Manitoba Book Awards 2019 winners
Tuesday, May 07, 2019 at 6:02pm
At an awards gala held this past weekend at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the 2019 Manitoba Book Awards were proudly presented to this year's recipients. The eleven separate awards recognize excellence in Manitoba writing, book design, and publishing for books published within the past year. This year's winners include:
- McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award — More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails and Ruins by Gordon Goldsborough, published by Great Plains Publications
- McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award: Older Category — Monsters by David A. Robertson, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
- Manitoba Indigenous Writer of the Year Award — Tasha Spillett
- Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault — L’enfant rouge par Bertrand Nayet, publié par Les Éditions du Blé
- Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction — Small Predators by Jennifer Ilse Black, published by ARP Books
- Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction —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 — Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews, cover and interior design by Urbanink, published by ARP Books
- Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author — declared a tie and presented to both Surviving the City written by Tasha Spillett, illustrated by Natasha Donovan, published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press; and Clean Sweep by Michael J. Clark, published by ECW Press
- Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award — Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews, published by ARP Books
- Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright — The Flats by Ginny Collins, produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange and Cercle Molière
- Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards, I. Book Design — Small Predators by Jennifer Ilse Black, cover artwork and design by Kenneth Lavallee, interior design by Relish New Brand Experience, published by ARP Books
- Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards, II. General Illustration — IKWE: Honouring Women, Life Givers, and Water Protectors written and illustrated by Jackie Traverse, image editing/cover design by Melody Morrissette, published by Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing
- Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards, III. Graphic Novel — 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
Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees! For a full list of the nominees, see this post, or visit the Manitoba Book Awards website for more details.
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