“Gasps of surprise” greeted yesterday’s announcement of the nominees for Canada’s Giller Prize, since many of the nominees are little-known. They are: Anthony De Sa’s debut story collection, Barnacle LoveMary Swan’s first novel, The Boys in the TreesMarina Endicott’s debut Good to a Fault (from new publisher Freehand Books)Joseph Boyden’s Through Black SpruceRawi Hage’s Cockroach National Post
Awards
Awards: Hempel Wins Rea
Amy Hempel has won the $30,000 Rea Award for the Short Story. The judges said: “Amy Hempel is one of our masters of the dire emotional state rendered with an offhandedness that, combined with tenderness, results in fiction that’s at once dispassionate and compassionate.”
People
Matthew Lore has resigned as vp, executive editor at Da Capo Press/Da Capo Lifelong Books, in order to explore and pursue new publishing opportunities. Da Capo publisher John Radziewicz noted in a staff memo that Lore “joined the Avalon Publishing Group in 1998 and built Marlowe & Company into a major player in the wellness category…. When the Avalon Publishing Group joined the Perseus Books Group last year, Matthew was instrumental in the transition that made Marlowe a vital part of Lifelong.” Steve Troha has joined Vigliano Associates as an agent, “selectively signing” new clients and working with existing clients. […]
Nobel Date Announced
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature will be named on Thursday, October 9AP
November Indie Next
I See You Everywhere, by Julia GlassThe Fire: A Novel by Katherine NevilleThe Longest Trip Home: A Memoir, by John GroganThe Memorist, by M.J. RoseSongs for the Missing: A Novel, by Stewart O’NanBetween Here and April, by Deborah Copaken KoganConfessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff, by Fred PearceConspiracy of Silence, by Martha PowersThe Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits, by Les StandifordThe Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah VowellA Mercy: A Novel, by Toni MorrisonThe Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the […]
What Happened to Books in Canada?
Gil Adamson’s THE OUTLANDER won the First Novel Award now presented by Amazon.ca and Books in Canada: “part historical novel, part western Gothic, and part adventure story, it’s an astonishing portrayal of crime and retribution, and survival and love.” (It’s published by House of Anansi in Canada, and Ecco in the US.) But the real story, as the Globe and Mail points out, is the publishing hiatus at BiC, which has reviewed Canadian books since 1971. It “has not produced an issue since its January-February number this year, and now its proprietor is saying he has no intention of reviving […]