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Focus on Creators open letter tops 2,400 signatures

Margaret Atwood, Gord Downie, Alanis Morissette, and Rosemary Sullivan are among more than 2,000 writers, musicians, and visual artists who have signed their names to an open letter asking the government to support the creative ... Read More »

February 8, 2017 | Filed under: Authors, Writing life

Awards: Rosemary Sullivan named first Canadian to win Plutarch Award for Biography

By Becky Robertson

Toronto-based author Rosemary Sullivan is the first Canadian to win the American Plutarch Award for Biography, for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada). Sullivan was selected from a list ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Adnan Khan receives RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award

By Conan Tobias

The Charles Taylor Foundation has announced Adnan Khan as this year's recipient of the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award, given to assist a Canadian published author working on a significant writing project, usually in the area of literary ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Rosemary Sullivan wins 2016 RBC Taylor Prize

By Becky Robertson

Toronto author Rosemary Sullivan has been recognized with this year's RBC Taylor Prize for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Sveltana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada). Sullivan was presented with the $25,000 literary non-fiction award ... Read More »

March 7, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Rosemary Sullivan wins 2016 B.C. National Non-fiction Award

By Becky Robertson

Rosemary Sullivan has received yet another accolade for her 2015 biography, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Sveltana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada). The Quebec-born author was presented with this year's British Columbia National ... Read More »

February 5, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

Awards: Rosemary Sullivan sole Canadian on 2016 PEN Literary Awards shortlists

By Becky Robertson

Stalin’s Daughter, Rosemary Sullivan's biography of Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of the Soviet dictator, has been shortlisted for the PEN Literary Awards' Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. The book, published by HarperCollins Canada, previously won ... Read More »

February 4, 2016 | Filed under: Awards

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

By Becky Robertson

The Writers' Trust of Canada presented its $60,000 Hilary Weston Prize for Non-fiction to Toronto author Rosemary Sullivan for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada) at the Art Gallery of ... Read More »

October 13, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Rosemary Sullivan wins Weston Prize for Stalin’s Daughter

By Sue Carter

Accomplished Toronto poet, author, and biographer Rosemary Sullivan has won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction for Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins Canada). The $60,000 award was ... Read More »

October 6, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Douglas Coupland, Rosemary Sullivan among Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction finalists

By Becky Robertson

The Writers' Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction. The award, which offers the largest purse for a Canadian non-fiction title, "celebrates literary excellence" in ... Read More »

September 16, 2015 | Filed under: Awards

Poets, publishers among Order of Canada recipients

By Natalie Sequeira

Members of the book world were not left out of the 91 new appointments to the Order of Canada, announced by Governor General David Johnston on Dec. 30. Poetry was in the spotlight with House ... Read More »

January 2, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

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