Canadian Literary Awards
1990s
Winners of Canadian literary awards in the 1990s.
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1999
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Liz Brady – Sudden Blow
- Juvenile
- Norah McClintock – Sins of the Father
- Nonfiction
- Derek Finkle – No Claim to Mercy
- Novel
- Nora Kelly – Old Wounds
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- David Zieroth – How I Joined Humanity At Last
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Jack Hodgins – Broken Ground
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Peter Newman – Titans
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen – River of the Angry Moon
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Sandra Lightburn, Ron Lightburn – Driftwood Cove
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- David Macfarlane – Summer Gone
- Alan R. Wilson – Before the Flood
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Dennis Bock – Olympia
Giller Prize
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Rachna Gilmore – A Screaming Kind of Day
- Fiction
- Matt Cohen – Elizabeth and After
- Non-fiction
- Marq de Villiers – Water
- Poetry
- Jan Zwicky – Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
- Études et essais
- Pierre Perrault – Le Mal du Nord
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Charlotte Gingras – La Liberté? Connais pas...
- Poésie
- Herménégilde Chiasson – Conversations
- Romans et nouvelles
- Lise Tremblay – La Danse juive
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Stuart McLean – Home From the Vinyl Cafe
Ontario Library Association
- Red Maple Award
- Gayle Friesen – Janey's Girl
- Silver Birch Award
- Eric Walters – Trapped in Ice
- Marg Meikle – Funny You Should Ask
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Tim Lilburn – To the River
- Children
- David Richards – The Lady at Batoche
- Fiction
- Brenda Baker – The Maleness of God
- First Book
- Martha Blum – The Walnut Tree
- Non-Fiction
- Tim Lilburn – Living in the World as if It Were Home
- Poetry
- Hilary Clark – More Light
- Regina Book Award
- Paul Wilson – The Long Landscape
- Saskatoon Book Award
- Martha Blum – The Walnut Tree
Writers Trust Awards
- Marian Engel Award
- Janice Kulyk Keefer
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Peter Oliva – The City of Yes
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Joan Clark
- Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
- Modris Eksteins – Walking Since Daybreak
1998
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Kathy Reichs – Deja Dead
- Juvenile
- Norah McClintock – The Body in the Basement
- Nonfiction
- Patricia Pearson – When She Was Bad: Violent Women and The Myth of Innocence
- Novel
- William Deverell – Trial of Passion
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Patricia Young – What I Remember from My Time on Earth
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Marilyn Bowering – Visible Worlds
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Richard Bocking – Mighty River
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- James Heneghan – Wish Me Luck
Books in Canada First Novel Award
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award
- Curtis Gillespie – The Progress of an Object in Motion
Giller Prize
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Janet Lunn – The Hollow Tree
- Fiction
- Diane Schoemperlen – Forms of Devotion
- Non-fiction
- David Adams Richards – Lines on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi
- Poetry
- Stephanie Bolster – White Stone: The Alice Poems
- Études et essais
- Pierre Nepveu – Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde: Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Angèle Delaunois – Variations sur un même ?t'aime?
- Poésie
- Suzanne Jacob – La Part de feu précédé de Le Deuil de la rancune
- Romans et nouvelles
- Christiane Frenette – La Terre ferme
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Mordecai Richler – Barney's Version
Lorne Pierce Medal
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- David Staines
Ontario Library Association
- Red Maple Award
- Carol Matas – After the War
- Silver Birch Award
- Ken Oppel – Silverwing
- Hugh Brewster – Anastasia's Album
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Susan Andrews Grace – Ferry Woman's History of the World
- Fiction
- Larry Warwaruk – The Ukrainian Wedding
- First Book
- Harriet Richards – The Lavender Child
- Non-Fiction
- Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Wiebe – Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
- Poetry
- Steven Michael Berzensky – Variations on the Birth of Jacob
- Regina Book Award
- Britt Holmström – The Man Next Door
- Saskatoon Book Award
- R.P. MacIntyre – The Crying Jesus
- Young Adult
- Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion – Bay Girl
Writers Trust Awards
- Marian Engel Award
- Sharon Butala
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Greg Hollingshead – The Healer
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Kit Pearson
- Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
- Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson – Stolen Life: A Journey of a Cree Woman
1997
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- C.C. Benison – Death At Buckingham Palace
- Juvenile
- Linda Bailey – How Can A Frozen Detective Stay Hot On The Trail
- Nonfiction
- Jean Monet – The Cassock And The Crown
- Novel
- Peter Robinson – Innocent Graves
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Margo Button – The Unhinging of Wings
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz – The Cure for Death by Lightning
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Alan Haig-Brown – The Fraser River
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Sarah Ellis – Back of Beyond
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Margaret Gibson – Opium Dreams
Giller Prize
- Giller Prize
- Mordecai Richler – Barney's Version
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Kit Pearson – Awake and Dreaming
- Fiction
- Jane Urquhart – The Underpainter
- Non-fiction
- Rachel Manley – Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
- Poetry
- Dionne Brand – Land to Light On
- Études et essais
- Roland Viau – Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes - Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Michel Noël – Pien
- Poésie
- Pierre Nepveu – Romans-fleuves
- Romans et nouvelles
- Aude – Cet imperceptible mouvement
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Arthur Black – Black in the Saddle Again
Ontario Library Association
- Silver Birch Award
- Eric Walters – Stars
- Shelley Tanaka – On Board the Titanic
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Sandra Birdsell – The Two-Headed Calf
- Children
- Sandra Birdsell – The Town that Floated Away
- Fiction
- Joanne Gerber – In the Misleading Absence of Light
- First Book
- Joanne Gerber – In the Misleading Absence of Light
- Non-Fiction
- Anne Szumigalski – Sermons on Stones
- Poetry
- Anne Szumigalski – On Glassy Wings: Poems New and Selected
- Regina Book Award
- Ven Begamudré – Laterna Magika
- Sandra Birdsell – The Two-Headed Calf
- Joanne Gerber – In the Misleading Absence of Light
Writers Trust Awards
- Marian Engel Award
- Katherine Govier
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Austin Clarke – The Origins of Waves
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Tim Wynne-Jones
- Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
- Ernest Hillen – Small Mercies: A Boy After War
1996
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- John Spencer Hill – The Last Castrato
- D.H. Toole – Moonlit Days and Nights
- Juvenile
- Norah McClintock – Mistaken Identity
- Nonfiction
- Lois Simmie – The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson
- Novel
- L.R. Wright – Mother Love
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Patrick Lane – Too Spare, Too Fierce
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Audrey Thomas – Coming Down From Wa
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Ken Drushka – HR
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Nan Gregory – How Smudge Came
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Anne Michaels – Fugitive Pieces
Giller Prize
- Giller Prize
- Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Paul Yee – Ghost Train
- Fiction
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
- Non-fiction
- John Ralston Saul – The Unconscious Civilization
- Poetry
- E.D. Blodgett – Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
- Études et essais
- Michel Freitag – Le Naufrage de l'université Et autres essais d'épistémologie politique
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Gilles Tibo – Noémie
- Poésie
- Serge Patrice Thibodeau – Le Quatuor de l'errance suivi de La Traversée du désert
- Romans et nouvelles
- Marie-Claire Blais – Soifs
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Marsha Boulton – Letters from the Country
Lorne Pierce Medal
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- Clément Moisan
Ontario Library Association
- Silver Birch Award
- Sylvia McNicoll – Bringing Up Beauty
- Anouchka Gravel Galouchko – Sho and the Demons of the Deep
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
- Fiction
- Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
- First Book
- Dave Little – Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies
- Non-Fiction
- David Carpenter – Courting Saskatchewan
- J.R. Miller – Shingwauk's Vision
- Poetry
- Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen – Clay Birds
- Regina Book Award
- Connie Gault – Inspection of a Small Village
- Young Adult
- Judith Silverthorne – The Secret of Sentinel Rock
Writers Trust Awards
1995
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Sparkle Hayter – What's A Girl Gotta Do?
- Juvenile
- James Heneghan – Torn Away
- Nonfiction
- Michael Harris – The Prodigal Husband
- Novel
- Gail Bowen – A Colder Kind Of Death
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Linda Rogers – Hard Candy
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Gayla Reid – To Be There With You
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Howard White – Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Lillian Boraks-Nemetz – Old Brown Suitcase
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Keath Fraser – Popular Anatomy
Giller Prize
- Giller Prize
- Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Tim Wynne-Jones – The Maestro
- Fiction
- Greg Hollingshead – The Roaring Girl
- Non-fiction
- Rosemary Sullivan – Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
- Poetry
- Anne Szumigalski – Voice
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Josh Freed – Fear of Frying and Other Fax of Life
Ontario Library Association
- Silver Birch Award
- Laurie McGaw – Polar, The Titanic Bear
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Anne Szumigalski – Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom
- Children
- Lois Simmie – Mister Got to Go
- Fiction
- Byrna Barclay – Crosswinds
- First Book
- Kate Sutherland – Summer Reading
- Non-Fiction
- Connie Sampson – Buried in the Silence
- Poetry
- Elizabeth Philips – Beyond My Keeping
- Regina Book Award
- Dianne Warren – Club Chernobyl
Writers Trust Awards
- Études et essais
- Yvan Lamonde – Louis-Antoine Dessaulles. Un seigneur libéral et anticlérical
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Sonia Sarfati – Comme une peau de chagrin
- Poésie
- Émile Martel – Pour orchestre et poète seul
- Romans et nouvelles
- Nicole Houde – Les Oiseaux de Saint-John Perse
1994
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Gavin Scott – Memory Trace
- Juvenile
- John Dowd – Abalone Summer
- Nonfiction
- David R. Williams – With Malice Aforethought
- Novel
- John Lawrence Reynolds – Gypsy Sins
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Gregory Scofield – The Gathering: Stones For The Medicine Wheel
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Caroline Adderson – Bad Imaginings
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Alex Rose – Nisga'a
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Julie Lawson – White Jade Tiger
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Shyam Selvadurai – Funny Boy
Giller Prize
- Giller Prize
- M.G. Vassanji – The Book of Secrets
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Julie Johnston – Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
- Fiction
- Rudy Wiebe – A Discovery of Strangers
- Non-fiction
- John A. Livingston – Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
- Poetry
- Robert Hilles – Cantos from a Small Room
- Études et essais
- Chantal Saint-Jarre – Du sida
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Suzanne Martel – Une belle journée pour mourir
- Poésie
- Fulvio Caccia – Aknos
- Romans et nouvelles
- Robert Lalonde – Le petit aigle à tête blanche
Leacock Medal for Humour
Ontario Library Association
- Silver Birch Award
- Carol Matas – Daniel's Story
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Bonnie Burnard – Casino and Other Stories
- First Book
- Terry Jordan – It's A Hard Cow
- Non-Fiction
- Sharon Butala – The Perfection of Morning
- Regina Book Award
- Maggie Siggins – Riel: A Life of Revolution
- Spirit of Saskatchewan Award
- Sharon Butala – The Perfection of Morning
Writers Trust Awards
1993
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Sean Stewart – Passion Play
- Nonfiction
- Kirk Makin – Redrum the Innocent
- Novel
- Carsten Stroud – Lizardskin
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- bill bissett – inkorrect thots
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- W.D. Valgardson – The Girl with the Botticelli Face
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire – Nature Power
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Shirley Sterling – My Name is Seepeetza
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Deborah Joy Corey – Losing Eddie
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Tim Wynne-Jones – Some of the Kinder Planets
- Fiction
- Carol Shields – The Stone Diaries
- Non-fiction
- Karen Connelly – Touch the Dragon
- Poetry
- Don Coles – Forests of the Medieval World
- Études et essais
- François Paré – Les Littératures de l'exiguïté
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Michèle Marineau – La Route de Chlifa
- Poésie
- Denise Desautels – Le Saut de l'ange
- Romans et nouvelles
- Nancy Huston – Cantique des plaines
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- John Levesque – Waiting for Aquarius
Lorne Pierce Medal
Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Book of the Year
- Dianne Warren – Bad Luck Dog
- Regina Book Award
- Dianne Warren – Bad Luck Dog
- Spirit of Saskatchewan Award
- Dianne Warren – Bad Luck Dog
Writers Trust Awards
1992
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Paul Grescoe – Flesh Wound
- Nonfiction
- William Lowther – Arms and the Man: Dr. Gerald Bull, Iraq and the Supergun
- Novel
- Peter Robinson – Past Reason Hated
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Barry McKinnon – Pulplog
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Don Dickinson – Blue Husbands
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Rosemary Neering – Down The Road
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Herb Hammond – Seeing The Forest Among The Trees
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Alexandra Morton – Siwiti: A Whale's Story
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- John Steffler – The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Julie Johnston – Hero of Lesser Causes
- Fiction
- Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient
- Non-fiction
- Maggie Siggins – Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
- Poetry
- Lorna Crozier – Inventing the Hawk
- Études et essais
- Pierre Turgeon – La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Christiane Duchesne – Victor
- Poésie
- Gilles Cyr – Andromède attendra
- Romans et nouvelles
- Anne Hébert – L'enfant chargé de songes
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Roch Carrier – Prayers of a Very Wise Child
Writers Trust Awards
1991
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- Carsten Stroud – Sniper's Moon
- Nonfiction
- Susan Mayse – Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin
- Novel
- L.R. Wright – A Chill Rain in January
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Jeff Derksen – Down Time
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Audrey Thomas – Wild Blue Yonder
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Paul Tennant – Aboriginal People & Politics
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Nancy Hundal – I Heard My Mother Call My Name
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Sarah Ellis – Pick-Up Sticks
- Fiction
- Rohinton Mistry – Such a Long Journey
- Non-fiction
- Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo – Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
- Poetry
- Don McKay – Night Field
- Études et essais
- Bernard Arcand – Le Jaguar et le Tamanoir
- Littérature Jeunesse
- François Gravel – Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine
- Poésie
- Madeleine Gagnon – Chant pour un Québec lointain
- Romans et nouvelles
- André Brochu – La croix du Nord
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Howard White – Writing in the Rain
Lorne Pierce Medal
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- Gilles Marcotte
Writers Trust Awards
1990
Arthur Ellis Awards
- First Novel
- John Lawrence Reynolds – The Man Who Murdered God
- Nonfiction
- Lisa Priest – Conspiracy of Silence
- Novel
- Laurence Gough – Hot Shots
BC Book Prizes
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Victoria Walker – Suitcase
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Keith Maillard – Motet
- Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
- Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Western Canada Wilderness Committee – Carmanah
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Paul Yee – Tales From Gold Mountain
Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Nino Ricci – Lives of the Saints
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Michael Bedard – Redwork
- Fiction
- Nino Ricci – Lives of the Saints
- Non-fiction
- Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall – Trudeau and Our Times
- Poetry
- Margaret Avison – No Time
- Études et essais
- Jean-François Lisée – Dans l'oeil de l'aigle
- Littérature Jeunesse
- Christiane Duchesne – La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic
- Poésie
- Jean-Paul Daoust – Les Cendres bleues
- Romans et nouvelles
- Gérald Tougas – La Mauvaise foi
Leacock Medal for Humour
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- W.O. Mitchell – According to Jake and the Kid
Writers Trust Awards
- Marian Engel Award
- Carol Shields
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Bernice Thurman Hunter
