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A fictional account of a notorious Winnipeg thief leads all nominees in the field of locally authored and/or published books in the running for the Manitoba Book Awards.

Bandit: A Portrait of Ken Leishman, by Wayne Tefs, received four nominations for the awards, including best book by a Manitoba publisher, top fiction book, best Winnipeg book and the prize for top book design.

The just announced short lists for the awards are chosen by the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers.

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In addition to Tefs’ four nominations, several other titles received multiple mentions, including Sally Ito’s Alert to Glory, Alison Preston’s The Girl in the Wall, Sue Sorensen’s A Large Harmonium and J.R. Léveillé’s Poème Pierre Prière.

The short lists and recipients are selected by a variety of juries, comprised of writers, publishers and other book industry personnel from across Canada. The awards themselves will be presented at the Manitoba Book Awards gala on Saturday, April 28 at Centre culturel franco-manitobain.

 The nominees include:

 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher

Alert to Glory by Sally Ito, Turnstone Press

Bandit: A Portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs, Turnstone Press

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

La plus belle Création de Corbeau, a bilingual French-Ojibwa picture book by David Bouchard, Les Éditions des Plaines

What the Bear Said: Skald Tales of New Iceland by W.D. Valgardson, Turnstone Press

 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

Bandit: A Portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs, Turnstone Press

The Girl in the Wall by Alison Preston, Signature Editions

A Large Harmonium by Sue Sorensen, Coteau Books

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

Twelve Drummers Drumming by C.C. Benison, Doubleday Canada

 

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

Bandit: A Portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs, Turnstone Press

Forgotten Heroes: Winnipeg’s Hockey Heritage by Richard Brignall, J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing

Ravenscraig by Sandi Krawchenko Altner, Heartland Associates

Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967 by Dale Barbour, University of Manitoba Press

 

Best Illustrated Book of the Year

David’s Trip to Paraguay: The Country with Amazing Colours, story and design by Miriam Rudolph, CMU Press

The Imagination Manifesto: Book Three by GMB Chomichuk and John Toone, design and ill. by GMB Chomichuk, Alchemical Press Ltd.

Portraits of Winnipeg by Robert J. Sweeney, cover and interior design Jamis Paulson, Turnstone Press

 

Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

A Walker in the City by Méira Cook, Brick Books

Girlwood by Jennifer Still, Brick Books

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

 

Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year

Alert to Glory by Sally Ito, cover design by Jamis Paulson, Turnstone Press

Bandit: A Portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs, cover design by Jamis Paulson, Turnstone Press

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

 

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

A Large Harmonium by Sue Sorensen, Coteau Books

Dadolescence by Bob Armstrong, Turnstone Press

Winnie the Bear by M.A. Appleby, self-published

 

Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

The Girl in the Wall by Alison Preston, Signature Editions

The Imagination Manifesto: Book Three by GMB Chomichuk and John Toone, Alchemical Press

The Thirteen by Susie Moloney, Random House Canada

The Valedictorians by David Annandale, Ravenstone (an imprint of Turnstone Press)

 

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

The Blaikie Report: An Insider’s Look at Faith and Politics by Bill Blaikie, United Church Publishing House

Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement by David Camfield, Fernwood Publishing

Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland by John C. Lehr, University of Manitoba Press

Good Places to Live: Poverty and Public Housing in Canada by Jim Silver, Fernwood Publishing

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

 

McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award

YOUNGER CATEGORY:

Annie’s Bright Idea: A Christmastime Adventure by Audrhea Lande, ill. by Jenny Prest, self-published

Nanabosho and the Butterflies by Joe & Matrine McLellan, ill. by Jackie Traverse, Pemmican Publications

S is for Science: A Discovery of Alphabet by Larry Verstraete, Sleeping Bear Press

OLDER CATEGORY:

Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science by Larry Verstraete, Scholastic

Kingdom of Trolls by Rae Bridgman, Sybertooth

Tori by Design by Colleen Nelson, Great Plains Teen Fiction

 

John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer

Bob Armstrong

Jonathan Ball

Jennifer Still

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