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Congratulations to Richard J. Gwyn, winner of the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, awarded by the Writers' Trust of Canada, for his work, Nation Maker! We are pleased to announce that Nation Maker has also won the University of Manitoba’s 2012 Dafoe Book Prize. The J.W. Dafoe Book Prize is awarded to the best book on Canada, Canadians, and/or Canada’s place in the world published in the previous calendar year. The author of the winning book receives a prize of $10,000.

For more information on the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, please click here.

The 2012 National Business Book Award shortlist was announced on April 26, and we're so pleased announce the following nominations:

• A Matter of Principle by Conrad Black
• Consumer Republic by  Bruce Philp
• The Leap by Chris Turner

The winner will be announced on May 28th.

Random House of Canada is delighted to announce the name of its recently created lifestyle imprint: Appetite by Random House. Perfectly positioned on the beautiful West coast under the direction of respected and award-winning publisher Robert McCullough, Appetite by Random House will offer readers in Canada and the United States a carefully selected collection of lifestyle titles in categories including food, wine, health and design.

Please see the press release for further details.

Congratulations to Kyung-Sook Shin, winner of the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize for her novel, Please Look After Mom!

Kyung-sook Shin is the first woman to win the award. The win is also the first for a South Korean writer, and Please Look After Mom is the first novel by a South Korean to make it to the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist in the Prize's five-year history.

Kyung-sook Shin receives $30,000, and translator Chi-Young Kim receives $5,000 - visit manasianliteraryprize.org for more information.

Congratulations to our finalists for the BC Book Prizes:

• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Frances Greenslade for Shelter

• Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize: Moira Young for Blood Red Road

The winners will be announced on May 12, 2012. Find out more about the award here.

Toronto – April 24, 2012 – Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) today announced that the industry’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded to Canadian author Margaret Atwood. CBA’s Lifetime Achievement Award is given in recognition of Ms. Atwood’s outstanding and longstanding contribution to the book industry. This award, which is bestowed at the discretion of CBA Board of Directors, allows booksellers and other industry stakeholders to explicitly recognize an author’s cultural impact on Canadian literary culture. Past recipients include Timothy Findley, Carol Shields, Pierre Berton, Charles Burchell and Stephen King.

Congratulations to Tim Wynne-Jones and James Bartleman for being appointed to the Order of Canada. The Order of Canada, one of our country's highest civilian honours, was established in 1967, during Canada's centennial year, to recognize a lifetime of outstanding achievement, dedication to community and service to the nation.

Congratulations to Charles Foran, winner of the 75th Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction for his book:

Mordecai: The Life & Times!

Foran is also the winner of The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

The winners were announced on November 15 in Toronto - visit the Canada Council website for more information.

Congratulations to our three authors who received awards for their excellence in literature:

• Newfoundland-born novelist Wayne Johnston received the $25,000 Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
• Fredericton novelist David Adams Richards received the $20,000 Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
• Gulf Islands novelist Iain Lawrence received the $20,000 Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature.

Congratulations to Julian Barnes, winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sense of an Ending!

Dame Stella Rimington, Chair of the 2011 judges, commented, "Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending has the markings of a classic of English Literature. It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading."

The winner of the £50,000 prize was announced on October 18 - visit themanbookerprize.com for more information.