The Canadian Authors Association have announced the 2014 shortlist for the CAA Literary Awards. Beginning in 1975, these awards honour excellence in Canadian writing in four categories: Fiction, Canadian History, Poetry and Emerging Writing. Open Book is thrilled that our own Senior Editor, Grace O'Connell, is among the twelve finalists.
The shortlisted authors have been invited to participate in an evening of readings at Lakehead University's Orillia Campus on Friday, June 20 as part of the Canadian Authors' CanWrite! 2014 Conference. The winners in each category will be announced the following evening at the Canadian Authors Literary Awards Banquet & Gala, hosted by Terry Fallis and featuring speakers Susan McClelland and Mariatu Kamara. A portion of ticket sales will go to Beautiful World, an organization that sponsors students, specifically girls, by providing them with scholarships through secondary school education.
CAA Award for Fiction:
Joseph Boyden for The Orenda (Penguin Group Canada)
Anthony De Sa for Kicking the Sky (Doubleday Canada)
Claire Mulligan for The Dark (Doubleday Canada)
Lela Common Award for Canadian History:
Charlotte Gray for The Massey Murder (HarperCollins Canada)
Ruth Holmes Whitehead for Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities (Nimbus Publishing)
David O'Keefe for One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada's Tragedy at Dieppe (Knopf Canada)
CAA Award for Poetry:
Catherine Graham for Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)
Reneé Sarojini Saklikar for children of air india (Nightwood Editions)
Tom Wayman for Winter Skin (Oolichan Books)
CAA Emerging Writer Award:
Kim Fu for For Today I am a Boy (HarperCollinsCanada)
Michael Hingston for The Dilettantes (Freehand Books)
Grace O'Connell for Magnified World (Knopf Canada)
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