The 2011 Manitoba Book Awards Shortlists

Congratulations to all the nominees! We here at the Festival office want to give a special nod to those nominees who are also a part of our THIN AIR festival family:

Our very own Charlene Diehl, Director and Queen Bee of our organization!
Out of Grief Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss, published by signature Editions, nominated for: Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Ficition and McNally Robinson Books of the Year!

Ariel Gordon, HOT AIR blog editor and participating writer from THIN AIR 2010
Hump, published by Palimpsest Press, nomiated for: Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie and Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.

Our dearly missed friend and publicist, Michael Van Rooy.
A Criminal to Remember, published by Turnstone Press, nominated for: Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award.

Our THIN AIR 2010 past participating writers:

David Arnason, Baldur’s Song, published by Turnstone Press, nominated for Carol Shield Winnipeg Book Award and The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

David Bergen, The Matter With Morris, published by HarperCollins, nominated for Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

Martha Brooks, Queen of Hearts, published by Tundra Books, nominated for McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Older Category.

Margaret Buffie, Winter Shadows, published by Tundra Books, nominated for McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Older Category.

Simone Chaput, La belle ordure, Les Éditions du Blé, Le Prix littéraire Rub-Deschambault.

Dora Dueck, This Hidden Thing, published by CMU Press, nominated for McNally Robinson Book of the Year and The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

Theodore Fontaine, Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools, published by Heritage House Publishing, nominated for Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.

Uma Parameswaran, A Cycle of the Moon, published by TSAR Publications, nominated for McNally Robinson Book of the Year.

Joan Thomas, Curiosity, published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd., nominated for MacNally Robinson Book of the Year and The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction.

And all those other writers who have been a part of THIN AIR in the past:

France Adams, illustrations: Serge Salvador, L’arbre aux coeurs, Les Editions des Plaines, Le Prix littéraire Rub-Deschambault.

Di Brandt, Walking to Mojâcar, published by Turnstone Press, nominated for McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher.

Lori Cayer, Attenuations of Force, published by Frontenac House, nominated for Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie.

Jean Chicoine, La forêt du langage, Les Éditions du Blé, Le Prix littéraire Rub-Deschambault.

Maureen Fergus, Ortega, published by Kids Can Press, nominated for McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award – Older Category.

Lise Gaboury-Diallo, Lointaines: nouvelles, Les Éditions du Blé, Le Prix littéraire Rub-Deschambault.

Joe McLellan and Matrine McClellan, Nanabosho and the Butterflies, illustrated by Jackie Traverse, design by Relish Design Studio, published by Pemmican Publications, nominated for Best Illustrated Book of the Year.

Kerry Ryan, nominated for John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.

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