Six English books and six French have been short-listed for the 21st Annual Trillium Book Award/21e édition du Prix littéraire annuel Trillium, the Ontario government’s prestigious award for literature
Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her deep feminist engagement with the major social and political issues, won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature today.
(Edmonton, AB) The Writers Guild of Alberta revealed the winners of the 2007 Alberta Literary Awards at the Alberta Literary Awards Gala in Grande Prairie on September 29, 2007.
The four awards are TD Canadian Children's Literature Award ($20,000), Norma Fleck Award For Canadian Children's Non-Fiction ($10,000), Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award ($10,000) and Geoffrey Bilson Award For Historical Fiction for Young People ($1,000).