Saskatchewan Book Awards
Non-Fiction

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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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2014

  • James Daschuk – Clearing the Plains

Also shortlisted:

  • Emily Eaton – Growing Resistance
  • Florence Bean James, Jean Freeman – Fists Upon a Star
  • J. Michael Hayden – The Catholicisms of Coutances
  • Jeet Heer – In Love With Art
  • Joanne Weber – The Deaf House

2013

  • Candace Savage – A Geography of Blood

Also shortlisted:

  • Lynn Gidluck – Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands
  • Muriel A. Jarvis, Mary E. Vandergoot – Thin Pink Lines
  • Alexandra Popoff – The Wives
  • Brenda Schmidt – Flight Calls
  • Garrett Wilson – In the Temple of the Rain God

2011

  • Curtis R. McManus – Happyland

Also shortlisted:

  • Mark Cronlund Anderson, Carmen L. Robertson – Seeing Red
  • Dwayne Brenna – Our Kind of Work
  • Timothy Long, Huang Zhong Yang – The Shadow of Mao
  • Keith Olsen – Within the Stillness
  • Darren R. Prefontaine – Gabriel Dumont

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

Also shortlisted:

  • Allan Casey – Lakeland
  • Jo-Ann Episkenew – Taking Back Our Spirits
  • James Pitsula – For All We Have and Are
  • Maggie Siggins – Marie-Anne

2008

  • Donna Caruso – Journey Without A Map, Growing Up Italian

Also shortlisted:

  • David Baudemont – Le nouveau tracteur
  • Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon
  • Jerry Haigh – The Trouble with Lions
  • David McLennan – Our Towns
  • Candace Savage – Bees
  • Bill Waiser – Who Killed Jackie Bates?

2007

  • Mary-Ann Kirkby – I Am Hutterite

Also shortlisted:

  • Lawrence Barkwell, Leah Dorion, Audreen Hourie (editors) – Métis Legacy II
  • Rebecca L. Grambo – The Great Sand Hills
  • Pat Krause – Acts of Love
  • Bill Waiser – Everett Baker's Saskatchewan
  • Garrett Wilson – Frontier Farewell

2006

  • Marie Elyse St. George – Once in A Blue Moon

Also shortlisted:

  • Sally Crooks – That Saturday Night
  • Rebecca L. Grambo – Wolf
  • Germain O. Lavoie – Maskîkhîwîno
  • Harold LeRat with Linda Ungar – Treaty Promises, Indian Reality
  • Lloyd Ratzlaff – Backwater Mystic Blues
  • Allan Safarik – Notes from the Outside

2005

Also shortlisted:

  • Patricia Deadman & Robin Laurence – Simple Bliss
  • Candace Savage – Crows
  • Maggie Siggins – Bitter Embrace
  • Bill Waiser – Saskatchewan
  • Betty Ward – A Community of Friends

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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • J.R. Jowsey & F.A Switzer – Wildflowers Across the Prairies
  • Courtney Milne & Sherrill Miller – Visions of the Goddess
  • Brock V. Silversides – Looking West

1998

Also shortlisted:

  • Don Baron – Canada's Great Grain Robbery
  • Robin & Arlene Karpan – Northern Sandscapes
  • Thelma Poirier – Rock Creek
  • Candace Savage – Beauty Queens

1997

  • Anne Szumigalski – Sermons on Stones

Also shortlisted:

  • Elly Danica – Beyond Don't
  • Candace Savage – Mother Nature
  • Blair Stonechild, Bill Waiser – Loyal till Death

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