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Thomas King and Cecil Castellucci win 2015 Sunburst Awards

Novelist and University of Guelph writing professor Thomas King and L.A.-based author, graphic novelist, and musician Cecil Castellucci have been named winners of this year's Sunburst Awards for excellence in Canadian literature of the fantastic. ... Read More »

October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Andre Alexis, Anakana Schofield, Heather O’Neill among finalists for 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize

By Becky Robertson

Indie presses dominate this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist, with Biblioasis taking two of the five nominations for Anakana Schofield’s novel Martin John and Samuel Archibald's story collection Arvida (trans. Donald Winkler). Coach House Books ... Read More »

October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: saying goodbye to paper card catalogues; new lines discovered from the Epic of Gilgamesh

By Becky Robertson

Twenty new lines found from The Epic of Gilgamesh (Open Culture). Swedish crime author Henning Mankell dies at 67 (The Guardian). Online Computer Library Centre, administrator of the world's largest public-access catalogue, ends use of ... Read More »

October 5, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book-launch venue hop: Calgary’s Shelf Life Books

By Andrew Guilbert

Located just north of Calgary’s bustling 17th Avenue nightlife, Shelf Life Books is a relatively new addition to the Alberta city. Co-owners Will Lawrence and JoAnn McCaig opened shop in 2010, ignoring both doom-and-gloom predictions ... Read More »

October 2, 2015 | Filed under: Book culture

Book Links: London Book Fair moves to March; a tween’s take on Elena Ferrante; a poetic consideration of the owl

By Sue Carter

Happy 40th to the Book Shop in Penticton, B.C. (Kelowna Daily Courier). How thousands of secondhand books from the U.S. end up in Nigeria (The New Yorker). From Twin Peaks to Winnie-the-Pooh, a poet delves ... Read More »

October 2, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Marietta Morry and Lynda Muir win John Glassco Translation Prize

By Becky Robertson

Budapest-born translator Marietta Morry and Ottawa editor-translator Lynda Muir have been named winners of this year's John Glassco Prize, administered by the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. The prize honours a Canadian's first book-length work ... Read More »

October 2, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

McGill reveals finalists for 2015 Cundill Prize

By Becky Robertson

The finalists for this year's Cundill Prize in Historical Literature – the world's richest award for an English-language work of historical non-fiction, offering a $75,000 U.S. purse – have been announced. The three finalists, culled ... Read More »

October 2, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Alison Pick, Suri Rosen among 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Awards winners

By Becky Robertson

The winners of this year's Canadian Jewish Literary Awards, celebrating Jewish literature and culture in Canada, have been announced: Novel: Nora Gold, Fields of Exile (Dundurn Press) Scholarship: James A. Diamond, Maimonides and the Shaping ... Read More »

October 1, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Q&A: Poet Ali Blythe’s debut collection, Twoism

By Casey Stepaniuk

How do we stay true to ourselves in a world that seems bent on forcing us to conform to the expectations of others? Victoria poet Ali Blythe investigates this question in Twoism, publishing in September ... Read More »

October 1, 2015 | Filed under: Authors

Kidlit spotlight: author Melanie Florence honours her Cree heritage

By Natalie Samson

With three new books due out this fall, it’s hard to believe author Melanie Florence only returned to full-time writing within the last two years. Before that, the single mother had stepped away from her ... Read More »

October 1, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

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