February 16, 2011 – Ottawa – The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced tonight at the Politics and the Pen Gala that Anna Porter has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future, published by Douglas & McIntyre. Read the full article…
About Cutlass Time: BCB: What do you think readers will find most notable about Cutlass Time? Jane Covernton: I think most readers appreciate that it’s a “good read”, an interesting story. I’ve also been told that the language is poetic. BCB: Have you acquired any good anecdotes surrounding this book? If so, could you share [...]
About Snowdrift: BCB: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Lisa McGonigle: First, Snowdrift was originally written as a series of emails to my friends back in Ireland and the UK. And, as we know, when we’re writing to friends it’s when we’re at our most candid and least circumspect. [...]
Singing from the Darktime: A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose. McGill Queen’s University Press. Paperback. Release date: 2011-03-01 CA $18.95 | US $18.95 | UK £12.99 Singing from the Darktime is a compelling picture of a rural childhood in Germany at a time when the world was about to change. By 1937 Hitler’s power was [...]
Snowdrift by Lisa McGonigle. Oolichan Books. January 2011. 288 pages. Lisa McGonigle grew up in North County Dublin, Ireland. She attended Trinity College Dublin and the University of Aberdeen. In 2005, after graduating university, she visited the Kootenay region of British Columbia to spend a winter snowboarding. Emails to her friends back home described a remote [...]
The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future by Anna Porter. Douglas & McIntyre. September 2010. 272 pages. Winner of the 2010 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of the long defunct [...]
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