21st Annual Trillium Book Award finalists
Canada has produced some of the best and most successful writers in the world. In order to encourage Canadian authors, there are many book awards. The most recent to announce its finalists is the Trillium Book Award. Six English books and six French books have been chosen as finalists in the 21st Annual Trillium Book Awards. Here are the English finalists.
From the Ontario Media Development Corporation:
English Finalists
Outlander by Gil Adamson. House of Anansi Press
From Harvey River by Lorna Goodison. McClelland & Stewart
Helpless by Barbara Gowdy. HarperCollins Publishers
Culprits by Robert Hough. Random House Canada
Yesno by Dennis Lee. House of Anansi Press
What Happened Later by Ray Robertson. Thomas Allen Publishers
English Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Songs for the Dancing Chicken by Emily Schultz. ECW Press
Muybridge’s Horse by Rob Winger. Nightwood Editions
Human Resources by Rachel Zolf. Coach House Books
From the Ontario Media Development Corporation:
The Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium encourages excellence in literature through its significant investment in Ontario-based writers. Award recipients for both English and French works receive $20,000. Their respective publishers also receive $2,500 to promote the winning titles. All finalists receive a $500 honorarium.
Three English titles and two French titles and are short-listed for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, which recognizes literary achievement for a first, second or third published work of poetry. The winner for each of these awards receives $10,000 and their publisher $2,000 for promotion of the titles. Finalists for these awards also receive a $500 honorarium.
The winner will be announced on June 12, 2008.
Three English titles and two French titles and are short-listed for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, which recognizes literary achievement for a first, second or third published work of poetry. The winner for each of these awards receives $10,000 and their publisher $2,000 for promotion of the titles. Finalists for these awards also receive a $500 honorarium.
The winner will be announced on June 12, 2008.
English Finalists
Outlander by Gil Adamson. House of Anansi Press
From Harvey River by Lorna Goodison. McClelland & Stewart
Helpless by Barbara Gowdy. HarperCollins Publishers
Culprits by Robert Hough. Random House Canada
Yesno by Dennis Lee. House of Anansi Press
What Happened Later by Ray Robertson. Thomas Allen Publishers
English Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Songs for the Dancing Chicken by Emily Schultz. ECW Press
Muybridge’s Horse by Rob Winger. Nightwood Editions
Human Resources by Rachel Zolf. Coach House Books
