The Toronto Book Awards were founded in 1974 to honour books that best represent the city. The books may be written for adults, teens or children. All different types of books are considered. Fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, photographic and art books are all eligible for the award. Here's this year's longlist of nominated titles. […]
The Booker Prize shortlist was announced on September 15, 2020. The Booker Prize is one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. In previous years, the prize has honoured literary superstars like Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie. However, this year's shortlist celebrates new voices. It includes four debut novels from authors Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Douglas […]
The longlist for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize was announced on September 8. The annual literary award has traditionally celebrated Canadian fiction and short story collections. For the first time in 2020, however, graphic novels are also eligible. Clyde Fans by Seth is the first graphic novel to be nominated. The other nominees include 10 […]
The Booker Prize Longlist was announced on Monday, July 27. Three veteran writers have been nominated: Hilary Mantel, Colum McCann and Anne Tyler. The list also features eight debut novels by Diane Cook, Avni Doshi, Gabriel Krauze, Kiley Reid, Douglas Stuart, Brandon Taylor, Sophie Ward and C. Pam Zhang. Two authors have been nominated for […]
Sixteen novels have been selected for 2020's Women's Prize for Fiction. This is the 25th year for the prize following the realization the only 10 percent of nominees in the history of the Booker Prize were women although more books written by women were published. This year the nominees include three authors who are no […]
Author Clive Cussler (right) shakes hands with an Airman at a book signing event that was part of the USO’s “Operation Thriller” visit at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, Nov. 9, 2011. Cussler’s work includes The Dark Pitt Adventures and The Oregon Files series. Operation Thriller brought popular novel writers to deployed locations to […]
Mary Higgins Clark at the Mazza Museum by Alvintrusty. Used on a Creative Commons license. Mary Higgins Clark was born on Christmas Eve, 1927 in New York City. Her father Luke was an Irish immigrant who owned a successful pub. His death in 1939 threw the family into turmoil. Clark's mother Nora found it difficult […]
Are you participating in our reading challenge? So are library staff all across the city. These are some of their picks for the category "A book that's related to the Periodic Table of Elements". This category on our advanced challenge sounds intimidating at first but it really offers a lot of flexibility. One option is to […]
Reproduction by Ian Williams All formats The 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize was presented to Ian Williams for his debut novel Reproduction at a gala in Toronto on November 17, 2019. Williams is an award-winning poet and creative writing professor at University of British Columbia. He grew up in Brampton, Ontario, which is where the […]
The winners of this year's Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on October 28, 2019. Awards are given out in 14 categories, 7 in each of Canada's official languages with both adult and children's literature represented. The awards were established in 1936 by Lord Tweedsmuir, Canada's fifteenth Governor General. Lord Tweedsmuir is better known to […]