Congratulations to OSU Children's Library Fund for being one of two projects awarded the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. This award, initiated by the International Board on Books for Young People and sponsored by the Japanese newspaper company the Asahi Shimbun, is presented to projects run by groups or institutions that are judged to be making a lasting contribution to reading promotion for children and young people.
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: AwardsIBBY 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: Awards
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 News
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.
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