Fiction
- Grain by Robert Stead
- Last of the Curlews by Fred Bodsworth
- The Cashier by Gabrielle Roy
- The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence
- The Equations of Love by Ethel Wilson
Non-Fiction
- The Follow-Through Factor
by Gene C. Hayden - The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir
- For Richer, For Poorer by Victoria Coren
- The Canadian Writer's Market, 18th Edition by Joanna Karaplis
- I.O.U. by John Lanchester
McClelland & Stewart is pleased to announce that beloved Canadian author Margaret Atwood has received the
World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award 2010 in Davos, Switzerland. The Crystal Award has been presented as part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 – Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild, and honours artists who have used their art to improve the state of the world.
Click here to read more about Margaret Atwood.
The Costa judges described it as "poised, quiet and incrementally shattering". Tóibín is now in the running for the 2009 Costa Book of the Year Award. The winner, selected by a panel of judges chaired by novelist Josephine Hart and including Marie Helvin, Caroline Quentin, Gary Kemp, Dervla Kirwan and Tom Bradby, will be announced on 26th January.
Click here to read an excerpt from Brooklyn.
Westoll maps the natural and human geography of this exotic land while hunting for closure to his strange obsession with it. In the end, he tells a spellbinding story of survival, heartbreak, mystery, and murder.
Click here to read an excerpt from The River Bones.
Stitches, has been named a finalist for the prestigious
National Book Award!
The winners of the National Book Award will be announced on Wednesday, November 18 2009.
Click here to watch the book trailer.
Congratulations to Dionne Brand! She has been named the new Poet Laureate of Toronto. Brand has won many awards for her poetry. Ms. Brand will receive an annual honorarium of $10,000 for three years to serve as Toronto's literary ambassador championing local literary arts and wordsmiths.
Click here for more information about the Toronto Poet Laureate program.
Congratulations to Anne Michaels! The Winter Vault appears on
the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist, announced on Tuesday, October 6!
More information about the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize is available on thier website.
Sarah Waters for The Little Stranger
Click here to read the first chapter of The Little Stranger
More information is available on www.playthegame.org.
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.
Fat is also the winner of an IACP Cookbook Award! What a great year for Jennifer!
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 Gail Bowen, who is being awarded the Crime Writers of Canada Derrick Murdoch Award, in recognition of her contributions to Canadian crime writing.
Gail received 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.
