Awards for Sask. writers

Four alumni of the College of Arts & Science won Saskatchewan Book Awards at the 2017 awards ceremony held in Regina on April 29.

Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award

New Albion (Coteau Books) by Dwayne Brenna (professor, Department of Drama, BA’77, MA’83)

University of Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Award

A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (Fifth House Publishers) by Bill Waiser (professor emeritus, MA’76, PhD’83, DLitt’10)

Prix du livre français

La voix de mon père (Éditions de la nouvelle plume) by Madeleine Blais-Dahlem (BA‘67, BEd’86, MA’71)

City of Regina Book Award and the Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport Publishing Award

Towards a Prairie Atonement (University of Regina Press) by Trevor Herriot (BA’79, Honours’81)

Bohdan Kordan, professor of political studies in St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, received the Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award for his book No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (McGill Queen’s University Press). This award is co-sponsored by the College of Arts & Science and named for alumna Jennifer Welsh (BA'87).

Many more alumni, students and faculty of the college were shortlisted for 2017 Saskatchewan Book Awards. See the complete list of college nominees here.

The list of all 2017 award winners is published in the Regina Leader-Post.

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