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Carter and Ens take Margaret McWilliams Awards

The Importance of Being Monogamous by Sarah CarterManitoba Historical Society 2009 Margaret McWilliams Awards

UAP authors Sarah Carter and Gerhard J. Ens have both come away this year with  Margaret McWilliams awards from the Manitoba Historical Society. Sarah Carter’s The Importance of Being Monogamous, copublished with AU Press, took top honour in the Scholarly History category, and Gerhard Ens’s rigorous edition of Johnny Grant’s memoirs, A Son of the Fur Trade, won the Popular History category. Congratulations Sarah and Gerhard!

A Son of the Fur Trade by Johnny Grant and Gerhard J. EnsThe Margaret McWilliams Award was instituted as a memorial to Margaret S. McWilliams by her husband, former Lieutenant-Governor Roland F. McWilliams, in 1955. The purpose of the award is to encourage the study and interpretation of the history of Manitoba.

One of the University of Alberta Press’s core strengths in publishing leading works of Western and Prairie history and culture is exemplified by these and many more award-winning titles. Visit our website to discover even more.

Literary Cocktails ’09

The University of Alberta Press proudly presents

Literary Cocktails

2009

Wednesday, April 8
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Faculty Club, Papaschase Room

Opening Remarks

Carol Holmes, MC
Executive Director, Writer’s Guild of Alberta

Author Readings

Gloria Mehlmann
Gifted to Learn

Roger Epp
We Are All Treaty People

Daniel Coleman
In Bed with the Word

Reception, book sales & author signings
Light refreshments provided

Have you read us lately?
www.uap.ualberta.ca

UAP 40th Anniversary

This is an auspicious year for The University of Alberta Press. The UAP has been publishing award-winning books for scholars and trade readers for forty years now. This is also the second year running that the UAP has decided to feature authors and their works of creative non-fiction, specifically of memoir and essay.

As the winter semester winds down here on campus, many of you may be anticipating some necessary down time from academia; others may be preparing for the next phase of their academic career, whether it be as student or teacher. Now is a time for pause and serene reflection; now is a time to relax with colleagues and friends and help the University of Alberta Press celebrate three of its outstanding authors.

Gloria Mehlmann, Roger Epp, and Daniel Coleman all share lifelong affiliations with learning and educational institutions. Their respective meditations on such fundamental themes as childhood education and teaching; our inalienable ties with region, its people, and its political economy; and the incomparable activity—so simple, yet so affirmative—of quietly reading a book, will undoubtedly stir our appreciation of teachers and learners and inspire us to continue to embrace our own educational challenges.

BPAA 2009 Alberta Book Awards Shortlist

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