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Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner is the
2010 CBC Canada Reads 2010 winner!

The announcement was made on March 12, 2010 after a week of debates on CBC Radio, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.

Other nominees included Ann-Marie MacDonald for Fall On Your Knees (defended by Perdita Felicien), Douglas Coupland for Generation X and Wayson Choy for The Jade Peony!

CBC Canada ReadsCheck out the CBC Canada Reads website for more information!



Congratulations to the winner of The Writers' Trust of Canada's 2009 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing:

John English for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

The other nominees included Dr. James Maskalyk for Six Months in Sudan and Terry Gould for Murder Without Borders

The winner was announced at the Politics and the Pen event in Ottawa on March 10, 2010. Visit The Writers' Trust website for more information.


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The regional winners have been announced for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Congratulations to our winner for Best Book in the Caribbean and Canada:

Galore by Michael Crummey Canadian Author (Canada)

Also nominated in the same category was Annabel Lyon
for The Golden Mean.

The overall winners in the Best Book and Best First Book categories will be announced on April 12, 2010 in Delhi, India.


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The National Book Critics Circle announced their winners for the 2009 awards on March 11 - congratulations to:

Blake Bailey who won the Biography category for his book Cheever: A Life.

Other nominees included Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips in the Fiction category and Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder for Non-Fiction.


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2009 New Face of Fiction author Jessica Grant's Canadian Author book, Come, Thou Tortoise (just released in trade paperback), has been nominated for three Canadian awards:
    • Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
    • 2010 Ontario Library Association's Evergreen Award
    • Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council 2009 Winterset Award

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Canadian Author The winner of the $25,000 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction has been announced - congratulations to:

Ian Brown for The Boy in the Moon

Our other nominees included:
John English for Just Watch Me
Kenneth Whyte for The Uncrowned King

The winner was announced on Feb. 8, 2010. Visit www.TheCharlesTaylorPrize.ca for more information.

The shortlist for the 2010 Lionel Gelber Prize was announced on Jan. 12, 2010 in Toronto and Washington. The prize is a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues. Congratulations to our nominees:

• The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman

• Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell

The winner will be announced on March 2, 2010 and the $15,000 prize will be presented in Toronto on March 23.

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, Alan Bradley's Canadian Author second novel in The Buckshaw Chronicles featuring sleuth Flavia de Luce, is now in stores. The author is returning to Canada on March 22 and 23 for promotion, which includes features in the Canadian Press, Canoe.ca, Zoomer Magazine, The Ottawa Citizen (syndicated nationally on the CanWest newswire), The Globe and Mail, National Post, January Magazine, BookBits syndicated radio and www.DiscoveryChannel.ca. Don't forget, the first book in the series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, is now available in paperback.

If you're a Flavia fan, check out the fan club at www.FlaviaFanClub.ca and join the discussion!


Undateable: 311 Things Guys Can Do to Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex by Ellen Rakieten and Ann Coyle goes on sale on March 16, and the promotion will begin right away with an appearance on ABC-TV's Good Morning America on March 16, The Wendy Williams Show on March 18 and ABC News Now on March 19. Print features include articles in Life & Style Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle Decor, Elle Magazine, GQ and Self.

Plus watch for the authors to be included in an "undateable to dateable" makeover segment on The Oprah Winfrey Show, taping in late April. Click here to watch a video clip, and here to visit www.Undateable.com.


Shift Your Habit: Easy Ways to Save Money, Simplify Your Life, and Save the Planet by Elizabeth Rogers (author of The Green Book) will be featured in lots of US print media in the next month, including Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Family Circle, Pregnancy Magazine, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Health, People, and in a monthly column on www.Oprah.com.


MEDIA HITS:


Morning Show/Late Night Round-Up:
  • Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, will be featured on CBS Sunday Morning on March 14 and The Colbert Report on March 16
  • John Kiriakou, author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror (written with Michael Ruby, on sale March 16) will be featured on ABC-TV's Nightline during the week of March 15
  • Ellen Rakieten and Ann Coyle, authors of Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex (on sale March 16) will be guests on ABC-TV's Good Morning America on March 16 and The Wendy Williams Show on March 18
  • Francine Russo, author of They're Your Parents, Too!: How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents' Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy, will be featured on ABC-TV's World News Tonight, tentatively scheduled to air on March 17
  • Rocco DiSpirito, author of Now Eat This!: 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories, will be on CBS-TV's Saturday Early Show in the Chef on a Shoestring segment on March 20
  • Douglas C. Merrill, former Chief Information Office at Google and author of Getting Organized in the Google Era (on sale March 16) will appear on CBS-TV's Early Show on March 22
  • Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, will be guests on NBC's Today Show on March 22
  • Louann Brizendine, M.D., author of The Male Brain (on sale March 23) will be on ABC-TV's Good Morning America on March 23, and will also appear on The Rachael Ray Show

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The Globe and Mail Books Section March 2 - 8 contained:
  • What is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes by Yann Martel Canadian Author (read the review here)
  • The Wild Zone by Joy Fielding Canadian Author (read the review here)
  • Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton Canadian Author (read the review here)
  • Article: Martel Gets Letter of Praise from Obama (click here to read the article and letter from President Barack Obama to Yann Martel Canadian Author after reading Life of Pi)
  • The Tuesday Essay: Lynne Coady, Canadian Author author of Saints of Big Harbour and Mean Boy, shares 10 rules for writing (dogless, well-nourished) fiction (click here to read)

The New York Times on March 7 contained reviews of:

Academy Award Winners

    • Precious, based on the book Push by Sapphire
      - Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'nique
      - Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

    • Up: Junior Novelization by Jasmine Jones
      - Best Animated Feature Film
      - Best Music (Original Score)

Fox has optioned the rights and commissioned a script for The Traveler from fantasy specialist Alex Tse, whose credits include The Watchmen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Traveler was the first book in the Fourth Realm trilogy followed by The Dark River and The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks.




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Congratulations to the winner of
The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize:

Annabel Lyon for The Golden Mean!

The winner was announced on Nov. 24, 2009 at the Writers' Trust Awards ceremony. Among the other nominees was Douglas Coupland for Generation A.


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Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre, winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel, The Bishop's Man!

The winner was announced on Nov. 10 in Toronto. Annabel Lyon, author of The Golden Mean, was also on the shortlist.



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Congratulations to M.G. Vassanji, winner of the
2009 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction
for his book:

A Place Within: Rediscovering India (available in paperback)

The winner was announced on November 17, 2009 - visit the Governor General's Literary Awards website for more information.


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Congratulations to our winners of the 12th Annual Canadian Culinary Book Awards:

Special Interest Category - Gold Medal
Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Cookbook Category - Silver Medal
The Complete Canadian Living Baking Book: The Essentials of Home Baking by Elizabeth Baird and Canadian Living
The winners were were announced on Nov. 6 at an awards presentation at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto - click here for more information.


Congratulations to Salman Rushdie on winning the Best of the Booker award for his novel Midnight's Children.

Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981, then was chosen as the Booker of Bookers in 1993 - the only other time a celebratory prize has been awarded.

The shorlist was selected by a panel of judges and then the decision was made by a public poll. Find out more about the award here.