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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2014

  • Lisa Bird-Wilson – Just Pretending

Also shortlisted:

  • Dwayne Brenna – Stealing Home
  • Bernard Flaman – Architecture of Saskatchewan
  • Cathy Littlejohn – Métis Soldiers of Saskatchewan
  • Daniel Macdonald – A History of Breathing
  • Mari-Lou Rowley – Unus Mundus

2013

  • Candace Savage – A Geography of Blood

Also shortlisted:

  • Bridget Keating – Red Ceiling
  • Dave Margoshes – A Book of Great Worth
  • Harriet Richards – The Pious Robber
  • Melanie Schnell – While the Sun is Above Us
  • Donald Ward – The Weeping Chair

2011

  • Darren R. Prefontaine – Gabriel Dumont

Also shortlisted:

  • Leah M. Dorion, Rita Flamand – Relatives with Roots
  • Devin Krukoff – Flyways
  • Curtis R. McManus – Happyland
  • Thelma Pepper – Human Touch

2010

  • David Carpenter – A Hunter's Confession

Also shortlisted:

  • Dianne Warren – Cool Water
  • Phyllis Nakonechny – Vidh
  • Alexandra Popoff – Sophia Tolstoy
  • David Carpenter – Welcome to Canada
  • Dave Margoshes – Dimensions of an Orchard

2009

  • Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker, Larry Easton – Legacy of Stone

Also shortlisted:

  • Robert Currie – Witness
  • Connie Gault – Euphoria
  • Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song
  • Bruce Rice, Cherie Westmoreland – Life in the Canopy
  • Maggie Siggins – Marie-Anne

2008

  • Gary Hyland – Love of Mirrors

Also shortlisted:

  • Christi Belcourt – Medicines to Help Us
  • Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon
  • 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?

2007

  • Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet and other stories

Also shortlisted:

  • Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm
  • Rebecca L. Grambo, Branimir Gjetvaj – The Great Sand Hills
  • Harold Johnson – Two Families
  • Michael Trussler – Accidental Animals
  • Seán Virgo – Begging Questions

2006

  • Michael Trussler – Encounters

Also shortlisted:

  • Harold Johnson – Back Track
  • Annette Lapointe – Stolen
  • Arthur SladeMegiddo's Shadow
  • Jim Warren, Kathleen Carlisle – On the Side of the People

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

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

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

2002

Also shortlisted:

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

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

2000

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

Also shortlisted:

  • Sharon ButalaWild 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

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

1998

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

Also shortlisted:

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

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

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

1995

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

Also shortlisted:

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

1994

Also shortlisted:


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