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SBA would like to clarify who is shortlisted for Honouring the Buffalo by Ray Lavallee and Judith Silverthorne, illustrated by Mike Keepness. Ray Lavallee is shortlisted for the Aboriginal Peoples' Writing Award, while both Ray Lavallee and Judith Silverthorne are shortlisted for the Children's Literature Award, and Your Nickel's Worth Publishing is shortlisted for the Aboriginal Peoples' Publishing Award. The shortlist now reflects these distinctions. Please contact our office at 306-569-1585 if you have any questions.
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Saskatchewan Book Awards is pleased to announce the 2016 Shortlist. The winners will be revealed at the 23rd Awards Ceremony on April 30, 2016. Tickets are now on sale! Congratulations to all of the shortlisted authors and publishers! Click here for a printable version.
Awards for Writers
University of Regina Book of the Year Award
Connie Gault, A Beauty (McClelland & Stewart)
Jeanette Lynes, Bedlam Cowslip (Wolsak and Wynn)
Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter, The Education of Augie Merasty (University of Regina Press)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (McClelland & Stewart)
Fiction Award
Carol Daniels, Bearskin Diary (Nightwood Editions)
Connie Gault, A Beauty (McClelland & Stewart)
R.P. MacIntyre, Mahihkan Lake (Thistledown Press)
Elizabeth Philips, The Afterlife of Birds (Freehand Books)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (McClelland & Stewart)
Dianne Warren, Liberty Street (HarperCollins)
University of Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Award
Raymond Blake, Lions or Jellyfish: Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957 (University of Toronto Press)
Ken Coates, #Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada (University of Regina Press)
Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum), Nationhood Interrupted (Purich Publishing)
Alexandra Popoff, Tolstoy’s False Disciple (Pegasus Books)
Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award
Rita Bouvier, nakamowin’sa for the seasons (Thistledown Press)
Carol Daniels, Bearskin Diary (Nightwood Editions)
Tara Gereaux, Size of a Fist (Thistledown Press)
Harold Johnson, Corvus (Thistledown Press)
Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum), Nationhood Interrupted (Purich Publishing)
Ray Lavallee, illustrated by Mike Keepness (written by Judith Silverthorne), Honouring the Buffalo (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)
O’Reilly Insurance and The Co-operators First Book Award
Carol Daniels, Bearskin Diary (Nightwood Editions)
Tara Gereaux, Size of a Fist (Thistledown Press)
Beth Gobeil, Breathing Room (Hagios Press)
Lisa Guenther, Friendly Fire (NeWest Press)
Cassidy McFadzean, Hacker Packer (McClelland & Stewart)
Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award
Rita Bouvier, nakamowin’sa for the seasons (Thistledown Press)
Gerald Hill, Hillsdale Book (NeWest Press)
Jeanette Lynes, Bedlam Cowslip (Wolsak and Wynn)
Children’s Literature Award
Leah Marie Dorion, My First Métis Lobstick (Gabriel Dumont Institute Press)
Ray Lavallee and Judith Silverthorne, illustrated by Mike Keepness, Honouring the Buffalo (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)
City of Saskatoon and Public Library Saskatoon Book Award
Rita Bouvier, nakamowin’sa for the seasons (Thistledown Press)
Ken Coates, #Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada (University of Regina Press)
Yvette Nolan, Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture (Playwrights Canada Press)
Elizabeth Philips, The Afterlife of Birds (Freehand Books)
Lloyd Ratzlaff, Bindy’s Moon (Thistledown Press)
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (McClelland & Stewart)
City of Regina Book Award
Connie Gault, A Beauty (McClelland & Stewart)
Cassidy McFadzean, Hacker Packer (McClelland & Stewart)
Dianne Warren, Liberty Street (HarperCollins)
University of Regina Arts and Luther College Award for Scholarly Writing
Raymond Blake, Lions or Jellyfish: Newfoundland-Ottawa Relations since 1957 (University of Toronto Press)
Mareike Neuhaus, The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures (University of Regina Press)
Greg Poelzer and Ken Coates, From Treaty Peoples to Treaty Nation (UBC Press)
Awards for Publishers
Publishing Award
Coteau Books
Wild Rose by Sharon Butala
MacKenzie Art Gallery and Southern Alberta Art Gallery
Amalie Atkins: we live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical by Timothy Long
University of Regina Press
Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus
#Idlenomore and the Remaking of Canada by Ken Coates
The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter
University of Regina Faculty of Education and Campion College Award for
Publishing in Education
University of Regina Press
Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus
Metis and the Medicine Line by Michel Hogue
The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures by Mareike Neuhaus
The Education of Augie Merasty by Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter
Regina Public Library Aboriginal Peoples’ Publishing Award
Purich Publishing
Nationhood Interrupted by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum)
Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing
Honouring the Buffalo by Ray Lavallee and Judith Silverthorne, illustrated by Mike Keepness
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Thank you to photographer Eagle Thom for the wonderful photos!
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On February 27th, Saskatchewan Book Awards discovered that a miscommunication had occurred with the members of the jury for the Prix du livre français. Martine Noël-Maw's book Trois millions de pas had been mistakenly shortlisted instead of her book Le troisième souhait.
When we realized that this error had occurred, we conferred with the jury and decided that the most ethical approach was to restore the intended book to the shortlist. We then reached out to the author and the publisher to inform them of our error.
We apologize for the hurt and embarrassment we have caused for both the author and the publisher. Our policies for communication with our jury members will be reviewed with this unfortunate incident in mind.
Saskatchewan Book Awards is dedicated to promoting the work of Saskatchewan authors and publishers. We fully intend to continue supporting Ms. Noël-Maw and we will celebrate her work, along with the work of 30 other Saskatchewan authors and their publishers at the Awards Ceremony on April 25th.
