This year’s Alberta Book Award gala on June 11 was a night to remember! Ken Davis hosted the festivities with opening and closing remarks from Linda Cameron (President of BPAA, Director of U of A Press) and Patricia MacQuarrie (President of WGA). There were more than 250 in the audience at the Safari Lodge of the Calgary Zoo to celebrate winners and nominees of the Alberta Book Publishing Awards, honouring excellence and innovation in the work of Alberta’s book publishing industry, and the Alberta Literary Awards, recognizing excellence in writing by Alberta authors.
University of Alberta Press, 2011 Publisher of the Year
The University of Alberta Press and their authors, and Ernie Ingles (Vice-Provost & Chief Librarian at the University of Alberta), took special note of these winners of the Alberta Book Publishers Awards:
Book Cover / Jacket Design
The Measure of Paris [Stephen Scobie]
Cover design by Alan Brownoff
Book Design
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 [Rudy Wiebe]
Book design by Alan Brownoff
Trade Fiction Book Award
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 [Rudy Wiebe]
Scholarly and Academic Book Award
The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country [Patricia Demers, Naomi L. McIlwraith & Dorothy Thunder, Translators]
Publisher of the Year
University of Alberta Press
“[The University of Alberta Press's] 2010 list displays its commitment to — and achievement in — every area considered by this award: editorial, design, production, promotion, marketing, sales, service to clients, and service to the community. This press tackled an ambitious and courageous catalogue, ranging from fiction from the Canadian canon and original poetry, through literary criticism, to cultural theory and history, and language learning, and even sport — with its compass always pointing west, with its nets always cast for a broad readership, and with spectacular results.”
The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country
The Measures of Paris
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010
And also these winners of the Alberta Literary Awards:
Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction
Myrna Kostash (Edmonton)—Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Alice Major (Edmonton)—Memory’s Daughter
Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Story
Rudy Wiebe (Edmonton)—“Shadow of a Rock” in Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010
Prodigal Daughter
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010
Memory's Daughter
WGA Golden Pen Award
To acknowledge the lifetime achievement of an outstanding Alberta writer.
Robert Kroetsch
Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees; appreciative thanks to the members of the 2011 Award Jurors; and a big hand to the organizers who made sure that all present had an excellent time!
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I was shocked to hear of Bob Kroetsch’s tragic death. He will be remembered as a wonderful writer, a great friend of the Canadian Studies community in Kiel and elsewhere in Germany, a very modest person, and, last but not least, a decent human being.