On the final day of the Canada Reads: True Stories debates darkly comic memoir Something Fierce knocked off lauded hockey book, The Game. This year marked the first time Canada Reads offered non-fiction.
This dramatic, darkly funny narrative, which covers the decade from 1979 to 1989, takes the reader inside war-ridden Peru, dictatorship-run Bolivia, post-Malvinas Argentina and Pinochet's Chile. Writing with passion and deep personal insight, Carmen Aguirre captures her constant struggle to reconcile her commitment to the resistance movement with the desires of her youth and her budding sexuality. Something Fierce is a gripping story of love, war and resistance and a rare first-hand account of revolutionary life.
Categories: Awards, Publishing News
Some very prestigious kids and teen awards were announced this weekend.
The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature went to Dead End in Norvelt.
The Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children went to A Ball for Daisy, illustrated and written by .
Finally, the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults went to Where Things Come Back, written by .
Amongst the Printz Honor books are Why We Broke Up by , which was featured in our most recent newsletter, and The Scorpio Races by , which our Be First Club absolutely loved.For a full listing of more ALA award winners and honor books, see the ALA press release.
Congratulations to all the authors involved!
Categories: Awards, buzz, Publishing NewsThe five finalists for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction were announced at a press conference Tuesday morning. The prize winner will be announced on March 5 in Toronto.
The finalists for the $25,000 prize are:
, author of Into the Silence
, author of Eating Dirt
, author of The Measure of a Man
, author of Afflictions & Departures
, author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary
Many congratulations to Saskatchewan based poet Fred Wah for his recent appointment to the position of parliamentary poet laureate. This is just another achievement in a remarkable career that began in the early 60's. Not only has Wah's own poetry been enormously influential, he has also served as mentor to a generation of some of Canada's most exciting poetic voices. This is an extremely well deserved honour indeed.
You can read more about the appointment and the position itself on the Winnipeg Free Press website here.
Categories: Awards, Poetry
continued his dominance of the Prix Aurora Awards November 20th at the Canadian National Science Fiction Convention, hosted this year by SFContario in Toronto. The Auroras celebrate the best of both Canadian speculative fiction and its fandom. Sawyer's novel Watch, the second in his WWW trilogy about the World Wide Web gaining consciousness, has duplicated the feat of its predecessor, Wake, winning the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.The award was Sawyer's sixth in the category, and twelfth overall.
Sawyer's wife won the Prix Aurora's inaugural poetry award for her piece The ABCs of the End of the World. , a nominee alongside Sawyer in the Long Form English category won for Best Short Form work with his story The Burden of Fire. In the fan categories, and won Best Fan Organizational for 2010's Toronto SpecFic Colloquium and Winnipeggers and Keycon (Manitoba's premiere SF&F convention) stalwarts and won in the Fan Other category for the conception of the Aurora Award pins handed out to all nominees.
A complete list of winners in all categories may be found here:
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