SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS
2004 Winners Announced

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BOOK OF THE YEAR
David T. Barnard, With Skilful Hand (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Rita Bouvier, papiyahtak (Thistledown Press)
Robert Calder, A Richer Dust (Penguin Group)
Shelley A. Leedahl, Orchestra of the Lost Steps (Thistledown Press)
Jeanne-Marie de Moissac, Slow Curve (Coteau Books)
Candace Savage, Prairie, A Natural History (Greystone Books)

FICTION
Byrna Barclay, Girl at the Window (Coteau Books)
Bonnie Dunlop, The Beauty Box (Thistledown Press)
Larry Gasper, Princes in Waiting (Coteau Books)
Shelley A. Leedahl, Orchestra of the Lost Steps (Thistledown Press)
Helen Mourre, What's Come Over Her (Thistledown Press)
Marlis Wesseler, South of the Border (Coteau Books)

NONFICTION
Robert Calder, A Richer Dust (Penguin Group)
Wilf Chomos, In the Blood (Shoreline)
Ken Coates & William Morrison, Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Trevor Herriot, Jacob's Wound (McClelland & Stewart)
Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn, The History of the Metis of Willow Bunch (Rivard & Littlejohn)
Candace Savage, Prairie, A Natural History (Greystone Books)

FIRST BOOK (Honouring Brenda Macdonald Riches)
Bonnie Dunlop, The Beauty Box (Thistledown Press)
Holly Luhning, Sway (Thistledown Press)
Ruth Wright Millar, Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues (Coteau Books)
David M. Quiring, CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan (UBC Press)
Michael Snook, Fishing Saskatchewan (Canadian Plains Research Center)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Mary Harelkin Bishop, Tunnels of Treachery (Coteau Books)
Beth Goobie, Flux (Orca Books)
Rebecca Grambo & Dianna Bonder, Digging Canadian Dinosaurs (Whitecap Books)
Judith Silverthorne, Dinosaur Breakout (Coteau Books)
Arthur Slade, Ghost Hotel (Coteau Books)
Edward Willett, J.R.R. Tolkien (Enslow Publishers)

POETRY (Honouring Anne Szumigalski)
Laura Burkhart, Venus Rising (Hagios Press)
Gerald Hill, Getting to Know You (Spotted Cow Press)
Jeanne-Marie de Moissac, slow curve (Coteau Books)
Garry Radison, Under a Small Moon (Hagios Press)
Dolores Reimer, Stone Baby (Hagios Press)
Allan Safarik, Blood of Angels (Thistledown Press)

REGINA BOOK AWARD
Byrna Barclay, The Room with Five Walls (NeWest Press)
Gail Bowen, The Last Good Day (McLelland & Stewart)
Laura Burkhart, Venus Rising (Hagios Press)
Trevor Herriot, Jacob's Wound (McLelland & Stewart)
Randy Lundy, The Gift of the Hawk (Coteau Books)
Marlis Wesseler, South of the Border (Coteau Books)

SASKATOON BOOK AWARD
Anthony Bidulka, Flight of Aquavit (Insomniac Press)
Robert Calder, Beware the British Serpent (McGill-Queen's University Press)
David Carpenter, The Ketzer (Hagios Press)
Shelley A. Leedahl, Orchestra of the Lost Steps (Thistledown Press)
Ruth Wright Millar, Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues (Coteau Books)
Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn, The History of the Metis of Willow Bunch (Rivard & Littlejohn)

SCHOLARLY WRITING
Robert Calder, Beware the British Serpent (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Yvonne Petry, Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation (Brill)
David M. Quiring, CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan (UBC Press)
Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn, The History of the Metis of Willow Bunch (Rivard & Littlejohn)
Béla Szabados & Eldon Soifer, Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations (Broadview Press)
James B. Waldram, Revenge of the Windigo (U of T Pres)

PRIX DU LIVRE FRANCAIS
David Baudemont, Les Beaux Jours (Editions des Plaines)
Albert O. Dubé, Le P'tit gas de Duck Lake (Editions de la nouvelle plume)
Laurier Gareau, La Trahison (Editions de la nouvelle plume)
Martine Noël-Maw, Dans le pli des collines (Editions de la nouvelle plume)
Donald Sirois, Le Son de Donald (Editions de la nouvelle plume)

AWARD FOR PUBLISHING
Canadian Plains Research Centre, Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century, Bradford J. Rennie, Ed.
Canadian Plains Research Centre, Water and Wetland Plants of the Prairie Provinces, Heinjo Lahring
Dunlop Art Gallery, Godless at the Workbench: Soviet Illustrated Humoristic Antireligious Propaganda, Annie Gerin
Hagios Press, Under a Small Moon, Garry Radison
Rivard & Littlejohn, The History of the Metis of Willow Bunch, Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn
Thistledown Press, Orchestra of the Lost Steps, Shelley A. Leedahl

FIRST PEOPLES PUBLISHING
Canadian Plains Research Center, Saskatchewan First Nations: Lives Past and Present, Christian Thompson, Ed.
Coteau Books, The Gift of the Hawk, Randy Lundy
Gabriel Dumont Institute, The Beavers' Big House, J.D. Panas & Olive Whiteford
Rivard & Littlejohn, The History of the Metis of Willow Bunch, Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn
Thistledown Press, Jackrabbit Street, Joe Welsh
Thistledown Press, papiyahtak, Rita Bouvier

PUBLISHING IN EDUCATION
Canadian Plains Research Centre, I Could Not Speak My Heart, James McNinch, Ed.
Gabriel Dumont Institute, The Beavers' Big House, J.D. Panas & Olive Whiteford
Rivard & Littlejohn, The History of the Metis of Willow Bunch, Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn
Thistledown Press, Weeds and Other Stories, Jacqueline Pearce