Saskatchewan Book Awards
Regina Book Award

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The Regina Book Award, as part of the Saskatchewan Book Awards, is presented to a Regina author (or authors) for the best title, based on the quality of writing. Multiple genres are eligible.

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2014

  • James Daschuk – Clearing the Plains

Also shortlisted:

  • Daniel Macdonald – A History of Breathing
  • Joanne Weber – The Deaf House
  • Paul Wilson – The Invisible Library

2013

  • Melanie Schnell – While the Sun is Above Us

Also shortlisted:

  • Carlos David Londoño Sulkin – People of Substance
  • Bridget Keating – Red Ceiling
  • Coby Stephenson – Violet Quesnel
  • Garrett Wilson – In the Temple of the Rain God

2011

  • Mark Cronlund Anderson, Carmen L. Robertson – Seeing Red

Also shortlisted:

  • Wilfred Burton, Anne Patton, Sherry Farrell Racette, Norman Fleury – Call of the Fiddle
  • Lee Arthur Chane – Magebane
  • Britt Holmström – Leaving Berlin
  • Alison Lohans – Picturing Alyssa

2010

  • Dianne Warren – Cool Water

Also shortlisted:

  • Sandra Birdsell – Waiting for Joe
  • Tracy Hamon – Interruptions in Glass
  • Brenda Niskala – For The Love of Strangers

2009

  • Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song

Also shortlisted:

  • Ven Begamudré – Vishnu Dreams
  • Gerald Hill – 14 Tractors
  • Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker, Larry Easton – Legacy of Stone
  • Dave Margoshes – The Horse Knows the Way
  • James Pitsula – For All We Have and Are

2008

  • David McLennan – Our Towns

Also shortlisted:

    Gail Bowen – The Brutal Heart
  • Gerald Hill – My Human Comedy
  • Britt Holmström – Claudia
  • Daniel Macdonald – MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas
  • James M. Pitsula – New World Dawning
  • Janita Van de Velde – Postcards Never Written

2007

  • Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet and other stories

Also shortlisted:

  • William Driedger – Jakob, Out of the Village
  • Pat Krause – Acts of Love: A Memoir
  • Anne Patton & Wilfred Burton, Norman Fleury, Sherry Farrell Racette – Fiddle Dancer
  • Michael Trussler – Accidental Animals
  • Paul Wilson – Turning Mountain

2006

  • Michael Trussler – Encounters

Also shortlisted:

  • Ven Begamudré – The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar
  • Gail Bowen – The Endless Knot
  • Rob Bryanton – Imagining the Tenth Dimension
  • Devin Krukoff – Compensation

2005

  • Maggie Siggins – Bitter Embrace

Also shortlisted:

  • John Chaput – Saskatchewan Sports Legends
  • Eric Greenway – The Darkness Beneath All Things
  • Tracy Hamon – This is Not Eden
  • Joe Ralko – Building Our Future
  • Kathleen Wall – Time's Body

2004

  • Byrna Barclay – The Room with Five Walls

Also shortlisted:

  • Gail Bowen – The Last Good Day
  • Laura Burkhart – Venus Rising
  • Trevor Herriot – Jacob's Wound
  • Randy Lundy – The Gift of the Hawk
  • Marlis Wesseler – South of the Border

2003

  • Bruce Rice – The Illustrated Statue of Liberty

Also shortlisted:

  • William Argan, Pam Cowan, Gordon Staseson – Regina: The First 100 Years
  • Gail Bowen, Ron Marken – Dancing in Poppies
  • Dave Margoshes – Drowning Man
  • Ken Mitchell – The Heroic Adventures of Donny Coyote

2002

  • Edward Willett – Spirit Singer

Also shortlisted:

  • Ven Begamudré – The Phantom Queen
  • Gail Bowen – The Glass Coffin
  • Frances Greenslade – A Pilgrim in Ireland
  • Norman Henderson – Rediscovering the Great Plains
  • Britt Holmström – The Wrong Madonna
  • Dianne Warren – A Reckless Moon

2001

Also shortlisted:

  • Deanna Christensen – Ahtahkakoop
  • Robert C. Cosbey – Watching China Change
  • Ken Howe – Household Hints for the End of Time
  • Judith Krause – Silk Routes of the Body
  • Dave Margoshes – Purity of Absence

2000

  • Trevor Herriot – River in a Dry Land
  • Maggie Siggins – In Her Own Time

Also shortlisted:

  • Patricia Elliott – The White Umbrella
  • Dave Margoshes – I'm Frankie Sterne
  • Garrett Wilson – Deny, Deny, Deny

1999

  • Paul Wilson – The Long Landscape

Also shortlisted:

  • Connie Deiter – From Our Mothers' Arms
  • Connie Gault – Otherwise Bob
  • Alison Lohans – Sundog Rescue
  • Dianne Warren – The Last Journey of Captain Harte

1998

  • Britt Holmström – The Man Next Door

Also shortlisted:

  • Bill Barry – People/Places: Saskatchewan and its Names
  • Murray J. Malcolm – Baser Elements
  • Marlis Wesseler – Elvis Unplugged

1997

  • Ven Begamudré – Laterna Magika
  • Sandra Birdsell – The Two-Headed Calf
  • Joanne Gerber – In the Misleading Absence of Light

1996

Also shortlisted:

1995

  • Dianne Warren – Club Chernobyl

Also shortlisted:

  • Byrna Barclay – Crosswinds
  • Eugene Stickland – Some Assembly Required

1994

  • Maggie Siggins – Riel: A Life of Revolution

Also shortlisted:

  • Bonnie Burnard – Casino and Other Stories
  • Judith Krause – Half The Sky
  • Ken Mitchell – Stones of the Dali Lama
  • Paul Wilson – Dreaming My Father's Body

1993

  • Dianne Warren – Bad Luck Dog

Also shortlisted:

  • Ven Begamudré – Van De Graaff Days
  • John Conway – Debts To Pay
  • Marlis Wesseler – Life Skills