2011 Nebula Award Winners Announced

by Chadwick Ginther - Monday, May 21, 2012 at 1:26pm

Congratulations to Canadian Jo Walton, who won the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's Nebula Award for her novel Among Others. In celebration, Tor, Walton's publisher, has posted an excerpt of the book. Check it out!

A complete list of winners in all categories is on the SFWA website here.

Categories: Awards, SciFi & Fantasy

New Guy Gavriel Kay Novel in 2013

by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:02am

A new novel from Guy Gavriel Kay is always cause for rejoicing at McNally Robinson. Now the hard part begins--waiting to read it!

From Bright Weavings, the authorized Guy Gavriel Kay website:

Guy Gavriel Kay's new novel is once more inspired by Chinese history, this time during the Song Dynasty, almost four centuries after the story told in his bestselling Under Heaven. The dazzling elements of the Song - cultural brilliance, vicious political rivalries, warfare against nomadic peoples, court mandarins versus the military - are rich ground for Kay's unique blending of fantasy and themes of history. Vivid among a large cast, a young man with a dream of regaining the empire's lost 'rivers and mountains' and a brilliant woman trying to shape a space for herself outside the 'inner quarters', where women are expected to live out their lives, confront the challenges and dangers of a world in turmoil. The Song Dynasty's legacy is prominent in the way Westerners imagine Chinese history to this day and Kay weaves a story that captivates on both an epic scale and within the intimate lives of his characters.

Categories: buzz, Authors, SciFi & Fantasy, Publishing News

Edgar Award Winners Announced

by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:38pm

The Mystery Writers of America have awarded Mo Hayder's Gone the Edgar Award for Best Novel. A complete list of winners and nominees in all categories may be found here:

Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime

2012 Arthur Ellis Shortlists Announced

by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:10pm

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Crime Writers of Canada. The Arthur Ellis Awards, administered by the CWC, celebrate the best in Canadian crime writing. Judges are drawn from award-winning writers, reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and academics across Canada. The nominees for Best Crime Novel are below; winners will be announced May 31st.

A complete list of nominees in all categories may be found here:

Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime

Manitoba Book Award Winners

by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:13am

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the 2012 Manitoba Book Awards. More than 200 people attended the ceremony last night. The 24th annual gala, presented by the Manitoba Writers' Guild with the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers was held at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain.

  • McNally Robinson Book of the Year: Not Being on a Boat by Esmé Claire Keith (Freehand Books/Broadview Press)
  • McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award, younger category: S is for Scientists: A Discovery Alphabet by Larry Verstraete (Sleeping Bear Press)
  • McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award, older category: Tori by Design by Colleen Nelson (Great Plains Teen Fiction)
  • Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry: Poème Pierre Prière, by J.R. Léveillé (Les Éditions du Blé)
  • Best Illustrated Book of the Year: David's Trip to Paraguay: The Land of Amazing Colours, by Miriam Rudolph (CMU Press)
  • Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year: Poème Pierre Prière by J.R. Léveillé, designed by Bernard Léveillé (Les Éditions du Blé)
  • Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book: A Large Harmonium by Sue Sorensen (Coteau Books)
  • Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award: Ravenscraig by Sandi Krawchenko Altner (Heartland Associates)
  • Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction: The Thirteen by Susie Moloney (Random House Canada)
  • Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction: The Girl in the Wall by Alison Preston (Signature Editions)
  • Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction: King: William Lyon MacKenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny by Allan Levine (Douglas and McIntyre)
  • John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer: Jennifer Still
  • Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher: Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella (Enfield and Wizenty/Great Plains Publications)

Categories: Awards, Winnipeg
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