Saskatchewan Book Awards
Saskatoon Book Award

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

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2014

  • Adam Pottle – Mantis Dreams

Also shortlisted:

  • Lisa Bird-Wilson – Just Pretending
  • Dwayne Brenna – Stealing Home
  • Mari-Lou Rowley – Unus Mundus
  • Elaine M. Will – Look Straight Ahead

2013

  • Candace Savage – A Geography of Blood

Also shortlisted:

  • Jeanette Lynes – Archive of the Undressed
  • Dave Margoshes – A Book of Great Worth
  • Barbara Sapergia – Blood and Salt
  • Donald Ward – The Weeping Chair

2011

  • Jeff Park – The Cellophane Sky

Also shortlisted:

  • Beverly Brenna – Waiting for No One
  • Darren R. Prefontaine – Gabriel Dumont
  • Jefferson Smith – Strange Places

2010

  • Alexandra Popoff – Sophia Tolstoy

Also shortlisted:

  • Elizabeth Brewster – Time and Seasons
  • David Carpenter – A Hunter’s Confession
  • David Carpenter – Welcome to Canada
  • Alice Kuipers – The Worst Thing She Ever Did
  • Yann Martel – Beatrice & Virgil

2009

  • David Carpenter – Niceman Cometh

Also shortlisted:

2008

  • Louise Bernice Halfe – The Crooked Good

Also shortlisted:

  • Rita Bouvier, Margaret Hodgson – Better that Way
  • Pam Bustin – Mostly Happy
  • Sharon Butala – The Girl in Saskatoon
  • Jerry Haigh – The Trouble with Lions
  • Arthur Slade – Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival
  • Bill Waiser – Who Killed Jackie Bates?

2007

  • Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm

Also shortlisted:

  • Doug Cuthand – Askiwina: A Cree World
  • Terry Fenton – Reta Summers Cowley
  • Bernice Friesen – The Book of Beasts
  • Elizabeth Philips – Torch River

2006

  • Annette Lapointe – Stolen

Also shortlisted:

  • Martha Blum – The Apothecary
  • Beth Goobie – Hello, Groin
  • Lloyd Ratzlaff – Backwater Mystic Blues
  • Jennifer Still – Saltations

2005

  • Don Kerr – The Garden of Art

Also shortlisted:

  • Bonnie J. Lawrence & Anna L. Leighton – Prairie Phoenix
  • Barbara Sapergia – Dry
  • Candace Savage – Crows
  • Steven Ross Smith – fluttertongue 3: disarray

2004

  • Robert Calder – Beware the British Serpent

Also shortlisted:

  • Anthony Bidulka – Flight of Aquavit
  • David Carpenter – The Ketzer
  • Shelley A. Leedahl – Orchestra of the Lost Steps
  • Ruth Wright Millar – Saskatchewan Heroes and Rogues
  • Ron Rivard, Catherine Littlejohn – The History of the Métis of Willow Bunch

2003

  • J. Jill Robinson – Residual Desire

Also shortlisted:

  • Martha Blum – Children of Paper
  • Hilary Clark – The Swelling of Weather
  • Tim Lilburn – Kill-site
  • Mansel Robinson – Street Wheat
  • Bill Waiser – All Hell Can't Stop Us

2002

Also shortlisted:

  • Sheri Benning – Earth After Rain
  • Don Kerr – Candy on the Edge
  • Mansel Robinson – Rock 'n Rail
  • Lois Simmie – Mister Got to Go and Arnie
  • Arthur Slade – Tribes

2001

  • Glen Sorestad – Leaving Holds Me Here

Also shortlisted:

  • Warren Goulding – Just Another Indian
  • Peter M. Jonker & J. Stan Rowe – The Sand Dunes of Lake Athabasca
  • Shelley A. Leedahl – Talking Down the Northern Lights
  • Candace Savage – Born to Be a Cowgirl
  • Arthur Slade – Dust

2000

  • Leona Theis – Sightlines

Also shortlisted:

  • Beth Goobie – The Dream Where the Losers Go
  • Don Kerr – Love and the Bottle
  • Tom Molloy – The World Is Our Witness
  • Elizabeth Philips – A Blue with Blood in It

1999

  • Martha Blum – The Walnut Tree

Also shortlisted:

  • Brenda Baker – The Maleness of God
  • Beth Goobie – The Colours of Carol Molev
  • Tim Lilburn – Living in the World as if It Were Home
  • Barbara Sapergia – Secrets in Water

1998

  • R.P. MacIntyre – The Crying Jesus

Also shortlisted:

  • Susan Andrews Grace – Ferry Woman's History of the World
  • Louise Bernice Halfe – Blue Marrow
  • Mary-Kate MacDonald – Carving my Name
  • Greg Nelson – Spirit Wrestler
  • Steven Ross Smith – Lures