The Manitoba Book Awards 2018 winners
Tuesday, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:02pmThe 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
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
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