Congratulations to Canadian investigative journalist, author and academic, Declan Hill, who received the Play the Game 2009 Award in recognition of his groundbreaking research and documentation of the realities of match fixing. Hill, author of the critically acclaimed book The Fix, is the world’s leading investigator into the illegal Asian gambling rings that are the prime movers in the world of football match-fixing.

More information is available on www.playthegame.org.

Congratulations to Dan Gardner, whose book Risk is the winner of the 2008 Canadian Science Writers' Association Science in Society Journalism Awards for the General Audience Book category!

More information is available on the CSWA/ACRS site.

Congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the third
Man Booker International Prize! The prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.

More information is available on the Man Booker Prize site.

Congratulations to Jennifer McLagan, whose book Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes is the winner of two James Beard Awards, for Best Cookbook of the Year and Best Single Subject Cookbook.

Fat is also the winner of an IACP Cookbook Award! What a great year for Jennifer!

Congratulations to Anne Simpson, whose novel, Falling, is the winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction at the Atlantic Book Awards

Congratulations to Alistair MacLeod, who has been awarded the PEN/Faulker Foundation’s 2009 PEN/Malamud Award for his short fiction! The PEN/Malamud Award includes a reading in the 2009-10 PEN/Faulkner reading series at the Folger Shakespeare Library and a prize of $5,000

Congratulations to William Deverell, who has been shortlisted for the 2009 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Kill All the Judges. The winner will be named on April 30, and will take home a $15,000 cash prize, while the runners-up receive $1,500 apiece.

Click here to read an excerpt from Kill All the Judges

Congratulations to Gail Bowen, who is being awarded the Crime Writers of Canada Derrick Murdoch Award, in recognition of her contributions to Canadian crime writing.
Gail will receive the award on June 4 at the CWC’s Arthur Ellis Awards dinner, being held this year in Ottawa.

Read from Gail's The Brutal Heart, now in paperback.

The nominees for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes have been announced!

Congratulations to our finalists:
Best First Book - Canada & The Caribbean - Blackouts by Craig Boyko
Best First Book - Africa  - The Imposter by Damon Galgut
Best First Book - Europe & South Asia - Broken by Daniel Clay

Congratulations to Jennifer McLagan, whose book Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes is the winner of an IACP Cookbook Award! This is a hugely prestigious award - past winners include James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, and Deborah Madison to name a few.

Fat has also been nominated for a James Beard Award, in the Single Subject category. What a year for Jennifer!

The nominees for the 2009 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction were announced on December 10, 2008. Congratulations to our finalist The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika by Christopher Shulgan!
The winner will be announced on February 2, 2009. For more information, visit the 2009 BC National Award's website.