News -- Manitoba
Margaret Buffie Wins for The Dark Garden
AT THE MANITOBA LITERARY AWARDS April 27, Margaret Buffie won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award for her Young Adult novel The Dark Garden (reviewed in CM vol. II, No. 26), also recently short-listed for the Ruth Schwartz Canadian Book Award.
Buffie has
previously won the Young Adult Canadian Book Award for Who is
Frances Rain, and was nominated for the Governor's General Award
and the C.L.A. Book of the Year Award for her third novel, My
Mother's Ghost.
This was the
first year the Manitoba Literary Awards have included the Book for Young
People Award. Also short-listed were Linda Holeman for Saying Goodbye, Carol
Matas for The Primrose
Path, Sheldon Oberman for The White Stone in the Castle
Wall, and Diana Wieler for RanVan: A Worthy Opponent.
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