Awards

National Post hosts online Giller roundtable

In preparation for tomorrow's Scotiabank Giller Prize gala award ceremony, the National Post has recruited a cadre of industry insiders, authors, and commentators for a special online roundtable about literary awards and their effects on ... Read More »

November 10, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Man Booker also-ran Sebastian Barry “entitled to be disappointed” … says Booker juror

By Steven W. Beattie

Horse-trading, you say? Compromise? The acceptable third choice? This would appear to be what adjudicating a major literary prize comes down to. Little more than a month after the Guardian published its exposé covering 40 ... Read More »

October 23, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Prize-winning poet takes issue with prize’s namesake

By Scott MacDonald

Poet Shane Rhodes found himself in an awkward situation last weekend, after his collection The Bindery won the 2008 Lampman-Scott Award, given annually by Arc Poetry Magazine to a book of poetry by an Ottawa ... Read More »

October 22, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

BookNet tracks the Giller sales effect

By Scott MacDonald

BookNet Canada has been tracking the sales of each of the books shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and they've determined that, on average, sales of the books have increased by 195% since the ... Read More »

October 22, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

Debut author wins Booker

By Scott MacDonald

In a surprise decision, the Man Booker jury chose yesterday to give this year's £50,000 prize to a relative unknown, 33-year-old debut author Aravind Adiga. His novel, The White Tiger, is published in North America ... Read More »

October 15, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Litbloggers weigh in on Giller picks

By Scott MacDonald

A brief survey of responses to yesterday's Giller shortlist announcement: Bookninja argues that Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault got the nod by advertising on Bookninja.com Oddsmaker Pinnacle Sports places the smart money on Rawi ... Read More »

October 8, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Event photos: Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award

By Stuart Woods

A small but lively crowd gathered on Wednesday evening at Toronto's swank Drake Hotel for the 2007 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Author Gil Adamson eventually walked away with the $7,500 prize for her ... Read More »

October 2, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Guardian, Nobel jury head Horace Engdahl has got a bit of a hate-on for U.S. authors, describing U.S. writing as "insular and ignorant": Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told ... Read More »

October 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Opinion

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

By Stuart Woods

Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle used his column yesterday to go after Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his quip about ordinary Canadians and the excesses of fatcat artists. While the issue is only ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

By Stuart Woods

Two Canadian storytellers and one Nova Scotia literacy group are in the running for the world's richest children's literary prize. Ottawa kids' novelist Brian Doyle, Quebec author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, and Read to Me!, ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

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National Post hosts online Giller roundtable

Man Booker also-ran Sebastian Barry “entitled to be disappointed” … says Booker juror

Prize-winning poet takes issue with prize’s namesake

BookNet tracks the Giller sales effect

Debut author wins Booker

Litbloggers weigh in on Giller picks

Event photos: Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

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