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Canadian Children’s Literature Award winners announced

The winners of the 2013 Canadian Children's Literature Awards, presented by TD Bank Financial Group and the Canadian Children's Book Centre, were announced Tuesday night at an event in Toronto. B.C. authors Polly Horvath and ... Read More »

October 23, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Photos: Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario hosted the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction Tuesday night, as Graeme Smith accepted the award for The Dogs Are Eating Them Now (Knopf Canada), a memoir that documents ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Drawn & Quarterly to publish WORN Fashion Journal archive

By Sue Carter

Over the past eight years, the Toronto cultural journal WORN has made its name as an alternative voice to mainstream fashion publications. Today, Montreal comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly announced it will release a collection ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Book culture

Cundill Historical Literary Prize finalists announced

By Becky Robertson

McGill University's Faculty of Arts has announced the finalists for the sixth annual Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. The winner will be awarded $75,000 U.S. (the largest international prize for non-fiction writing), with each runner-up ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Book Genome Project offers new way to classify ebooks, Iran to reassess book-banning legislation, and more

By Becky Robertson

Book Genome Project offers method of categorizing ebooks and tracking "literary Darknet" Iran to re-review (and potentially publish) previously banned books New Oxford University Press series will cover 500 years of publisher's history Harvard University ... Read More »

October 22, 2013

Graeme Smith’s war memoir wins Weston Prize

By Stuart Woods

Former Globe and Mail foreign correspondent Graeme Smith has won the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction for The Dogs Are Eating Them, a searing memoir about his time covering the Afghanistan war ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Eat It anthology satisfies appetite for stories about women and food

By Sue Carter

Eat It, a new literary anthology launching Tuesday, takes an unconventional approach to exploring women's relationship to sex and food. Conceived and edited by Toronto journalists Nicole Baute and Brianna Goldberg, the book spans genres ... Read More »

October 21, 2013 | Filed under: Events

Penguin Canada to release YA novel based on life of Lucy Maud Montgomery

By Sue Carter

A newly announced YA novel, based on the life of Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery, has the support of the beloved author's family. In a press release, Penguin Canada's Lynne Missen, publishing ... Read More »

October 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children's publishing

Oasis’s Noel Gallagher vocally abhors fiction, the war against Canadian women writers, and more

By Becky Robertson

Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher calls novels a "waste of time" in GQ interview What the David Gilmours of the world mean for the Alice Munros Increasingly popular self-published erotica changes the face of romance novels ... Read More »

October 21, 2013

Quotes from Morrissey’s memoir, Macmillan opens backlist to libraries, and more

By Becky Robertson

Twenty-five characteristic quotes from Morrissey's memoir Macmillan opens backlist of more than 11,000 ebooks to libraries Worldreader distributes ebooks to Kenya using Gates Foundation grant Mental Floss secures second known interview in 18 years with ... Read More »

October 18, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

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