Cormorant Books Inc is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 book publishing company.

Cormorant Books specializes in fiction by new and emerging Canadian writers, reissues of out-of-print classics of Canadian literature

Canadian literature

Canadian literature is literature originating from Canada. Collectively it is often called CanLit. Some criticism of Canadian literature has focused on nationalistic and regional themes, although this is only a small portion of Canadian Literary criticism...

, and English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 translations of works by Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 writers.

History

Cormorant Books is an award-winning small press started in 1986 by a Canadian couple, Jan and Gary Geddes, on their farm outside of Dunvegan, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. They focused on introducing new Canadian writers to the literary scene. The company was sold to new owners in 2000. Now based in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, publisher Marc Côté continues the tradition of publishing Canadian authors, including translations of Quebec writers.

Authors published by Cormorant include Neil Bissoondath

Neil Bissoondath

Neil Devindra Bissoondath is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. He is a noted writer of fiction, and also an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism. He is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul.-Biography:Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in...

, Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize...

, Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau is a Canadian writer. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she is currently a part-time faculty member of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, where she teaches writing in the foundation program...

, Christiane Frennette, Sally Gibson

Sally Gibson

Sally Gibson is an author, archivist and heritage consultant who resides in Toronto and has written three books about the city and its heritage. She has a Master of Urban Studies from Yale University, and a Master of Library Science and a Ph.D. in Urban Geography from the University of Toronto....

, Sky Gilbert

Sky Gilbert

Schuyler Lee Gilbert, Jr. is a Canadian writer, actor, academic and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre in Toronto, Ontario at York University and the University of Toronto, before becoming co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times, a Toronto theatre...

, Gwethalyn Graham

Gwethalyn Graham

Gwethalyn Graham was a Canadian writer, whose 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list...

, Darren Greer

Darren Greer

Darren Shawn Greer is a Canadian writer.Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Greer moved to Ontario in 1990. He lived in Ottawa, Toronto and San Francisco before moving back to Nova Scotia in 2010. His second novel Still Life With June was a critical success, earning him the ReLit Award in 2004...

, Elizabeth Hay

Elizabeth Hay (novelist)

Elizabeth Grace Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her novel A Student of Weather was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award...

, Pauline Holdstock

Pauline Holdstock

Pauline Holdstock is a British-Canadian essayist and writer of historical fiction. Into the Heart of the Country, her seventh novel, was published in 2011.Born in England, she came to Canada in 1974, and resides in Vancouver, British Columbia....

, Bruce MacDonald, Tessa McWatt

Tessa McWatt

Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese-born Canadian writer.Her first novel, Out of My Skin, was published in 1998. Her second, Dragons Cry, was shortlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award and the Governor General's Award in 2001....

, Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva is a Canadian novelist who lives in Calgary, Alberta.His first novel, Drowning in Darkness , won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and was shortlisted for a Bressani Prize. The book is set in the Crowsnest Pass of southern Alberta, and in Calabria, Italy...

, Edward O. Phillips

Edward O. Phillips

-Biography:Phillips is a Canadian who has lived most of his life in Westmount, Quebec. He earned a law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1956, but decided against legal practice. He subsequently graduated from Harvard University with a Master's Degree in Teaching, and later earned a...

, Jacques Poulin

Jacques Poulin

Jacques Poulin is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing.Poulin studied psychology and arts at the Université Laval in Quebec City; he started his career as commercial translator and later became a college guidance counselor...

, Pascale Quiviger

Pascale Quiviger

Pascale Quiviger is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy...

, Nino Ricci

Nino Ricci

Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise....

, Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Port Alice, British Columbia.A past president of the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of BC Writers she lives in Victoria, British Columbia.-Poetry:...

, Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round

Jeffrey Round is a Sudbury, Ontario born Canadian writer, director and composer. His first novel in 1997 A Cage of Bones was published by the Gay Men's Press , where it topped bestseller lists in Canada, the US, Iceland, Australia and others...

, Élise Turcotte

Élise Turcotte

Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer who was born in Sorel, Quebec on June 26, 1957. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the University of Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently...

, Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall

Zoe Whittall is a Canadian poet and novelist. She has published three novels and three poetry collections. Her latest novel, The Middle Ground, is a short novel for adults with low literacy skills...

 and Carol Windley

Carol Windley

Carol Ann Windley is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English...

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In 1990, Lives of the Saints

Lives of the Saints

Lives of the Saints is a novel by Nino Ricci. The author's first book, it forms the first part of a trilogy. The other two novels are In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone...

, by Nino Ricci

Nino Ricci

Nino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise....

, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.

In 2003, Doing the Heart Good, by Neil Bissoondath, won the Hugh MacLennan Award of the Quebec Writers' Federation.

In 2004, Beyond Measure

Beyond Measure

Beyond Measure is the fifth album by Jeremy Camp, released on October 31, 2006. It includes the singles "Tonight", "What It Means" and "Let It Fade".He recorded this album shortly after marrying his Adrienne...

 by Pauline Holdstock, was nominated for the Giller Prize. It won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada....

 of the BC Book Prizes in 2005 and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize - Canada and the Caribbean Region, as well.

In 2005, The Unyielding Clamour of the Night, by Neil Bissoondath, won the Hugh MacLennan Award of the Quebec Writers' Federation.

The Perfect Circle by Pascale Quiviger

Pascale Quiviger

Pascale Quiviger is a Canadian writer and artist. Raised and educated in Quebec, she is currently based in the United Kingdom, where she writes, paints, teaches visual arts and practices hypnotherapy...

 and Home Schooling by Carol Windley were shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Scotiabank Giller Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries...

 in 2006. Home Schooling won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes in 2007.

In 2008, Cormorant published its first children's book, M is for Moose, and alphabet book by internationally acclaimed artist Charles Pachter

Charles Pachter

-Life:Pachter got a D-minus in visual art at Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute. However, that did not prevent him from pursuing a career in visual arts.Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer...

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In 2009, The Heart Specialist

The Heart Specialist

The Heart Specialist is a romantic comedy film starring Wood Harris, Zoe Saldana, Brian J. White, and Mýa. Originally released under the title Ways of the Flesh, the film premiered at the 2006 Boston Film Festival...

 by Claire Holden Rothman was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Two Cormorant publications, Still Life with June

Still Life With June

Still Life With June is the second novel by Canadian author Darren Greer, first published in 2004. It tells the story of an unsuccessful writer, Cameron Dodds, who works at a Salvation Army drug and alcohol treatment centre in an unnamed North American city and 'mines" the lives of patients there...

 by Darren Greer, and An English Gentleman

An English Gentleman

"An English Gentleman" is the second single from the album The Great Western by Manic Street Preachers vocalist/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, released on September 25, 2006 on Columbia Records. The title track pays tribute to the late Manics publicist Philip Hall...

by Sky Gilbert have received ReLit awards.

Cormorant Books has won three Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, including the 2008 and 2009 awards for Small Press of the Year.