As part of the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, the 2024 jury selected a ten book longlist, a five book shortlist, and a winner, announced June 10. The members of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize — Dr. Dale Barbour, Dr. Gregory Mason, and Dr. Catherine Cook — selected […]
The J.W. Dafoe Foundation is pleased to announce that John Vaillant has won the 2024 John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize for Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada. Vaillant’s work is the unanimous choice of this year’s jury, who described the winning book this way: “This is a terrific […]
There are five books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize shortlist and today we’re going to highlight Leo Baskatawang’s Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law: Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education (University of Manitoba Press). Here’s a Q&A with Leo Baskatawang. What were your goals for this book? My primary goal for Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law […]
There are five books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize shortlist and today we’re going to highlight John Vaillant’s Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast (Penguin Random House Canada). Here’s a Q&A with John Vaillant. What were your goals for this book? To engage Canadians in their own history, and to connect that […]
There are five books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize shortlist and today we’re going to highlight Ed Broadbent’s Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality (ECW Press). Ed Broadbent died in January 2024, so here’s a Q&A with his collaborators, Jonathan Sas, Luke Savage and Frances Abele. What were your […]
There are five books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize shortlist and today we’re going to highlight Ken McGoogan’s Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery (Douglas & McIntyre). Here’s a Q&A with Ken McGoogan. What were your goals for this book? Urged on by the late Louie Kamookak, the Inuit oral […]
There are five books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize shortlist 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). Here’s a Q&A with Burnett and Hay. What were your goals for this book? The research began […]
So if you’re in Winnipeg, McNally Robinson Booksellers has created a display of the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize shortlist at their Grant Park stores. We appreciate their broad support of reading and writing and of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize! More about the bookstore: “McNally Robinson is an independent bookseller: family-oriented, committed to the […]
The J.W. Dafoe Foundation is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize. The winner of the prize, now valued at $12,000, will be named June 10. 2024 Shortlist Leo Baskatawang. Reclaiming Anishnaabe Law: Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. Ed Broadbent with Frances […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Ken McGoogan’s Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery (Douglas & McIntyre). Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. […]