Shortlist released in Regina
The shortlist for the Saskatchewan Book Awards was announced Friday. The awards will be presented on April 30 at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina. The ceremony will be hosted by award-winning author and comedian Dawn Dumont.
Tickets for the awards ceremony are now on sale and can be purchased online through PayPal or by cheque. Get them at the early bird price of $50/ticket, $350/table of eight or $450/table of 10 until April 1. After April 1, tickets will be $60 each, $420/table of eight or $540/table of 10. Contact the Saskatchewan Book Awards at 306-569-1585 or by email at info@bookawards.sk.ca
Here are the nominees:
AWARDS FOR WRITERS
University of Regina Book of the Year Award Connie Gault: A Beauty, McClelland
& Stewart.
Jeanette Lynes: Bedlam Cowslip, Wolsak and Wynn. Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter: The Education of Augie Merasty, University of Regina Press.
Guy Vanderhaeghe: Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, McClelland & Stewart. Fiction Award Carol Daniels: Bearskin Diary, Nightwood Editions.
Connie Gault: A Beauty, McClelland
& Stewart.
R.P. MacIntyre: Mahihkan Lake, Thistledown Press.
Elizabeth Philips: The Afterlife of Birds, Freehand Books.
Guy Vanderhaeghe: Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, McClelland & Stewart.
Dianne Warren: Liberty Street,
HarperCollins. University of Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Award Raymond Blake:
Lions or Jellyfish — Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957, University of Toronto Press.
Ken Coates: #Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada, University of
Regina Press.
Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum): Nationhood Interrupted, Purich Publishing.
Alexandra Popoff: Tolstoy’s False Disciple, Pegasus Books. Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award Rita Bouvier: nakamowin’sa for the seasons, Thistledown Press.
Carol Daniels: Bearskin Diary, Nightwood Editions.
Tara Gereaux: Size of a Fist, Thistledown Press.
Harold Johnson: Corvus, Thistledown Press.
Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum): Nationhood Interrupted, Purich Publishing. Judith Silverthorne and Ray Lavallee, illustrated by Mike Keepness: Honouring the Buffalo, Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing. O’Reilly Insurance and The Cooperators First Book Award Carol Daniels: Bearskin Diary, Nightwood Editions.
Tara Gereaux: Size of a Fist, Thistledown Press.
Beth Gobeil: Breathing Room, Hagios Press.
Lisa Guenther: Friendly Fire, NeWest
Press.
Cassidy McFadzean: Hacker Packer, McClelland & Stewart.
Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award
Rita Bouvier: nakamowin’sa for the seasons, Thistledown Press.
Gerald Hill: Hillsdale Book, NeWest
Press.
Jeanette Lynes: Bedlam Cowslip, Wolsak and Wynn. Children’s Literature Award Leah Marie Dorion: My First Métis Lobstick, Gabriel Dumont Institute Press. Judith Silverthorne and Ray Lavallee, illustrated by Mike Keepness: Honouring the Buffalo, Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing.
City of Saskatoon and Public Library Saskatoon Book Award
Rita Bouvier: nakamowin’sa for the seasons, Thistledown Press.
Ken Coates: #Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada, University of Regina Press.
Yvette Nolan: Medicine Shows — Indigenous Performance Culture, Playwrights Canada Press.
Elizabeth Philips: The Afterlife of Birds, Freehand Books.
Lloyd Ratzlaff: Bindy’s Moon, Thistledown Press.
Guy Vanderhaeghe: Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, McClelland & Stewart. City of Regina Book Award Connie Gault: A Beauty, McClelland
& Stewart.
Cassidy McFadzean: Hacker Packer, McClelland & Stewart.
Dianne Warren: Liberty Street,
HarperCollins. University of Regina Arts and Luther College Award for Scholarly Writing Raymond Blake: Lions or Jellyfish — Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957, University of Toronto Press.
Mareike Neuhaus: The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, University of Regina Press.
Greg Poelzer and Ken Coates: From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation, UBC Press.
SHORTLIST AWARDS FOR PUBLISHERS
Publishing Award Coteau Books: Wild Rose by Sharon
Butala.
MacKenzie Art Gallery: Amalie
Atkins by Timothy Long.
University of Regina Press: Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus
Ken Coates: #Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter: The Education of Augie
Merasty University of Regina Faculty of Education and Campion College Award for Publishing in Education University of Regina Press: Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus.
Michel Hogue: Metis and the Medicine Line.
Mareike Neuhaus: The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures. Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter: The Education of Augie
Merasty. Regina Public Library Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award Purich Publishing: Nationhood Interrupted by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum).
Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing: Honouring the Buffalo by Judith Silverthorne and Ray Lavallee, illustrated by Mike Keepness.