USask alumni earn book award nominations

More than a dozen University of Saskatchewan (USask) alumni are finalists for this year’s Saskatchewan Book Awards.

The 2025 shortlist was announced on March 21, 2025, during an event in Regina. In total, 39 books were shortlisted in 14 categories. Prizes for each award are $2,000 except for the Book of the Year award, which comes with a $3,000 prize. The 32nd Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala & Awards Ceremony will be held in Saskatoon on Friday, May 9, 2025.

Congratulations to the USask alumni finalists in the following categories:

• The Medicine Chest: A Physician’s Journey Towards Reconciliation (University of Regina Press) by Dr. Jarol Boan (BA’74, MD’81)
• Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene (Thistledown Press) by Dr. Guy Vanderhaeghe (BA’71, ARTS’72, MA’75, DLitt’97)

• Grounds for Murder: A Jeannie Wolfert-Lang Mystery (ECW Press) by Dr. Betty Ternier Daniels (BA’75, BA’86, MA’89, PhD’95)

• The Medicine Chest: A Physician’s Journey Towards Reconciliation (University of Regina Press) by Dr. Jarol Boan (BA’74, MD’81)

• Gabriel Dumont Institute Press for Growing Up Métis: Stories of Resiliency by Cort Dogniez (BEd’79, PGD’92), illustrated by Dr. Jade McDougall (BA’12, MA’13, PhD’23)
• Gabriel Dumont Institute Press for My Little Métis Sleepy Horse by Leah Marie Dorion (BEd’94, BA’99)
• University of Regina Press for Métis Matriarchs: Agents of Transition by Dr. Cheryl Troupe (BA’01, MA’10, PhD’19), Doris Jeanne MacKinnon

• Growing Up Métis: Stories of Resiliency by Cort Dogniez (BEd’79, PGD’92), illustrated by Dr. Jade McDougall (BA’12, MA’13, PhD’23)
• The Art of Faye Heavyshield (Mackenzie Art Gallery) by Felicia Gay (BA’04, MA’11)

• The Medicine Chest: A Physician’s Journey Towards Reconciliation (University of Regina Press) by Dr. Jarol Boan (BA’74, MD’81)
• Somerset Maugham and the Cinema (University of Wisconsin Press) by Dr. Robert Calder (BA’63, MA’65)
• Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene (Thistledown Press) by Dr. Guy Vanderhaeghe (BA’71, ARTS’72, MA’75, DLitt’97)

• À cœur ouvert: Quatre voix ua féminin de l'Ouest canadien (Éditions de la nouvelle plume) by Marie Carrière, Sharon Pulvermacher (BFA’77, BEd’92), Frédérique Roussel, Mychèle Fortin

• University of Regina Press for The Good Walk: Creating New Paths on Traditional Prairie Trails by Dr. Matthew R. Anderson (BA’81)

• The Medicine Chest: A Physician’s Journey Towards Reconciliation (University of Regina Press) by Dr. Jarol Boan (BA’74, MD’81)

• The Medicine Chest: A Physician’s Journey Towards Reconciliation (University of Regina Press) by Dr. Jarol Boan (BA’74, MD’81)

• The Black Drum (Playwrights Canada Press) by Dr. Adam Pottle (PhD’16)
• Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene (Thistledown Press) by Dr. Guy Vanderhaeghe (BA’71, ARTS’72, MA’75, DLitt’97)

• Eroding a Way of Life: Neoliberalism and the Family Farm (University of Regina Press) by Dr. Murray Knuttila (BA’73)
• Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success (Yale University Press) by Alexandra Popoff (MA’98)

• Stay Up: racism, resistance and reclaiming Black freedom (Annick Press) by Khodi Dill (MEd’13), illustrated by Stylo Starr