The Banff Centre salutes the following alumni and faculty for these recent awards:

Elizabeth Hay, winner of the 2007 ScotiaBank Giller Prize, and her fellow nominees, Sharon English, Lawrence Hill, Paulette Jiles, Daniel Poliquin, Michael Winter, and Richard Wright;

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award winners Dom Domanski, Colleen Murphy, and Daniel Danis;

Irene Pfeiffer, named a member of the Order of Canada;

Christopher House, whose production of Timecode Break, produced by Toronto Dance Theatre, Canada Dance Festival, the National Arts Centre, and The Banff Centre, and developed in Banff, won 2007 Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Choreography and Outstanding Dance Production.

Congratulations to Michael Healey, Florence Gibson, Andy Moro, Ross Manson, and the late Richard Bradshaw who also won 2007 Dora Mavor Moore Awards;

Alex Paul, winner of a Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize;

Daniel Barrow, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, and Chanti Wadge, winners of 2007 Canada Council Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Awards;

Leona Theis and Méira Cook, winners of CBC Literary Awards;

Montreal composer Chris Paul Harman, winner of the 2008 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music;

Lawrence Cherney, winner of the Muriel Sherrin Award for International Achievement in Music;

Linda Gaboriau, recognized by the American Literary Translators Association for her “tireless and creative efforts of literary translation and inspired leadership of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre”;

Cam Christiansen, whose video, I Have Seen the Future, won the Western Canadian Music Award Video of the Year Award;

Zarqa Nawaz, whose show, Little Mosque on the Prairie, won the best writing award at the 2007 Roma Fiction Fest;

Banff Centre sous-chef Paul Dokmanovic, winner of the Copper Skillet Conference Centre Chef of the Year award;

The Banff Centre, named to the Alberta Venture 2007 Venture100 list.