Freedom to Read prize awarded to arrested author
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Alberta journalist and author Brandi Morin has won the Writers’ Union of Canada’s Freedom to Read Award as part of the group’s celebration of Freedom to Read month in Canada.
Morin is a writer of Cree, Iroquois and French origins who was detained, arrested and charged on Jan. 10 while on assigment for Ricochet Media covering the displacement of homeless individuals at an Edmonton encampment. The arrest drew blowback from a number of groups including the Coalition for Women in Journalism, PEN Canada, Amnesty International and others.
Morin’s most recent book was 2022’s Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, published by House of Anansi. It was a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer prize.
A GoFundMe account has been set up to cover Morin’s legal fees and bills — for more information see wfp.to/j3v.
Naomi Klein is the lone Canadian in contention for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Klein’s book Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World was among the 16 books to make the long list for the award, which is open to non-fiction written by women and published in the U.K. The winner walks away with just over CAD$50,000; the short list will be announced March 27 and the winner revealed on June 13.
Doppelganger, which was published in September 2023, is also on the three-book short list for the 2024 Writers’ Prize (formerly the Rathbones Folio Prize) for non-fiction in the U.K., worth roughly the same amount as the Women’s Prize. The other two shortlisted authors for that prize, which will be awarded on March 13 at the London Book Fair, are Laura Cumming’s Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death and Mark O’Connell’s A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder.
A pair of local authors are putting their book-signing muscles to use this weekend.
Carol Youngson and Gordon Goldsborough will be popping by Indigo’s St. Vital location today to sign copies of their works of non-fiction —Youngson’s Take Your Baby and Run and Goldsborough’s On the Road to Abandoned Manitoba and his other Abandoned Manitoba titles. Youngson will be at the store from noon to 2 p.m., and Goldsborough from 1-3 p.m.
On Sunday, Goldsborough heads over to Whodunit? Mystery Bookstore (163 Lilac St.), where he’ll sign copies of his Abandoned Manitoba books starting at 3:30 p.m.
Interested in creating your very own voodoo doll? Raven’s End Books (1859 Portage Ave.) is holding a class for just that purpose on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Guests will put their imagination to use in crafting their own voodoo dolls, as well as following the patterns from Beth Rumbo’s book How to Make Your Own Voodoo Dolls.
Registration is $35, and includes a copy of Rumbo’s book, supplies for making your voodoo doll and hot beverages. For more info and to register, see wfp.to/j3L.
Two local book clubs are meeting virtually on Tuesday to discuss a pair of critically acclaimed titles.
The Free Press book club welcomes Matthew Tétrault at 7 p.m. to chat about his latest novel Hold Your Tongue, which follows a man who returns from Winnipeg to his hometown of Ste. Anne to break the news of his uncle’s poor health to his father, learning along the way about area history, his Métis roots and more. Tétrrault will be joined by Adam Araujo of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Free Press columnist Rebecca Chambers and Free Press multimedia producer Nadya Pankiw. For more on the book club and to join, see wfp.to/bookclub.
The same night, Whodunit? Mystery Bookstore’s book club will contemplate the 1988 climate-themed mystery novel Zodiac, the second work of fiction by lauded author Neal Stephenson. In the novel, an environmentalist discovers a conspiracy involving industrial polluters in and around Boston Harbor. If you’d prefer to jump in on their March book club pick, you can tuck into Michael Christie’s Greenwood at your leisure. For more on the book club, contact the store at mystery@whodunitbooks.ca.
Ben Sigurdson
Literary editor, drinks writer
Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press‘s literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben.
In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press’s editing team before being posted online or published in print. It’s part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
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Ben Sigurdson
Literary editor, drinks writer
Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press‘s literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben.
In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press’s editing team before being posted online or published in print. It’s part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber.
Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
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