The Man Booker Prize has released its longlist for 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry From A to X by ... Read More »
July 29, 2008 | Filed under: Awards
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From the BBC News site: Sir Salman Rushdie says he may write a book about the fatwa imposed on him 20 years ago after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses. The author, who ... Read More »
July 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Despite the eternal precariousness of indie press life, that they often punch way above their weight in sales, award nominations, and critical recognition is an accepted fact in Canada. Not so in the U.K., where ... Read More »
November 26, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Irish writer Anne Enright is the surprise winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering, beating out bookie favorites Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach and Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip, The Guardian ... Read More »
An article in The Guardian describes how Indra Sinha, author of the Man Booker-shortlisted novel Animal's People, came to write the novel, which is based on the experience of the people in Bhopal, India, where ... Read More »
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author best known for his 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, has won the Man Booker International Prize. The £60,000 prize, secondary to the main Man Booker prize, was recently established and ... Read More »
June 13, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Industry news
It had to be one of the swankiest Canadian book launches on record: Rosalie Wise Sharp's memoir Rifke was launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on April 17, where Sharp's husband, Four Seasons ... Read More »
April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Events
The eyes of the literary world were on Toronto on Thursday morning as the ... Read More »
April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Two Canadian authors have made the longlist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (the award formerly known as the Orange Prize). Among the 20 contenders are Lori Lansens' The Girls (published by Knopf Canada ... Read More »
March 22, 2007 | Filed under: Awards
On October 23, the International Festival of Authors held a party at the Harbourfront Theatre in Toronto in honour of the opening of the 2006 festival and the nominees for the Governor General. (Photos by ... Read More »
October 24, 2006 | Filed under: Events
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