Book awards shortlist announced

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The shortlist of nominees for this year's Saskatchewan Book Awards have been announced, with three books vying for the award in the First Peoples Publishing category. The awards will be handed out in Regina Nov. 29.

Garry Gottfriedson, a writer from Kamloops, B.C. whose previous works include In Honour of Our Grandmothers: Imprints of Cultural Survival and One Hundred Years of Contact., is nominated for his book Glass Tepees, a collection of poems published by Thistledown Press.

Another nominee is The Great Gift of Tears: Four Aboriginal Plays, edited by Heather Hodgson and published by Coteau Books. The book features plays by Hodgson, Floyd Favel, Deanne Kasokeo and Bruce Sinclair.

The third nominee on the list is Expressing Our Heritage: Metis Artistic Designs, written by Cheryl Troupe and published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute. The book examines the art and design of traditional Metis clothing and accessories.

The Great Gift of Tears and Expressing Our Heritage are also nominated in the Publishing in Education category.