Alison Calder, a poet and University of Manitoba professor, has won two Manitoba Book Awards for her debut poetry collection Wolf Tree.

Calder was single in kind of nine writers honoured Saturday evening at the Winnipeg Art Gallery as winners of the Manitoba Book Awards were announced.

She won the best poetry and good in the highest degree first-book awards. Calder, raised in Saskatoon and very lately a Winnipeg resident, is a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for writing superior goodness.

Some of the poems from Wolf Tree have even appeared upon the body Winnipeg buses.

Wayne Tefs, a Winnipeg novelist and critic, and co-founder of Turnstone Press, won the Book of the Year Award against his fictionalized survival tale, Be Wolf.

Be Wolf is from one place to another Reinhold Kaletsch, who was injured in the Manitoba shrub with just his dogs for companions and survives with the help of his knowledge of bushcraft and his medical training.

Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort, designed by Frank Reimer Design with photos by Ernest Mayer, won the awards for both best design and best illustrated book. The book, published by the Winnipeg Art Gallery, comes from the major retrospective of Comfort, a seminal figure in early 20th-century aptness in Canada.

Roland Penner, former attorney general of Manitoba, won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award for his memoir A Glowing Dream.

Penner tells the story of his family’s removal from Russia and stories of Winnipeg’s North End in the timely 1900s ahead of going on to detail his concede political active life, which includes a strong commitment to human rights. He has been chair of Manitoba’s new legal aid system and body politic house dominator.

The North End, a book of photographs of Winnipeg’s ever-changing North End by documentary filmmaker John Paskievich, won the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by dint of. a Manitoba Publisher. It had been nominated for four awards.

The black-and-white photographs document the narration, poverty and resilience of a constituent of the incorporated town that has seen waves of new immigrants.

Other winners of Manitoba Book Awards:

  • Best young people’s book: Sandbag Shuffle by Kevin Marc Fournier.
  • Most promising Manitoba writer: Carolyn Gray, playwright and author of The Elmwood Visitations.
  • Margaret Laurence Award with respect to fiction: The Penance Drummer and Other Stories by Lois Braun.
  • Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for non-fiction: Canada¹s Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler by Jim Shilliday.

The Manitoba Book Awards are co-produced by the Manitoba Writers Guild and the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers.