 2012 Literary Awards Shortlist Announced by Canadian Authors
May 21, 2012 – The shortlist for the Canadian Authors Association’s 2012 Literary Awards was announced last night at the association’s CanWrite! conference in Orillia, Ontario.
The shortlist is as follows:
CAA Award for Fiction
Patrick deWitt, Portland, Oregon, for The Sisters Brothers, published by House of Anansi Press
Helen Humphreys, Kingston, Ontario, for The Reinvention of Love, published by HarperCollins Canada
Miriam Toews, Toronto, Ontario for Irma Voth, published by Alfred A. Knopf
Lela Common Award for Canadian History
Douglas Gibson, Toronto, Ontario, for Stories About Storytellers, published by ECW Press
Richard Gwyn, Toronto, Ontario, for Nation Maker – Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, published by Random House Canada
Jonathan F. Vance, London, Ontario, for Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars, by Oxford University Press
Award for Poetry
E.D. Blodgett,Surrey, British Columbia, for Apostrophes VII: Sleep’ You’ a Tree, published by University of Alberta Press
Brian Henderson,Kitchener, Ontario, for Sharawadji, published by Brick Books
Goran Simić, Edmonton, Alberta, for Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman, published by Biblioasis
The winners of all three genres will be announced at the CAA Literary Awards dinner on Saturday, July 28, 2012, during the Leacock Summer Festival at the Leacock Museum National Historic Site in Orillia, Ontario. The shortlisted authors will be invited to read from their works during the Festival as well.
 The Stephen Leacock House located at 50 Museum Drive in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Was Leacock’s summer cottage on Lake Couchiching (near Lake Simcoe) designed by architect Kenneth Noxon. It is now a museum and National Historic Site (designated in 1992). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Introduced in 1975, the CAA Literary Awards continue the association’s long tradition of honouring Canadian writers who achieve excellence without sacrificing popular appeal. The above nine finalists were selected from nearly 300 nominations.
Founded by Stephen Leacock and several other prominent Canadian writers in 1921, the Canadian Authors Association has continued to carry out its goal of “writers helping writers” since its inception. Some 25,000 writers have been members of the CAA in its 91-year history, including Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, and Robert W. Service.
Information about the CAA Literary Awards and this year’s shortlisted authors is available at www.canauthors.org/awards.
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Anita Purcell
Executive Director
Canadian Authors Association
T 705 719 3926
TF 866 216 6222
Cell 705 955 0716
For information about the 2012 Leacock Summer Festival or the Leacock Museum National Historic Site:
Fred Addis
Curator
Leacock Museum National Historic Site
T 705 329 1908 ext. 803
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