Fiction
- Garcia's Heart by Liam Durcan
- Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
- Asylum by Andre Alexis
- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- Kill All the Judges by William Deverell
Non-Fiction
- The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty
- Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
- Risk by Dan Gardner
- The Art of Clairtone by Nina Munk and Rachel Gotlieb
- Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
Celebrate National Poetry Month with the best in Canadian poetry. For poems, author introductions, comments about how the poems work, and more, visit www.mcclelland.com/poetry.
For event listings and audio, visit the
McClelland & Stewart Poetry page on Facebook
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.
Watch the trailer for the crtically aclaimed film Fugitive Pieces, based on Anne Michael's award winning novel. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007, and will open in theaters May 2, 2008.
Watch the trailer for the film adaptation of Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, starring acclaimed actresses Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Page, and introducing Christine Horne. The film opens in theaters May 9, 2008.
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
