by Matt MacHutchon - Saturday, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:37pm
The Manitoba Writers' Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers have announced the Manitoba Book Awards shortlists. Winners will be announced at the Manitoba Book Awards Gala on Sunday, April 25, 2010, at the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, 340 boulevard Provencher. A pre-awards reception will begin at 7:00 p.m. and the ceremony will run from 8:00-10:00 p.m. Admission is free and the event is open to the public. This year's ceremony will be hosted by Neil Besner, Vice President and former Dean of Arts of the University of Winnipeg. Since the event's inception in 1989, during which a single award (the McNally Robinson Book of the Year) was presented, The Manitoba Book Awards has grown to feature 13 categories. Nominees and winners are selected by jurors drawn from across Manitoba and Canada.
Categories: Awardsby Margaret Saull - Sunday, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:47pm
IBBY Canada has announced its 2010 Honour List for children's books. Canadian children's book authors, illustrators and translators are being recognized internationally for the quality work being done in Canada.
IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People, was started in 1953 in postwar Germany to promote understanding around the world through children's books. IBBY is an international network with a mandate to ensure that children in every part of the world can become readers, to bridge cultures and promote peace and understanding between peoples. IBBY has over 70 national sections in countries as diverse as Mongolia, Uganda, Venezuela, India, Japan, France, Finland, China, Mexico, the US and Canada. Categories: Awardsby Alexandra Kroeger - Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:27pm
First of all, I am terribly excited to announce that the third book in the Hunger Games trilogy has a release date! Mark your calendars for August 24, when you'll finally be able to find out exactly what happens after Catching Fire's cliffhanger ending.
Now for some more exciting news:
Categories: Awards, New Releases, Publishing Newsby Ryan McBride - Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:45pm
The winner of this years Writers' Trust Fiction Award is for The Golden Mean.
won this year's Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
Winnipeg's won the $25,000 Writers' Trust Notable Author Award, and won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, which honours a body of work.
For more information, visit the Rogers Writers' Trust website.
Categories: Awardsby Chadwick Ginther - Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:03am
's The Graveyard Book was recently awarded an Audie Award for not only Children's Title Ages 8-12 but also was named Audiobook of the Year. This award no doubt holds special significance to the author as The Graveyard Book was read by Gaiman himself.
Also honoured was Canadian science fiction giant , whose excellent novel Calculating God (read by Jonathan Davis) won Science Fiction/Fantasy Audio Book of the Year.
A full list of winners in all categories may be found here.
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