Fox up for six Saskatchewan Book Awards
- EFN Staff | May 02, 2021
The shortlist for the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards has been announced. Bevann Fox has been shortlisted for six awards (four in the author and two in the publishing categories), more than any other author this year, for her book, Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School. Author Cort Dogneiz and publisher Gabriel Dumont Institute are up for awards and the University of Regina Press is up for several publishing awards.
The online Ceremony announcing the winners of the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards will take place on Thursday, June 17, 2021, at 7:00 pm. The program will also be broadcast through the Saskatchewan Book Awards website https://www.bookawards.sk.ca/ and Facebook page.
“We are celebrating 28 years of excellence in writing and publishing in Saskatchewan,” says SBA Executive Director Kam Teo. “Once again, we are very proud of this year’s nominees which reflect the diversity of our authors and publishers.”
Highlights of the short list. The full list can be seen here: https://www.bookawards.sk.ca/
City of Regina Regina Award
Purchasing Power: Women and the Rise of Canadian Consumer Culture (University of Toronto Press) by Donica Belisle.
Loss of Indigenous Eden and The Fall of Spirituality (University of Regina Press) by Blair Stonechild.
Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina) by Bevann Fox.
The Moonlit World: Book 3 (DAW) by Edward Willett. The Diamond House (Harper Collins) by Dianne Warren.
Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award
Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School (University of Regina Press) by Bevann Fox.
Loss of Indigenous Eden and The Fall of Spirituality (University of Regina Press) by Blair Stonechild.
Field Notes for the Self (University of Regina Press) by Randy Lundy.
The Narrows of Fear (Inanna) Carol Rose GoldenEagle.
Cry Wolf: Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator (University of Regina Press) by Harold Johnson.
SaskBooks Publishing in Education Award
GDI Press for Road to La Prairie Ronde by Cort Dogniez.
The MacKenzie Art Gallery for Victor Cicansky: The Gardiner’s Universe/L’univers d’un jardinier edited by Julia Krueger and Timothy Long.
University of Regina Press for Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigneous-Canadian Relations by James Frideres.
University of Regina Press for Nakón-i'a wo!: Beginning Nakoda Vincent Collette (ed) with Armand McArthur and Wilma Kennedy.
Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award
University of Regina Press for Loss of Indigenous Eden and The Fall of Spirituality by Blair Stonechild.
University of Regina Press for Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School by Bevann Fox.
University of Regina Press Nakón-i'a wo!: Beginning Nakoda Vincent Collette (ed) with Armand McArthur and Wilma Kennedy.
University of Regina Press for Cry Wolf: Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator by Harold Johnson.
Miyawata Culture Culture Inc. for The Story of Broken Knife Lookout by Floyd Favel