The following are the 2010 short lists for Margaret McWilliams Awards, one of the oldest literary awards in Canada, named in honour of writer Margaret McWilliams. Books nominated for this award have been published in the 2010 calendar year.
Readings from short-listed books will be given on Monday, 25 April 2011, at 7:00 PM, at McNally-Robinson Booksellers (Winnipeg Location, Grant Park, Atrium). All are invited to attend this free event.
Winners will be announced on Manitoba Day 2011 (12 May) and presented on Saturday, 4 June 2011 at 1:00 PM, at a ceremony at the Dalnavert Museum Visitors Centre (61 Carlton Street, Winnipeg) during the Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Historical Society.
Categories:
Scholarly History | Local History | Popular History
Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions
edited by Paul G. Thomas and Curtis Brown
University of Manitoba PressManitoba Premiers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
edited by Barry Ferguson and Robert Wardhaugh
Canadian Plains Research CentreThe West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region
edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter and Peter Fortna
Athabasca University Press
Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age
by Jim Blanchard
University of Manitoba PressThe Mosaic Village: An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End
by Russ Gourluck
Great Plains Publications
A Manifest Presence: 100 Years at St. Margaret’s
edited by Grace Evans
St. Margaret Anglican Church
Baldur’s Song: A Saga
by David Arnason
Turnstone Press
Just Common Sense: The Life and Times of George Taylor Richardson
by Tim Higgins
Heartland AssociatesThe Wild Ride: A History of the North West Mounted Police 1873-1904
by Charles Wilkins
Stanton Atkins & DosilWinnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age
by Jim Blanchard
University of Manitoba PressMore information on this book here
The Manitoba Historical Society gratefully acknowledges the sponsorship of its
Margaret McWilliams Awards by Friesens Corporation of Altona, Manitoba.
Posted: 17 March 2011, updated 22 April 2011
