Fiction
- The Imposter by Damon Galgut
- The Brutal Heart by Gail Bowen
- Broken by Daniel Clay
- The Book of Stanley by Tom Babiak
- End Games by Andrew O'Haganl
Non-Fiction
- Family Romance by John Lanchester
- Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann
- Starring Brian Linehan by George Anthony
- The Soviet Ambassador by Christopher Shulgan
- A Romance on Three Legs by Katie Hafner
Congratulations to Anne Simpson, author of Quick, winner of the 2008 Lowther Award. The Lowther award is given to a book of poetry by a Canadian woman published in the preceding year and is in memory of the late British Columbia poet, who was murdered in 1975.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Hay, author of Late Nights On Air, winner of the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award!
Congratulations also to our own Scott Richardson, who won the Book Design of the Year Award for his work on The Frozen Thames!
The nominees for the 2008 Trillium Award have been announced. Congratulations to our finalist From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People by Lorna Goodison!
The
nominees for the 2008 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour were announced on March 27, 2008. Congratulations to our finalist King John of Canada by Scott Gardiner!
The winner will be announced on April 30, 2008. For more information, visit the Stephen Leacock Association's website.
The
nominees for the 2008 Commonwealth Prize Best Book Award were announced on Feb 13,
2008. Congratulations
to our finalists:
Divisadero by Michael Ondaajte for Canada & the Caribbean
The Solitude of Emperors by David Davidar for Europe & South Asia
The two regional winners will be announced on 13 March 2008, during Commonwealth Week, and will enter the final stage of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize where they will go head to head with the six other regional winners.
The
nominees for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize
for Literary
Non-fiction were announced on Jan 22,
2008. Congratulations
to our finalists:
Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical
Maverick by Kevin Bazzana
From Harvey
River: A Memoir of My Mother and
Her People by Lorna Goodison
The winner of the 2008 prize will be announced at a lunch ceremony in Toronto
on March 3. The winner will receive $25,000 in prize money, and the two runners-up
will receive $2,000 apiece.
Congratulations to Lorna Goodison! From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People won the 2008 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction. This national, $40,000 prize is Canada's largest literary non-fiction prize and the non-fiction counterpart to the Giller Prize.
Congratuations
to the winner of The
2007 Governor General's Literary Award for
Fiction:
Divisadero by Michael
Ondaatje
The 2007
Scotiabank Giller Prize winner was announced on Nov. 6 - congratulations to:
Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth
Hay
