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Manitoba Book Awards Recipients Announced

The annual Manitoba Book Awards took place this past Saturday April 28th at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain.  This year’s award winners in twelve categories are…

Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

Prix Lansdowne de poésie

  • Poème Pierre Prière by J. R. Léveillé, Les Éditions du Blé

 

Best Illustrated Book of the Year

Meilleur livre illustré de l’année

  • David’s Trip to Paraguay: The Land of Amazing Colours / Davids Reise in das Land der vielen Farben, story and design by Miriam Rudolph, CMU Press

 

Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year

Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique en édition

  • Poème Pierre Prière par J. R. Léveillé, graphiste Bernard Léveillé, publié par Les Éditions du Blé

 

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

  • A Large Harmonium by Sue Sorensen, Coteau Books

 

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg

  • Ravenscraig by Sandi Krawchenko Altner, Heartland Associates

 

Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

  • The Thirteen by Susie Moloney, Random House Canada

 

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

  • The Girl in the Wall by Alison Preston, Signature Editions

 

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais

  • King: William Lyon MacKenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny by Allan Levine, Douglas and McIntyre Publishers Inc.

 

John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer

  • Jennifer Still

 

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher

Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba

  • Butterfly Winter by W.P. Kinsella, Enfield and Wizenty (an imprint of Great Plains Publications)

 

 

McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award

YOUNGER CATEGORY:

  • S is for Scientists: A Discovery Alphabet by Larry Verstraete, Sleeping Bear Press

 

OLDER CATEGORY:

  • Tori by Design by Colleen Nelson, Great Plains Teen Fiction

 

McNally Robinson Book of the Year

  • Not Being on a Boat by Esmé Claire Keith, Freehand Books (an imprint of Broadview Press)

View previous winners.