“Percy Janes First Novel Award”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Percy Janes First Novel Award is a Canadian literary award, presented through the provincial government's annual Arts and Letters Competition to an unpublished manuscript by a first-time novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador. The award is named for the late Newfoundland writer Percy Janes.^[1] The award comes with a cash prize, originally $1,500^[2] and raised to $2,500 in 2014.^[3]

Winners

2000 – Tom Moore, Ghost World

2001 – Gerard Collins, Finton Moon

2002 – Oral Mews, I Have a Solution for the Woman with Slugs

2003 – Joel Thomas Hynes, Down to the Dirt

2004 – Sara Tilley, Skin Room^[4]

2005 – Jeff Rose, Game Misconduct

2006 – David B. Hickey, A Cappella

2007 – Degan Davis, The Forgetting Room

2008 – Craig Francis Power, Blood Relatives

2009 – Patrick Warner, Precious

2010 – Melanie Oates, Hanging from the Ceiling

2011 – Lee Burton, Raw Flesh in the Rising

2012 – Scott Bartlett, Taking Stock

2013 – Mary Pike, Never-Ever-Land

2014 – Susan Sinnott, Just Like Always

2015 – Sharon Bala, The Boat People^[5]

2016 - Devin Lee, Waking Ambrose^[6]

2017 - Terry Doyle, Union^[7]

2018 - Willow Kean, Our Impossible Forever^[8]

References

1. ^"Literary Awards in Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706190600/http://www.cs.mun.ca/~lawards/litawards/index.php?award=930 |date=2011-07-06 }}. Memorial University of Newfoundland.
2. ^"Arts and Letters award winners announced". The Telegram, April 17, 2010.
3. ^"‘Sending off a little piece of yourself’". The Telegram, May 5, 2014.
4. ^"St. John's author/actress wins Percy Janes First Novel Award". The Western Star, June 11, 2004.
5. ^"Author Sharon Bala launches first novel “The Boat People” in St. John's Thursday night". The Telegram, January 16, 2018.
6. ^[https://theovercast.ca/winners-announced-for-the-2016-nl-arts-letters-awards/ "Winners announced for the 2016 NL Arts & Letters Awards"]. The Overcast, May 8, 2016.
7. ^"Local writers among Arts and Letters Award winners". Gander Beacon, September 29, 2017.
8. ^"Province's Arts and Letters winners announced". The Telegram, May 7, 2018.

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