Вручение 26 сентября 2002 г.

В четверг, 26 сентября 2002 года, в Canwest Global Performing Arts Theatre в рамках Виннипегского международного фестиваля писателей, автор Маргарет Суитман была награждена денежной премией в размере 1000$ и медалью «Солнечная вспышка». Леон Рук вручил награду на церемонии награждения, в которой приняли участие все писатели-номинанты.

В жюри Sunburst Award 2002 вошли: Дуглас Барбор (Douglas Barbour), Нало Хопкинсон (Nalo Hopkinson), Таня Хафф (Tanya Huff), Хейзел Хатчинс (Hazel Hutchins) и Дон Хатчисон (Don Hutchison).

Страна: Канада Место проведения: Виннипегский международный фестиваль писателей, г. Виннипег, провинция Манитоба, США Дата проведения: 26 сентября 2002 г.

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When Alice Lay Down With Peter
Margaret Sweatman 0.0
When Alice Lay Down with Peter, Margaret Sweatman's third novel, is an entirely original history of the Canadian Prairies from the early years of buffalo hunting and rebellion through to 1970. Blondie, the wry narrator, recounts the story of four feisty women: her mother, Alice; Blondie herself; her stunningly beautiful daughter, Helen; and her artist granddaughter, Dianna. In her 109 years, Blondie has seen it all, from the hanging of Louis Riel to Helen's death in the Spanish Civil War.
Assorted husbands, a banker, a monk, a communist, and several ghosts also make appearances, lending this marvellous literary confection set in Southern Manitoba's Red River Valley a magical, eccentric atmosphere. Recurring floods and lightning bolts at the moment of conception add to the rollicking mix, which Sweatman narrates with rare skill and humour: "Eli looked at the corn as a Zen Buddhist would examine a screwdriver." She delights in the way words flood their banks and find new channels through the flatlands: "My mother's laughter, those nine months, came from the place where happiness and a nearly intolerable ache live together." The beauty of her language never wavers. It is consistently inventive and, with the strong story, lifts this novel to another level. Highly recommended. --Mark Frutkin
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A Paradigm of Earth
Candas Jane Dorsey 0.0
Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel, the fantasy Black Wine, won three significant awards and got enthusiastic reviews across the United States and Canada. Now Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and social conservatism dominate society, Morgan inherits a big, century-old mansion in a prairie city and moves there to rebuild her life. She fills the house with sexual misfits and political outcasts, in a sense, orphans like herself. But the final tenant is one she never could have imagined: an alien child.
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Хронолиты
Роберт Чарльз Уилсон 3.7
Первый хронолит прибыл без предупреждения. Колонна высотой в 60 метров разрушила все вокруг себя, и ее нельзя было ни расколоть, ни взорвать. Она отмечала победу неизвестного военачальника в сражении, которое случится лишь через 16 лет. Первый хронолит пришел из будущего, но он не стал последним. С каждым годом их появлялось все больше, они сносили целые города, сеяли хаос и свергали государства, провозглашая власть правителя, о существовании которого никто не знал, с помощью технологий, секрет которых не мог разгадать ни один ученый в мире. Скотт Уорден, ставший свидетелем возникновения первого хронолита, помимо своей воли попадает в самый центр исследования этого загадочного феномена, в эпицентр битвы с неизбежным будущим. Но как предотвратить то, что уже случилось? И возможно ли это?
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The Kappa Child
Hiromi Goto 0.0
From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Award, The Kappa Child is the tale of four Japanese Canadian sisters struggling to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat.

In a family not at all reminiscent of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, four Japanese-Canadian sisters struggle to escape the bonds of a family and landscape as inhospitable as the sweltering prairie heat. Their father, moved by an incredible dream of optimism, decides to migrate from the lush green fields of British Columbia to Alberta. There, he is determined to deny the hard-pan limitations of the prairie and to grow rice. Despite a dearth of both water and love, the family discovers, through sorrow and fear, the green kiss of the Kappa Child, a mythical creature who blesses those who can imagine its magic...
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Salamander
Томас Уортон 0.0
Spellbinding, original, Salamander careens through a world of ideas and stories in which the transforming power of books, the thirst for knowledge, and the pursuit of immortality become erotic. It is also a universal story of love and obsession. Set in the eighteenth century, the narrative revolves around a world-spanning quest for the infinite book. Along the way the novel gathers stories that range from a Chinese tale of jealousy and lost love to the remarkable history of Alexandria’s other great library and to epoch-making moments on the battlefields of colonial America. At the centre of the novel’s unforgettable cast of characters is the London printer Nicholas Flood, a dedicated craftsman who is unprepared for all that awaits him when he accepts an unusual commission. Intricate, humane, infused with humour and pathos, Salamander is an exhilarating, elegantly crafted novel.
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