NSLA’s Ann Connor Brimer Book Award
In 1990, the Nova Scotia Library Association established the Ann Connor Brimer Award for writers residing in Atlantic Canada who have made an outstanding contribution to children’s literature.
The impetus for the award came from the late Ann Connor Brimer who was a strong advocate of Canadian children’s literature and saw the need to recognize and encourage children’s writers in Atlantic Canada. The $2000 prize will be presented at an Awards event in Spring 2012.
The Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children’s Literature, which is sponsored by the Nova Scotia Library Association, joined forces in 1999 with the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia to better promote the diversity and breadth of Atlantic writers.
Eligibility Criteria:
- author must be alive and residing in Atlantic Canada at time of nomination
- book intended for youth up to the age of 15
- book published in Canada between between October 15, 2010 and October 15, 2011
- book in print and readily available
- fiction or non-fiction (except textbooks)
Steering Committee reserves the right to accept or reject nominations.
Contributions:
Tax deductible donations may be made to:
The Ann Connor Brimer Award
PO Box 36036
Halifax, NS
B3J 3S9
Call for nominations:
To nominate an author, please fill out the nomination form.
For more information please contact: Heather MacKenzie.
Previous Winners:
- 2011 – Valerie Sherrard – “The Glory Wind”
- 2010 – Jill MacLean – “The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy”
- 2009 – Jill MacLean – “The Nine Lives of Travis Keating”
- 2008 – KV Johansen – “Nightwalker”
- 2007 – Budge Wilson – “Friendships”
- 2006 – Kevin Major – “ Aunt Olga’s Christmas Postcards”
- 2005 – Alice Walsh, “Pomiuk, Prince of the North”
- 2004 – Don Aker, “The First Stone”
- 2003 – Lesley Choyce, “Shoulder the Sky”
- 2002 – Francis Wolfe, “Where I Live”
- 2001 – Janet McNaughton, “The Secret Under My Skin”
- 2000 – David Weale, “The True Meaning of Crumbfest”
- 1999 – Janet McNaughton, “Make or Break Spring”
- 1998 – Kevin Major, “The House of Wooden Santas”
- 1997 – Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale”
- 1996 – Don Aker, “Of Things Not Seen”
- 1995 – Sheree Fitch, “Mabel Murple”
- 1994 – Lesley Choyce, “Good Idea Gone Bad”
- 1993 – Budge Wilson, “Oliver’s War”
- 1992 – Kevin Major, “Eating Between the Lines”
- 1991 – Joyce Barkhouse, “Pit Pony”
Short list for the 2011 award:
- Jan. L. Coates, “A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk” ( Red Deer Press )
- Shauntay Grant, ” The City Speaks in Drums” ( Nimbus Publishing )
- Valerie Sherrard, ” The Glory Wind” (Fitzhenry and Whiteside)
The winner of the 2011 Ann Connor Brimer Award is …
Valerie Sherrard
Luke meets the uniquely vivacious Gracie and they become fast friends. But when the citizens of their small rural 1940s town learn that Gracie and her mother have a shady past, Luke must decide whether he will stand up for his new friend or save his own reputation. This striking novel explores themes of friendship, loyalty, hypocrisy and forgiveness.