Saskatchewan Book Awards
Non-Fiction
The Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction is presented to a Saskatchewan author (or authors) for the best book of non-fiction, based on the quality of writing.
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2010
- Alexandra Popoff – Sophia Tolstoy
Also shortlisted:
- David Carpenter – A Hunter's Confession
- Heather Kuttai – Maternity Rolls
- Phyllis Nakonechny – Vidh
2009
- Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Also shortlisted:
- Allan Casey – Lakeland: Journeys Into the Soul of Canada
- Jo-Ann Episkenew – Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing
- James Pitsula – For All We Have and Are: Regina and the Experience of the Great War
- Maggie Siggins – Marie-Anne: The Extraordinary Life of Louis Riel's Grandmother
2008
- Donna Caruso – Journey Without A Map, Growing Up Italian: A Memoir
Also shortlisted:
- David Baudemont – Le nouveau tracteur
- Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder
- Jerry Haigh – The Trouble with Lions: A Glasgow Vet in Africa
- David McLennan – Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park
- Candace Savage – Bees: Nature's Little Wonders
- Bill Waiser – Who Killed Jackie Bates? Murder and Mercy during the Great Depression
2007
- Mary-Ann Kirkby – I Am Hutterite
Also shortlisted:
- Lawrence Barkwell, Leah Dorion, Audreen Hourie (editors) – Métis Legacy II: Michif Culture, Heritage and Folkways
- Rebecca L. Grambo – The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis
- Pat Krause – Acts of Love: A Memoir
- Bill Waiser – Everett Baker's Saskatchewan
- Garrett Wilson – Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West
2006
- Marie Elyse St. George – Once in A Blue Moon: An Artist's Life
Also shortlisted:
- Sally Crooks – That Saturday Night
- Rebecca L. Grambo – Wolf: Legend, Enemy, Icon
- Germain O. Lavoie – Maskîkhîwîno: The Medicine Man
- Harold LeRat with Linda Ungar – Treaty Promises, Indian Reality: Life on a Reserve
- Lloyd Ratzlaff – Backwater Mystic Blues
- Allan Safarik – Notes from the Outside: Episodes from an Unconventional Life
2005
- Sharon Butala – Lilac Moon
Also shortlisted:
- Patricia Deadman & Robin Laurence – Simple Bliss: the Paintings and Prints of Mary Pratt
- Candace Savage – Crows
- Maggie Siggins – Bitter Embrace
- Bill Waiser – Saskatchewan: A New History
- Betty Ward – A Community of Friends: The Quakers at Borden
2004
- Candace Savage – Prairie, A Natural History
Also shortlisted:
- Robert Calder – A Richer Dust
- Wilf Chomos – In the Blood
- Ken Coates & William Morrison – Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon
- Trevor Herriot – Jacob's Wound
- Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn – The History of the Métis of Willow Bunch
2003
- Bill Waiser – All Hell Can't Stop Us
Also shortlisted:
- Dennis Fast & Rebecca Grambo – Wapusk: White Bear of the North
- Ross Green & Kearney Healy – Tough on Kids
- C. Stuart Houston – Steps on the Road to Medicare
- Bohdan S. Kordan – Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War
- Janice MacKinnon – Minding the Public Purse
2002
- Frances Greenslade – A Pilgrim in Ireland
Also shortlisted:
- Doug Chisholm & Gerry Hill – Their Names Live On
- Ron Evans – Coming Home: Saskatchewan Remembered
2001
- Warren Goulding – Just Another Indian
Also shortlisted:
- Deanna Christensen – Ahtahkakoop
- Robert C. Cosbey – Watching China Change
- Gerry Jones – SaskScandal
- Marilyn Wright – Scarce As Hen's Teeth
2000
- Tom Molloy – The World Is Our Witness
Also shortlisted:
- Jane Billinghurst – The Spirit of the Whale
- Trevor Herriot – River in a Dry Land
- Dave Margoshes – Tommy Douglas
- Candace Savage – Witch
- Maggie Siggins – In Her Own Time
1999
- Tim Lilburn – Living in the World as if It Were Home
Also shortlisted:
- Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart – The Counselling Speeches of Jim Ka-Nipitehtew
- Jane Billinghurst – Grey Owl: The Many Faces of Archie Belaney
- J.R. Jowsey & F.A Switzer – Wildflowers Across the Prairies
- Courtney Milne & Sherrill Miller – Visions of the Goddess
- Brock V. Silversides – Looking West: Photographing The Canadian Prairies
1998
- Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Wiebe – Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
Also shortlisted:
- Don Baron – Canada's Great Grain Robbery
- Robin & Arlene Karpan – Northern Sandscapes: Exploring Saskatchewan's Athabasca Sand Dunes
- Thelma Poirier – Rock Creek
- Candace Savage – Beauty Queens
1997
- Anne Szumigalski – Sermons on Stones
Also shortlisted:
- Elly Danica – Beyond Don't: Dreaming Past the Dark
- Candace Savage – Mother Nature: Animal Parents and their Young
- Blair Stonechild, Bill Waiser – Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
1996
- David Carpenter – Courting Saskatchewan
- J.R. Miller – Shingwauk's Vision
Also shortlisted:
- Candace Savage – Cowgirls
1995
- Connie Sampson – Buried in the Silence
Also shortlisted:
- Elizabeth Brewster – Away From Home
- Lois Simmie – Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson
- Bill Waiser – Park Prisoners
1994
Also shortlisted:
- Mary Hallett & Marilyn Davis – Firing The Heather
- George Hood – Against The Flow
- Courtney Milne – Spirit of the Sky
- Maggie Siggins – Riel: A Life of Revolution
