The Governor General's Literary Awards were created in 1936 by the country's 15th Governor General, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. Buchan was also an author best known for the adventure novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps. The awards are presented in 14 categories – 7 in English and 7 in French. The winner in each category receives […]
The Longlist for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on September 6. The prize was created by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994 to honour his late wife Doris Giller who was the literary editor at the Toronto Star. All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac Avenue of Champions by Conor Kerr Hotline by Dimitri […]
The 2022 Booker Prize Longlist was announced on July 26, 2022. The list features several authors who have been nominated previously: NoViolet Bulawayo, Karen Joy Fowler, Graeme Macrae Burnet and Elizabeth Strout. It also includes the youngest nominee in history. Leila Mottley began writing Nightcrawling when she was 17. It was published when she was […]
The winners of this year's Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on November 17, 2021. The awards are presented in 14 categories — 7 in each of the official languages. The winner in each category receives $25,000 and each finalist is awarded $1,000. The complete list can be found at Governor General's Literary Awards. These are […]
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad is the winner of this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize. It tells the story of 9-year-old Amir who is the only survivor when a ship full of Syrian refugees is wrecked near a Greek island. The book tells the stories of Amir […]
The Promise by Damon Galgut The Promise by Damon Galgut is this year's Booker Prize winner announced in London on November 3. It is the first win for the South African playwright/novelist who had been nominated twice prior to this year. The Promise is about a white South African family who make and fail to […]
The Governor General's Literary Awards were created in 1936 by the country's 15th Governor General, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. Buchan was also an author best known for the adventure novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps. The awards are presented in 14 categories — 7 in each of the official languages. The winner in each category receives $25,000 […]
On October 5, at the Toronto Book Awards 2021 ceremony, Mayor John Tory praised Toronto's "endless supply of great stories". This sentiment was echoed by Kim Echlin as she accepted the award saying, "In Toronto, we keep working together to know each other's stories and to give each other safe shelter for these stories." Her […]
The shortlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on October 5, 2021. The prize was established in 1994 and named after literary journalist Doris Giller. Short story collections and novels are eligible for the award which is the most lucrative in Canada. The winner of the Giller receives $100, 000 and each of the […]
The Booker Prize shortlist, announced on September 14, celebrates unique stories from around the world. There are three American writers who have been nominated. Nadifa Mohamed, a Somali/British writer, is the only British finalist. Until 2014, the prize was restricted to writers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Commonwealth of Nations and Zimbabwe. It was then […]