There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay’s Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity (University of Manitoba Press). Food insecurity in the North is one of Canada’s most shameful public health and human […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln (Alfred A. Knopf Canada). A riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Gabriel Allahdua’s Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada (Between the Lines). In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality (ECW Press). Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Michelle Good’s Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada (HarperCollins Canada). A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide […]
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, we are pleased to announce that this year, there will be a longlist and a shortlist before the winner is announced. Our thanks to jurors Dale Barbour, Catherine Cook, and Gregory Mason. 2024 Longlist Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth. Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant […]
The John Wesley Dafoe Foundation is pleased to introduce the jurors for 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize! This year, Dale Barbour, Catherine Cook, and Gregory Mason will be selecting a longlist, shortlist, and winner, to celebrate forty years of the prize. A ten-book longlist and five-book shortlist will be announced in the coming weeks, with […]
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) win the $12,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for 2023 Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) have won the 2023 John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize for Valley of the Birdtail: […]
Five books drawn from a field of forty-four are shortlisted for the 2023 John W. Dafoe Book Prize: Douglas Hunter. Jackson’s Wars: A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War. McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/jackson-s-wars-products-9780228010760.php Joan Scottie, Warren Bernauer, and Jack Hicks. I Will Live for Both of Us: A […]
Find a PDF of the event poster here. Tuesday, January 17, 7:00pm Hanley Hall, St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba Join us as we celebrate the 2022 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize winning book Seen But Not Seen: Influential Canadians and the First Nations from the 1840s to Today, written by Dr. Donald B. Smith (University […]