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Cover Collage: Stars of Summer
If you’ve been slacking on the hottest in Canadian books, we’re here for you with this cover collage + list of some of our favourite award-winning and nominated titles and authors from across the country announced so far this year within the ALU cannon.Â
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FINALISTS – 2021 Trillium Book Awards Accretion by Irfan Ali (Brick Books)Seven by Farzana Doctor (Dundurn Press)WINNERS – 2020 Governor General’s Award If You Hear Me by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Lazer Lederhendler (Category: Translation, from French to English) (Biblioasis)Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story by Kim Senklip Harvey (Category: Drama) (Talonbooks)SHORT-LISTED – 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardButter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (Arsenal Pulp Press)You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King (Book*hug Press)Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi (Arsenal Pulp Press)SHORT-LISTED – 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeHunger Moon by Traci Skuce (Category: Literary Fiction) (NeWest Press)Tell Me My Name by Erin Ruddy (Category: Mystery) (Dundurn Press)Night Callby Brenden Carlson  (Category: Mystery) (Dundurn Press)True Patriots by Russell Fralich (Category: Mystery) (Dundurn)WINNER of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards (Published Prose in English, Fiction) + LONG-LISTED for the First Nation Communities Read AwardsGhost Lake by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler (Kegedonce Press)WINNER of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards (Published Poetry in English) + LONG-LISTED for the First Nation Communities Read Awardsit was never going to be okay by jaye simpson (Nightwood Editions)WINNER – Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ AnthologyLove after the End, edited by Joshua Whitehead (Arsenal Pulp Press)WINNER – Crime Writers of Canada Best Crime Novel award for 2021The Transaction by Guglielmo D’Izzia (Guernica Editions)WINNER – 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award + WINNER 2021 Alberta Book Awards (Stephan G. Stephansson Award) for PoetryThe Response of Weeds by Bertrand Bickersteth (NeWest Press)LONG-LISTED – 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize + SHORT-LISTED – 2021 Lambda Literary Award + SHORT-LISTED – 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi (Arsenal Pulp Press)LONG-LISTED for the 2021 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour + WINNER (Silver) FOREWORD INDIES for Humour + SHORT-LISTED for Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic-Published Book AwardDirty Birds by Morgan Murray (Breakwater Books)WINNER – 2021 Fred Kerner Book AwardEndlings by Joanna Lilley (Turnstone Press)SHORT-LISTED – 2021 Atlantic Book AwardsÂ
(In several categories, including: Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing; Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award; Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – (Non-Fiction); Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction))
WINNER – McNally Robinson Book of the Year, Manitoba Book AwardsHere the Dark by David Bergen (Biblioasis)Â
