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Billy Joe Green to appear at CAS/Beautiful Razor launch
The dual launch of Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair’s Centering Anishinaabeg Studies (UMP) and Al Hunter’s Beautiful Razor: Love Songs and Other Lies (Kegedonce Press) will also feature the Winnipeg bluesman.
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Emily Eaton on John Gormley Live TODAY
The author of Growing Resistance will be on John Gormley Live TODAY at 11:00 Mountain Time. Call in and ask her something!
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Imagining Winnipeg gets FOUR nominations!
Esyllt W. Jones and Imagining Winnipeg were nominated for four Manitoba Book Awards!
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Spring Launches (mostly) Confirmed!
UMP authors will be everywhere this spring, launching their titles!
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Holiday closing
UMP will be closed for the holidays from December 22 to January 3. If you are ordering books through our shopping cart after December 22, please note that they will not be shipped until the first week of January.
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Larry Krotz on Tour!
Larry Krotz, author of six books including Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa, will be giving several guest lecturesd in November, including stops at McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and UWO’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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Tim Winegard at National History Forum
Tim Winegard, author of For King and Kanata, will be presenting at the 6th National History Forum to be held in Ottawa as part of the Governor General’s History Awards.
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Barbour & Lehr win 2011 Margaret McWilliams Awards!
Last week, the Manitoba Historical Society announced that UMP authors had won awards in two Margaret McWilliams Awards categories!
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Winnipeg Beach receives AMA Manitoba Day Award!
Dale Barbour’s Winnipeg Beach will be recognized at the 6th annual Manitoba Day Awards, presented by the Association for Manitoba Archives on May 10.
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Seeing Red wins THREE awards!
Mark Anderson and Carmen Robertson’s collaboration, Seeing Red, took home First Peoples’ Writing, Scholarly Writing Award, and Regina Book Award awards at the Saskatchewan Book Awards!
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Award Season Continues!
University of Manitoba Press is pleased to announce that UMP titles have received multiple nominations for awards over the past few weeks.
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Seeing Red up for FOUR awards!
Mark Anderson and Carmen Robertson’s Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers received four nominations for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards!