The Canadian Booksellers Association doles out several wide-ranging, all-inclusive awards each year, recognizing not only books and authors, but people in the industry as well: editors, publicists, booksellers. The shortlists are selected by members of the industry. See the full list here: http://www.cbabook.org/files/LibrisAwards/CBALibrisShortlistAnnouncement10.pdf.
Fiction Book of the Year Shortlist: Michael Crummey’s Galore, Linden MacIntyre’s The Bishop’s Man, and Annabel Lyon’s The Golden Mean.
Author of the Year: Linden MacIintyre, Alice Munro, Annabel Lyon.
Also: Congrats to Halifax’s The Bookmark II, up for bookseller of the year, and Woozles Ltd., up for specialty bookseller of the year.
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