Search Results by tag: Lynn Coady

Inaugural CFC/eOne TV Adaptation Lab to feature Angela Misri, Kat Sandler, Michael F. Stewart

The Canadian Film Centre and Entertainment One have named the Canadian writers participating in their inaugural TV Adaptation Lab, taking place May 31–August 31 in Toronto. Toronto-based author and former CBC journalist Angela Misri, playwright ... Read More »

June 6, 2016 | Filed under: Authors, Book culture

The Orenda was the most-reviewed Canadian book of 2013

By Sue Carter

One of the interesting sidenotes to come out of this morning's CWILA report was its list of the top reviewed books in Canada. Joseph Boyden's The Orenda was by far the most popular book of ... Read More »

September 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Lynn Coady’s Giller win puts Anansi in winner’s circle

By Julie Baldassi

After being nominated 13 times over the past two decades, House of Anansi Press has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for the first time. Edmonton author Lynn Coady, whose 2011 novel The Antagonist was also ... Read More »

November 6, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Writers’ Trust announces 2013 Fiction Prize shortlist

By Becky Robertson

The shortlist for the 17th* annual Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize was announced this morning at Ben McNally Books in Toronto. Three of the five shortlisted authors, including Giller nominees Lynn Coady and Lisa Moore, ... Read More »

September 30, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Boyden, Messud land on Giller longlist that also contains some surprises

By Stuart Woods

The awards season is officially underway with this morning's announcement of the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The list includes the fall's most buzzed about Canadian novel (Joseph Boyden's The Orenda), as well as past nominees Lynn ... Read More »

September 16, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

Lynn Coady, U of Calgary Press among winners at 2012 Alberta Book Awards Gala

By Katie Gowrie

The winners of the 30th annual Alberta Literary Awards, the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, and the Alberta Readers' Choice Award were revealed June 9 in Calgary at the 2012 Alberta Book Awards Gala. Fred Stenson ... Read More »

June 12, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian fiction editor Melanie Little steps down at Anansi

By Stuart Woods

House of Anansi Press president and publisher Sarah MacLachlan has announced several changes to its editorial department. Melanie Little, who joined the firm two years ago as senior editor of Canadian fiction, is stepping down ... Read More »

May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Books of the year: Q&Q review editor Steven W. Beattie

By Steven W. Beattie

Creating lists of the year's best books is an annual ritual in which I am frequently asked to participate. These requests never fail to make me uncomfortable: such judgments ultimately come down to matters of ... Read More »

November 14, 2011 | Filed under: Books of the Year

$10,000 Alberta prize now open to books published out of province

By Stuart Woods

Organizers of the Alberta Readers' Choice Award, now in its third year, have taken steps to quiet a muted strain of controversy that has attached itself to the prize since its inception. The $10,000 award, ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Libraries

Edugyan’s unpredictable year culminates in Giller win

By Stuart Woods

A novel that, less than a year ago, was without a Canadian publisher has won the country's most prestigious literary prize. Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, about a jazz musician who disappears in Nazi-occupied France, was ... Read More »

November 9, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

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