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The Manitoba Book Awards 2018 winners

Tuesday, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:02pm

The winners for this year's Manitoba Book Awards were announced during a ceremony at the University of Manitoba this past weekend.

The Awards celebrate the best literature written by Manitoban authors in the previous year. There are a number of categories, each of which celebrates a different aspect of Manitoba writing, and the winners are selected by a panel of judges.

Read after the jump to see a full list of this year's winners, and congratulations to all of them!


 

Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

Comma by Jennifer Still, published by Book*hug

 

The Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards

Book Design: Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales by Shirley Camia, cover and interior design by Matthew Stevens and Shirley Camia, illustrations by Cindy Mochizuki, published by At Bay Press

Children’s Illustration: Where Do Sticky Buns Come From? by Jon McPhail, design and illustration by Jonathan Dyck, published by Jonnies Sticky Buns Inc.

General Illustration: Portraits of the North by Gerald Kuehl, cover design by Dave Maddocks of Shine Branding, illustrations by Gerald Kuehl, published by Les Éditions des Plaines/Vidacom

 

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher

From the Tundra to the Trenches by Eddy Weetaltuk, interior design by Jess Koroscil, cover design by Mike Carroll, published by University of Manitoba Press

 

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists by Margo Goodhand, published by Fernwood Publishing

 

The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

The Water Beetles by Michael Kaan, published by Goose Lane Editions

 

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

Once More with Feeling by Méira Cook, published by House of Anansi Press

 

The Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

Strangers – Book 1 of The Reckoner Series by David A. Robertson, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press

 

John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer

Karen Clavelle

 

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

Runaway Wives and Rogue Feminists by Margo Goodhand, published by Fernwood Publishing

 

McNally Robinson Book for Young People Awards

Older Category: Blood Brothers by Colleen Nelson, published by Dundurn Press

Younger Category: The Sockeye Mother by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett David Huson) and illustrated by Natasha Donovan, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press

 

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

The Water Beetles by Michael Kaan, published by Goose Lane Editions

Categories: Awards, Winnipeg, Prairie Writing

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