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rob mclennan's blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Theanna Bischoff was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, where she completed a BA Honours Degree in Psychology at the University of Calgary with a Concentration in Creative Writing. In 2006, she moved to Toronto, where she completed a Masters degree in Psychology, and is currently pursuing a PhD. Her research has explored how women experience a cancer diagnosis, as well as the development of creative...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The author of Eating Air looks at the best stories – from Conrad to Ballard – exploring the lethal excitements of trying to smash the system Pauline Melville's first book, Shape-shifter, won the Guardian fiction prize, the Macmillan Silver Pen award and a Commonwealth Writers' prize. Her first novel was shortlisted for the Orange prize and won a Whitbread prize. She is also an actor –...
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Kenyanpoet - A Kenyan Artistic Space (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , a Nigerian Female writer whose 1st book Purple Hibiscus won the Best First Book award in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Half of a Yellow Sun , her 2nd book was awarded the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction was at the TED 2009 Global Talk in England. She gave a talk on the danger of telling a single by drawing into her own story of growing up and eventually becoming...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
The winner of this year’s Amazon First Novel Award is Winnipeg author Joan Thomas, who won for Reading by Lightning (Goose Lane Editions). A coming-of-age tale set in rural Manitoba around the time of the Second World War, the novel previously won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book in the Canadian and Caribbean [...]
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Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
... my writing, I’d say too, is an extension of the pulpit … it reaches folks who don’t care for organised religion in a different way Nigerian author and Jesuit priest Uwem Akpan is interviewed by Grace Talusan for the Ubud edition of Quill magazine , and the piece is up on Eric's blog . Akpan's short story collection Say You’re One of Them won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’...
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daily imprint (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
When was the last time you laughed when reading a book? And not just laughed, but laughed out loud. Really loud. And consistently. Well, for me, it was when I recently read Stephen Lacey 's book Henry Loves Jazz: The diary of a reluctant father . It was actually a little embarrassing because I was on a plane flying from Sydney to Perth. But I couldn't help it. You may have read some of Stephen's work...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Entry for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize is now open The 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the global prize for fiction for both established and new writers, has opened for entry. The two categories, for Best Book, worth £10,000 to the overall winner, and Best First Book, worth £5,000 to the overall winner, are open to published writers from across the 53 countries of the Commonwealth....
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Book Awards Reading Challenge (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
The book awards challenges are a favorite of mine, and 3M is just devious enough to "raise the bar" each time, encouraging us all to rise to new heights in reading prizewinners. And I keep taking the bait ... In the original Book Awards Reading Challenge , any 12 award-winners would do, and I read Booker and Pulitzer winners like there was no tomorrow. For Book Awards II , 3M expected us...
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rob mclennan's blog (Free subscription) | 02/08/2009
Marina Endicott’s second novel, Good to a Fault , won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, and was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize . Her first, Open Arms , was nominated for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002; her long poem, The Policeman's Wife, some letters , was short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards in 2006. She lives in Edmonton at the moment....
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Joystory (Free subscription) | 28/07/2009
I'm authorized to give away 5 copies. Rules for entry in the drawing are below. Please read them carefully. The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser Trade paperback publishing date: 8/13/2009 Publisher: Back Bay Books 352p Tom Loxley, an Indian-Australian professor, is less concerned with finishing his book on Henry James than with finding his dog, who is lost in the Australian bush. Joining his daily hunt...
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
Hamish Hamilton Canada is set to publish the long-awaited follow-up to Vikram Seth’s Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning tome A Suitable Boy. A Suitable Girl won’t appear until 2013, a full 20 years after the publication of its predecessor. According to The Bookseller, the novel is set in the present day and picks up the story of Lata, [...]
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 17/05/2009
Canadians were shut out of this year's Commonwealth Writers Prize, awarded yesterday in New Zealand.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 19/04/2009
J.G. Ballard , the influential novelist and namesake of the literary term "Ballardian," has died. His novels included "Crash," "Empire of the Sun," and "The Drowned World." His novel "Super Cannes" won the Commonwealth Writers Prize after its publication in 2000. According to the BBC , Ballard's agent, Margaret Hanbury , noted that the author had been...
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WriteBlack (Free subscription) | 26/03/2009
This is a podcast interview with Nigerian author Uwem Akpan, who also is a priest, discussing his Commonwealth Writers Prize-winning collection of short stories, Say You’re One of Them. These are stories about family, struggle, sacrifice and compassion, told from the perspectives of children in Africa. They’re a worthwhile read if you’re thinking about the Lenten/Easter [...]
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Isolezwe (Free subscription) | 13/03/2009
NJENGOBA abalobi bomhlaba betheleke eThekwini kwi-Time of the Writer Festival, umbhali waseThekwini, uMandla Langa, uhlonishwe ngendondo ye-The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009.
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