The Marian Engel Award was given to “a female Canadian writer in mid-career for her body of work”.

Replaced by the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award.

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2007

• Diane Schoemperlen

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2006

• Caroline Adderson

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2005

• Gayla Reid

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2004

• Dianne Warren

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2003

• Elisabeth Harvor

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2002

• Terry Griggs

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2001

• Elizabeth Hay

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2000

• Anita Rau Badami

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1999

• Janice Kulyk Keefer

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1998

• Sharon Butala

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1997

• Katherine Govier

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1996

• Barbara Gowdy

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1995

• Bonnie Burnard

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1994

• Jane Urquhart

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1993

• Sandra Birdsell

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1992

• Joan Barfoot

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1991

• Joan Clark

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1990

• Carol Shields

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1989

• Merna Summers

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1988

• Edna Alford

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1987

• Audrey Thomas

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1986

• Alice Munro