Search Results by tag: Penguin Canada
Last night, the winner of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers was announced. This being the first year the award is sponsored by the RBC Foundation, the ceremony was held, appropriately enough, in ... Read More »
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
Scottish novelist Stef Penney has won the Costa book of the year prize for her Canada-set historical novel The Tenderness of Wolves (published here by Penguin Canada and reviewed by Q&Q here). Penney had already ... Read More »
February 8, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
In an entry on his Macleans blog from earlier this month, Brian Bethune laments the lapses of grammar in a number of recent Canadian books, using the multiple mistakes found in the Giller-nominated DeNiro’s Game ... Read More »
January 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion
Scottish writer Stef Penney has won the first-novel prize in the Costa Book Awards for The Tenderness of Wolves. Set in the Canadian North during the late 19th century, the story centers on a murder ... Read More »
January 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
The most talked-about book launch of the season has apparently left a rather sour taste in the mouth of Craig Davidson. The Penguin Canada author, you'll remember, stepped into the boxing ring early this month, ... Read More »
October 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
Well, Mary Lawson's The Other Side of the Bridge didn't manage to make the jump from the Man Booker Prize longlist to the just-announced shortlist. But there is good news for a couple of Canadian ... Read More »
September 14, 2006 | Filed under: Awards
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently posted an article on its website about the rise of graphic memoirs, or memoirs in comic book form. This news itself isn't so noteworthy: with numerous autobiographically inspired books like Art ... Read More »
April 19, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
On the CBC Arts site, Katrina Onstad surveys the chick-lit scene, focusing on non-fiction titles like He's Just Not That Into You as well as Canadian dating-themed books like Playing With Matches: Misadventures in Dating ... Read More »
April 4, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
The folks at Bookninja.com have pointed out that the Writers' Union of Canada's press release announcing the winners of this year's Danuta Gleed Literary Award is strikingly similar to last year's press release: same template, ... Read More »
June 7, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news