Ending the year on a winning note
Looking back on a great year in books, we wanted to highlight some local award-winners. Check out these local authors and illustrators who received Atlantic Books Awards in 2015.
Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature
The End of the Line, by Sharon E. McKay, published by Annick Press Ltd.
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Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association’s Best Atlantic-Published Book Award
Creative Book Publishing for Island Kitchen: An Ode to Newfoundland by Chef Mark McCrowe with Sasha Okshevsky
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The Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award (Non-Fiction)
Fire in the Belly: How Purdy Crawford rescued Canada, and changed the way we do business by Gordon Pitts, published by Nimbus Publishing
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Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing
Equal as Citizens: The Tumultuous and Troubled History of a Great Canadian Idea by Richard Starr, published by Formac Publishing Company Ltd.
Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
Perished: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, by Jenny Higgins, published by Boulder Publications
Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction)
Punishment, by Linden MacIntyre, published by Random House Canada
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Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in Illustration
Sydney Smith for Music is for Everyone, written by Jill Barber, published by Nimbus Publishing
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Margaret and John Savage First Book Award
Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome: stories by Megan Gail Coles, published by Creative Book Publishing
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