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UPCOMING
AND RECENT EVENTS, AND PUBLICITY
Last
updated July 29, 2010
** Items not
previously announced are marked in RED**
Times listed are local
to broadcasting city.
AWARDS
BESTSELLERS
PUBLICITY FOR NEW TITLES
AWARDS:
Congratulations
to Harbour author Anne Cameron
who was awarded the 16th annual George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award,
an annual award honouring an outstanding literary career in British
Columbia. Since 1994, the City of Vancouver (Mayor of Vancouver's office), the
Vancouver Public Library, and a non-profit society (Pacific BookWorld News
Society, founded in 1988) have been working in partnership to jointly sponsor
and present an annual $3,000 prize to a senior B.C. author whose enduring
contribution to the literary arts spans several decades.
The Writers’ Union of
Canada and John Gleed are pleased to announce that Sarah Roberts
is the recipient of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Wax Boats (Caitlin
Press), judged the best first English-language
collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2009.
BESTSELLERS:
BC Bestsellers, week of July 25, 2010
(Source: Association of Book Publishers of BC)
Adult Titles
1. Carolyn Herriot:
The Zero-Mile Diet
ISBN 978-1-55017-481-6
5. Carol Evans: The Shores We Call Home
ISBN 978-1-55017-465-6
Children’s Titles
1
Eileen Van der Flier Keller:
A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles
ISBN 978-1-55017-395-6