Booksellers battle Amazon's Canadian plans
A decision to allow Amazon.com Inc. to open a distribution centre in Canada would set a precedent for changes to Canadian foreign ownership rules, the Canadian Booksellers' Association says.
Canada Reads 2010 debate begins
Cadence Weapon began his defence of Douglas Coupland's Generation X as Canada Reads began on Monday.
Ali Smith, CBC's Enright named to Giller jury
CBC Radio host Michael Enright joins novelists Claire Messud and Ali Smith on the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury, with the winner to be announced in the fall.
New Finnegans Wake to be more coherent
Two scholars have spent 30 years poring over James Joyce's notes and proofs in order to come up with what they call a more understandable version of his experimental novel Finnegans Wake.
Fillion, Basu net Twitter awards
Montreal writer and editor Arjun Basu and Edmonton-born actor Nathan Fillion are among the latest winners of the Shorty Awards, a fledgling prize celebrating top users of Twitter.
Vancouver's Lyon up for first novel award
Vancouver's Annabel Lyon, who won the Writer's Trust best novel award for The Golden Mean, has now been nominated for the 2009 first novel award for Canadian writers.
Pakistani-American wins $20K Story Prize
A book of tales exploring Pakistan's complex evolution from its feudal past has won the $20,000 US Story Prize, the annual literary honour celebrating the short fiction genre.
Vanderbilt backs Canadian short fiction prize
American heiress and author Gloria Vanderbilt has created a new short fiction prize for Canadian writers in partnership with literary quarterly Exile Editions.
