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Saskatchewan Book Award winners

December 2, 2008 -The 16th annual Saskatchewan Book Awards were presented on Nov. 29 at a gala ceremony at Regina’s Conexus Arts Centre. Winners in 14 categories were chosen from a shortlist of 54 titles and 81 nominations. Book Of The Year Award Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected (Coteau Books) Fiction Award Pam Bustin, Mostly Happy (Thistledown Press). Full lists

GG'S 2008 - It's Ricci in the Fiction & Scheier in Poetry

19th November- Fourteen authors are $25,000 better off after winning their categories in the 2008 Governor-General's. Full Lists

Quebec Writers' Federation Awards- Hage Snares One

19th November Rawi Hage's Cockroach has won the 2008 the QWF's Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Six category winners received $2,000 each.

Comic Tales and the Quest for Sustainable Living Win Big at the Writers’ Trust Awards:
MiriamToews and Taras Grescoe Awarded Top Prizes of $25,000

Toronto – November 17, 2008 – toews_miriam

Winnipeg writer Miriam Toews (right)received the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for The Flying Troutmans, a comic novel about a young woman and her niece and nephew on a motel-hopping road trip in search of the children’s father.Montreal writer Taras Grescoe won the $25,000 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize for Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood, an account of the global crisis of fisheries and its implications, as well as a practical guide to sustainable consumption.

Four authors received awards for their excellence in literature: Sylvia Fraser,Michael Kusugak,Saleema Nawaz,and MichaelWinter. Additionally, Rogers received an award for its long-standing support of the Writers’ Trust. Seven prizes were awarded with a combined value of $155,000, making the event one of the richest awards nights in Canada. The prize amounts of several awards have increased by up to $10,000 from last year, reaffirming theWriters’ Trust’s commitment to supporting Canadian writers.

Joseph Boyden wins 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

11 th November- Novelist Joseph Boyden has won the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of the country's most prestigious literary awards. Boyden received $50,000 in prize money for his book Through Black Spruce. More

It's Raining Children's Awards & It's Pouring for Elijah

7th November Toronto-Christopher Paul Curtis was the big winner at this years Canadian Children’s Literature Awards with Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Canada), winning both the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, worth $20,000 and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, worth $5,000. Winners from all awards use links below. TD Canadian | Geoffrey Bilson | Norma Fleck | Marilyn Baille

2008- Winner Toronto Book Award: 2008 The Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlists
2008 Toronto's Gil Adamson winsAmazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award: 2008 Mary Novik's Conceit Wins BC Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
2008 $25,000 Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Prize Winner Richard Gwyn: 2008 Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award Winner and Honour Books
2008 Rawi Hage Wins Dublin International: 2008 Winners Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
2008 Winner Charles Taylor Non-fiction Prize Winner: 2008 Canadian Triumphs in Commonwealth Writers
2008 Manitoba Book Award Winners

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2008 USA National Book Award Winners: 2008 Man Booker Prize Winner White Tiger

2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: USA Caldecott Medal Winner for 2008
USA Book Critics Circle Quality Winners: Victorian Melodrama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher wins UK £30,000 Samuel Johnson prize
Rushdie's Midnight's Children Wins Best Ever Booker
Frances Fyfield Wins £20,000 CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger-
Arthurian Legend Wins Britain's 'Booker of the Playground' The Carnegie Medal: Emily Gravetts Brave Mouse Wins Kate Greenaway Illustrators Medal for 2008-

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