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About NSLA > Awards
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 2009.
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.
About Ann Connor Brimer
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 October 15, 2008 and October
15, 2009
- 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:
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 2009 award: -
Jill MacLean, "The Nine Lives of Travis Keating" (Fitzhenry and Whiteside)
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Joanne K. Jefferson, "Lightning and Blackberries" (Nimbus Publishing)
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Philip Roy, "Submarine Outlaw" (Ronsdale Press)
The winner of the 2009 Ann Connor Brimer Award is ...
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Jill MacLean
The Nine Lives of Travis Keating
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Just 365 days — that's how long Travis has agreed to his dad's experiment of moving to a tiny coastal community in Newfoundland. But in no time he's counting those days. Only a few kids show interest in him: Hector, a strange boy who grunts; and Prinny, a girl as scraggly as her ponytail. And then there's Hud, the school's meanest bully, who's just itching for a fight with the new "townie." But there are worse things than loneliness. When Travis discovers a colony of abandoned cats and attempts to care for them himself, it isn't long before he's in over his head. Who will help him keep the starving animals safe from the likes of Hud and his pals? And how many of his lives will Travis use up in the process?
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