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NEWS ARCHIVE
ADAM LEWIS SCHROEDER IS FINALIST FOR AMAZON.CA FIRST NOVEL AWARD
We are pleased to report that Adam Lewis Schroeder is one of only 6 finalists for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada Novel Awards for 2006for Empress of Asia. Previous winners include Michael Ondaatje (1976), Joan Barfoot (1978), Joy Kogawa (1981), W.P. Kinsella (1982), Rohinton Mistry (1991), Anne Michaels (1996), Alan R. Wilson and David Macfarlane (co-winners, 1999), Michael Redhill (2001), Mary Lawson (2002), and Joseph Boyden (2005). The winner will be announced in October 2007.
TODD BABIAK'S THE GARNEAU BLOCK WINS THE CITY IF EDMONTON BOOK PRIZE
Congratulations to Todd Babiak, winner of the 2007 City of Edmonton Book Prize for his novel The Garneau Block,awarded annually to an outstanding book written by an Edmonton author.
Congratulations to Nathan Sellyn for winning the 10th Annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award for a first collection of Canadian Engish-language short fiction (published in 2006), for his work Indigenous Beasts. First prize winners are awarded a well-deserved prize of $10,000. The winners were announced in Vancouver on June 2, 2007, during the Writers’ Union annual general meeting.
DAVID ADAMS RICHARDS WINS 2007 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE FOR CANADA/CARIBBEAN!
Congratulations toDavid Adams Richards, Winner of the 2007 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE (Canada/Caribbean) for The Friends of Meager Fortune. The Commonwealth Foundation established the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1987 to encourage and reward the upsurge of new Commonwealth fiction and ensure that works of merit reach a wider audience outside their country of origin.
GREG HOLLINGSHEAD IS RECEPIENT OF THE 2007 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ALBERTA AWARDS
Up to three awards of $30,000 each are awarded annually by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards program. We would like to congratulate Greg Hollingshead for being one of this years recipients! Greg's most recent book is Bedlam, published by HarperCollins Canada in 2004. click here for press release
