Amy Mathers, creator of national teen book award, dead at 43 ^9.2%

CBC Books - By Luke Beirne - 5/29/2026, 2:41 PM

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Amy Mathers, namesake of the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, died on May 21 at the age of 43 in Kitchener, Ont. In 2014, Mathers undertook a "Marathon of Books," reading 365 YA books in 365 days to raise money for the Canadian Children's Book Centre to establish the award, created in her honour the same year. Much of Mathers's life was... more