CBA Libris Awards 2013

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Congratulations to CBA Winners – Libris and Lifetime Achievement Award

Canadian Booksellers honour Margaret Atwood and celebrate our book industry’s best

Toronto, ON, June 6, 2012 — Canadian Booksellers Association announced the winners of the 2012 Libris Awards at a gala awards dinner and celebration on Sunday, June 3. The event, which was held at the Toronto Congress Centre, was hosted by award-winning author Terry Fallis and attended by bookselling professionals from across the country.

The Libris Awards recognize the best in the Canadian book industry. Nominated and voted on by members of the Canadian Booksellers Association, the Libris Awards single out the best in 12 categories including best writer; best editor; best sales rep; best publisher; best small press publisher; best distributor; best fiction, non-fiction, children’s book, and young reader books; and best campus and general book retailer.

“2011 was a year in which Canada dominated the literary landscape the world over,” comments CBA President Mark Lefebvre. “Celebrating those authors, editors, sales reps, distributors, publishers and booksellers who delivered exceptional books to Canadian readers in 2011, the Awards spotlight the collaborative nature of the industry’s most successful creative and commercial efforts.” 

The Libris Award gala also celebrated the next generation with the Chase Paymentech Young Bookseller of the Year Award, which was awarded to Aleks Wrobel, Book Launches & Author Events Coordinator at University of Toronto Bookstore.

The evening ended with a special Lifetime Achievement Award presentation to literary icon Margaret Atwood. The CBA Lifetime Achievement Award is given in recognition of outstanding and longstanding contribution to the book industry in Canada and Ms. Atwood’s extensive list of bestselling and award-winning novels, short stories, poetry and books for children have reached millions of readers. Their collective success has allowed the Canadian independent bookselling industry to prosper for decades and the industry was delighted to be able to thank Ms. Atwood for her significant and ongoing contributions to their trade.

The Winners of 2012 Libris Awards Include:

Fiction Book Of The Year:

The Sisters Brothers

Author: Patrick deWitt Publisher: House of Anansi

Sales Rep Of The Year:

Dot Middlemass

Ampersand, Canada’s Book & Gift Agency

 

 

Non-Fiction Book Of The Year:

Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree Planting Tribe  Author: Charlotte Gill  Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre and Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation

Distributor Of The Year:

HarperCollins Canada

 

 

 

Children's Picture Book Of The Year:

Picture A Tree  Author & Illustrator: Barbara Reid  Publisher Scholastic Canada

Small Press Publisher Of The Year:

 

Nimbus Publishing

 

 

Young Readers' Book Of The Year:

This Dark Endeavour  Author: Kenneth Oppel, Publisher:  HarperCollins Canada

Publisher Of The Year:

 

Penguin Group (Canada)

 

 

Author Of The Year:

Michael Ondaatje Title released in 2011: The Cat’s Table (McClelland & Stewart)

Campus Bookseller Of The Year:

York University Bookstore, Toronto, ON

 

 

Editor Of The Year:

Louise Dennys Knopf/Random House of Canada

 

 

 

Bookseller Of The Year:

Blue Heron Books, Uxbridge, ON

 

 

 

 

Lifetime Achievement Award

Margaret Atwood

 

 

 

 

Thank you to our CBA Libris Awards sponsors:

 

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Thank you to our CBA Libris Awards sponsors:

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For more information on CBA Libris Awards Reception and Presentation, please contact CBA at 416-467-7883, ext. 230, or esinkins@cbabook.org.

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