The 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:
Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy
The Canada Council for the Arts today announced the winners of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards.
The winners of the English awards are:
Fiction:
Sisters Brothers by
Nonfiction:
Mordecai: The Life and Times by
Poetry:
Killdeer by
Drama:
If We Were Birds by
Children's Text:
From Then to Now by
Children's Illustration:
Ten Birds by
was awarded the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize tonight for her novel Half Blood Blues.
"Imagine Mozart were a black German trumpet player and Salieri a bassist, and 18th century Vienna were WWII Paris; that's Esi Edugyan's joyful lament, Half-Blood Blues. It's conventional to liken the prose in novels about jazz to the music itself, as though there could be no higher praise. In this case, say rather that any jazz musician would be happy to play the way Edugyan writes," the jury said in its citation.
The award was handed out at a black-tie gala in Toronto. The other nominees were for Cat's Table, for The Free World, for The Antagonist, for Better Living through Plastic Explosives, and for Sisters Brothers. The Scotiabank Giller Prize honours the best in Canadian English-language fiction.
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