Nino Ricci gets the fiction prize for The Origin of Species (Doubleday Canada).

Odds are that Christie Blatchford, non-fiction winner for Fifteen Days (Doubleday Canada), either just said or is about to say something saucy.

Jacob Scheier, poetry winner for More to Keep Us Warm (ECW Press).

John Ibbitson won children’s text for The Landing (Kids Can Press)…

… and another Kids Can creator, Stéphane Jorisch, took children’s illustration for The Owl and the Pussycat.

Catherine Banks is either marvelling at her drama prize for Bone Cage (Playwrights Canada Press), or else she’s noticing something amiss.

Lazer Lederhendler picks up the French-to-English translation prize for his work on Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (Knopf Canada).

Fiction

• Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins)
• Cockroach by Rawi Hage (House of Anansi Press)
• The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci (Doubleday Canada)
• The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada)
• The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson (Doubleday Canada)

Non-fiction

• Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford (Doubleday Canada)
• God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery by Douglas Hunter (Doubleday Canada)
• The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty (McClelland & Stewart)
• An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century by James Orbinski (Doubleday Canada)
• The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need by Chris Turner (Random House of Canada)

Children’s literature – text

• Libertad by Alma Fullerton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
• The Landing by John Ibbitson (Kids Can Press)
• Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden (Thistledown Press)
• Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji (Second Story Press)
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki (Groundwood Books)

Children’s Literature – illustration

• My Letter to the World and Other Poems by Isabelle Arsenault (Kids Can Press)
• The Emperor’s Second Hand Clothes by Josee Bisaillon (Smith, Bonappetit & Son)
• Yellow Moon, Apple Moon by Matt James (Groundwood Books)
• The Owl and the Pussycat by Stéphane Jorisch (Kids Can Press)
• Shin-chi’s Canoe by Kim LaFave (Groundwood Books)

Poetry

• Noise from the Laundry by Weyman Chan (Talonbooks)
• The Sentinel by A. F. Moritz (House of Anansi Press)
• The Invisibility Exhibit by Sachiko Murakami (Talonbooks)
• Aide-Memoire by Ruth Roach Pierson (BuschekBooks)
• More to Keep Us Warm by Jacob Scheier (ECW Press)

Drama

• Bone Cage by Catherine Banks (Playwrights Canada Press)
• 10 Days on Earth by Ronnie Burkett (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Reverend Jonah by Paul Ciufo (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)
• Copper Thunderbird by Marie Clements (Talonbooks)
• Palace of the End by Judith Thompson (Playwrights Canada Press)

In the November 2007 issue of Q&Q:

Louise Penny’s second chance
How a troubled past gives her mystery novels an edge
Plus 10 other Canadian mystery writers to watch

Giving it away
A new scholarly press in Alberta is going Open Access, but others are skeptical
Also in the Scholarly and College Publishing Special Report: Emond Montgomery’s careful expansion, the off-campus campus stores, and more

Jan Wong’s bad year
Why she returned to China – and how a Globe controversy delayed her new book

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