The much anticipated Manitoba Book Award shortlists have been announced. Among the exceptional Manitoba books are a number of this year’s UMP titles.
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction
Shauna MacKinnon’s Decolonizing Employment: Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada’s Labour Market
Andrew Woolford’s This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States
Stefan Epp-Koop’s We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book By a Manitoba Publisher
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson, cover photo by Thosh Collins, cover design by Marvin Harder, interior design by Karen Armstrong Graphic Design
Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman, edited and with an afterward by Keavy Martin and Julie Rak, with Norma Dunning, cover design by Mike Carroll, interior design by Jess Koroscil
McNally Robinson Book of The Year Award
Stefan Epp-Koop’s We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike
John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer
Chantal Fiola’s Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Beatrice Mosionier Award for Aboriginal Writer of the Year
Chantal Fiola’s Rekindling the Sacred Fire: Métis Ancestry and Anishinaabe Spirituality
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
Stefan Epp-Koop’s We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
Stefan Epp-Koop’s We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike
Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards (Design Category)
The Idea of a Human Rights Museum edited by Karen Busby, Adam Muller and Andrew Woolford , cover and interior design by Jess Koroscil
The awards will be presented on April 30th, 7-10 pm, at the Radisson Hotel’s Ambassador Ballroom.
Posted by U of M Press
April 8, 2016
Categorized as News
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