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Congratulations to Peter Richardson who won the 2008 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry for his poetry collection Sympathy for the Couriers
The QWF jury said: "Richardson is an excellent poet of family life, and a touching elegist. This collection … is absolutely invigorating, so various in its subject matter, skilled in its turns of language and line, and consistently interesting. Tonally there is also great variety: sometimes comic, sometimes rueful, and often more pained than that, there is still a lightness to the vision each opens. Sometimes self mocking, but never easy or glib, the poems all ring true."
Esplanade authors Andrew Hood (Pardon Our Monsters) and Jaspreet Singh (Chef) were also shortlisted for the 2008 QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
Congratulations to Fred A. Reed who was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards for his translation of Hans-Jürgen Greif’s Orfeo.
This is what the judges had to say about Reed's work:
"Fred A. Reed’s English version of Hans-Jürgen Greif’s Orfeo is a well-orchestrated masterpiece. His elegant translation captures the unusual voice of this harmonious work. Reed beautifully brings to life the Italian piano teacher (La Signora), the narrator (Weber) and the intriguing castrato, Orfeo."
Congratulations to Andrew Hood, whose has won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for his collection of short stories, Pardon Our Monsters. The award is presented by the Writer's Union of Canada and comes with a cash prize of $10,000.
Congratulations to Mary Dalton, whose poetry collection Red Ledger is a finalist for the Newfoundland Heritage and History Award.
Congratulations to Asa Boxer, whose poetry collection The Mechanical Bird has won the 2008 CAA Award for Poetry.
Congratulations to Christopher Patton, whose book of poetry, Ox, is a finalist for the BC Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
Jaspreet Singh searches for the soul of Calgary
CBC Radio One in Calgary is featuring Jaspreet Singh (auhor of Seventeen Tomatoes and the upcoming novel Chef). The radio show The Eyeopener will be broadcasting several episodes of Singh's search for the soul of Calgary. Listen to the episodes here.
Green City Celebrated by Globe & Mail
Mary Soderstrom's Green City: People, Nature & Urban Places, an eloquent study of the history of urban green spaces, was chosen by the Globe & Mail as one of their Top 100 Picks of 2007.
David Solway's Reaching for Clear winner of A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Congratulations to David Solway whose latest book of poetry, Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin, has won the 2007 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, sponsored by the Quebec Writers' Federation.
Anita Lahey's Out to Dry in Cape Breton finalist for Ottawa Book Award
Congratulations to Anita Lahey, whose book of poetry, Out to Dry in Cape Breton, was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Awards. Out to Dry in Cape Breton was previously shortlisted for this year's Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
Cover Designer David Drummond recognized by AIGA
Last year, David Drummond's cover for B. Glen Rotchin’s The Rent Collector was chosen as one of the best 50 book covers of the year by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. And this year the AIGA awarded the same honour to the cover of the Nicholas Maes novel, Dead Man’s Float. Both titles are in the Esplanade fiction series.
Congratulations to Patrick Warner, whose book There, there won this year's E.J. Pratt Poetry Award.