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Not Just Another Awards Season
It’s award season and people are talking – not just those who work in the publishing industry but readers of all kinds. But make no mistake: book prizes offer more than just swanky ceremonies and cash...
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A Canada Reads Hatrick!
We couldn’t be more thrilled with the Canada Reads big reveal! CNN correspondent Ali Velshi announced that he would defend Terry Fallis’ The Best Laid Plans! “This is a funny book that could only have...
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Lieutenant Governor’s Award – 2010
Driving to Fredericton, I had a smile on my face despite that fact that we’d been caught without winter tires in the season’s first snow storm. We’d just returned from a holiday in the tropics, and the...
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The Tiger Catches the Prize!
British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction – Canada’s largest non-fiction prize – was awarded in Vancouver yesterday to John Vaillant for his book, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance...
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A long list for the Longlist?
The Scotiabank Giller Prize is perhaps the most prestigious literary award in Canada, one that the entire industry awaits with bated breath. For the very first time, The Scotiabank Giller Prize and...
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Fall is Awards Season
September 6, 2011 started with the early morning news that Julian Barnes’ latest novel, The Sense of an Ending, had made it onto the UK’s Man Booker Prize shortlist. The prize is £50,000 and the winner...
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Books with Buzz: Thirteen Hours
We are pleased to announce that Deon Meyer’s Thirteen Hours has won the prestigious Barry Prize for Best Thriller of 2011! Previous Honours: • Shortlisted for the Boeke Prize • An Independent Summer...
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The Problem with Volumes
The fine folks at CBC announced the long list for the first nonfiction edition of Canada Reads. There are plenty of truly great books on that list (and I’m particularly proud that so many of them were...
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New in the BookLounge
We are in the thick of “award season” for the book industry right now, always an exciting time. Just last week the inaugural Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize was awarded to Charles...
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Charles Foran: Governor General’s Award Winner
Author Charles Foran’s acceptance speech after winning the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, November 15, 2011 for his book Mordecai: The Life & Times. All published books are...
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