Stuart Woods writing in Quill & Quire, October 21.
It certainly wasn't a banner year for small presses at the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Awards shortlist announcement, which took place at Ben McNally Books in downtown Toronto on Tuesday.
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Even more remarkable is the fact that five of the 10 titles on the two lists were edited by Doubleday Canada editorial director Martha Kanya-Forstner: Nino Ricci’s novel The Origin of Species, about an unhappy Montreal grad student; Fred Stenson’s The Great Karoo, a novel about Canadians in the Boer War; Fifteen Days, journalist Christie Blatchford’s “embedded” account of Canada’s troops in Afghanistan; former Médecins sans Frontières doctor James Orbinski’s memoir An Imperfect Offering; and Douglas Hunter’s God’s Mercies, an historical account of the rivalry between explorers Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson.Read the full piece at Quill & Quire.
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