Toronto April 1, 2008 Last evening the works of great Canadian authors were honoured at the Jane Mallett Theatre at the seventh annual Writers’ Trust Awards. A total of eight prizes were awarded with a combined value of...
April 1, 2008 The Writers Guild of Alberta is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2008 Alberta Literary Awards! The Alberta Literary Awards recognize and celebrate the highest standards of literary excellence from Alberta authors. Awards jurors have...
Congratulations to Sue Ann Alderson and Victoria Miles. Both authors are winners of the 2007 Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award. The award is administered by the The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Named in honour...
They've announced the shortlist for the 2008 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award -- eight titles strong, and half of those translated from foreign languages.
Roberto Bolano's much-anticipated 2666 is listed as being available 11 November at Amazon.com -- in a one-volume hardcover or three-volume paperback boxed set.
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Timothy Brook, Jerome Bourgon, and Gregory Blue's look at the (in)famous Chinese execution method of lingchi in Death by a Thousand Cuts.
In her book titled "The Hunt: Me and My War Criminals", the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR ) Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, describes her mandate as the head of the UN Rwanda tribunal between 1999 and 2002, including
