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For the first time, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Canadian Authorhas announced a long-list. Congratulations to our nominees

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Peter C. Newman Canadian Author has started his media rounds for When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada. He participated in a live chat for The Globe and Mail that you can read here. And watch for his interview in Zoomer magazine. In the new year the coverage will continue with appearances on CBC-TV's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and CTV's Canada AM.
Eva Stachniak's Canadian Authornovel about Catherine the Great, The Winter Palace, is getting quite a bit of attention in the new year. Watch for coverage in Chatelaine, More Magazine, and O Magazine.
Media Hits:
  • Joel Henriques, author of Made to Play!: Handmade Toys and Crafts for Growing Imaginations, was a guest on The Martha Stewart Show on November 29. You can watch the video here.
Morning Show/Late Night Round-Up:
  • Michael Bublé, Canadian Authorauthor of Onstage Offstage: The Official Illustrated Memoir, will be co-hosting ABC-TV's Live! With Kelly on December 15 and 16 and be the musical guest for NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live Christmas Special on December 17
  • Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence, will tape an interview with Charlie Rose on Dec. 16 to air on PBS soon after
  • Michael Lindsay-Hogg, author of Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond, will be a guest on NBC-TV's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on December 19
  • Amanda Smith, author of Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson, will be a guest on MSNBC-TV's Hardball with Chris Matthews on December 28
  • Sam Haskell, author of Promises I Made My Mother, will be a guest on CBS-TV's The Early Show on December 28
  • Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, will be a guest on CBS-TV's The Early Show on December 28
  • Peter C. Newman Canadian Author, author of When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada, will be a guest on CBC-TV's George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and CTV's Canada AM on January 4
The Globe and Mail Books Section December 6 to 12:

The New York Times on Dec. 11 contained reviews of:

Just in time for the holiday season comes the movie adaptation of Benjamin Mee's We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives Forever. The movie will be in theatres December 23. It stars Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson and was directed by Cameron Crowe. You can watch the trailer here.
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2011 Costa Awards:




Winners will be announced January 4th, 2012. Visit the website for more information.
Canadian AuthorCongratulations to the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award non-fiction winner Charles Foran for his book Mordecai: The Life & Times! Visit the Canada Council website for more information.
Canadian AuthorCongratulations to our Writers' Trust of Canada prize winners:
    • Wayne Johnston won the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award. The award is presented to a writer in mid-career and the writer is judged on their body of work.
    • David Adams Richards won the Matt Cohen Award. The award recognizes a lifetime of distinguished work by a Canadian writer.
    • Iain Lawrence won The Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, awarded to the author of a body of work in children's literature.
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The longlist for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been announced. Congratulations to: The shortlist will be made public on April 12, 2012, and the winner of the £100,000 prize will be announced on June 13. Visit the website for more information.
Canadian AuthorThe longlist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction has been announced. Congratulations to:
  • James Loney for Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and the Struggle for a World Without War
  • Chris Turner for The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy
  • Richard J. Gwyn for Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
The shortlist for the prize will be announced December 5, while the winner will be announced February 6, 2012 at a ceremony in Vancouver. Visit the website for more information.
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize:
The shortlist will be announced in January, and the winner will be announced on March 15, 2012. The winning author is awarded $30,000 USD. Visit the website for more information.
Congratulations to the winner of the 2011 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Charles Foran Canadian Author for his book, Mordecai: The Life & Times (now available in paperback)!

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Congratulations to Julian Barnes who has won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his novel, The Sense of an Ending.

Visit themanbookerprize.com for more information.
Congratulations to Téa Obreht, the winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel The Tiger's Wife. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women's writing from throughout the world.

More information available at the Orange Prize for Fiction website.