Longlist Announced for BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

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WCA is thrilled to announce that five WCA authors have been longlsted for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Congratulations to all!

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, Ronald J. Deibert, McClelland & Stewart

The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Country, Charlotte Gray, HarperCollins Canada

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Thomas King, Doubleday Canada

The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan, Penguin Canada

The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan, Graeme Smith, Knopf Canada

http://www.bcachievement.com/nonfiction/longlist.php


Matt James wins GG Award

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Congratulations to Matt James, winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award (Children’s literature – illustration) for Northwest Passage (Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press).

The jury citiation follows:

Matt James’s unique illustrations set our imaginations soaring as they steer us through Stan Rogers’ famous ballad, Northwest Passage. The ink and acrylic paintings explode with raw effects and vivid colour, sometimes settling to small ice-blue vignettes. Each page is descriptive of the search that obsessed much of the world for hundreds of years.

For more information, please visit:

http://ggbooks.canadacouncil.ca/en/about-apropos/archives/2013/northwest%20passage

WCA Authors on Amazon.ca’s Best of 2013 List

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I’m pleased to report that Amazon.ca’s Top 100 Editors’ Picks of 2013 include:

Margaret MacMillan’s THE WAR THAT ENDED PEACE
Don Gillmor’s MOUNT PLEASANT
Shyam Selvadurai’s THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
Ann Johnston’s DRINK
Charlotte Gray’s THE MASSEY MURDER

Not to mention appearances in Best Books of the Year: History by:

Stephen J. Harper’s THE GREATEST GAME
Andrew Steinmetz’s THIS GREAT ESCAPE

Congratulations to all!

Wagamese, Stephenson and MacDonald Longlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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The longlist for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award was just announced, and WCA is thrilled to have three authors represented on the list. To read about the nominated novels, please click on the author’s title below:

D.R MacDonald: Anna From Away (HarperCollins)

Ben Stephenson, A Matter of Life and Death or Something (D&M)

Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse (D&M)

Books on the longlist were nominated by libraries in 39 countries. The shortlist will be made public on April 9th, and the €100,000 winner revealed on June 12th.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/