Toronto, September 8, 2017 – Penguin Random House is pleased to announce the launch of its audiobooks program in Canada. This week, the program is launching with seventeen audiobook titles, including recordings of books by prize-winning Canadian authors such as Gary Barwin (Yiddish for Pirates) and Mona Awad (Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl). The list includes two books published in August: Linden MacIntyre’s novel The Only Café, read by actor Greg Campbell; and Pauline Da

I am very pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to FOUR of the books on the shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize, announced earlier this morning in the U.K.

On our Canadian publishing lists:
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster, published by McClelland & Stewart and acquired by Anita Chong
and
AUTUMN by Ali Smith, published by Hamish Hamilton Canada and acquired by Nicole Winstanley

Our kids are smart, our banks are sound, our health care system is humane, our democracy is stable—but technological change is about to disrupt our economy and threaten our way of life. Canadians aren’t ready for the race to the future. Can we still catch up—or even win?

We are pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to FIVE of the twelve authors on the longlist for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Our nominees are:

We are pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to THREE of the five authors on the shortlist for the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for NonFiction.

Our nominees are:

I am pleased to share that Penguin Random House Canada is home to FIVE of the 10 books on the longlist for this year’s prestigious Cundill History Prize.

The international Cundill History Prize, administered by McGill University and celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, awards $75,000 US to the winner and $10,000 US to each of 2 finalists for the prize. This year’s jury is chaired by Margaret MacMillan, joined by Amanda Foreman, Rana Mitter, Roy Foster and Jeffrey Simpson.

We are pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to THREE of the five authors on the shortlist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Our nominees are:

We are pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to TWO of the five authors on the shortlist for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Our nominees are:

Michael Redhill for his novel Bellevue Square, published by Doubleday Canada and edited by Martha Kanya-Forstner

(Toronto, Canada. October 5, 2017) Penguin Random House Canada is thrilled to announce that Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Upon receiving the news of the award, the acclaimed English writer said, “This is amazing and totally unexpected news. It comes at a time when the world is uncertain about its values, its leadership and its safety. I just hope that my receiving this huge honour will, even in a small way, encourage the forces for goodwill and peace at this time.”