Cormorant Books
| Industry | Books, Publishing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1986 |
| Founder | Jan and Gary Geddes |
| Headquarters |
 Toronto, Canada
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Key people
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J. Marc Côté (Publisher) |
| Products | Books |
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Number of employees
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4 (as of January 31, 2010) |
| Website | www.cormorantbooks.com |
Cormorant Books Inc is a Canadian book publishing company. The company's current publisher is Marc Côté.
Cormorant Books specializes in fiction by new and emerging Canadian writers, reissues of out-of-print classics of Canadian literature, and English translations of works by Quebec writers. In 2010, the company also launched Dancing Cat Books, a separate imprint for works of young adult literature.
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. They focused on introducing new Canadian writers to the literary scene, focusing principally on poetry. In 1990, the company published Nino Ricci's novel Lives of the Saints, which went on to become one of the year's bestselling Canadian novels and to win the 1990 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
The company was sold to new owners in 2000. Now based in Toronto, publisher Marc Côté continues the tradition of publishing Canadian authors, including translations of Quebec writers.
Authors who have been published by Cormorant include:
In 1990, Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction.
In 2003, Doing the Heart Good by Neil Bissoondath won the Hugh MacLennan Award of the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards.
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