You can listen here to Skibsrud speaking to Tom Power about her new book, Tiger, Tiger, and how winning the Giller Priz in 2010 for her debut novel The Sentimentalists changed the course of her career.
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You can listen here to Skibsrud speaking to Tom Power about her new book, Tiger, Tiger, and how winning the Giller Priz in 2010 for her debut novel The Sentimentalists changed the course of her career.
Tiger, Tiger selected by Toronto Life as one of the most exciting cultural items of the moment (March 2018).
When scientists discover a young girl has an exceptional memory, she is forced to be a back-up information drive, saddled with over 200,000 years of human knowledge. But is the load too heavy?
Johanna Skibsrud
Congratulations!
It is with great pleasure to announce our 2017 winners of the Cogswell Award contest. It was yet another rich year of wonderful poetry, and this year was by far the most successful of all RCLAS’s Cogswell awards. We began the Cogswell Award in 2014 and it has been growing since then, becoming one of the most popular of our contests. We received a record number of poetry books from all across the country. Thank you to our judge, Candice James.
WINNERS of the 2017 Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry
1st Place ($500):
Johanna Skibsrud, THE DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD (A Bookrider Book/Wolsak and Wynn)
2nd Place ($250): Timothy Shay, THE DIRTY KNEES OF PRAYER (Caitlin Press)
3rd Place ($100): Eva Tihanyi, THE LARGENESS OF RESCUE (Inanna Publications)
The Canadian Authors Association Literary Awards Program was created in 1975 to honour writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.
Past award recipients have included Carol Shields, Hugh MacLennon, W. P. Kinsella, Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Leonard Cohen—and many other Canadian literary stars.
The Canadian Authors Association’s awards program complements the association’s ongoing tradition of writers helping writers.
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two previous collections of poetry, I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being and Late Nights With Wild Cowboys; two novels, Quartet for the End of Time and the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel The Sentimentalists; and the short fiction collection This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories. An Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Skibsrud and her family divide their time between Tucson and Cape Breton.