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Patrick DeWitt has won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his genre-bending novel, The Sisters Brothers.

The Sisters Brothers was cited by the jury as masterful and mesmerizing in its exploration of the blurred lines between good and evil. "This is the sort of material that, in lesser hands, could easily have sunk into middling farce, but deWitt's portrayal of the homicidal brothers and the quixotic roster of characters thrown in their path is fresh, moving, insightful, and always funny. Cinematic in its scope, meditative in its tone and brilliantly inventive in its characterization, The Sisters Brothers is a book unlike any you may read during this or the coming years. Unforgettable."

We can vouch for the merits of the book too as it caught the enthusiastic attention of several of our booksellers upon the novel's release last June. Since then several other booksellers have read it and the response has been unanimously positive. We highly recommend it.

The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been announced. Julian Barnes has been awarded the £50,000 award for The Sense of an Ending, published in Canada by Knopf Canada.

On November 12th, two Manitobans will be honoured at the 5th annual Independent Publishers Moonbeam Awards, held in conjunction with the 2nd annual Traverse City Children's Book Festival. The awards are "intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators, and to celebrate children's books and life-long reading."

It's been an amazing run for Brandon author Craig Russell's debut novel, Black Bottle Man. The book, previously shortlisted for On the Same Page through the Winnipeg Public Library, as well as the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year for Young People Award (Older Category) at the Manitoba Publishing Awards, won the Gold Medal in Moonbeam's Young Adult Fiction (Fantasy/Sci-Fi) category. Black Bottle Man is also currently in the running for the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long Form Work in English.

Winnipeg's Rae Bridgman tied for a Bronze Medal in the Pre-Teen Fiction-Fantasy category for her book Kingdom of Trolls.

Patrick deWitt and Esi Edugyan continue their dominance of Canadian award lists by being among this year's fiction nominees for the 75th year of the Governor General's Literary Awards, .

The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

• David Bezmozgis, The Free World (HarperCollins Canada)
• Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (House of Anansi Press)
• Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers)
• Marina Endicott, The Little Shadows (Doubleday Canada)
• Alexi Zentner, Touch (Knopf Canada)

For a complete list of nominated works, click ***more*** below.

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