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)