Bandit runs away with nominations for Manitoba Book Awards
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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.
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
