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The shortlisted nominees for the 2012 Orange Prize have been announced.

The longlist for Canada’s Scotiabank 2010 Giller Prize has been announced.

Congratulations to Barbara Kingsolver, whose latest novel “The Lacuna” has triumphed over heavyweights “Wolf Hall” (Hilary Mantel) and “The Gate at the Stairs” (Lorrie Moore) to take the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.

This year, I was lucky enough to attend the 2010 BC Book Prizes Awards Dinner and Gala. It was a thrill to be surrounded by book industry people, all talking about writing, publishing, and the evolution of the….(more)

The winners of the Bram Stoker Awards were announced over the weekend at the annual banquet dinner, which this year was held in England on the pier in Brighton. Best Novel: Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan Best First Novel: Damnable by Hank Schwaeble Best Long Fiction: The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton Best Non-Fiction: Writers [...]

Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by Daina Taimina wins the Diagram Prize/Bookseller Magazine’s annual award for the oddest book title of the year.

The Orange Prize, which is awarded for excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing, has released its long list for the 2010 prize which includes the most recent Booker winner Hilary Mantel. The Orange Prize Long List • Rosie Alison by The Very Thought of You • Eleanor Catton – The Rehearsal • Clare Clark [...]

Book collecting is often thought of as a pursuit for your more mature years, I only would ever agree to that because if you are not careful it can cost a small fortune to buy all of the books that excite you, and often those means only come a little later in life. However expenditure [...]

Today the winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced, including Kate Pullinger’s The Mistress of Nothing for the Fiction award and David Zieroth’s The Fly in Autumn for Poetry. You can check out the winners and shortlist on our Governor General’s Awards page. In other GG’s news we just conducted an interview with [...]

The Nobel Prize for Literature has once again been awarded to an author who is not American. Herta Müller, the Romanian-born writer and poet who is now a German citizen, has been awarded the prize for her work, much of which concerns the harsh life in Romania under the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Her first published [...]