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Wayne Johnston, Red Green, Arthur Black among nominees for Stephen Leacock humour award

The nominees for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour were announced today at Lakehead University in Orillia, Ontario.

Black’s latest, Fifty Shades of Black, is up against previous nominee Bill Conall’s The Promised Land and Wayne Johnston’s The Son of a Certain Woman, which was longlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

The five  shortlisted books are:

  • Arthur Black, Fifty Shades of Black (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Jane Christmas, And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life (Greystone Books)
  • Bill Conall, The Promised Land: A Novel of Cape Breton (Boularderie Island Press)
  • Wayne Johnston, The Son of a Certain Woman (Knopf Canada)
  • Steve Smith, Red Green’s Beginner’s Guide to Women (Doublesday Canada)

Five judges from across Canada and a small committee of readers from Orillia will select the winner, to be revealed on April 24 at the Best Western Mariposa Inn in Orillia.

The winner will receive a $15,000 cash prize provided by TD Bank Group and a silver Leacock Memorial Medal. Last year the prize went to Cassie Stocks for her novel Dance, Gladys, Dance (NeWest Press).

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April 9th, 2014

3:08 pm

Category: Awards

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