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19/11/2024

HELD by Anne Michaels is the winner of the 2024 .

HELD is a national bestseller, one of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2023, and was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. Anne Michaels is an internationally celebrated Canadian author. Her books have been translated into more than forty-five different languages, and she has won dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize for Fiction and The Guardian Fiction Prize. McClelland & Stewart has been the proud publisher of Anne Michaels for over 30 years and congratulate her today on all of her incredible achievements.

04/11/2024

Penguin Random House Canada and McClelland & Stewart today join in mourning beloved judge, senator, activist, and author Murray Sinclair, who has died at the age of 73 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

McClelland & Stewart recently published Sinclair’s sole memoir, WHO WE ARE: FOUR QUESTIONS FOR A LIFE AND A NATION, on September 24, 2024.

Senator Murray Sinclair was a judge for twenty-eight years. He was the first Indigenous judge appointed in Manitoba and Canada’s second. He served as Co-Chair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba and as Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). As head of the TRC, he participated in hundreds of hearings across Canada, culminating in the issuance of the TRC’s report in 2015.

He served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Manitoba and has won numerous awards, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award (1994, 2017), the Manitoba Bar Association’s Equality Award (2001) and its Distinguished Service Award (2016), and has received Honorary Doctorates from 14 Canadian universities. Senator Sinclair was appointed to the Senate on April 2, 2016.

Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this time. Senator Sinclair will be greatly missed.

24/10/2024

The 2024 Best of the Year list has been announced and we are thrilled to see all of the wonderful McClelland & Stewart titles that have been chosen! Groundbreaking and urgent books about how our histories can inform our futures; evocative, genre-bending fiction; literary works from some of Canada’s greatest minds, and more - there’s so much to discover on our list!

23/10/2024

The 2025 Evergreen Award nominees have been announced and DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS by Shashi Bhat () and PRAIRIE EDGE by Conor Kerr () have both been selected!

The Evergreen Award is the ’s award for adults. A group of experienced library staff have come together to share their favourite reading with adult readers.

Huge congratulations to both Shashi and Conor, from all of us at M&S and Strange Light!

25/09/2024

HI, IT’S ME by Fawn Parker () has been shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize!

The jury hailed HI, IT’S ME as “Richly intertextual. HI, IT’S ME narrates the fraught and tender relationship between mother and daughter in prose that unfurls teasingly. Parker portrays friendship, beauty, eating disorder, sexuality, morbidity, and grief with measured humour, detailing a daughter’s reckoning with her mother’s death and a legacy she is conflicted about upholding. By turns philosophical and trenchant, readers are reminded that however transitory life is or fractured our relationships are, there is some vitality we can still salvage from what is left behind. This intricate, acutely rendered story is as much about loss as self-forgiveness and reconciliation with memories that insist we attend to them, that resist erasure.”

Congratulations Fawn, from all of us at McClelland & Stewart! 🎉

14/05/2024

Penguin Random House Canada and McClelland & Stewart are mourning the loss of beloved Canadian author Alice Munro.

McClelland & Stewart has long been the proud publisher of Munro’s fiction. Kristin Cochrane, chief executive officer of Penguin Random House Canada has shared: “Alice Munro is a national treasure—a writer of enormous depth, empathy, and humanity whose work is read, admired, and cherished by readers throughout Canada and around the world. Alice’s writing inspired countless writers too, and her work leaves an indelible mark on our literary landscape. All of us at Penguin Random House Canada mourn this loss and we join together with our colleagues at Penguin Random House in the US, the UK, and globally in appreciation for all that Alice Munro has left behind.”

Munro has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, her first collection of stories, DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES (1968) was awarded the Governor General’s Award, and she went on to win two Giller Prizes for THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN and RUNAWAY in 1998 and 2004, respectively, the Trillium Book Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Canadian author and the 13th woman to be awarded the prize. She was hailed as a “master of the contemporary short story.”

08/05/2024

For more than 100 years, McClelland & Stewart has helped to shape and champion Canada’s cultural conversation. Our annual Spring series is a gathering in celebration of our community, our authors, and our rich, award-winning fiction list.

Join us at 7pm on June 5th at The Henry for an engaging evening of conversation with five captivating authors.

Featuring Frankie Barnet (), Jonathan Escoffrey (), Ainslie Hogarth (), Conor Kerr (), and Tommy Orange in conversation with Ismaila Alfa () host of CBC’s Fresh Air.

In partnership with who will be present for book sales. Tickets are free and available now through Eventbrite, see the link in our bio.

08/05/2024