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Awards: A Different Booklist wins Premier’s Award for Excellence

On Oct. 5, Toronto indie bookseller and culture hub A Different Booklist was honoured with a Premier's Award for Excellence in the Arts‚ an annual provincial award, now in its 10th year‚ recognizing artists and arts ... Read More »

October 6, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: New Brunswick Book Awards adds BFYP prize‚ announces judges

By Becky Robertson

The New Brunswick Book Awards‚ launched earlier this year and administered by The Fiddlehead and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick‚ has announced it judges for 2017‚ as well as the addition of a new prize. ... Read More »

October 6, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Canada named guest of honour at 2020 Frankfurt fair

By Conan Tobias

Canada will be the guest of honour country at the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair. Canadian Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly accepted the invitation on Oct. 6 at a meeting with fair president Juergen Boos and publishing-industry representatives. Canada originally ... Read More »

October 6, 2016 | Filed under: Industry news

Book Links: Shakespeare in the Fluff; Sarah Jessica Parker launches imprint

By Becky Robertson

Stephen King says everyone should chill out about clowns. (Los Angeles Times) U.K. will celebrate its first National Bookshop Day this weekend. (Melville House) National Book Awards finalists revealed. (GalleyCat) Sarah Jessica Parker to launch book imprint ... Read More »

October 6, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Awards: Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Lit winners revealed

By Becky Robertson

The winners of this year's Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature were announced at a luncheon in Toronto on Sept. 29. The prize awards $10,000 to Jewish-Canadian authors in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, history, ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Leah Bobet win Copper Cylinder Awards

By Becky Robertson

The Sunburst Awards Society‚ which recognizes Canadian writers of the fantastic with a number of annual accolades‚ has announced the winners of its Copper Cylinder Award. In the adult category‚ Silvia Moreno-Garcia was selected for ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Charles Taylor wins $1 million Berggruen Prize

By Becky Robertson

Charles Taylor, the award-winning Canadian philosopher‚ writer‚ and McGill University professor emeritus, has received the inaugural Berggruen Prize‚ administered by the L.A.-based Berggruen Institute in recognition of a thinker whose writings "shape human self-understanding and ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Harlequin launches new imprint; book dealer killed over rare edition

By Becky Robertson

Harlequin launches new commercial women's fiction imprint helmed by Toronto-based Dianne Moggy and Susan Swinwood. (Publishers Weekly) Book dealer murdered for rare edition of The Wind in the Willows. (Los Angeles Times) Dealers unite over rare book ... Read More »

October 5, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

Awards: Gary Barwin‚ Madeleine Thien among 2016 GG Awards finalists

By Becky Robertson

The Canada Council for the Arts has revealed the finalists vying for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards‚ recognizing authors in 14 English- and French-language categories. Many of the authors will be familiar to readers ... Read More »

October 4, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Book Links: Nick Cutter novel selected by Reddit Book Club; Atwood on the future

By Becky Robertson

Nick Cutter's The Troop selected as Reddit Book Club pick. (GalleyCat) Margaret Atwood‚ Richard Dawkins‚ and other authors on the future. (The Guardian) Hungarian science-fiction magazine under fire after illegally translating stories of George R. ... Read More »

October 4, 2016 | Filed under: Book links

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