WCA is totally thrilled to announce that Ian Brown’s stunning The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son was named one of the New York Times’ Top Ten Books of the Year.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/books/10-best-books-of-2011.html?_r=1&hp
And for Ian’s NYT review, please visit:
WCA is thrilled to report that five WCA titles have been named to The Globe & Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2011 list. The list follows:
Into the Heart of the Country, by Pauline Holdstock
Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, by Zsuzsi Gartner
Alone in the Classroom, by Elizabeth Hay
Winter: Five Windows on the Season – the CBC Massey Lectures, by Adam Gopnik
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867 -1891, by Richard Gwyn
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WCA is happy to announce that Heather Hart-Sussman’s Noni Says No has been nominated by the Ontario Librarians Association for a Blue Spruce in the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading.
For more information about the author, please visit: http://www.heatherhartt.com/home/
WCA would like to congratulate Ian Brown for having The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011.
For the full list, please visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2011.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1
And for Ian’s NYT review, please visit:
Charles Foran is the winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award in non-fiction for Mordecai: The Life & Times!
Canada’s oldest award for English and French-language literature, the Governor General’s Literary Award is the latest in a string of major prizes for Foran. Earlier this year, Mordecai: The Life & Times, took home the inaugural Hilary Weston Prize and the prestigious Charles Taylor Prize, and today was called “probably the single most awarded book of any genre in the history of Canadian literature” by The Globe and Mail.
After winning the award, Foran told CBC News, “I wanted the book in a sense to be big enough, bold enough…to be worthy of Mordecai Richler. To have written a small timid biography with 200 pages of footnotes and 200 pages of text would have been a disservice to this man who was so full of appetite, so full of energy. In his books and in his life.”
For more information about Foran and Mordecai: The Life & Times, please visit: www.charlesforan.ca.
WINNER 2011
Governor General’s Literary Award – Nonfiction
WINNER 2011
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
WINNER 2011
Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Non-Fiction Prize
WINNER 2011
Canadian Jewish Book Award
FINALIST 2011
British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
FINALIST 2011
Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award Non-fiction Book of the Year
