Awards and accolades

The Banff Centre salutes the following Banff Centre alumni and faculty for these recent awards:

Joseph Boyden, winner of the 15th annual Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Through Black Spruce, and his fellow nominees Marina Endicott and Rawi Hage;

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award winners Catherine Banks, Drama; and Lazer Lederhendler, Translation;

Miriam Toews, winner of the 2008 Rogers Writers’ Trust fiction prize, and fellow nominees Rawi Hage and Patrick Lane; Alex Ross, winner of Britain’s 2008 Guardian First Book Award;

Bernadette McDonald, winner of the 2008 Kekoo Naoroji Award for mountain literature; and Sid Marty, winner of the 2008 Grant MacEwan Literary Arts Award;

Literary translator Sheila Fischman, recipient of the Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities, presented by the Canada Council for the Arts;

Playwright Daniel MacIvor, recipient of the 2008 Siminovitch Prize, and Centre alumni Medina Hahn and Daniel Arnold, selected by MacIvor as 2008 Siminovitch Prize protégés;

Amir Amiri, Shawna Burnett, Denise Clarke, Tracy Dahl, Joyce Doolittle, Beth Graham, Harry Frehner, Wes Jenkins, Laura Krewski, Kevin Lamotte, Deneen McArthur, Curt McKinstry, Kate Newby, Grant Reddick, and Daniela Vlaskalic, winners of 2008 Betty Mitchell Awards, Calgary’s annual theatre awards;

Afiara String Quartet, winners of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition; Cecilia String Quartet, First Prize winners at the Rutenberg Chamber Music Festival; and RusQuartet, winners of the VIII International D. Shostakovitch String Quartets Competition;

Composer Brett Dean, winner of the $200,000 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition;

Pianist Jean-Philippe Sylvestre, winner of the 2008 Virginia Parker Prize;

Jim Fleck, long time Centre supporter and former member of the Banff Centre Board of Governors, recipient of the international Angel Award from the International Society for the Performing Arts.