Best-selling Canadian author Louise Penny has cancelled all U.S. promotional events for her latest book, The Black Wolf, in response to President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff war against her home country. “I can hardly believe I’m saying this, but given the ongoing threat of an unprovoked trade war against Canada by the U.S. president, I […]
Canadian author Andrew Pyper, who launched his literary career with the spellbinding thriller Lost Girls, died of complications from cancer at his home in Toronto on Jan. 3. He was 56. That 2000 supernatural mystery/courtroom drama, about a male teacher accused of murdering two schoolgirls and the lawyer who defends him, earned Pyper a reputation […]
Toronto-based author and poet Anne Michaels has won the $100,000 Giller Prize for her novel, Held, an emotional multigenerational story of love and loyalty that begins as a wounded soldier returns home from the First World War and follows one family across a century. “Everything I write is a form of witness – against war, […]
British author Samantha Harvey has won the 2024 Booker Prize for Orbital, a novel about a day in the life of six International Space Station astronauts lauded by judges for its “beauty and ambition.” Along with the coveted literary honour, Harvey will receive a prize of £50,000 pounds, or about $90,000. In her acceptance speech, […]
Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel’s debut novel, Empty Spaces, has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction. The B.C. writer’s book is one of 14 – seven English, seven French – to earn top honours and $25,000. Empty Spaces is a fresh, urban answer to James Fenimore Cooper’s 19th-century work, The Last of the […]
The richest prize in Canadian fiction is about to enrich the writing life of one of five novelists named to the 2024 Giller Award shortlist, with the winner announced at a gala event on Nov. 18. Former Toronto poet laureate Anne Michaels, who published her award-winning debut novel Fugitive Pieces in 1996, is nominated for […]
Continuing his annual summer tradition, Barack Obama, 63, released his favourite reads of the season via Instagram and X on Tuesday. “I’ve read some great books over the last few months and wanted to share some of my favourites,” the former president wrote in the caption of the post. “Let me know if you have […]
Held, the latest novel by Canadian author and poet Anne Michaels, is one of 13 fiction books on the longlist for the 2024 Booker Prize, which was announced July 30. The former poet laureate of Toronto, who won accolades and awards for her 1996 debut novel, Fugitive Pieces, was nominated alongside Canadian-American author Claire Messud […]
UPDATE: The New York Times Book Review’s list of the the 100 best books of the 21st century wrapped up a week of slow reveals on Friday (July 12) with the top 20 finalists. And surprisingly, no further Canadians appeared in the final batch, leaving CanLit stars and their critically-acclaimed, award-winning books – such as Margaret Atwood […]
Alice Munro, a master of the short story whose prose about small-town life in southwestern Ontario earned her a Nobel Prize in literature, died at the age of 92 on May 13. Penguin Random House – which served as the author’s longtime publisher under their imprint McClelland & Stewart – said the literary icon died […]