Please join us in congratulating Ashley Little and Ailsa Kay, who were both longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. The €100,000 award is the richest literary prize in the world. Administered by Dublin City Public Libraries, books are nominated by libraries from around the world.
For more information about the prize, please visit:
http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/
For more information about the nominated titles, please click below:
WCA is thrilled to announce that Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle (HarperCollins Canada) has won the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction.
The Back of the Turtle is King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic.
The Governor General’s Literary Awards were first awarded in 1936, and are now one of Canada’s premier national literary awards. Winners will be celebrated at a public event in Ottawa on November 26.
http://ggbooks.ca/~/media/ggbooks/list%20of%20all%20winners%20english.pdf
Please join us in congratulating Paul Wells, the winner of the Ottawa Book Award in the English: Non-Fiction category for The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006- (Penguin Random House of Canada).
Jury Statement:
This no-holds barred romp into the inner sanctum of the “Harper government” is sometimes hilariously irreverent, but always astute and based on meticulously accumulated details. Paul Wells provides disturbing insights into this government’s determination to stay in power, its good fortune in the face of possible adversity, its mistakes and its battle to control information. This is a well-written, important book published at a timely juncture in Canada’s political history.
The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray has won the Heritage Toronto Award!
Congratulations, Charlotte!
http://heritagetoronto.org/programs/heritage-toronto-awards/
