Saskatchewan Book Awards
Book of the Year

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The Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year is presented to a Saskatchewan author (or authors) for the best title based on the quality of writing and presentation. Genres include children's, drama, fiction, poetry, and some non-fiction.

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2009

  • Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker, Larry Easton – Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings

Also shortlisted:

  • Robert Currie – Witness
  • Connie Gault – Euphoria: A Novel
  • Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
  • Bruce Rice, Cherie Westmoreland – Life in the Canopy
  • Maggie Siggins – Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother
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2008

  • Gary Hyland – Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected

Also shortlisted:

  • Christi Belcourt – Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Métis Plant Use
  • Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder
  • Barbara Klar – Cypress
  • Daniel Macdonald – MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas
  • Carey Rigby-Wilcox – My Mummy Couldn't Read
  • Bill Waiser – Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mercy during the Great Depression
Comment

2007

  • Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet and other stories

Also shortlisted:

  • Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm
  • Rebecca L. Grambo – The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis (photographs by Branimir Gjetvaj)
  • Harold Johnson – Two Families: Treaties and Government
  • Michael Trussler – Accidental Animals
  • Seán Virgo – Begging Questions
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2006

  • Michael Trussler – Encounters

Also shortlisted:

  • Harold Johnson – Back Track
  • Annette Lapointe – Stolen
  • Arthur Slade – Megiddo's Shadow
  • Jim Warren, Kathleen Carlisle – On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan
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2005

  • Steven Ross Smith – fluttertongue 3: disarray

Also shortlisted:

  • Sandra Birdsell – Children of the Day
  • Neal McLeod – Songs to Kill a Wîhtikow
  • Candace Savage – Crows
  • Maggie Siggins – Bitter Embrace
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2004

  • Candace Savage – Prairie, A Natural History

Also shortlisted:

  • David T. Barnard – With Skilful Hand
  • Rita Bouvier – papiyahtak
  • Robert Calder – A Richer Dust
  • Jeanne-Marie de Moissac – Slow Curve
  • Shelley A. Leedahl – Orchestra of the Lost Steps
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2003

  • Donald Ward – Nobody Goes to Earth Any More

Also shortlisted:

  • David Carpenter – Trout Stream Creed
  • Tim Lilburn – Kill-site
  • Harriet Richards – Waiting for the Piano Tuner to Die
  • J. Jill Robinson – Residual Desire
  • Mansel Robinson – Street Wheat
  • Bill Waiser – All Hell Can't Stop Us
Comment

2002

Also shortlisted:

  • Steven Michael Berzensky – The Names Leave the Stones
  • Frances Greenslade – A Pilgrim in Ireland
  • Norman Henderson – Rediscovering the Great Plains
  • Arthur Slade – Tribes
  • Dianne Warren – A Reckless Moon
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2001

Also shortlisted:

  • Deanna Christensen – Ahtahkakoop
  • Gerald Hill – The Man from Saskatchewan
  • Judith Krause – Silk Routes of the Body
  • Candace Savage – Born to Be a Cowgirl
  • Glen Sorestad – Leaving Holds Me Here
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2000

  • Trevor Herriot – River in a Dry Land
  • Patricia Monture-Angus – Journeying Forward

Also shortlisted:

  • Sharon Butala – Wild Stone Heart
  • Henderson, Benson & Findlay – Aboriginal Tenure in the Constitution of Canada
  • Elizabeth Philips – A Blue with Blood in It
  • Jennifer Wynne Webber – Defying Gravity
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1999

  • Tim Lilburn – To the River

Also shortlisted:

  • Brenda Baker – The Maleness of God
  • Robert Currie – Things You Don't Forget
  • Treena Kortje – Variations of Eve
  • Shelley A. Leedahl – The Bone Talker
  • Paul Wilson – The Long Landscape
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1998

  • Susan Andrews Grace – Ferry Woman's History of the World

Also shortlisted:

  • Sharon Butala – The Garden of Eden
  • Louise Bernice Halfe – Blue Marrow
  • Britt Holmström – The Man Next Door
  • Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Wiebe – Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
  • Terry Jordan – Beneath That Starry Place
  • Mansel Robinson – Slag
  • Marlis Wesseler – Elvis Unplugged
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1997

Also shortlisted:

  • Ven Begamudré – Laterna Magika
  • David Carpenter – Banjo Lessons
  • Alison Lohans – Don't Think Twice
  • Allen Sapp – I Heard the Drums
  • Anne Szumigalski – On Glassy Wings: Poems New and Selected
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1996

Also shortlisted:

  • David Carpenter – Courting Saskatchewan
  • Connie Gault – Inspection of a Small Village
  • J.R. Miller – Shingwauk's Vision
  • Allison Muri – The Hystery of the Broken Fether
  • Candace Savage – Cowgirls
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1995

  • Anne Szumigalski – Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom

Also shortlisted:

  • Sharon Butala – Coyote's Morning Cry
  • William Klebeck – Down Milligan Creek Way
  • Patricia Monture-Angus – Thunder In My Soul
  • Elizabeth Philips – Beyond My Keeping
Comment

1994

Also shortlisted:

  • Sharon Butala – The Perfection of Morning
  • Judith Krause – Half The Sky
  • Courtney Milne – Spirit of the Sky
  • Maggie Siggins – Riel: A Life of Revolution
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1993

  • Dianne Warren – Bad Luck Dog

Also shortlisted:

  • Jo Bannatyne-Cugnet and Yvette Moore – A Prairie Alphabet
  • Ven Begamudré – Van De Graaff Days
  • John V. Hicks – Month's Mind
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe – Things As They Are
  • Marlis Wesseler – Life Skills
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