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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 Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the winner for the $10,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize, chosen from among the stories published in The Journey Prize Stories 19: The Best of Canada’s New Writers, selected by writers Caroline Adderson, David Bezmozgis, and Dionne Brand. For more information click here.

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.


Divisadero

Congratuations to the winner of The 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction:

Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje


Late Nights on Air

The 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner was announced on Nov. 6 - congratulations to:

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay