The longlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on September 8, 2021. The Giller, as it's commonly known, is the most lucrative literary award in Canada. The author of the winning receives $100,000 and each of the finalists take home $10,000. Novels, short story collections and graphic novels by a Canadian author published in […]
For readers, the release of the Booker Prize longlist is always exciting. Today's longlist celebrates great writers with long track records. Kazuo Ishiguro won’the award in 1989 for Remains of the Day and Rachel Cusk, Damon Galgut, Mary Lawson, Richard Powers and Sunjeev Sahota have each received nominations previously. It is also provides an introduction to […]
The winners of the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021. The awards, usually presented in the fall, had been postponed due to Covid-19. Awards are presented in 14 categories — 7 in each of the official languages. These are the winners in the English Adult categories: Drama Winner: Kamloopa: An […]
What is the Innovation Council? TPL’s Innovation Council is an advisory group of leaders from the academic, creative and technology communities. Council members provide the library with feedback, ideas, and collaboration to help us develop new services. They also help connect the library to the technology and innovation spheres in Toronto and beyond. What are […]
If you are thinking that this award is usually given out in the autumn during literary awards season, you are correct. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic last year's Governor General's Literary Awards were postponed and are taking place now instead. Fans of literary awards will be delighted to learn that the 2021 awards will continue […]
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole Desmond Cole has won’this year's Toronto Book Award with The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power. In it Cole documents his experiences as a Black Canadian in 2017 and the fight for Black liberation. He told the Toronto […]
This year’s winner of the prestigious Booker Prize is Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart, a novel about a child growing up in poverty in Glasgow during the Thatcher era. Shuggie is the youngest child in the Bain family and the reader witnesses his mother Agnes’ descent into alcoholism, accompanied by her increasing vulnerability to predatory […]
The winner of this year's Scotiabank Giller prize was announced last night at a pandemic appropriate gala. How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa is this year's recipient of the $100, 000 prize. Thammavongsa was born in a Lao refugee camp and came to Canada when she was 1 year old. How to Pronounce Knife, […]
The Toronto Book Awards were founded in 1974 to honour books that best represent the city. The finalists for the 2020 award were announced on November 3. It's a wonderful list with fiction and non-fiction titles represented. Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir by Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta In […]
The shortlist for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on October 5. The annual literary award has traditionally celebrated Canadian fiction and short story collections. This year 3 novels and 2 short story collections are nominated. The 14 stories in How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa share the experiences and struggles of Lao […]