The Retail Council of Canada has announced the finalists for the 2014 Libris Awards. Nominated and selected by members of the Canadian book industry, the awards recognize excellence among authors, publishers, editors, sales representatives, and booksellers from across the country.
Winners will be announced on June 2 at the Toronto Congress Centre, as part of the Retail Council of Canada’s Store Conference.
This year’s lifetime achievement award will be presented to CBC Radio host and author Stuart McLean.
The nominees are:
Author
- Joseph Boyden
- Amanda Lindhout
- Louise Penny
- Charlotte Gray
- Alice Munro
Fiction
- Hellgoing by Lynn Coady (House of Anansi Press)
- Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa (Doubleday Canada)
- Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady (Doubleday Canada)
- The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster)
- The Orenda by Joseph Boyden (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
Non-fiction
- The Great Escape by Ted Barris (Dundurn Press)
- Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk (University of Regina Press)
- Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr (Viking Canada)
- An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield (Random House Canada)
- A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett (Simon & Schuster)
Bookseller
- Blue Heron Books (Uxbridge, Ontario)
- McNally Robinson Booksellers (Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
- Words Worth Books (Waterloo, Ontario)
- Mosaic Books (Kelowna, B.C.)
- Another Story Bookshop (Toronto, Ontario)
Specialty Bookseller
- Bakka Phoenix Books (Toronto, Ontario)
- Ella Minnow Children’s Bookstore (Toronto, Ontario)
- Kidsbooks (Vancouver, B.C.)
- Mabel’s Fables (Toronto, Ontario)
- Woozles Children’s Bookstore (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Campus Bookseller
- UBC Bookstore (Vancouver, B.C.)
- The Book Store at University of Western Ontario (Waterloo, Ontario)
- King’s Co-op Bookstore (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- University of Regina Bookstore (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Editor
- Jennifer Lambert, HarperCollins Canada
- John Metcalf, Biblioasis
- Nicole Winstanley, Penguin Canada
Young Reader
- Jane, the Fox and Me by Fanny Britt; Isabelle Arsenault, illus. (Groundwood Books)
- A Taste of Heaven by Meg Tilly (Puffin Canada)
- The Road to Afghanistan by Linda Granfield (North Winds Press)
- The Hypnotists by Gordon Korman (Scholastic Press)
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten (Doubleday Canada)
Picture Books
- The Dark by Lemony Snicket; Jon Klassen, illus. (HarperCollins Canada)
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore; Barbara Reid, illus. (Scholastic Canada)
- Lasso the Wind by George Elliott Clarke; Susan Tooke, illus. (Nimbus Publishing)
- This Little Hamster by Kass Reich (Orca Book Publishers)
- Warning: Do Not Open This Book! by Adam Lehrhaupt; Matthew Forsythe, illus. (Simon & Schuster)
Distributor
- HarperCollins Canada
- Raincoast Books
- University of Toronto Press
Sales Rep
- Ali Hewitt (Ampersand Inc.)
- Sherry Lee (Simon & Schuster Canada)
- Lynne Reeder (Random House of Canada)
Small Press
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Biblioasis
- Gaspereau Press
- Groundwood Books
- Nimbus Publishing
Publisher
- ECW Press
- Dundurn Press
- HarperCollins Canada
- House of Anansi Press
- Penguin Canada
- Random House of Canada