It's with a heavy heart we announce that
Paul Quarrington, award-winning novelist, musician, screenwriter and non-fiction writer, ended his brave battle with cancer on January 21, 2010. He passed away peacefully at home in Toronto in the early hours, surrounded by friends and family, and holding hands with those who were closest to him.    MORE

The winner of the $25,000 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction has been announced - congratulations to:

Ian Brown for The Boy in the Moon

Our other nominees included:
John English for Just Watch Me
Kenneth Whyte for The Uncrowned King

The winner was announced on Feb. 8, 2010. Visit www.TheCharlesTaylorPrize.ca for more information.

Congratulations to Colm Tóibín, whose book, Brooklyn, has been named the winner of the Costa Novel Award in the UK!

The Costa judges described it as "poised, quiet and incrementally shattering". Tóibín is now in the running for the 2009 Costa Book of the Year Award. The winner, selected by a panel of judges chaired by novelist Josephine Hart and including Marie Helvin, Caroline Quentin, Gary Kemp, Dervla Kirwan and Tom Bradby, will be announced on 26th January.

Click here to read an excerpt from Brooklyn.

CBC Canada Reads 2010:

Congratulations to our nominees

Ann-Marie MacDonald for Fall On Your Knees (defended by Perdita Felicien)
Nicolas Dickner for Nikolski
(defended by Michel Vézina)

Also among the nominees are our very own Douglas Coupland (Generation X) and Wayson Choy (The Jade Peony)!

The debates will air on CBC Radio One from March 8 to March 12, 2010 - check out the
CBC Canada Reads website for more information!

Congratulations to the winner of
The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:

Annabel Lyon for The Golden Mean!

The winner was announced on Nov. 24, 2009 at the Writers' Trust Awards ceremony. Among the other nominees was Douglas Coupland for Generation A.

Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the
2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, The Bishop's Man!

The winner was announced on Nov. 10 in Toronto. Annabel Lyon, author of The Golden Mean, was also on the shortlist.

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Congratulations to M.G. Vassanji, winner of the
2009 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction
for his book:

A Place Within: Rediscovering India (available in paperback)

The winner was announced on November 17, 2009 - visit the Governor General's Literary Awards website for more information.

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Congratulations to Alice Munro, winner of the third
Man Booker International Prize! The prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It was first awarded to Ismail Kadaré in 2005 and then to Chinua Achebe in 2007.


More information is available on the Man Booker Prize site