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  Ministry of Culture: Trillium Book Award
The Trillium Book Award was established by the Ontario government in 1987 to "recognise excellence, support marketing and to foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing."
In 1994, the prize was expanded to include the Prix Trillium, a separate prize for Ontario's francophone writers and their publishers.
The awards program was expanded again in 2003 to include the Trillium Book Award for Poetry to recognize achievement by new, emerging poets in English and French, and their publishers.
www.culture.gov.on.ca /english/culdiv/cultind/trillium.htm   (124 words)

  
  Trillium Book Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trillium Award is given annually by the government of the Province of Ontario and is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children's books, and poetry.
In 1993 the award was expanded by Bob Rae's government to also include a French language category.
In 2003, English and French poetry categories were added to the awards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trillium_Book_Award   (383 words)

  
 CNW Group   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trillium Book Award (English-language category) ----------------------------------------------- Wayson Choy - All That Matters, a sensitive and richly detailed coming of age novel set in Vancouver's Chinatown that tells of the struggles of the multi-generational Chen family and the conflict between the old ways and the new.
In 2003, the traditional Trillium Book Award was further enhanced with the addition of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry for new and emerging poets.
She is the recipient of the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry.
www.newswire.ca /en/releases/archive/April2005/27/c1395.html   (1294 words)

  
 The Association of Canadian Publishers
TRILLIUM AWARDS — Six English-language and five French-language books have been shortlisted for the 17 th annual Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium, the province's prestigious award for literature.
This is the second year of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, created to recognize achievement by new, emerging poets for their first, second, or third book of poetry.
The Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium is a significant investment in encouraging investment in Ontario literature.
www.publishers.ca /news-trillium.htm   (236 words)

  
 Jane Urquhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jane Urquhart's books have been published in many countries, including the Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and the United States, and have been translated into several languages.
In 1997 Urquhart was asked to serve on the jury for this award.
Urquhart has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the presidential writer-in-residence fellowship at the University of Toronto.
www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jane_Urquhart   (385 words)

  
 Trillium Book Award
In 2006 the awards in the French language were enhanced such that the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in French language is awarded every two years, with eligible titles over the two years considered for the Award.
The Trillium Book Award for Children’s Literature in French language is offered in the alternate years that the Poetry French language award is not given out.  Similar to the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the award recipient receives $10,000 and $2,000 is given to the winning publisher.
The Trillium Award is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children’s books and poetry.  Anthologies and translations are not eligible.  A jury of writers and figures from the literary community judges all submissions and selects the winning titles.
www.omdc.on.ca /PageFactory.aspx?PageID=3217   (359 words)

  
 Learn more about Literature of Canada in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During the post-war decades only a handful of books of any literary merit would be published each year in Canada and Canadian literature was viewed as an appendage to British and American writing.
The Griffin Poetry Prize a lucrative award for one Canadian and one foreign poet.
The Marian Engel Award is presented to a female Canadian writer in mid-career for the body of her work.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/literature_of_canada.html   (1770 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - Camilla Gibb wins Ontario book prize
Established by the Ontario government in 1987, the Trillium Book Award honours literary excellence by Ontario writers.
In 1994, the prize was extended to honour francophone writers and, in 2003, to honour poets.
Eric Lindros retired from the NHL on Thursday, closing the book on a career that was as compelling as it was impactful.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/04/25/trillium-book-prize.html   (1347 words)

  
 York University Gazette Online
The Trillium Book Award recognizes writing excellence in both an English- and a French-language category, with a $12,000 prize to each of the winning authors and a $2,500 prize to their publishers.
The recipients and finalists of the 13th Annual Trillium Book Award were honoured on April 26 at a reception at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Previous Trillium Book Award winners have included Glendon alumnus and professor in Glendon's Department of English Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Wayson Choy and Alice Munro in the English-language category; Maurice Henrie and Andrée Lacelle in the French category.
www.yorku.ca /ycom/gazette/past/archive/2000/062100/issue.htm   (6612 words)

  
 Vaughan Public Libraries: Recommended Reads - Award Winners
Awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Governor General's Literary Awards were established in 1936 to recognize the best in Canadian writing.
The Hugo Award was named in honour of Hugo Gernsback, "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction," as he was once described in a special award given to him in 1960.
Awarded annually by Columbia University, the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York Globe.
www.vaughanpl.com /recommendedreads/awardwinners.php   (1112 words)

  
 OBPO.CA : News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The finalists in each category were announced April 13, and the winners announced at a gala ceremony at St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto on Wednesday, April 27, 2005.
In its 18th year, the Trillium Book Award is among the most highly regarded national and international literary prizes.
The winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry receives $10,000 and the winning publisher receives $2,000.
www.ontariobooks.ca /news.cfm   (436 words)

  
 Anne McDermid & Associates-Literary Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An enormous number of our authors' books were listed among the Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2004, including Leo Furey, Greg Hollingshead, Charles Montgomery, Antanas Sileika, Russell Smith, and Michael Winter.
David Homel is the winner of two Quebec Writers' Federation awards: The Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction for The Speaking Cure, as well as the Translation Prize for his translation of Monique Proulx's The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle.
The winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for fiction is Douglas Glover, for Elle.
www.mcdermidagency.com /archives.htm   (775 words)

  
 * News @Guelph *   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the lectures and book, King looks at the breadth and depth of native experience and imagination and North America's relationship with its Aboriginal Peoples.
Other Trillium finalists in the English-book category were: Di Brandt, Now You Care; Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, The Dark Time of Angels; Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic; Djanet Sears, Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God; and Giller Prize-winner M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.
The Trillium Book Awards were established by the provincial government in 1987 to recognize excellence and increase public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.
www.uoguelph.ca /atguelph/04-05-19/articles/trillium.html   (309 words)

  
 About The Mercury Press   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 2005, Rachel Zolf's Masque was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
In 1993, Di Brandt's mother, not mother was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and Sarah Murphy's The Deconstruction of Wesley Smithson was nominated for the Alberta Writers' Guild Short Fiction Award.
Anne Dandurand, on the basis of her only novel, The Cracks, which the press published in English translation, was named one of the top ten Canadian novelists under the age of 45 by Quill and Quire.
www.themercurypress.ca /about.html   (878 words)

  
 Descant - News & Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And to André Alexis for his first novel Childhood, which was the co-winner of the 1999 Trillium Book Award.
And to Tomson Highway and André Alexis who are short-listed for the Books in Canada/Chapters 23rd annual First Novel Award.
And to Robert Kroetsch whose book The Man from the Creeks was short-listed for the 1999 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
www.descant.on.ca /news.cfm?id=52   (118 words)

  
 Macleans.ca | Culture | Books | Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Shortlists for both the Donner Prize and the Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium were recently announced.
Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium, honouring English and French works of fiction, non-fiction, drama and children's books.
The Donner Prize, awarded for the best book on Canadian public policy.
www.macleans.ca /culture/books/awards/index.jsp   (116 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Ricci, Clarke among Trillium book prize winners- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
And the recipient of the new $10,000 Trillium Book Award for Poetry is Eric Charlebois.
The book is a "nocturnal dialogue between a fl murderess and a fl constable, both of whom confront the racist horror of their own past as they divulge the secrets of both their love and their loss."
French-language jurors awarded the Prix Trillium to Ouellette for Le Testament du couturier.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1051197481718_63?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory   (350 words)

  
 Canadian Book Awards - Burnaby Public Library
Inaugurated in 1986 to honour the memory of writer Marian Engel, this prize is awarded each year to a female Canadian writer in mid-career.
Books can be of any genre: fiction, essays, poetry, drama, childrens, etc. The author must be a Canadian and must have lived in Ontario for at least 3 of the past 5 years.
In the spring of 2003, at the encouragement of the late Timothy Findley, The Writers' Trust of Canada established an annual prize to be awarded to a male writer in mid-career.
www.bpl.burnaby.bc.ca /fiction/canawa.htm   (1192 words)

  
 Campus News: U of G prof shortlisted for prestigious book award
In the lectures and book, published by House of Anansi Press, King looks at the breadth and depth of native experience and imagination and North America's relationship with its Aboriginal Peoples.
Trillium Book Award winners receive $20,000, and winning publishers get $2,500 to promote their author.
The Trillium Book Awards, considered among Canada’s most prestigious, were established by the provincial government in 1987 to recognize excellence and increase public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.
www.uoguelph.ca /mediarel/archives/004890.html   (393 words)

  
 Paul Quarrington - Biography
The novel won Quarrington a Governor's General Award for fiction, and was made into a successful, motion picture.
Civilization (about film making early in Hollywood's history) and The Boy on the Back of the Turtle (non-fiction account of a trip to the Galápagos Islands with his father and his young daughter), were released to great media fanfare and fan delight.
Paul Quarrington's ninth novel is a terrific, brilliant, near-perfect piece of vacation reading for that inevitable low in every holiday when fl clouds gather, the sky turns to thunder, plans fall apart and a paper world is preferable to the real one.
www.quarrington.org /bio.htm   (1474 words)

  
 Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
This prize is awarded every year to an author in mid-career for their literary contributions.
This award recognizes Canadian artists in the visual, literary or performing arts and is worth $5,000 and a 2 week creative residency.
Dartmouth Book Awards: Jonathan Campbell for Tarcadia; Sue Goyette for Undone; and Bruce Graham for Ivor Johnson's Neighbours.
www.nwpassages.com /news.asp   (4692 words)

  
 Book Publishing: Canadian Book Awards
Formerly called the Casper Award, this prize is awarded by Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association to the best titles in the genre in both English and French.
Awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.
A $50,000 award for a photographer and publisher to share for the best book by a Canadian photographer published in that year.
www.publishingcentral.com /subject.html?sid=122&si=1   (389 words)

  
 UPEI
Her fiction has won such awards and honours as the Trillium Book Award, The Marian Engel Prize, and France's Le Prix de Meilleur Libre Etranger (Best Foreign Book Award).
Another novel, Away, was short-listed for the prestigious IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Stone Carvers was a finalist for the Giller Prize.
She has written three books of poetry and one collection of short fiction, and her novels have been published in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
www.upei.ca /cgi-new/view.cgi?id=958   (492 words)

  
 OFA: List of some funding and community development programs   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Annual awards are presented to people who are dedicated to promoting the acceptance and participation of persons with disabilities in their communities.
The Community Action Awards are presented to persons with or without disabilities who have made a significant contribution to promoting access and equal opportunity for persons with disabilities, or who have shown commitment and dedication to developing the potential of persons with disabilities and improving their quality of life.
An award-winning first book of poetry will be chosen in both English and French, with each award recipient of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry receiving $10,000, and $2,000 for the publisher.
www.ofa.gov.on.ca /english/resources-fundcommun.html   (5716 words)

  
 Writers Festival 1998 Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wayson Choy was born in Vancouver's Chinatown and was raised in a variety of Chineese households.
His book, The Jade Peony, began as a short story in 1977 which went on to be anthologized more than 20 times.
It was shortlisted for the Chapters/books in Canada First Novel Award, won the City of Vancouver Book Award, and co-won of the Trillium Book Award.
www.writersfest.com /oldsite/html/985.html   (122 words)

  
 Writers Festival 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His book, The Jade Peony, began as a short story in 1977 and went on to be anthologized more than 20 times.
It was shortlisted for the Chapters/books in Canada First Novel Award and won both the City of Vancouver Book Award and the Trillium Book Award.
Gregory Scofield is the author of four books of poetry and the winner of the CAA Award.
www.writersfest.com /oldsite/html/16900.html   (277 words)

  
 Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: )
First awarded in 1976, and suspended as of 1995, this prize ($3,000 and a 4-week author's tour of the other country) is intended to familiarize the reading audience of each sponsoring country with the writers of the other.
Launched by the Canadian Authors Association and administered by the CAA until 1971, the awards were at first non-monetary prizes; the prestige of the prizes was complemented by a small cash award of $250 in 1951, to be increased in 1966 to $2,500, in 1975 to $5,000, and in 1989 to $10,000.
Awarded, variously, for excellence in poetry, prose, and drama, as well as for young writers; the last year of presentation was 1995.
www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm   (8100 words)

  
 Trillium Book Award Celebration at Harbourfront June 4
Trillium Book Award Celebration at Harbourfront June 4
For the first time in its 20-year history, the Trillium Book Award/ Prix litteraire Trillium,  Ontario's leading award for literature, invites members of the public to the industry celebration of prize-winners past and present.
For the first time in its 20-year history, the Trillium Book Award/ Prix litteraire Trillium, Ontario's leading award for literature, invites members of the public to the industry celebration of prize-winners past and present.
blip.tv /file/247853   (862 words)

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