Our Authors on the Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist
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:
Our Authors on the Hilary Weston Prize Shortlist
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:
McClelland & Stewart Announces New Novel from MICHAEL ONDAATJE, Internationally Acclaimed Bestselling Author of The English Patient
Thursday September 21, 2017 – McClelland & Stewart is thrilled to announce that WARLIGHT, the new novel by award-winning Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje, will be released in May 2018. The deal was arranged with Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group.
Cundill History Prize Announces Its Longlist
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.
Our Authors on the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Shortlist
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:
Our Authors on the Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist
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
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
(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.”
McClelland & Steward to Publish Final Volume of Poems by Leonard Cohen
October 6, 2017. Toronto, Canada—McClelland and Stewart is honoured to announce the publication of Leonard Cohen’s final book, THE FLAME, which was completed in the months before his death in November 2016. The deal was arranged with Andrew Wylie at The Wylie Agency. The book will be published in Canada on October 16, 2018. In the United States, the book will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; in the United Kingdom, it will be published by Canongate Books.
Our Writers' Trust Award winners
Last night, the Writers’ Trust Awards was a wonderful evening as Penguin Random House Canada authors won four of the major awards.
JAMES MASKALYK was announced the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfction, a prize worth $60,000, for LIFE ON THE GROUNDFLOOR: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine, published by Doubleday Canada.
Our Authors on the Canada Reads Longlist
We are pleased to share the news that Penguin Random House Canada is home to FIVE of the fifteen books on the longlist for this year’s Canada Reads.
Our longlisted authors are:
SHARON BALA for THE BOAT PEOPLE, published by and just newly on sale from McClelland & Stewart and edited by Anita Chong; also available as an audiobook narrated by Athena Karkanis