Marie Jakober Nominated for George Bugnet

We are proud to announce that our own Marie Jakober has been nominated for an Alberta Book award. Good luck Marie from all of us at EDGE! Marie is the author of 2 EDGE books - The Black Chalice and Even the Stones.

Here is the press release.

EDMONTON, AB The finalists for the 2006 Alberta Book Awards have been chosen! Juries have
deliberated over 200 entries to select 48 finalists in 16 categories, including Best Novel and Publisher of the Year.

Award recipients will be named on Saturday, May 13 at the Alberta Book Awards Gala, being held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Calgary. This celebration of our province’s literary and publishing community is co-hosted by the Writers Guild of Alberta and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, with partner Alberta Community Development.

Everyone is welcome to be a part of this celebration of Alberta books, authors and publishers!
Tickets for the Gala are available by calling the Writers Guild of Alberta at (780) 422-8174, or toll-free within Alberta 1-800-665-5354, or the Book Publishers Association of Alberta at (780) 424-5060.


Writing Award finalists:

Georges Bugnet Award for Novel
• Marie Jakober (Calgary)—Sons of Liberty: A Novel of the Civil War, Forge Books
• Adrian Michael Kelly (Calgary)—Down Sterling Road, Coach House Books
• Chava Rosenfarb (Lethbridge)—The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto,
The University of Wisconsin Press