The JW Dafoe Book Prize ("awarded to the best book on Canada, Canadians, and/or Canada’s place in the world published in the previous calendar year") once again rather buries its longlist deep in its website -- but you can find it here. in "news. Last year's winner was Gerald Friesen's The Honorable John W. Norquay,
The Cundill Prize shortlist is here. The Cundill, run by McGill University, with a mostly American jury and a prize of $US75,000, is "awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal."
There are a couple of Canadians in the running this year: Jonathan Cheng for Shattered Messiah and Eric Jennings of the University of Toronto, for Vanilla.
We'll get back to these as the Dafoe shortlist and winner and the Cundill finalists and winner are announced.
