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McNally Robinson was founded by Holly McNally in 1981 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with her partner Ron Robinson, who quit the book business a year later to pursue a career with CBC Radio. Robinson's name has remained attached to the enterprise because at the time he left, McNally didn't have the money to replace the store's signage.
The McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually since 2005 to a First Nations, Inuit or Métis writer for a work published in English in any literary genre. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by the Canadian bookstore chain McNally Robinson.
The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was established in 1988. It is presented to the Manitoba writer whose adult English language book is judged the best written. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.
Thomas's debut novel Reading by Lightning won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) [3] as well as the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. [4] Her second novel, Curiosity, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award.
A Short History of Indians in Canada won the 2006 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award. The Inconvenient Indian won the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize , [ 12 ] and was a finalist for the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature .
[4] [5] Her collection The World is Mostly Sky was a finalist for the 2021 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Landsdowne Prize for Poetry in 2022. [6] She has edited and copy edited works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and also works as a publicist at University of Manitoba Press. Her book Flyway won the 2023 ReLit Award for ...
2004 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award [3] 2004 The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction [3] 2005 Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year [4] 2005 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Canadian Book Award [5] 2005 Booktrust UK YoungMinds Book Award; 2006 International Dublin Literary Award (longlist) [6]
The McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was first sponsored by McNally Robinson Booksellers in 1997 and since then has been given in two categories: Young Adult and Children. It is presented to the two Manitoba writers whose books for young people are judged the best written. The two ...