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2014

• Sean Michaels – Us Conductors

Also shortlisted:

• David Bezmozgis – The Betrayers
• Frances Itani – Tell
• Heather O'Neill – The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
• Miriam Toews – All My Puny Sorrows
• Padma Viswanathan – The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

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2013

• Lynn Coady – Hellgoing

Also shortlisted:

• Dennis Bock – Going Home Again
• Craig Davidson – Cataract City
• Lisa Moore – Caught
• Dan Vyleta – The Crooked Maid

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2012

• Will Ferguson – 419

Also shortlisted:

• Alix Ohlin – Inside
• Nancy Richler – The Imposter Bride
• Kim Thúy – Ru
• Russell Wangersky – Whirl Away

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2011

• Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues

Also shortlisted:

• David Bezmozgis – The Free World
• Lynn Coady – The Antagonist
• Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
• Zsuzsi Gartner – Better Living Through Plastic Explosives
• Michael Ondaatje – The Cat's Table

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2010

• Johanna Skibsrud – The Sentimentalists

Also shortlisted:

• David Bergen – The Matter With Morris
• Alexander MacLeod – Light Lifting
• Sarah Selecky – This Cake is for the Party
• Kathleen Winter – Annabel

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2009

• Linden MacIntyre – The Bishop's Man

Also shortlisted:

• Kim Echlin – The Disappeared
• Annabel Lyon – The Golden Mean
• Colin McAdam – Fall
• Anne Michaels – The Winter Vault

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2008

• Joseph Boyden – Through Black Spruce

Also shortlisted:

• Anthony De Sa – Barnacle Love
• Marina Endicott – Good to a Fault
• Rawi Hage – Cockroach
• Mary Swan – The Boys in the Trees

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2007

• Elizabeth Hay – Late Nights on Air

Also shortlisted:

• Michael Ondaatje – Divisadero
• Daniel Poliquin – A Secret Between Us
• M.G. Vassanji – The Assassin’s Song
• Alissa York – Effigy

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2006

• Vincent Lam – Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Also shortlisted:

• Rawi Hage – De Niro's Game
• Pascale Quiviger – The Perfect Circle
• Gaétan Soucy – The Immaculate Conception
• Carol Windley – Home Schooling

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2005

• David Bergen – The Time In Between

Also shortlisted:

• Joan Barfoot – Luck
• Camilla Gibb – Sweetness in the Belly
• Lisa Moore – Alligator
• Edeet Ravel – A Wall of Light

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2004

• Alice Munro – Runaway

Also shortlisted:

• Shauna Singh Baldwin – The Tiger Claw
• Wayson Choy – All That Matters
• Pauline Holdstock – Beyond Measure
• Paul Quarrington – Galveston
• Miriam Toews – A Complicated Kindness

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2003

• M.G. Vassanji – The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Also shortlisted:

• Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
• John Bemrose – The Island Walkers
• John Gould – Kilter: 55 Fictions
• Ann-Marie MacDonald – The Way the Crow Flies

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2002

• Austin Clarke – The Polished Hoe

Also shortlisted:

• Bill Gaston – Mount Appetite
• Wayne Johnston – The Navigator of New York
• Lisa Moore – Open
• Carol Shields – Unless

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2001

• Richard B. Wright – Clara Callan

Also shortlisted:

• Sandra Birdsell – The Russlander
• Michael Crummey – River Thieves
• Michael Redhill – Martin Sloane
• Timothy Taylor – Stanley Park
• Jane Urquhart – The Stone Carvers

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2000

• David Adams Richards – Mercy Among The Children
• Michael Ondaatje – Anil's Ghost

Also shortlisted:

• Alan Cumyn – Burridge Unbound
• Elizabeth Hay – A Student of Weather
• Eden Robinson – Monkey Beach
• Fred Stenson – The Trade

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1999

• Bonnie Burnard – A Good House

Also shortlisted:

• Timothy Findley – Pilgrim
• Anne Hébert – Am I Disturbing You
• Nancy Huston – The Mark of the Angel
• David MacFarlane – Summer Gone

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1998

• Alice Munro – The Love of a Good Woman

Also shortlisted:

• Andre Alexis – Childhood
• Gail Anderson-Dargatz – A Recipe for Bees
• Barbara Gowdy – The White Bone
• Greg Hollingshead – The Healer
• Wayne Johnston – The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

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1997

• Mordecai Richler – Barney's Version

Also shortlisted:

• Michael Helm – The Projectionist
• Shani Mootoo – Cereus Blooms at Night
• Nino Ricci – Where She Has Gone
• Carol Shields – Larry's Party

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1996

• Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace

Also shortlisted:

• Gail Anderson-Dargatz – The Cure for Death by Lightning
• Ann-Marie MacDonald – Fall on Your Knees
• Anne Michaels – Fugitive Pieces
• Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy

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1995

• Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance

Also shortlisted:

• Timothy Findley – The Piano Man's Daughter
• Barbara Gowdy – Mister Sandman
• Leo McKay Jr. – Like This
• Richard B. Wright – The Age of Longing

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1994

• M.G. Vassanji – The Book of Secrets

Also shortlisted:

• Bonnie Burnard – Casino and Other Stories
• Eliza Clark – What You Need
• Shyam Selvadurai – Funny Boy
• Steve Weiner – The Museum of Love