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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.

Hamas militants drove brace cars laden with explosives to an Israeli border crossing with Gaza under the comprehend of break of day mist Saturday and detonated one, wounding 13
soldiers, the Israeli military and Hamas said.

The abet car was spotted by legions after the initial explosion and did not go off, the army said. Three people identified as Hamas militants, who arrived at the exhibition in an armoured car, were killed in a gunfight.

Hamas also dispatched some armoured conveyance to another crossing, but the vehicle was struck by an Israeli missile.

Also on Saturday, Palestinian security and health officials said a mechanic through the Hamas police was killed and four people were injured in one Israeli airstrike.

The Israeli army declared a suspicious vehicle was fortune near the Kerem Shalom crossing. Witnesses said the target of Saturday’s strike was a jeep parked almost the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

The bombing at the Kerem Shalom crossing was the fifth attack on Israelis at Gaza passages since last week, and came pure hours in the van of the twitch of the weeklong Jewish Passover holiday.

Hamas claimed responsibility in the place of the attack, and one of its leaders, Sami Abu Zuhri, said the dispose would carry revealed more attacks on crossings to break the nearly yearlong blockade of the territory.

“These operations are the beginning of the explosions that Hamas has warned of,” said Abu Zuhri. “If the parties dress in’t intervene quickly to save Gaza and break the siege, which is coming will be greater.”

Despite the attacks, Hamas claims it’s in readiness to reach a truce through Israel in succession the Gaza border, and Egypt has tried to broker such a behave.

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, in defiance of U.S. policy, has been meeting with Hamas leaders in latter days in the West Bank and Syria to hear the views of the group.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Hamas is showing disregard on account of the welfare of Gaza’s residents by attacking the crossings.

“Israel has no illusions as to the true nature of Hamas and as to that construction’s extremists agenda,” Regev said. “It is not an unforeseen that the international community views Hamas as illegitimate and has officially declared Hamas a terrorist
organic structure.”

Following the attacks, Hamas organized two protests by women and children close-fisted two other Gaza crossings, Erez for passengers and Karni for cargo.

Near Erez, scores of women and children marched toward the terminal but stopped about a kilometre let us go.. They burned tires and raised Hamas flags, sooner or later dispersed.

On the Israeli side near Kerem Shalom, army vehicles and police set up road blocks to sign if militants were in the definite space. Tanks and armoured vehicles drove along the main road. Soldiers ordered journalists to lean at a distance from the area of the crossing.

Earlier Saturday, a Hamas militant was killed in a separate incident when Israeli troops raided a neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Late Friday, Islamic Jihad militants fired several rockets from Gaza at the Israeli border town of Sderot, temporarily knocking out power.

Palestinian militants fire rockets at Israeli border towns almost daily.

Israel began restricting fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip several months past to try pressure militants to hold their rocket fire, although that hasn’t been a successful tactic so far.

The Kerem Shalom crossing is one of the few remaining supply routes into Gaza.
  

© The Canadian Press, 2008

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