AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoCanadian Book Awards: The Writers’ Trust of Canada will award eight prizes and more than $400,000 tonight, with Téa Mutonji, Zak Jones and other writers shortlisted for its fiction prize. Booker Prize: British science-fiction writer M. John Harrison, 81, won for The End of Everything, becoming the prize’s oldest winner and its first author best known for science fiction. Local Publishing: A proposed sale could bring the Times Colonist under local ownership in Victoria, while a new ByWard Market bookstore plans to direct profits to writers. Research Publishing: Canada’s new open-access policy broadens access to research but leaves publishing fees unchecked.
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