A Libris Award is a prize for

Canadian literature Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, Indigenous languages, and many others such as Canadian Gaelic. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both ...

. It is awarded by the

Canadian Booksellers Association The Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) is an organization that promotes and advocates for Canadian booksellers, publishers and authors. Its membership is open to bookstore owners and "affiliated stakeholders" like authors and publishers. The org ...

(CBA) on an annual basis. Nominations are solicited from CBA members, and the three candidates with the most nominations are put to a vote. There are 13 categories of awards available: # Author # Fiction Book # Non-Fiction Book # Specialty Bookseller # Campus Bookseller # Bookseller # Editor # Salesperson # Distributor # Small Press Publisher # Publisher # Children's Book # Young Readers' Book The CBA Lifetime Achievement Award is also associated with the Libris Awards, although not officially a category. The awards are presented at the national CBA conference gala. Notable previous winners include

Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move fo ...

Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and '' Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel ''St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ...

, senator and former

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peacekeeping commander

Roméo Dallaire Roméo Antonius Dallaire (born June 25, 1946) is a Canadian humanitarian, author, retired senator and Canadian Forces lieutenant-general. Dallaire served as force commander of UNAMIR, the ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda b ...

, politician and diplomat

Stephen Lewis Stephen Henry Lewis (born November 11, 1937) is a Canadian politician, public speaker, broadcaster, and diplomat. He was the leader of the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party for most of the 1970s. During many of those years as lead ...

, and environmentalist David Suzuki. The bookseller awards, meant to recognize "excellence in book retailing", are not necessarily indicative of profit: as a ''National Post'' article noted, one Toronto-based bookstore announced that it was closing only a few days after receiving the Specialty Bookseller award.

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