Events Page - 2010 Awards Gala - November 2010

The 2010 Saskatchewan Book Awards will be announced and presented at the 2010 Awards Gala, which will take place on Nov. 27, 2010 at 5 p.m., at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina.

The gala is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Saskatchewan’s literary community and recognize worthy award winners. It generates interest, excitement, and pride for authors and publishers throughout the province, as well as providing authors with opportunities to meet their readers.

The awards program increases knowledge about Saskatchewan’s literary community. Exposure to Saskatchewan literature promotes and encourages an understanding of our own place in the history of the province, the country, and the world. Encouraging people to read and become engaged with the stories, the narratives, the histories, and the poems of a place fosters literacy and lifelong learning. The awards program instills a sense of community among Saskatchewan’s authors, publishers, and the reading public.

2010 Awards

Fourteen awards will be presented at the gala:

• Book of the Year in memory of Mary Sutherland (Established: 1993)
• First Book Award in memory of Brenda MacDonald Riches (Established: 1993)
• Fiction Award (Established: 1995)
• Non-Fiction Award (Established: 1994)
• Regina Book Award (Established: 1993)
• Saskatoon Book Award (Established: 1998)
• Poetry Award in memory of Anne Szumigalski (Established: 1995)
• Young Adult Literature Award (Established: 1995)
• Award For Publishing (Established: 1993)
• First Peoples’ Publishing Award (Established: 1997)
• First Peoples’ Writing Award (Established: 2009)
• Publishing in Education Award (Established: 1996)
• Scholarly Writing Award (Established: 1999)
• Prix du livre français (Established: 2002)

Guest Speaker

This year’s gala guest speaker is Steven Galloway. Mr. Galloway is the author of three novels: Finnie Walsh; Ascension; and The Cellist of Sarajevo. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and optioned for film. He is currently the Cliff Writer in Residence at the UBC Creative Writing Program and the fiction mentor at The Writer’s Studio at SFU. He lives with his wife and two young daughters in New Westminster, B.C.

For more information about Steven Galloway, please visit his web site at http://www.stevengalloway.com/

Tickets

Tickets are $70 each and can be purchased on-line by clicking here (link to PayPal) or by contacting our office at:

Saskatchewan Book Awards
205B -2314 11th Ave.
Regina, SK, S6H 0K1
Tel: (306) 569-1585
Fax: (306) 569-4187
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