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Hamilton Spectator
22-05-2025
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- Hamilton Spectator
Newfoundland author Michael Crummey wins prestigious Dublin Literary Award
ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador author Michael Crummey has won this year's Dublin Literary Award. Crummey's winning book, 'The Adversary,' is the winner of the prestigious prize, which is worth 100,000 euros or roughly $156,420. The novel was published by Knopf Canada and tells the story of two siblings who own competing trading companies in a remote part of Newfoundland in the 19th century. There is no kernel of goodness at the core of the two main characters and Crummey has said the dark, unflinching tale reckons with the worst of the world. The prize is awarded annually by the Dublin City Council to a single work of international fiction in English, or a translation to English. Past Canadian winners include Rawi Hage, for 'De Niro's Game,' and Alistair MacLeod, for 'No Great Mischief.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 22, 2025.
Toronto Star
22-05-2025
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- Toronto Star
Newfoundland author Michael Crummey wins prestigious Dublin Literary Award
ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador author Michael Crummey has won this year's Dublin Literary Award. Crummey's winning book, 'The Adversary,' is the winner of the prestigious prize, which is worth 100,000 euros or roughly $156,420. The novel was published by Knopf Canada and tells the story of two siblings who own competing trading companies in a remote part of Newfoundland in the 19th century. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW There is no kernel of goodness at the core of the two main characters and Crummey has said the dark, unflinching tale reckons with the worst of the world. The prize is awarded annually by the Dublin City Council to a single work of international fiction in English, or a translation to English. Past Canadian winners include Rawi Hage, for 'De Niro's Game,' and Alistair MacLeod, for 'No Great Mischief.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 22, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
22-05-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
Newfoundland author Michael Crummey wins prestigious Dublin Literary Award
ST. JOHN'S – Newfoundland and Labrador author Michael Crummey has won this year's Dublin Literary Award. Crummey's winning book, 'The Adversary,' is the winner of the prestigious prize, which is worth 100,000 euros or roughly $156,420. The novel was published by Knopf Canada and tells the story of two siblings who own competing trading companies in a remote part of Newfoundland in the 19th century. There is no kernel of goodness at the core of the two main characters and Crummey has said the dark, unflinching tale reckons with the worst of the world. The prize is awarded annually by the Dublin City Council to a single work of international fiction in English, or a translation to English. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Past Canadian winners include Rawi Hage, for 'De Niro's Game,' and Alistair MacLeod, for 'No Great Mischief.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 22, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
09-05-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
A delicate structure
Fans of Madeleine Thien's writing could be excused for feeling impatient about the author's followup to her bestselling novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. The novel, published in 2016, won the Montreal author the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and landed on the short list for the Booker Prize. The nine-year gap was worth the wait. Babak Salari photo Madeleine Thien is the author of four novels and a short story collection. Thien's new novel, The Book of Records, published May 6 by Knopf Canada, is sure to satiate fans and win new ones, and will likely again draw the attention of national and international book prize juries. Thien didn't anticipate the novel, which she started in 2016, would take so long to come together. 'All I knew at the beginning was I wanted to write about a father and daughter and I had this idea about a building made of time — I was thinking about Einstein: time is space, space is time. I thought, 'What are the ideas or the questions I want to live with, I need to live with for the next five years?'' Thien says by Zoom. 'It turned out to be almost 10 years — maybe because I felt like I was chasing something for a long time that I couldn't pin down.' The Book of Records defies simple summation. In the future, Lina and her ailing father flee their home in Foshan as it is ravaged by the effects of climate change, arriving at a mysterious building called the Sea, which seems to exist outside conventional notions of space and time. Other migrants come and go from the Sea, but the two settle in for years. Lina has brought three books with her that detail the lives of three real-life thinkers: 17th-century Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza; 8th-century poet Du Fu;and 20th-century German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt. A trio of neighbours at the Sea, essentially stand-ins for the real-life trio, tell their stories in an attempt to set their proverbial records straight; Thien provides riveting accounts of actual events that took place in each of their lives. 'One of the paradoxes of writing literature is that you're almost always trying to capture in language that thing which is not capturable by language. And even if you're able to hold it in your hands, you think, 'But that's not it' — and the search continues. So much is intertwined, so much only becomes visible as the structure materializes over the course of the book. It's not something that can be seen in the first 15 or 20 pages — it requires going on a journey together,' Thien says. On her journey, the 50-year-old Thien found more literary companions in authors Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis Borges and Yoko Ogawa. 'The joy of having those as figures in my mind … was that they're all so different from each other, and I'm so different from them, so there was no model, just companions, and maybe a recognition that they too, had been looking for structures that could hold that thing that is just beyond our grasp,' she says. Despite the weighty philosophical and political themes that run throughout The Book of Records — displacement, migration, climate change, biography and betrayal — the novel is propulsive, with the ideas acting like brushstrokes that form a rich and complete picture by the novel's end. The Book of Records While writing the book, Thien envisioned a reader along the lines of Lina's age (she's seven when she arrives at the Sea with her father and 14 when they leave). 'There's a lightness of touch that I wanted, that sense that these ideas belong to all of us, that I, too, am just an ordinary reader. I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a theorist of any kind, just a person looking for answers, meaning, some way to hold all this together,' Thien says. 'Young Lina was very much at the forefront of my thoughts as an imagined reader.' Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. The passages detailing events in the lives of Spinoza, Du Fu and Arendt saw Thien attempt to see the world from their respective perspectives, a task requiring extensive research. 'I tried to read what they were reading at that time in their life, but it was an almost impossible task because someone like Hannah Arendt was reading Immanuel Kant when she was 14 and that is not me,' she says, laughing. And while Thien found it daunting to tell their stories in her sprawling, fluid literary landscape, she also enjoyed the trio's company. 'I did feel at times — and maybe every fiction writer has to believe this — I felt they were sitting beside me. They were so real to me. They are so real to me. I feel like I spent nine years in a room with the three of them talking to each other and that I was just literally the housekeeper,' she says. Thien launches The Book of Records at McNally Robinson Booksellers' Grant Park location at 7 p.m. tonight, joined in conversation by Jenny Heijun Wills. Ben SigurdsonLiterary editor, drinks writer Ben Sigurdson is the Free Press's literary editor and drinks writer. He graduated with a master of arts degree in English from the University of Manitoba in 2005, the same year he began writing Uncorked, the weekly Free Press drinks column. He joined the Free Press full time in 2013 as a copy editor before being appointed literary editor in 2014. Read more about Ben. In addition to providing opinions and analysis on wine and drinks, Ben oversees a team of freelance book reviewers and produces content for the arts and life section, all of which is reviewed by the Free Press's editing team before being posted online or published in print. It's part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Announces 2025 Winner and $150,000 Award Recipient (Exclusive)
The winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been revealed. PEOPLE can exclusively report that Canisia Lubrin was named the winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction at a live event at the Chicago History Museum on Thursday, May 1. The award recognizes novels, short story collections and graphic novels written by women and non-binary authors published in the United States and Canada. It is the largest English-language literary prize in the world that's awarded to women and non-binary authors. Lubrin was honored for her work on Code Noir, published by Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press. She will receive $150,000 and a five-night stay at the Fogo Island Inn in recognition of her accomplishments. Related: Miranda July and Rachel Kushner Among Carol Shields 2025 Prize Longlist Nominees — See the Full List! (Exclusive) As the author of books such as Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst, Lubrin has previously been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Stars award, among others. Conde Noir is Lubrin's debut work of fiction. The jury — made up of jury chair Diana Abu-Jaber, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt and Jeanne Thornton — praised the book in a joint statement shared with PEOPLE. 'Code Noir contains multitudes," their statement said. "Its characters inhabit multi-layered landscapes of the past, present and future, confronting suffering, communion and metamorphosis." "Canisia Lubrin's prose is polyphonic; the stories invite you to immerse yourself in both the real and the speculative, in the intimate and in sweeping moments of history. Riffing on the Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes the legacies of slavery, colonialism and violence," the statement continued. "This is a virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction." Related: Miranda July, Sarah Manguso Among 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Shortlist (Exclusive) Alexandra Skoczylas, CEO of the Carol Shields Prize Foundation, also offered her "warmest congratulations to Canisia Lubrin on her win for Code Noir." 'It is a groundbreaking work of fiction selected from an incredibly strong shortlist," she said. Related: V. V. Ganeshananthan Named Winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalists for the prize included Dominique Fortier and Rhonda Mullins (translator), Miranda July, Sarah Manguso, and Aube Rey Lescure. The four finalists will each receive $12,500. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The finalists, along with Lubrin, are all invited to participate in a group retreat residency in the Leighton Artist Studios, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Read the original article on People
