23 November 2005
Thomas Wharton on Long List for
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that Thomas Wharton’s The Logogryph (Gaspereau Press, 2004) has been long-listed for the 2006 Impac Dublin Literary Award. Wharton’s is among eleven Canadian titles long-listed for this year’s award, the most Canadians nominated in the award’s history. Altogether, 132 titles were nominated by libraries from 124 cities worldwide. Other authors on the list are Miriam Toews, Michael Winter, V.S. Naipaul and Isabel Allende.

The prize is the most lucrative for a single work, at 100,000 euros (about $140,000 CDN), and is awarded to a novel in English or English translation. The long list was announced on Tuesday by Lord Mayor of Dublin Catherine Byrne, the award’s patron. A short list will be announced on 5 April 2006, and the winner on 14 June 2006.

BACKGROUND
The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books is Thomas Wharton’s third work of fiction. It begins in a small town in the mountains when a young boy is given a suitcase filled with battered old books. This opens a lifelong pursuit of the elusive creature known as the logogryph. Describing imaginary books and alternate realities, Wharton explores the mysterious alchemy called reading. The Logogryph won the 2005 Alberta Book Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2005 Sunburst Award for literature of the fantastic.

This book is a Smyth-sewn paperback with a jacket and full sleeve. The text was typeset by Andrew Steeves in Caslon types and printed on Rolland Zephyr laid paper. The jacket was printed letterpress. The inside features illustrations by Wesley Bates.
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Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize for non-fiction, the A.M. Klein Prize for poetry and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

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Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
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