The big winner at Saturday’s Saskatchewan Book Awards was the MacKenzie Art Gallery, which won all three publisher awards for 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc., a 360-page catalogue from an exhibition of aboriginal artists curated by Michelle LaVallee.
The full list of winners is:
WRITER AWARDS
University of Regina Book of the Year Award
Suzanne North, Flying Time (Brindle & Glass)
Rasmussen, Rasmussen and Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award
Ernie Louttit, Indian Ernie (Purich Publishing)
City of Regina Fiction Award
Dawn Dumont, Rose’s Run (Thistledown Press)
Drs. Morris and Jacqui Shumiatcher Regina Book Award
Tracy Hamon, Red Curls (Thistledown)
O’Reilly Insurance Ltd., Co-operators First Book Award
Ken Dalgarno, Badlands: A Geography of Metaphors (Red Deer Press)
University of Saskatchewan President’s Office Non-fiction Award
Paul Hanley, Eleven (FriesenPress Publishing)
Luther College and University of Regina Arts Award for Scholarly Writing
Merle Massie
PUBLISHER AWARDS
University of Regina Faculty of Education and Campion College Award for Publishing in Education
MacKenzie Art Gallery, 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
First Nations University of Canada Aboriginal People’s Publishing Award
MacKenzie Art Gallery, 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.
Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport Publishing Award
MacKenzie Art Gallery, 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.