Jeff Rubin, who won for his book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
The $20,000 prize is presented annually to an outstanding Canadian business-related book. The winner was announced on June 9 at a luncheon in Toronto. Also nominated was
John DeMont for Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled.
Congratulations to our 2010 Arthur Ellis Award winners, as announced by the Crime Writers of Canada on May 27, 2010:
| Best Crime Novel | Best First Novel | Best Crime NonFiction |
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| High Chicago by Howard Shrier |
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley |
Murder Without Borders by Terry Gould |
Click here for more information about the prize.
2010 CBC Canada Reads 2010 winner!
The announcement was made on March 12, 2010 after a week of debates on CBC Radio, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.
Other nominees included Ann-Marie MacDonald for Fall On Your Knees (defended by Perdita Felicien), Douglas Coupland for Generation X and Wayson Choy for The Jade Peony!
Check out the CBC Canada Reads website for more information!
John English for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000
The other nominees included Dr. James Maskalyk for Six Months in Sudan and Terry Gould for Murder Without Borders
The winner was announced at the Politics and the Pen event in Ottawa on March 10, 2010. Visit The Writers' Trust website for more information.
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.
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.
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, and Anne Michaels, author of
The Winter Vault were also on the shortlist.
2009 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction
for his book:
A Place Within: Rediscovering India
The winner was announced on November 17, 2009 - visit the Governor General's Literary Awards website for more information.
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.
Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981, then was chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 - the only other time a celebratory prize has been awarded.
The shorlist was selected by a panel of judges and then the decision was made by a public poll. Find out more about the award here.
