Talonbooks Awards and Prizes, Recent Highlights
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Edgerton Foundation New Play Award: Morris Panych, The Shoplifters (Winner) BC Book Prize, Poetry: Cecily Nicholson, From the Poplars (Winner) Cole Foundation Prize for Translation: (Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards Madeleine Gagnon, As Always (Finalist) Governor General’s Literary Award, Drama: Bryden MacDonald, Odd Ducks (Finalist)
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Governor General’s Literary Award, Drama: Marcus Yousseff and James Long, Winners and Losers (Finalist)
2014 BC Book Prize, Poetry: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (Winner) BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner)
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City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner) George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Winner) Gerald Lampert Memorial Award: Jordan Abel, The Place of Scraps (Finalist)
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Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation: Michel Marc Bouchard, Christina, The Girl King, translated by LInda Gaboriau (Finalist) Governor General’s Literary Award, Translation: Michel Nadeau, And Slowly Beauty, translated by Maureen Labonté (Finalist) Lambda Literary Award, Drama: Michel Marc Bouchard, Tom at the Farm, translated by Linda Gaboriau (Winner) Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award: bill bissett (Winner) On the cover: Takao Tanabe
2013 BC Book Prize, Poetry: Colin Browne, The Properties (Finalist) ReLit Award, Fiction: Garry Thomas Morse, Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus (Finalist)
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Sunburst Award: Martine Desjardins, Maleficium, translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel (Winner)
2012 BC Book Prize: Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages (Finalist) Lambda Literary Award, Lesbian Memoir: Jane Rule, Taking My Life (Finalist)
2011 Alcuin Book Design Award: Stan Douglas, ed., Vancouver Anthology (Winner) BC Book Prize, Poetry: Stephen Collis, On the Material (Winner) Robert Merritt Legacy Award: Wendy Lill (Winner)
Talonbooks gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.