WINNIPEG, MANITOBA - The Manitoba Book Awards winners were announced on the eveningof Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery during a Gala event hosted by CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers.
Winnipeg writer David Bergen took home two top prizes, including the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, for his deeply moving novel, The Retreat. This year's most nominated title, Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste par Louise Duguay, publié par Les Éditions du Blé, a magnificent French-language hard-cover art book about the talented St. Boniface painter and former artistic director of the Cercle Molière also received two prizes. A complete list of recipients follows:
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award ($5,000)
- The Retreat by David Bergen, published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd.
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Category ($2,500)
- My Mother is a French Fry and Further Proof of My Fuzzed-Up Life by Colleen Sydor, published by Kids Can Press
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger Category ($2,500)
- Goose Girl by Joe McLellan and Matrine McLellan, illustrated by Rhian Brynjolson, published by Pemmican Publications
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher ($1,000)
- Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste par Louise Duguay, publié par Les Éditions du Blé
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer ($2,500)
- Michael Van Rooy
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction ($3,500)
- Lord Selkirk: A Life by J.M. Bumsted, published by University of Manitoba Press
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction ($3,500)
- The Retreat by David Bergen, published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd
Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault (3 500 $)
- L'endroit et l'envers par Lise Gaboury-Diallo, publié par L'Harmattan
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award ($5,000)
- Saint-Boniface 1908-2008 : reflets d'une ville, sous la direction de André Fauchonet Carol J. Harvey, publié par les Presses universitaires de Saint-Boniface
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Writer ($1,500)
- The Prairie Bridesmaid by Daria Salamon, published by Key Porter Books Ltd.
Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year Award
- Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste par Louise Duguay, graphiste Susan Chafe, publié par Les Éditions du Blé
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award
- The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture, curated by Darlene Coward Wight, design by Frank Reimer, published by The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Le Prix Lansdowne de poésie ($1,000)
- this is a small northern town by Rosanna Deerchild, published by The Muses' Company, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
The Association of Manitoba Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Book Awards partners: Aqua Books, The City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts, Friesens, Hignell Book Printing, Kromar Printing Ltd., The Manitoba Arts Council, Manitoba Culture,Heritage, Tourism and Sport, The Manitoba Foundation for the Arts, Manitoba Tradeand Investment, McNally Robinson Booksellers, Relish Design Studio and The WinnipegFoundation. The Manitoba Writers' Guild thanks the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers for coordinating the 2009 Manitoba Book Awards. For more information contact:
Karen San Filippo
Manitoba Book Awards Coordinator
Association of Manitoba Book Publishers
404-100 Arthur St., Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3
(204) 947-3335
projectsambp@mts.net
www.manitobabookawards.com
