Westwood Creative Artists

Thomas King Wins Libris Award

olivetree — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:51:48 +0000

WCA is happy to report that Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian has been chosen as the non-fiction book of the year at the CBA Libris awards.

The CBA Libris Awards are voted on by independent booksellers, recognizing literary achievement and contributions from members of the book industry.

Gaston and Adderson win BC Book Prizes

olivetree — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:02 +0000

WCA would like to congratulate Bill Gaston and Caroline Adderson for winning 2013 BC Book Prizes. Gaston’s The World took home the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and Adderson’s Middle of Nowhere won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2013

Person, Sunrise Cea

olivetree — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:16:39 +0000

Born into an eccentric hippie family in 1969, CEA SUNRISE PERSON spent the first decade of her life living in and out of tipis in the Canadian wilderness and surviving reckless adventures with her young mother. After moving to Calgary, Cea was launched into an international modeling career at the age of thirteen. She worked successfully as a model for the next two decades, living in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Zurich and Milan. In 1999 she settled in Vancouver, and is now a happily married mother of three young children.

www.ceaperson.com

Author photo: Shimon Karmel

Bergen Wins Two Prizes at the Manitoba Book Awards

olivetree — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:20:28 +0000

The Age of Hope by David Bergen has won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction at the Manitoba Book Awards. The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award honours books that evoke the special character of and contribute to the appreciation and understanding of the City of Winnipeg. The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction is awarded to a Manitoba writer whose book is judged the best book of adult fiction published in 2012. Bergen has now won four Margaret Laurence awards and three Carol Shields awards. Congratulations David!

Poitras, Jacques

olivetree — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:04:59 +0000

JACQUES POITRAS is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC News in New Brunswick. He is the author of three books, all published by Goose Lane Editions, including the national bestseller Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, which was shortlisted for British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and for the National Business Book Award. His most recent book, Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border, a social history of the international boundary between New Brunswick and Maine, was shortlisted for the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Jacques also contributed essays to 100 Days That Changed Canada and 100 Photos That Changed Canada. His journalism has been honoured by the National Newspaper Awards, the Radio and Television News Directors Association, and Amnesty International. He lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick with his wife and two children, and tweets about his books and related subjects at @PoitrasBook.

Photo credit: Diane Cole

Gallant, Gail

olivetree — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:00:07 +0000

GAIL GALLANT was born in Toronto, Canada, into a family of nine, her parents being of Acadian heritage from Prince Edward Island. She spent many years studying theology and philosophy and was half way through a doctorate on Spinoza when she abandoned academics for a career in broadcast journalism. Since then, she’s worked in Canadian television as a producer, Gemini Award-winning director, writer and story editor in factual programming. Apparition is her first work of fiction, a romantic thriller about ghosts. She describes the biggest influences on her writing as her intensely religious childhood imagination, her mother’s daytime soap operas, and her son Ben. She shares a 160-year-old stone farmhouse with her documentary filmmaker husband in Grey County, Ontario, the setting of her novel.

BC Book Prize Finalists Announced

olivetree — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:58:53 +0000

The finalists for the BC Book Prize were announced and they include…

- Bill Gaston’s THE WORLD for Fiction

- Carol Shaben’s INTO THE ABYSS for Non-Fiction

- Caroline Adderson’s MIDDLE OF NOWHERE for Non-Illustrated Children’s Book

- Susin Nielsen’s THE RELUCTANT JOURNAL OF HENRY K. LARSEN for Non-Illustrated Children’s Book

Congratulations everyone!

For more information please visit:

http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/news/article/2013-bc-book-prizes-shortlists-announced/

Marcello Di Cintio wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

olivetree — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:40:29 +0000

Westwood Creative Artists is thrilled to announce that Marcello Di Cintio’s Walls: Travels Along the Barricades has won the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Now in its twelfth year, the prize is awarded annually to a non-fiction book that captures a political subject of interest to Canadian readers and enhances our understanding of the issue. The winning work combines compelling new insights with depth of research and is of significant literary merit.

Below, please find the Jury Citation:

When Ronald Reagan exhorted Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, it was not only a political act. As Marcello Di Cintio discovers, walls divide far more than nations. In this beautifully written reportage, the author brings readers the personal stories – gripping, haunting, humorous, and inspiring – of people living against walls around the world, from the “peaceline” of Belfast to the l’Acadie fence of Montreal.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.writerstrust.com/awards/shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing.aspx

LIFE OF PI TOP OSCAR FILM

olivetree — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:21:20 +0000

Life of Pi was the big winner at the 2013 Academy Awards, picking up 4 Oscars, the most by any film.

Ang Lee’s film adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel captured four Oscars, including the award for best Director, Original Score, Cinematography and Visual Effects. It was also nominated for best Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Art Direction, Visual Effects, Sound, Sound Editing, and Original Song.

Congratulations, Yann!

Life of Pi Nominated for 11 Oscars!

olivetree — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:50:29 +0000

It was announced this morning that Life of Pi, based Yann Martel’s award-winning novel, is a leading contender for the 2013 Academy Awards. The film earned a stunning 11 nominations, including best picture. The full list of nominations follow:

The winners will be announced on Sunday, February 24. For more information, please visit: www.oscars.com

Martel’s 2002 Man Booker Prize winning novel, a #1 international bestseller, has been published in more than 50 territories, sold more than 9 million copies worldwide, and spent more than a year on the New York Times Bestseller list.