Manitoba Book Awards 2019 finalists

Friday, Apr 12, 2019 at 4:24pm

The nominees for the 2019 Manitoba Book Awards have been revealed! These awards are divided into eleven categories that recognize excellence in Manitoba writing, book design, and publishing.

The winners will be announced and celebrated at 7 PM on May 3, 2019, at a gala in their honour. This celebration takes place at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and tickets are on sale now for $20 per person. For more information, please visit the Manitoba Book Awards website.

The lists of nomineese can be found after the jump.

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

Glitter and Fall by Di Brandt, published by Turnstone Press
Paul Is Dead by C.C. Benison, published by Signature Editions
More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails and Ruins by Gordon Goldsborough, published by Great Plains Publications

McNally Robinson Book for Young People Awards: Older category

Ark Land by Scott A. Ford, published by ChiZine Publications (ChiGraphic)
Monsters by David A. Robertson, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Trouble Never Sleeps by Stephanie Tromly, published by Penguin Random House

Manitoba Indigenous Writer of the Year Award

Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault (Français)

Empreintes par Lise Gaboury-Diallo, publié par Les Éditions du Blé
L’enfant rouge par Bertrand Nayet, publié par Les Éditions du Blé
Une terrasse en mai par Simone Chaput, publié par Leméac Éditeur

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

Lost Aria by Carmelo Militano, published by Ekstasis Editions
Paul Is Dead by C.C. Benison, published by Signature Editions
Small Predators by Jennifer Ilse Black, published by ARP Books

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

Bird-Bent Grass: A Memoir, in Pieces by Kathleen Venema, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Coming Back to Jail: Women, Trauma, and Criminalization by Elizabeth Comack, published by Fernwood Publishing
The Emperor’s Orphans by Sally Ito, published by Turnstone Press
Literary Impostors: Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century by Rosmarin Heidenreich, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press
Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience by Allan Levine, published by McClelland & Stewart
Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City by Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry, published by University of Manitoba Press

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher

More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails and Ruins by Gordon Goldsborough, design by Relish New Brand Experience, published by Great Plains Publications
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901 – 1961 by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock, and Adrian Werner, cover design by Frank Reimer, interior design by Jess Koroscil, cover photo by Gerry Cairns (Winnipeg Free Press collection), published by University of Manitoba Press
Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing by Linda Kenyon, cover design by Doowah Design, published by Signature Editions
Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews, cover and interior design by Urbanink, published by ARP Books
You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller by Caelum Vatnsdal, cover and interior design by Relish New Brand Experience, published by ARP Books

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba author

Clean Sweep by Michael J. Clark, published by ECW Press
Learning the Hard Way by Joseph Bird, published by Goldrock Press
Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik, published by Coach House Books
Surviving the City, written by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, published by Arsenal Pulp Press
Little Fish by Casey Plett, published by Arsenal Pulp Press
Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik, published by Coach House Books
Small Predators by Jennifer Ilse Black, published by ARP Books
Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews, published by ARP Books

Manuela Dias Design and Illustration awards

I. Book design

Family of Spies: Paris by Jodi Carmichael, design by Relish New Brand Experience, interior illustrations by Jamie Gatta, published by Yellow Dog, an imprint of Great Plains Publications
Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, cover design by Marvin Harder, interior design by Jess Koroscil, cover art by Pitaloosie Saila (Arctic Madonna, Winnipeg Art Gallery collection), published by University of Manitoba Press
Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901 – 1961 by Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock, and Adrian Werner, cover design by Frank Reimer, interior design by Jess Koroscil, cover photo by Gerry Cairns (Winnipeg Free Press collection), published by University of Manitoba Press
Small Predators by Jennifer Ilse Black, cover artwork and design by Kenneth Lavallee, interior design by Relish New Brand Experience, published by ARP Books
Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews, cover and interior design by Urbanink, published by ARP Books
Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City by Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry, cover design by Mike Carroll, interior design by Jess Koroscil, published by University of Manitoba Press

II. General illustration

compositions de J.R. Léveillé, maquette de couverture de Bernard Léveillé, mise en page de Bernard Léveillé et Chanh To (Rinella Printers), et Philippe Dupas (Appeal Graphics), publié par Les Éditions du Blé
Exploring the Old Trans-Canada East: Canada’s Route 66 by Clint Cannon, design by Kendra Jacob-Azevedo, maps by Dawn Huck, published by Heartland Associates Inc.
IKWE: Honouring Women, Life Givers, and Water Protectors, written and illustrated by Jackie Traverse, image editing and cover design by Melody Morrissette, published by Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing
Warehouse Journal: Volume 27, edited and designed by Liana Thomson and Jinnette Alvaran, published by University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture

III. Graphic novel

Pemmican Wars (Vol. 1 of A Girl Called Echo), written by Katherena Vermette, illustrated by Scott B. Henderson, coloured by Donovan Yaciuk, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Surviving the City, written by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan, design by Relish New Brand Experience, cover art by Natasha Donovan, lettering by Donovan Yaciuk, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Window Horses: the Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming, written by Ann Marie Fleming, illustrations and cover artwork by Kevin Langdale, cover design by Ryan Ferrier, published by Bedside Press

IV. Children’s Illustrated

(This award has been held over to next year.)

Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright

Deserter by Daniel Thau-Eleff, produced by Moving Target Theatre Company
L’Ennemi du Peuple par Rhéal Cenerini, produite par le Cercle Molière, publiée par Les Éditions du Blé
The Flats by Ginny Collins, produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange and Cercle Molière
How the Heavens Go by Joseph Aragon, produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange
Nanabozho et Le Tambour par Rhéal Cenerini, produite par le Cercle Molière, publiée par Les Éditions du Blé
Sarah Ballenden by Maureen Hunter, produced by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, published by Scirocco Drama, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

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