Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist Announced
by Allison Fairbairn - Thursday, Oct 18, 2007 at 5:25pm
The 2007 Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlists were announced Thursday afternoon at news conferences in both Regina and Saskatoon. The list of titles is once again a testament to the great quality and variety of writing produced in the province today.
Book of the Year
Sheri Benning, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books)
Rebecca L. Grambo, The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis (Nature Saskatchewan)
Harold Johnson, Two Families: Treaties and Government (Purich Publishing)
Dave Margoshes, Bix’s Trumpet and other stories (NeWest Press)
Michael Trussler, Accidental Animals (Hagios Press)
Seán Virgo, Begging Questions (Exile Editions)
Fiction
Bernice Friesen, The Book of Beasts (Coteau Books)
Sean Johnston, All This Town Remembers (Gaspereau Press)
Dave Margoshes, Bix’s Trumpet and other stories (NeWest Press)
R.P. MacIntyre, Feeding at Nine (Thistledown Press)
Seán Virgo, Begging Questions (Exile Editions)
Nonfiction
Lawrence Barkwell, Leah Dorion, Audreen Hourie, editors, Metis legacy II: Michif Culture, Heritage and Folkways (The Gabriel Dumont Institute)
Rebecca L. Grambo, The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis (Nature Saskatchewan)
Mary-Ann Kirkby, I Am Hutterite (Polka Dot Press)
Pat Krause, Acts of Love: A Memoir (Coteau Books)
Bill Waiser, Everett Baker’s Saskatchewan (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Garrett Wilson, Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West (Canadian Plains Research Center)
First Book
Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton, Fiddle Dancer (The Gabriel Dumont Institute)
Shirley Harris, Forgotton Gardens, Abandoned Landscapes & Remarkable Restorations (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)
Mary-Ann Kirkby, I Am Hutterite (Polka Dot Press)
Alice Kuipers, Life on the Refrigerator Door (Harper Collins Canada)
Barb Pacholik & Jana G. Pruden, Sour Milk and Other Saskatchewan Crime Stories (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Joanne Weber, The Pear Orchard (Hagios Press)
Children’s Book
Beverley Brenna, The Moon Children (Red Deer Press)
Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton, Fiddle Dancer (The Gabriel Dumont Institute)
Glenda Goertzen, City Dogs (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
R.P. MacIntyre, Feeding at Nine (Thistledown Press)
Arthur Slade, Invasion of the IQ Snatchers (Coteau Books for Kids)
Bill Waiser, Tommy Douglas (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Poetry
Sheri Benning, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books)
Elizabeth Philips, Torch River (Brick Books)
Steven Ross Smith, fluttertongue 4: adagio for the pressured surround (NeWest Press)
Regina
Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton, Fiddle Dancer (The Gabriel Dumont Institute)
William Driedger, Jakob, Out of the Village (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)
Pat Krause, Acts of Love: A Memoir (Coteau Books)
Dave Margoshes, Bix’s Trumpet and other stories (NeWest Press)
Michael Trussler, Accidental Animals (Hagios Press)
Paul Wilson, Turning Mountain (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd.)
Saskatoon
Sheri Benning, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books)
Doug Cuthand, Askiwina: A Cree World (Coteau Books)
Terry Fenton, Reta Summers Cowley (University of Calgary Press & Mendel Art Gallery)
Bernice Friesen, The Book of Beasts (Coteau Books)
Elizabeth Philips, Torch River (Brick Books)
Scholarly Writing
Rebecca L. Grambo, The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis (Nature Saskatchewan)
Dick Spencer, Singing the Blues: The Conservatives in Saskatchewan (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Blair Stonechild, The New Buffalo: The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education in Canada (University of Manitoba Press)
Bernard D. Thraves, Marilyn L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, Hansgeord Schlichtmann, editors, Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Garrett Wilson, Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Reader’s Choice
Anthony Bidulka, Stain of the Berry (Insomniac Press)
Amanda Deitz, Longer Than Life Volume 2 (Art Bookbindery)
Deana Driver, Never Give Up: Ted Jaleta’s Inspiring Story (JDC Productions)
Michael P.J. Kennedy, Dogs on Ice: A History of Hockey at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, and “Friends of the Huskies”)
Les Langager, Wild Justice (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)
Sergeant Brian Trainor, Stop Fraud (Red Deer Press)
Publishing
Canadian Plains Research Center, Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West, Garrett Wilson
Canadian Plains Research Center, Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives, Bernard D. Thraves, Marilyn L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, Hansgeord Schlichtmann, editors
Coteau Books, The Book of Beasts, Bernice Friesen
Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Vaughan Grayson: Adventures of an Artist in the Canadian Rockies, Heather Smith, Curatorial Director
Nature Saskatchewan, The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis, Rebecca L. Grambo, photos by Branimir Gjetvaj
Purich Publishing Ltd., Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times, Neal McLeod
First Peoples Publishing
Native Law Centre, First Nations Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Rights: Defining the Just Society, James Youngblood Henderson
Purich Publishing Ltd., Two Families: Treaties and Government, Harold Johnson
KAKWA Publishing Niiwin – Four Ojibwa Critter Tales, Kathleen Coleclough
Publishing in Education
Canadian Plains Research Center Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives Bernard D. Thraves, Marilyn L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, Hansgeord Schlichtmann, editors
Coteau Books, Askiwina: A Cree World, Doug Cuthand
The Gabriel Dumont Institute, Metis Legacy II: Michif Culture, Heritage and Folkways, Leah Dorion, Lawrence Barkwell, Audreen Hourie, editors
JDC Productions, Never Give Up: Ted Jaleta’s Inspiring Story, Deana Driver
Native Law Centre, First Nations Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Rights: Defining the Just Society, James Youngblood Henderson
Nature Saskatchewan, The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis, Rebecca L. Grambo, photos by Branimir Gjetvaj
Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and publishers, and good luck!
