Her novel The Farthest Shore won the 1973 National Book Award in category Children's Books.

" In addition, Berger won Eisner Awards for her editing in 1992, 1994 and 1995 for her work on the proto-and early Vertigo titles Sandman, Shade, Kid Eternity, Books of Magic, Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman Mystery Theatre.

Wayne Jancik's book The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders ( Billboard Books, 1998 ) defines a one-hit wonder rather strictly, as " an act that has won a position on Billboard's national, pop, Top 40 just once.

In 2007 she won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature ; Alasdair Gray ( 1934-) whose Lanark: A Life in Four Books ( 1981 ) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow.

Dent was the author of Black Milk ( Sheep Meadow Press, 2005 ); HIV, Mon Amour ( Sheep Meadow Press, 1999 ), which won the 1999 James Laughlin Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award ; and What Silence Equals ( Persea Books, 1993 ).

According to Merrill, the spirits ordered him to write and publish the next two installments, Mirabell: Books of Number in 1978 ( which won the National Book Award for Poetry ) and Scripts for the Pageant in 1980.

Prisoner of Azkaban additionally won the 2004 Indian Paintbrush Book Award and was named an American Library Association Notable Children's Book in 2000 as well as one of their Best Books for Young Adults.

Shoeless Joe won Kinsella the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1982.

Shyam Selvadurai ( born 12 February 1965 ) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy ( 1994 ), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens ( 1998 ).

On 8 September 2008, Rowling won her copyright case against RDR Books.

The accompanying catalogue won numerous awards and was included in Great Canadian Books of the Century.

Deborah Joy Corey ( born 1958 in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick ) is a Canadian writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award.

Her books have won many awards including Parents ' Choice, ABA Pick of the List, ALA Notable Books, Children's Book Council / NCSS Notable Books in the Field of Social Studies, New York Library Best List, Horn Book's Best, and School Library Journal Best Books.

Black Books won the BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2001 and 2005, and won a Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d ' Or of Montreux in 2001.

Jim Kay won the 2012 Greenaway Medal for his illustration of A Monster Calls ( Walker Books ), written by Patrick Ness from an idea by Siobhan Dowd, deceased.

The first edition was published in 1993 and won the Rhône-Poulenc Prize ( now known as the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books ).

In 1995 and 1996 he won the National Cartoonists Society's award for Comic Books.

Beagle, which won praise from the New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review.

At the age of 13 in October 1988 she won a Dillons young readers ' contest for an essay on Why I Like Books and was awarded £ 250 of book tokens.

This book won the National Books Critics Award, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, and was cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature.

It won the Whitbread Book of the Year award ( 1980 ), and went straight into paperback in Penguin Books in 1981.

Charles Harve, who recently won the `` Most Muscular Man '' subdivision award in the Mr. Canada event ; ;

All 12 Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women's Championships medals have gone to one of these seven countries, and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either Canada or the United States.

Immigrants from Iceland then played on behalf of Canada and won the first ever Olympic medal in hockey.

The new regiment fought at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 in the campaign which finally wrested Canada from France ; at Quebec it won from General James Wolfe the motto Celer et Audax ( Swift and Bold ).

St-Laurent won, and was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada on 15 November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after Wilfrid Laurier.

Hulme won with it in Sweden and Revson took the only Grand Prix wins of his career in Britain and Canada.

Hulme, in his final Formula One campaign, won the Argentinian season-opener ; Fittipaldi, with wins in Brazil, Belgium and Canada, took the drivers ' championship.

Canada won five medals, all silver and bronze, while defending World Champion Clas Thunberg stayed at home, protesting against this form of racing.

In coalition with the rising power Prussia, defeated France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ), and won full control of Canada.

Notable athletes are Whitehorse born hockey players Bryon Baltimore, who made it to the Los Angeles Kings in 1974, and Peter Sturgeon who played for the Colorado Rockies in 1974, Whitehorse born olympic cyclist Zachary Bell, Whitehorse raised olympic weightlifter Jeane Lassen who won medals in several world competitions, Whitehorse born basketball players Aaron Olson, and 1984 Olympics centre for Team Canada Greg Wiltjer.

Canada nevertheless won in two games by scores of 4 – 1 and 4 – 2.

The Seven Years ' War might well, moreover, have been another Thirty Years ' War if Pitt had not furnished Frederick with an annual subsidy of £ 700, 000, and in addition relieved him of the task of defending western Germany against France: this was the policy that allowed Pitt to boast of having ' won Canada on the banks of the Rhine '.

In men's play, Kane Waselenchuk ( Canada ) has won the most US Open titles with seven ahead of Sudsy Monchik ( USA ) with four, while Jason Mannino ( USA ) and Cliff Swain ( USA ) have both won the title twice, and Rocky Carson ( USA ) once.

In women's play, Rhonda Rajsich ( USA ) has won the most US Open titles with four, one more than Christie Van Hees ( Canada ) with three.

He has won John L. Synge Award and Bernard Bolzano Medal, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of London and Royal Society of Canada.

Both the men's and women's tournaments were won by Canada, defeating the host USA in both games.

As that goal won Canada the Gold Medal, it has become known as " The Golden Goal ".

The by far largest contractor is Widerøe with their fleet of de Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft, but also Danish Air Transport, Lufttransport and Kato Airline have won bids.

Brzezinski's plan for doing further studies in Great Britain in preparation for a diplomatic career in Canada fell through, principally because he was ruled ineligible for a scholarship he had won that was open to British subjects.

Atwood has won more than 55 awards in Canada and internationally, including:

Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition.

Elizabeth Rex, his most successful play, premiered at the Stratford Festival of Canada to rave reviews and won a Governor General's award.

She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U. S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

It won majorities of the seats in Western Canada in repeated elections, but was unable to break through in Eastern Canada, though it became the official opposition from 1997 to 2003 ( Reform was renamed the Canadian Alliance in 2000 ).