Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

Since 2015 online retailer Rakuten has awarded Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes for three different genres. Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books.[1] Prizes are awarded to an author for literary fiction, for non-fiction, and for genre fiction. Each year a different genre is honoured.[2]

2015
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Claire BattershillCircusLiterary Fiction
Sam WiebeLast of the Independents: Vancouver NoirMystery
Robyn DoolittleCrazy Town: The Rob Ford StoryNon-Fiction

2016
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Irina KovalyovaSpecimenLiterary Fictionbased on her work as a professor of biochemistry
Nicola R. WhiteFury’s KissRomance
Wab KinewThe Reason You WalkNon-Fiction

2017
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Lynne KutsukakeThe Translation of LoveLiterary Fiction
Dee WillsonA Keeper's TruthSpeculative Fiction
Teva HarrisonIn-Between DaysNon-Fiction
  • an account, in comic form, of Harrison's life with terminal cancer.[6]
  • Harrison passed away, at 42, in June 2019.[7]

2018
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Omar el AkkadAmerican WarLiterary Fiction[8]
Sheena KamalThe lost onesMystery
Maria QamarTrust no auntyNon-fiction[9]

2019
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Nora DecterHow Far We Go and How Fastfiction
Julie Evelyn JoyceSteeped in Loveromance
Kate HarrisLands of Lost Bordersnonfiction

References
  1. Ryan Porter (2019-05-02). "Tanya Tagaq, Kate Harris, and Uzma Jalaluddin among shortlisted authors for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2019-05-03. The winners will be announced at an event in Toronto on June 27. Each winner will receive $10,000 and marketing support.
  2. "Second Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo. 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2019-06-11. The Kobo Emerging Writer prize is eligible to Canadian citizens or legal residents of Canada who published debut books during the 2015 calendar year in the categories of Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction (Romance this year; a different genre is highlighted each year), or Non-Fiction.
  3. "Inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo. 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2019-06-11. Kobo, a Rakuten company and leading innovator in the digital reading space, today announced the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize winners, all of whom have been awarded a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications support to help kick-start their budding careers.
  4. "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire. July 8, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  5. "Banting Fellow and fiction writer nets national SSHRC Talent Award". Simon Fraser University. 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2019-06-11. Claire Battershill, an award-winning fiction writer who holds a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in English at SFU, is being honoured with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) prestigious Talent Award.
  6. "Third Annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winners Announced". Kobo. 2017-06-28. Retrieved 2019-06-11. Last night Rakuten Kobo announced this year’s Emerging Writer Prize recipients. A winner in each of the Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories received a $10,000 CAD cash prize as well as promotional, marketing, and communications support to help kick off their burgeoning careers.
  7. Jane van Koeverden (2019-04-28). "Teva Harrison, award-winning Toronto cartoonist, dead at 42". CBC Books. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  8. "HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF THE 2018 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE". Auburn Lane. 2018-05-21. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  9. Samraweet Yohannes (2018-06-19). "Omar El Akkad, author of American War, among winners of $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC News. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  10. "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
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