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Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist Announced
by Allison Fairbairn - Thursday Oct 18 2007 5:25 pm
Posted in: Awards, Saskatoon, Publishing News
by Allison Fairbairn - Thursday Oct 18 2007 5:25 pm
Posted in: Awards, Saskatoon, Publishing News
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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!
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