Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba

 

MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS 2020 / LES PRIX DU LIVRE DU MANITOBA 2020

PRESENTING . . .    NOUS VOUS PRÉSENTONS . . .

 

* Alexander Kennedy  Isbister  Award for Non-Fiction / Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et  essais    

Friends, Foes, and Furs: George Nelson’s Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804–1822

edited by Harry W. Duckworth, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press

sponsor: Manitoba Arts Council

 

* Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award / Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg

The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation

by Jean Teillet, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

sponsor: Winnipeg Arts Council

 

* Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.

by Jenny Heijun Wills, published by McClelland & Stewart

sponsor: Winnipeg Foundation 

 

* John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer / Prix John-Hirsch pour l’écrivain(e) manitobain(e) le plus prometteur

Lauren Carter

sponsor: Manitoba Foundation for the Arts & Manitoba Arts Council

 

* Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Prix Lansdowne de poésie

St. Boniface Elegies

by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions

sponsor: Winnipeg Foundation

 

* Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards / Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique et d’illustration en édition

i. Book Design / Conception de livre

ROMANS/SNOWMARE 

by Cam Scott, cover and interior design by LOKI, published by ARP Books

ii. Children’s Illustration / Illustration de livres pour enfant

The Grizzly Mother (Book Two, Mothers of Xsan)

by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson), illustrations and cover art by Natasha Donovan,

cover and interior design by Relish New Brand Experience,

published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press

iii. General Illustration / Illustration et iconographie

Portraits of the Far North 

by Gerald Kuehl, art by Gerald Kuehl, design by Dave Maddocks, published by Vidacom Publications

 

* Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction 

          

This Has Nothing to Do with You

by Lauren Carter, published by Freehand Books

sponsor: Manitoba Arts Council

 

* Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher / Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba

This Place: 150 Years Retold

edited and published by HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press,

cover art by Natasha Donovan, cover and interior design by Relish New Brand Experience

sponsor: Friesens

 

* McNally Robinson Book of the Year

This Place: 150 Years Retold

edited and published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press,

cover art by Natasha Donovan, cover and interior design by Relish New Brand Experience

sponsor: McNally Robinson Booksellers

 

* McNally Robinson Book for Young People: Younger Category

The Promise Basket

by Bill Richardson, illustrated by Slavka Kolesar,

published by Groundwood Books

sponsor: McNally Robinson Booksellers

 

* Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

Operation Stealth Seed

by George Amabile, published by Signature Editions

sponsors: Manitoba Writers’ Guild, Prairie Fire, Winnipeg International Writers Festival

 

CONGRATULATIONS!   FÉLICITATIONS !

 

MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS 2020 / LES PRIX DU LIVRE DU MANITOBA 2020

On behalf of the coalition producing the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards/Les Prix du livre du Manitoba, we are excited to share the shortlists for 11 separate awards recognizing excellence in Manitoba writing, book design, and publishing.

As the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic weigh down upon us, we’re seeing artists reach out online to keep us grounded and to lift our spirits. It’s our turn to repay that favour.

The pandemic means we will have to forego the gala celebration scheduled for Friday, May 15, but we will announce the winners of all the awards via media release and social media that day at 10:00am.

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction /
Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais

 

Don Proch: Masking and Mapping by Patricia Bovey, published by University of Manitoba Press

Friends, Foes, and Furs: George Nelson’s Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804–1822, edited by Harry W. Duckworth, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. by Jenny Heijun Wills, published by McClelland & Stewart

Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada by Julie Guard, published by University of Toronto Press

Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada by Esyllt W. Jones, published by ARP Books

 

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award /
Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg

 

All That Belongs by Dora Dueck, published by Turnstone Press

Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882–1930 by Arthur Ross, published by University of Manitoba Press

Perception: A Photo Series by KC Adams, published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation by Jean Teillet, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests by Ariel Gordon, published by Wolsak and Wynn Publishers

 

Eileen Mctavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

 

The Accidental Veterinarian: Tales from a Pet Practice by Philipp Schott, published by ECW Press

Even that Wildest Hope by Seyward Goodhand, published by Invisible Publishing

Moon Was a Feather by Scott Nolan, published by The Muses’ Company, an imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishers

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related., by Jenny Heijun Wills, published by McClelland & Stewart

Perception: A Photo Series by KC Adams, published by HighWater Press an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

 

John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer / Prix John-Hirsch pour l’écrivaine ou l’écrivain manitobain le plus prometteur

Lauren Carter

Christopher Ducharme

JH Moncrieff

 

Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Prix Lansdowne de poésie

Adagio for the Horizon by Laurelyn Whitt, published by Signature Editions

Mrs Romanov by Lori Cayer, published by The Porcupine’s Quill

Pressure Cooker Love Bomb by Sharanpal Ruprai, published by Frontenac House Ltd.

St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions

 

Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards / Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique et d’illustration en édition

I. Book Design / Conception de livre

Carnet brûlé (du monde qui crie) par Marilyne Busque-Dubois, maquette de couverture et mise en page par Urbanink, publié par Les Éditions du Blé

Fanonymous by M.C. Joudrey, illustrations, cover and interior design by M. C. Joudrey and Matthew Stevens, published by At Bay Press

Romans/Snowmare by Cam Scott, cover and interior design by LOKI, published by ARP Books

What Fox Knew by Mary Barnes, cover art by M. C. Joudrey, cover and interior design by M. C. Joudrey and Matthew Stevens, published by At Bay Press

II. Children’s Illustrated Category / Illustration de livres pour enfant

123 Count with Me: Exploring Nature with Numbers by Jessie Thiessen, illustrations and design by Jessie Thiessen, published by Small Jane

Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt, illustrations and cover design by Amanda Strong, interior design by Relish New Brand Experience, published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

The Grizzly Mother (Book Two, Mother of Xsan) by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson), illustrations and cover art by Natasha Donovan, cover and interior design Relish New Brand Experience, published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

III. General Illustration / Illustration et iconographie

Don Proch: Masking and Mapping by Patricia Bovey, cover and interior design by Frank Reimer, published by University of Manitoba Press

Place into Being by Robert Pasternak, illustrations and cover art by Robert Pasternak, cover and interior design by M. C. Joudrey and Matt Stevens, published by At Bay Press

Portraits of the Far North by Gerald Kuehl, art by Gerald Kuehl, design by Dave Maddocks, published by Vidacom Publications

 

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction    

Elizabeth of Bohemia: A Novel about Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen by David Elias, published by ECW Press

Even That Wildest Hope by Seyward Goodhand, published by Invisible Publishing

Fanonymous by M. C. Joudrey, published by At Bay Press

Five Wives by Joan Thomas, published by Harper Avenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

This Has Nothing to Do with You by Lauren Carter, published by Freehand Books

 

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher / Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba

Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity by Darryl Leroux, cover design by David Drummond, interior design by Jess Koroscil, published by University of Manitoba Press

Don’t Try this at Home: One Family’s (mis)Adventures Around the World by Daria Salamon and Rob Krause, cover and interior design by Jamis Paulson, published by Turnstone Press.

Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive, by Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue, cover and interior design by Vincent Design Inc., published by University of Manitoba Press

This Place: 150 Years Retold, edited and published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press, cover art by Natasha Donovan, cover and interior design by Relish New Brand Experience

 

McNally Robinson Book for Young People: Younger Category

123 Count with Me: Exploring Nature with Numbers, text and illustrations by Jessie Thiessen, published by Small Jane

Dinosaur Rodeo text and illustrations by Sheldon Dawson, published by Peanut Butter Press

Entawi Kiskinomakawiyan by Pauline Apetagon, published by Goldrock Press

The Grizzly Mother (Book Two, Mother of Xsan) by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson), illustrations and cover art by Natasha Donovan, published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

The Promise Basket by Bill Richardson, illustrated by Slavka Kolesar, published by Groundwood Books

 

McNally Robinson Book of the Year

Five Wives by Joan Thomas, published by Harper Avenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related., by Jenny Heijun Wills, published by McClelland & Stewart

Perception: A Photo Series by KC Adams, published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada by Esyllt W. Jones, published by ARP Books

St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions

This Place: 150 Years Retold, edited and published by HighWater Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press

 

Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

A Land So Wild by Elyssa Warkentin, published by Carnation Books

Another Spy for Paris by Robert J. Young, published by Signature Editions

Operation Stealth Seed by George Amabile, published by Signature Editions

Ride to Daylight by Alyssa Thiessen, published by Peasantry Press