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BPAA 2009 Alberta Book Awards Shortlist

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Jeff Carpenter

BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Awards

The finalists for the 2009 Alberta Book Publishing Awards have been chosen!

The Importance of Being Monogamous by Sarah CarterJuries deliberated over 90 entries to select 30 finalists in 10 categories. The Book Publishers Association of Alberta announced the shortlists for Book Design (3 awards), Book of the Year (4 awards), the Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence, Emerging Publisher of the Year, and Publisher of the Year. The University of Alberta Press is in the running for six awards this year.

Book Design

Brilliant Strokes

In the general Book Design category, The University of Alberta Press with copublisher AU Press is up for Book Cover for The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 by Sarah Carter, cover design by Alan Brownoff; and David W. Schindler & John R. Vallentyne’s The Algal Bowl: Overfertilization of the World’s Freshwaters and Estuaries as well as Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection by Ka Bo Tsang, for Book Design by Alan Brownoff.

The Algal Bowl by David W. Schindler and John R. Vallentyne

Scholarly and Academic

The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 by Sarah Carter, copublished with AU Press, is on the shortlist for the Scholarly and Academic Book Award.

Trade Fiction

The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major

The Office Tower Tales, the narrative long poem by Alice Major is up against Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault (Freehand Books) for the Trade Fiction Book Award.

The Trouble with Lions by Jerry Haigh

Trade Non-Fiction

For the Trade Non-Fiction Book Award, The Trouble with Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa by Jerry Haigh, foreword by Jane Goodall, is shortlisted with several other worthies.

Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence

Driven to Kill by J. Peter Rothe

And Driven to Kill: Vehicles as Weapons by J. Peter Rothe, edited by Leah-Ann Lymer, is also running against Marina Endicott’s Good to a Fault, edited by Melanie Little, for the prestigious Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence.

Awards Gala

Winners will be announced at the awards gala Friday, May 8th. CKUA Bookmark host Ken Davis will be MC, and there will be a keynote address by UAP Wayfarer Series general editor and author of Riding with Rilke, Ted Bishop.

Tickets for the Gala are available from the Book Publishers Association of Alberta at (780) 424-5060, info@bookpublishers.ab.ca.

PDF: Alberta Book Publishing Awards 2009 Shortlist

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  1. TOWERING WIN AT THIS YEAR’S ALBERTA BOOK AWARDS « There’s a Hole in the Bucket, on June 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pm Said:

    [...] other wonderful UAP books and the people who brought those books into print were honoured on this year’s shortlist. We are proud of every book we publish, and it is lovely to celebrate these accomplishments with [...]

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