Congratulations to , whose novel The Flying Troutmans has won the 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction. She was named the winner of the $25,000 prize at a gala dinner in Toronto on Monday night.
At the same ceremony, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Food by picked up the award for Best Non-Fiction book, and "My Three Girls" by (published in Prairie Fire) won the Journey Prize for best short story.
Awards were also handed out to three writers in recognition of their contribution to Canadian literature. , author of The Big Why and The Architects are Here, picked up the Notable Authors Award for a writer in mid-career. , co-author of A Promise is a Promise and author of The Littlest Sled Dog, was given the Vicky Metcalf Award for children's literature. And , author of The Rope in the Water: A Pilgrimage to India, was handed the Matt Cohen Award in celebration of a writing life.
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Winner of the 2008 Rogers Writer's Trust Prize for Fiction.A novel that is at once hilarious and heartrending, The Flying Troutmans is about a family on the verge of spinning off its axle...
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A Seafood Lover's Journey to the End of the Food Chain Taras Grescoe has gone fishing in the world's oceans and rivers, and he's caught a big one - several of them in fact. In his epicure...
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The Big Why is both Michael Winter's dazzling reinvention of the historical novel and a passionate and witty faux memoir of Rockwell Kent, the famous illustrator of Moby Dick. Focusin...
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Michael Winter's eagerly anticipated new novel The Architects are Here features the unexpected return of Gabriel English, the popular and controversial protagonist of three of his previou...
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When Allashua disobeys her parents and goes fishing on the sea ice, she has to use her wits to escape and to further trick the Qallupilluit when she promises to bring her brothers and si...
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Igvillu said to herself, "When I grow up, I am going to be a St. Bernard." She dreamed about running in the deep, pure-white snows of the Alps and rescuing skiers. She dreamed of ru...
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"At Kovalam beach on India's southwestern shore I plunge into the Arabian Sea, the same soft temperature as the air...Looking shoreward, I see lifeguards gesturing. Since I'm much further...
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