Saskatchewan Book Awards 2021 winners
Tuesday, Jun 29, 2021 at 4:15pm
The winners of the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards were announced this week. These awards, which recognize and celebrate excellence and diversity in Saskatchewan writing and publishing, are presented in fourteen categories.
A full list of this year's winners can be found after the jump. Congratulations to all of them!
To see a virtual gala celebrating the winners and to get more information about the Saskatchewan Book Awards, please visit their website.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Prairie Writing, Canadian Lit2021 Pulitzer Prize winners
Saturday, Jun 12, 2021 at 12:51pm
This week the winners of the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were announced.
Started in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, a skilled and passionate newspaper publisher, the Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually to honour excellence in journalism and the arts. Each year 22 prizes are awarded, with winners chosen by a board of members.
Of particular interest to us are the Book winners:
- Fiction - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- History - Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
- Biography - The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne
- Poetry - Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
- General Nonfiction - Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
The full list of 2021 winners can be found on Pulitzer.org.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, WinnipegThe 2021 Lambda Literary Award winners
Friday, Jun 04, 2021 at 5:06pm
To kick off Pride Month, the Lambda Literary Awards (also known as the "Lammys") announced their 2021 winners on June 1.
The Lammy winners are consistently fantastic and this year is no different. Congratulations to all of them!
Of particular note to our regional interest, the anthology Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead and featuring a story from David A. Robertson won in the LGBTQ Anthology category.
You can find the complete list of winners after the jump.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, LGBTQThomas King wins 2020 Leacock Medal
Friday, Jun 04, 2021 at 4:33pm
Thomas King is the winner of the 2020 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for his novel Indians on Vacation, published last year by HarperCollins Publishers. Along with the medal itself, he has received a prize of $15,000.
The two runners-up were Joseph Kertes for his novel Last Impressions and Murray Morgan for his novel Dirty Birds.
Congratulations, Mr. King!
For more information on the Leacock Medal for Humour you can visit Leacock.ca.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Humour2020 Governor General's Literary Awards winners
Tuesday, Jun 01, 2021 at 1:05pm
The winners of the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced today.
The seven English-language winners are:
- Fiction: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- Nonfiction: This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
- Poetry: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
- Young people's literature — text: The King of Jam Sandwiches by Eric Walters
- Young people's literature — illustrated books: The Barnabus Project by The Fan Brothers
- Translation: If You Hear Me by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- Drama: Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story by Kim Senklip Harvey
Congratulations to all of them!
The 2020 prizes were delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 awards will be given out this fall. For more information on the Governor General's Literary Awards, please visit ggbooks.ca
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