kyo Maclear, Faith Erin Hicks, and more will be read and voted on by students in Ontario.
TD Children’s Literature Awards: a new host, Heather Smith wins big, and a funny faux pas
The $50,000 prize went to Smith’s middle-grade novel-in-verse Ebb & Flow while Jillian Tamaki won the CBC Fan Choice Award.
Margaret Atwood wins second Booker in unorthodox tie verdict
Margaret Atwood shares the 2019 Booker prize with British author Bernardine Evaristo.
Historical futurist novel Plum Rains wins Sunburst Award for “literature of the fantastic”
Ladysmith, B.C., author Andromeda Romano Lax’s novel Plum Rains (Penguin Random House Canada) has won the $1,000 Adult Fiction award… Read More »
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