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La Pasteque named publisher of the year in Bologna

It's only day two of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, but Montreal publisher Éditions de la Pastèque already has plenty to celebrate. At an awards ceremony Monday night, the French-Canadian comics publisher, which launched its children's ... Read More »

March 25, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Alice Munro honoured by Royal Canadian Mint

By Julie Baldassi

The Royal Canadian Mint has offered up a token of its appreciation for Canada's best short story writer and Nobel Prize for Literature winner Alice Munro with the release of a collector's edition $5 silver ... Read More »

March 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Cover to Cover: Tom Rand’s Waking the Frog

By Michel Vrana

Click on the thumbnails to see how designer Michel Vrana turned up the heat on an amphibian in ... Read More »

March 24, 2014

Origin of Feces named second “oddest title of the year,” Rakuten accused of trading ivory, and more

By Sue Carter

David Waltner-Toews’ The Origin of Feces (ECW Press) runner-up for Diagram Prize Kobo owner Rakuten slammed as “world’s largest online trader in elephant ivory and whale products" PEN International celebrates World Poetry Day with works ... Read More »

March 21, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

TWUC co-founder Heather Robertson dies at 72

By Emma Renda

Heather Robertson, a novelist, journalist, and co-founder of The Writers' Union of Canada, passed away on March 19, her 72nd birthday, after a battle with cancer. Born in Winnipeg in 1942, Robertson began her writing career ... Read More »

March 20, 2014 | Filed under: People

Dalhousie University library launches seed collection

By Sue Carter

For many people, the first day of spring means a return to gardening. Those who want to get a head start digging in the dirt will soon be able to check out seeds from the ... Read More »

March 20, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture, Libraries

Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize shortlist announced

By Emma Renda

Lynn Coady's Scotiabank Giller Prize winning story collection, Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press), is among the finalists for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. Coady's collection made the list alongside poet and novelist ... Read More »

March 20, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Meg Wolitzer basing YA novel on The Bell Jar, Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace, and more

By Emma Renda

Meg Wolitzer writing YA novel based on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar First look at Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace Poems by teenage Douglas Adams discovered at his old high school New Yorker cartoon editor's memoir a ... Read More »

March 20, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Thomas King names Leanne Simpson inaugural Taylor Prize Emerging Writer

By Emma Renda

Indigenous author and traditional storyteller Leanne Simpson has been named the inaugural recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. Simpson will receive $10,000 and mentoring from RBC Taylor Prize winner Thomas King, who nominated ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

TPL city librarian Jane Pyper steps down

By Julie Baldassi

Toronto Public Library announced today that its head staffer, city librarian Jane Pyper, will step down from her post in June. A search for Pyper's replacement will begin at the library board's upcoming meeting on ... Read More »

March 19, 2014 | Filed under: Libraries

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