Elizabeth Hay, Lawrence Hill, Naomi Klein and Mélanie Watt were among the big winners revealed at Canadian Booksellers Association’s (CBA's) Libris Awards 2008 Presentation, which took place on June 15, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in an evening hosted by author and CBC Radio One host Bill Richardson. ... [more]
Last night, the Crime Writers of Canada handed out the 2008 Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada’s premier award for excellence in the crime genre for work published in 2007. ... [more]
John Ashbery’s Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
and Robin Blaser’s The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser are the
International and Canadian winners of the eighth annual Griffin Poetry Prize. ... [more]
The Canadian Jewish Book Awards celebrates excellence in Canadian writing that reflects Jewish themes and subjects in history, fiction, Yiddish, theatre and other fields ... [more]
Toronto, May 6, 2008 – The winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards have been selected. The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards are funded by the Ruth Schwartz Foundation. The administration of these awards is shared by the Ontario Arts Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council which manages the jury process, and the Canadian Booksellers Association whose members choose the short list of books. ... [more]
