The University of Winnipeg congratulates all of the nominees shortlisted for the 2020 Manitoba Book Awards/Les Prix du livre du Manitoba, which recognize excellence in Manitoba writing, book design, and publishing. Winners will be announced via media release on Friday, May 15.
UWinnipeg faculty members and alumni that have been shortlisted include:
Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction / Prix Alexander-Kennedy-Isbister pour les études et essais
Don Proch: Masking and Mapping by Patricia Bovey (Department of Art History), published by University of Manitoba Press
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. by Jenny Heijun Wills (Department of English), published by McClelland & Stewart
Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada by Esyllt W. Jones (Alumna MA’ 97), published by ARP Books
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award / Prix littéraire Carol-Shields de la ville de Winnipeg
Communal Solidarity: Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882–1930 by Arthur Ross (Alum BAH 70), published by University of Manitoba Press
Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests by Ariel Gordon (Alumna BA’96, BSc’ 96), published by Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. by Jenny Heijun Wills (Department of English), published by McClelland & Stewart
Lansdowne Prize for Poetry / Prix Lansdowne de poésie
Pressure Cooker Love Bomb by Sharanpal Ruprai (Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Alumna BED’00, BAH’ 03), published by Frontenac House Ltd.
St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter (Department of English, Alumna, BAH’86), published by Signature Editions
Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Awards / Prix Manuela-Dias de conception graphique et d’illustration en édition
III. General Illustration / Illustration et iconographie
Don Proch: Masking and Mapping by Patricia Bovey (Department of Art History), cover and interior design by Frank Reimer, published by University of Manitoba Press
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
Five Wives by Joan Thomas (Alumna BA’72), published by Harper Avenue, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers Ltd
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher / Prix Mary-Scorer pour le meilleur livre par un éditeur du Manitoba
Don’t Try This at Home: One Family’s (mis)Adventures Around the World by Daria Salamon (Alumna BA’99) and Rob Krause, cover and interior design by Jamis Paulson, published by Turnstone Press.
McNally Robinson Book for Young People: Younger Category
The Promise Basket by Bill Richardson (BA’ 76 , Distinguished Alumni ’96, LLD’98), illustrated by Slavka Kolesar, published by Groundwood Books
McNally Robinson Book of the Year
Five Wives by Joan Thomas (Alumna BA’72), published by Harper Avenue, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers Ltd
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. by Jenny Heijun Wills (Department of English), published by McClelland & Stewart
Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada by Esyllt W. Jones (Alumna MA’97), published by ARP Books
St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter (Department of English, Alumna, BAH’86), published by Signature Editions
This Place: 150 Years Retold, edited and published by High Water Press, an Imprint of Portage & Main Press
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction
Another Spy for Paris by Robert J. Young, published by Signature Editions
