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Crime Writers Of Canada Award For Best Novel
The Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel is an annual literary award, presented as part of the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence program to honour books judged as the best crime novel Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ... published by a Canadian crime writer in the previous year. 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{reflist Canadian fiction awards Mystery and detective fiction awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Writers Of Canada Awards Of Excellence
The Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards, are a group of Canadians, Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best Canadian crime and Mystery fiction, mystery writing published in the previous year. The award is presented at a gala dinner in the year following publication. The awards were named for Arthur B. English, Arthur Ellis, the pseudonym of Canada's official hanging, hangman. In 2021 the Crime Writers of Canada announced that they were retiring Arthur Ellis's name from the awards, renaming them to their current name.Vicky Qiao"Will Ferguson among the winners of 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Awards" CBC Books, May 28, 2021. Best Novel * 1984 - Eric Wright (writer), Eric Wright, ''The Night the Gods Smiled''"Crime Writers of Canada honors Murdoch, Wright". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 25, 1984. * 1985 - Howard Engel, ''Murder Sees the Light'' * 1986 - Eric Wright (writer), Eric Wright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Telling Of Lies
''The Telling of Lies'' is a 1986 novel by Timothy Findley. A murder mystery, the novel centres on Vanessa Van Horne, a landscape architect who witnesses the apparent murder of pharmaceutical mogul Calder Maddox at the seaside Aurora Sands Hotel in Maine. Following the book's paperback publication in the United States in 1988, the novel won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989."U.S. crime writers honor Findley". ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'', May 18, 1989. References Novels by Timothy Findley 1986 Canadian novels Canadian mystery novels Edgar Award-winning works Viking Press books {{1980s-mystery-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Moore (novelist)
Brian Moore ( ; 25 August 1921 – 11 January 1999), was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland, who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural ''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times (in 1976, 1987 and 1990). Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films. Early life and education Moore was born and grew up in Belfast with eight siblings in a large Roman Catholic family. His grandfather, a severe, authoritarian solicitor, had been a Catholic convert. His father, James Bernard Moore, was a prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Region Record
The ''Waterloo Region Record'' (formerly ''The Record'') is the daily newspaper covering Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada, including the cities of Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, as well as the surrounding area. Since December 1998, the ''Record'' has been published by Metroland Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation. On May 26, 2020, Torstar, agreed to be acquired by NordStar Capital, a private investment firm; the deal was expected to close by year end. History The ''Record'' traces its history back to the founding of the ''Daily News'', first published on February 9, 1878, by former Methodist preacher Peter Moyer at a printing press located at King and Ontario streets in Berlin (now Kitchener). This would be the city's first daily newspaper, and Canada's first bilingual daily as it was supplemented with a full page of German news for the first eight months of its life. In 1896, at the time of Moyer's death, three newspapers existed in the city of Berlin: the ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brady (writer)
John Brady may refer to: Politicians * John Brady (Australian politician) (1904–1993), former member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1948 to 1974 * John Brady (Indiana politician) (1803–1884), former mayor of Muncie, Indiana * John Brady (Minnesota politician), mayor of Mankato, Minnesota * John Brady (MP) (1812–1887), Irish physician and MP for Leitrim * John Brady (Sinn Féin politician) (born 1973), Irish Sinn Féin politician from Wicklow * John F. Brady (politician) (born 1959), Delaware attorney and politician * John Green Brady (1847–1918), Governor of Alaska Territory 1897–1906 * John Banks Brady, British-born Southern Rhodesian soldier, educator and politician * John Leeford Brady, American lawyer, politician, and newspaper editor * John C. Brady, 1887 mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania * Johnny Brady (born 1948), Irish Fianna Fáil politician from Meath Sportspeople * John Brady (basketball) (born 1954), Arkansas State, LSU and Samford men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Batten
Jack Batten (born January 23, 1932) is a Canadian writer and broadcaster, author of more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books and winner of book and magazine awards. Early life Jack Hubert Batten was born in Montreal to Jack and Kathleen Batten and moved with his parents to Toronto when he was three years old. He attended the University of Toronto Schools (UTS) and completed a BA in philosophy and history at Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1954. He then earned a law degree at the University of Toronto Law School in 1957, was called to the bar in 1959, and practised law for four years at MacLaughlin, Macaulay, May and Soward. Writing career He left the legal profession in 1962 to make his living as a writer, starting as a staff writer and copy editor at Maclean’s magazine. After a short period at The Canadian Magazine he returned to Maclean’s as staff writer, then became managing editor at Saturday Night Magazine, and later a staff writer for The Star Weekly. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver Sun
The ''Vancouver Sun'', also known as the ''Sun'', is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The newspaper is currently published by the Pacific Newspaper Group, a division of Postmedia Network. Published six days a week from Monday to Saturday, the ''Sun'' is the largest newspaper in western Canada by circulation. The newspaper was first published on 12 February 1912. The newspaper expanded in the early 20th century by acquiring other papers, such as the ''Daily News-Advertiser'' and ''The Evening World''. In 1963, the Cromie family sold the majority of its holdings in the ''Sun'' to FP Publications, who later sold the newspaper to Southam Inc. in 1980. The newspaper was taken over by Hollinger Inc. in 1992, and was later sold again to CanWest in 2000. In 2010, the newspaper became part of the Postmedia Network as a result of the collapse of CanWest. History The ''Vancouver Sun'' published its first edition on 12 February 1912. The n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Robinson (novelist)
Peter Robinson (17 March 1950 – 4 October 2022) was a British-born Canadian crime writer who was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire featuring Inspector Alan Banks. He also published a number of other novels and short stories, as well as some poems and two articles on writing. Early life Robinson was born in Armley, Leeds, on 17 March 1950. His father, Clifford, worked as a photographer; his mother, Miriam (Jarvis), was a homemaker. Robinson studied English literature at the University of Leeds, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with honours. He then emigrated to Canada in 1974 to continue his studies, obtaining a Master of Arts in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor, with Joyce Carol Oates as his tutor. He was later awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in English at York University in 1983. Career Robinson taught at several college and universities in Toronto, including the University of Windsor (his alma mater) as writer-in-residence from 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence Gough
Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and usually male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin ''Laurentius'', a name meaning "man from Laurentum". The French feminine name Laurence is a form of the masculine ''Laurent'', which is derived from the Latin name. Given name * Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist * Laurence des Cars, French curator and art historian * Laurence Neil Creme, known professionally as Lol Creme, British musician * Laurence Ekperigin (born 1988), British-American basketball player in the Israeli National League * Laurence Equilbey, French conductor * Laurence Fishburne, American actor * Laurence Fournier Beaudry, Canadian ice dancer * Laurence Fox, British actor *Laurence Gayte (born 1965), French politician * Laurence S. Geller, British-born, US-based real estate investor. * Laurence Ginnell, Irish p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Scott (writer)
Chris Scott (born 1945 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England)"Ripper from Ottawa Valley?" ''Ottawa Citizen'', January 7, 1989. is an English-Canadian writer. His novel ''Antichthon'' was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 1982 Governor General's Awards, and his novel ''Jack'' won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel in 1989. His novel, ''Bartleby'' was republished in Glasgow in 2016."Farmer in spring, award-winning writer in winter". ''Ottawa Citizen'', June 15, 1989. Educated at the University of Hull, Manchester University, Scott has taught at York University in Toronto and Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.Chris Scott fonds. - 1969-1984 |
Anna Porter
Anna Maria Porter, is a Canadian publisher and novelist. Life and career Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956. She received a bachelor's degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Canterbury. She started at McClelland & Stewart in 1969 and became president and publisher of Seal Books. In 1979, she founded Key Porter Books and in 1986 she purchased a majority stake in Doubleday Canada. In 2004, she was appointed to the Board of Governors of York University. In 1991, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being "instrumental in bringing Canadian titles to the attention of the international market place". In 2003, she was awarded the Order of Ontario. She has been awarded honorary degrees from Ryerson University, St. Mary's University, and the Law Society of Upper Canada. In 2004 Porter sold her interest in Key Porter Books to focus on writing. She has published three mystery novels and three books on Middle European histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Louis (writer)
Joe Louis (1914–1981) was an American world heavyweight boxing champion. Joe Louis may also refer to: * Sakorn Yang-keawsot (1922–2007), Thai dancer & puppeteer a.k.a. Joe Louis * Joe Hill Louis (1921–1957), American musician * Joe Louis Arena in Detroit * Jos Louis Jos Louis is a Canadian confection consisting of two chocolate cake rounds with a cream filling within a milk chocolate shell, made by Vachon Inc. It resembles a chocolate version of the May West dessert. It was created in 1932 and named after ..., chocolate pastry * Joe Louis (horse), a horse owned by the United States Army See also * Joe Lewis (other) * Joseph Lewis (other) {{disambiguation Louis, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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