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  • Alicia Elliott Wins the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award
    Alicia Elliott Wins the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award
    June 04, 2024

    Alicia Elliott Wins the 2024 Amazon First Novel Award

    Last night at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto, Alicia Elliott won the forty-eighth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award. The bestselling essayist won for And Then She Fell (Doubleday Canada), ...

  • Pik-Shuen Fung Wins 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
    Pik-Shuen Fung Wins 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
    June 02, 2022

    Pik-Shuen Fung Wins 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

    It was a good night for Penguin Random House Canada's new Strange Light imprint last night, when Pik-Shuen Fung took home the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Ghost Forest. The imprint identifies ...

  • Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist Announced
    Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist Announced
    May 11, 2022

    Amazon Canada First Novel Award Shortlist Announced

    Yesterday, Amazon Canada and The Walrus announced the shortlist for the forty-sixth annual Amazon Canada First Novel Award, which rewards the debut novel judged to be the finest of the year based on literary ...

  • Michelle Good Wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Her Multi-Award Nominated Debut, Five Little Indians
    Michelle Good Wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Her Multi-Award Nominated Debut, Five Little Indians
    May 28, 2021

    Michelle Good Wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Her Multi-Award Nominated Debut, Five Little Indians

    Michelle Good's Five Little Indians (HarperCollins Canada) was undoubtedly one of the biggest books of 2020, snagging nominations for two of the largest fiction awards in the country: the Scotiabank ...

  • Casey Plett Wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award for Little Fish
    Casey Plett Wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award for Little Fish
    May 23, 2019

    Casey Plett Wins $60,000 Amazon First Novel Award for Little Fish

    Last night at a ceremony in Toronto, Casey Plett captured the prestigious Amazon Canada First Novel Award for Little Fish (Arsenal Pulp Press). The author of a previous short story collection, A Safe ...

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