Cullen nominated for Toronto book award
Last Updated: Friday, September 17, 2010 | 2:13 PM ET
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The Prince of Neither Here Nor There, a children's adventure by Sean Cullen, is nominated for a Toronto Book Award. (Puffin Canada)Sean Cullen, a comedian known for the Sean Cullen Show and becoming a finalist on Last Comic Standing, has been nominated for the Toronto Book Award.
Cullen was among five authors named Thursday to the short list for the 2010 award.
The entry is his children's book, The Prince of Neither Here Nor There, a funny, action-packed adventure set partly in Toronto. He is a previous winner of an Arthur Ellis Award for crime writing.
Dragon Todorovic, a previous winner of a Writers Trust Award, has a nomination for his first novel, Diary of Interrupted Days, about two friends who try to rebuild their lives in Toronto after fleeing the war in the Balkans.
Todorovic won the Writers Trust Award and was nominated for the B.C. Canadian Non-Fiction Award for The Book of Revenge.
Also on the short list:
- Cary Fagan for Valentine's Fall, about a bluegrass musician revisiting the streets of his youth.
- Lauren Kirshner for her debut novel Where We Have to Go, a coming-of-age story set in Jewish Toronto of the 1990s.
- Mark Sinnett for The Carnivore, which ties the tale of Hurricane Hazel to the story of a failing marriage.
The award honours books that are set in Toronto.
Mayor David Miller said these books "tell us who we are collectively as Torontonians."
"We've got a magical city, and one of the things that makes us very different is the fact that people from all over the world and all over Canada choose Toronto," he told CBC News after the announcement.
“But we need an identity, we need to know who we are, and that comes out through our literature, comes out through our films, comes out in our music.”
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