The Amazon.ca First Novel Award is given annually for a first novel in English published in the previous year by a Canadian. Formerly known as the Books in Canada First Novel Award.

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1980

• W.D. Valgardson – Gentle Sinners

Also shortlisted:

• Martyn Burke – Laughing War
• Susan Musgrave – The Charcoal Burners
• Graham Petrie – Seahorse
• Leon Rooke – Fat Woman

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Added 13 January 2006.
Updated 19 May 2014.