Moose Jaw authors have topped the list of nominations for the Saskatchewan Book Awards for 2009.
It is the 17th award ceremony and a total of 70 titles were submitted for 176 entries across 14 categories.
Saskatchewan’s Poet Laureate Robert Currie, who lives in Moose Jaw, is a finalist for both the book of the year and poetry categories for his book Witness, published by Hagios Press.
He told the Moose Jaw Times-Herald he was thrilled to be nominated.
“Witness is about a lot of things. The idea is of a writer being witness to the lives that go on around them and some of that is good and some of it is the horror of our modern times,” he said.
Currie, 72, said most of the poems were written recently but some go back more than 30 years.
He said: “I have been pretty much writing all my life. This is my ninth book published.
