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Saskatchewan Book Awards Shortlist 2006

(2006 Press Release)

BOOK OF THE YEAR

Harold Johnson, Back Track (Thistledown Press)

Annette Lapointe, Stolen (Anvil Press)

Arthur Slade, Megiddo's Shadow (Harper Collins Canada)

Michael Trussler, Encounters (Newest Press)

FICTION

Martha Blum, The Apothecary (Coteau Books)

Gail Bowen, The Endless Knot (McClelland & Stewart)

Harold Johnson, Back Track (Thistledown Press)

NONFICTION

Sally Crooks, That Saturday Night (Sally Crooks)

Rebecca L. Grambo, Wolf:  Legend, Enemy, Icon (Firefly Books)

Germain O. Lavoie, Maskîkhîwîno: The Medicine Man (Amyot Lake Publishing)

Harold LeRat with Linda Ungar, Treaty Promises, Indian Reality:  Life on a Reserve (Purich Publishing Ltd.)

Lloyd Ratzlaff, Backwater Mystic Blues (Thistledown Press)

Allan Safarik, Notes from the Outside: Episodes from an Unconventional Life (Hagios Press)

FIRST BOOK

Doris Bircham, Where Blue Grama Grows (Hagios Press)

Annette Lapointe, Stolen (Anvil Press)

Leeann Minogue, Dry Streak (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)

Jennifer Still, Saltations (Thistledown Press)

Daniel Scott Tysdal, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method (Coteau Books)

Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan (Coteau Books)

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Beverley Brenna, Wild Orchid (Red Deer Press)

Beth Goobie, Hello, Groin (Orca Book Publishers)

Arthur Slade, Megiddo's Shadow (Harper Collins Canada)

POETRY

Doris Bircham, Where Blue Grama Grows (Hagios Press)

Don Kerr, My Own Places:  Poems on John Constable (University of Calgary Press)

Katherine Lawrence, Lying to Our Mothers (Coteau Books)

Sylvia Legris, Nerve Squall (Coach House Books)

Jennifer Still, Saltations (Thistledown Press)

REGINA BOOK AWARD

Ven Begamudré, The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar (Frontenac House Ltd.)

Gail Bowen, The Endless Knot (McClelland & Stewart)

Rob Bryanton, Imagining the Tenth Dimension: A New Way of Thinking about Time, Space and String Theory (Talking Dog Studios)

Devin Krukoff, Compensation (Thistledown Press)

SASKATOON BOOK AWARD

Martha Blum, The Apothecary (Coteau Books)

Beth Goobie, Hello, Groin (Orca Book Publishers)

Annette Lapointe, Stolen (Anvil Press)

Lloyd Ratzlaff, Backwater Mystic Blues (Thistledown Press)

SCHOLARLY WRITING

J. Michael Hayden and Malcolm R. Greenshields, 600 Years of Reform: Bishops and the French Church 1190-1789 (McGill - Queen's University Press)

Hartmut Lutz with Murray Hamilton and Donna Heimbecker, editors, Howard Adams: Otapawy! (Gabriel Dumont Institute)

Mary E. Vandergoot, Justice for Young Offenders:  Their Needs, Our Responses (Purich Publishing Ltd.)

PRIX DU LIVRE FRANÇAIS

Abbé Roger Ducharme, Servir et non être servi : Un Fransaskois se raconte (Les Éditions de la nouvelle plume)

Laurier Gareau, Sur nos bancs d'école: L'éducation française dans la région de Prud'homme,Saint-Denis et Vonda (Société historique de la Saskatchewan et L'Association Communautaire Fransaskoise de la Trinité)

Marie-Pierre Maingon, Carnet de Voyage : Honolulu à San Francisco (Éditions des Plaines)

AWARD FOR PUBLISHING

Canadian Plains Research Center, Regina's Secret Spaces:  Love and Lore of Local Geography, Lorne Beug, Anne Campbell and Jeannie Mah, editors

Coteau Books, The Hour of Bad Decisions, Russell Wangersky

Coteau Books, Running in Darkness, Robert Currie

Hagios Press, Interim: Essays & MediTations, Patrick Friesen

FIRST PEOPLES PUBLISHING

Coteau Books, Christmas at Wapos Bay, Jordan Wheeler and Dennis JacksonCoteau Books, Morningstar: A Warrior's Spirit, Morningstar MercrediGabriel Dumont Institute, Howard Adams:Otapawy!  Hartmut Lutz with Murray Hamilton and Donna Heimbecker, editors

Gabriel Dumont Institute, The Métis Alphabet Book, Joseph Jean Fauchon

Purich Publishing Ltd.  Treaty Promises, Indian Reality:  Life on a Reserve, Harold LeRat with Linda Ungar

PUBLISHING IN EDUCATION

Canadian Plains Research Center, A History of Education in Saskatchewan: Selected Readings, Brian Noonan, Dianne Hallman and Murray Scharf, editors

Canadian Plains Research Center, False Expectations:  Politics and the Pursuit of the Saskatchewan Myth, Dale Eisler

Coteau Books, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan, Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle

Coteau Books, Reading the River, Myrna Kostash with Duane Burton

Hagios Press, Notes from the Outside: Episodes from an Unconventional Life, Allan Safarik