Ada Ferrer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Latin America and the Caribbean, has been named chair of the 2025 Cundill History Prize jury. Ferrer, who was born in Cuba and based in the U.S., was ...

Canadian writers Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, and Tessa McWatt are among the five-person jury for this year’s Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The jury, announced on Feb. 6, will be chaired by American ...

June Hur, Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson, and Margaret Atwood are among the nominees for the Mystery Writers of America’s 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The shortlists were announced on Jan. 22.

John Vaillant and L. E. Carmichael and Byron Eggenschwiler were named winners of the 2024 Lane Anderson Awards for Canadian science writing on January 29 at the North York Public Library in Toronto.

Sharada Eswar makes her literary debut with a delightful collection of folk tales. Raised in Tamilnadu, India, Eswar is a writer, storyteller, singer, and arts educator based in Brampton. She is also ...

Alistair MacLeod publishes his one novel, No Great Mischief. It was a very big deal at the time. The master’s masterwork.

Looking ahead to the festival’s next decade, Richardson hopes to see FOLD continue to do what it’s already doing – “but ...

During his final days, Peter Unwin’s father talked a great deal about sports. Through an oxygen mask, one eye blind from a ...

Author David A. Robertson and illustrator Josée Bisaillon have been nominated for the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. Known as the “little Nobel,” the biennial awards were established in 1956 to ...