Canadian Literary Awards
2000s

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Winners of Canadian literary awards in the 2000s.

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2009


Amazon.ca First Novel Award

Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Jessica Grant – Come, Thou Tortoise

Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Howard Shrier – Buffalo Jump
French
Jacques Côté – Le Chemin des brumes
Juvenile
Sharon E. McKay – War Brothers
Nonfiction
Michael Calce and Craig Silverman – Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken
Novel
Linwood BarclayToo Close to Home

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Katarina Jovanovic – The King Has Goat Ears
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Daphne Marlatt – The Given
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Lee Henderson – The Man Game
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Gabor Mate – In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Stephen Hume – Simon Fraser
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Polly Horvath – My One Hundred Adventures

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Lawrence Hill – The Book of Negroes

Combat des livres

Combat des livres
Rawi Hage, Sophie Voillot (trans.) – Parfum de poussière (De Niro's Game)

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Pasha Malla – The Withdrawal Method

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Linden MacIntyre – The Bishop's Man

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Caroline Pignat – Greener Grass: The Famine Years
Fiction
Kate Pullinger – The Mistress of Nothing
Non-fiction
M.G. Vassanji – A Place Within: Rediscovering India
Poetry
David Zieroth – The Fly in Autumn

Études et essais
Nicole V. Champeau – Pointe Maligne : l'infiniment oubliée
Littérature Jeunesse
Hervé Bouchard – Harvey
Poésie
Hélène Monette – Thérèse pour joie et orchestre
Romans et nouvelles
Julie Mazzieri – Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
A.F. Moritz – The Sentinel

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Mark Leiren-Young – Never Shoot a Stampede Queen

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Mélanie Watt – Chester
Evergreen Award
Steven Galloway – Cellist of Sarajevo
Golden Oak Award
Alma Fullerton – Libertad
Red Maple Award
Fiction: Norah McClintockOut of the Cold
Non-Fiction: Elizabeth MacLeod – Royal Murder
Silver Birch Award
Mahtab Narsimhan – The Third Eye
Kevin Sylvester – Gold Medal for Weird
Alan Cumyn – Dear Sylvia
White Pine Award
Corey Doctorow – Little Brother

ReLit Awards

Novel
Michael Blouin – Chase & Haven
Poetry
Maurice Mierau – Fear Not
Short Fiction
Lisa Foad – The Night is a Mouth

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Margaret Hryniuk, Frank Korvemaker, Larry Easton – Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings
Children
Karen Edwards – One Cold Armpit
Fiction
Connie Gault – Euphoria: A Novel
First Book
George Epp – Off Road
Non-Fiction
Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Poetry
Gerald Hill – 14 Tractors
Reader's Choice
Marlene Millar, Dene Honϋ: Stories from the People
Regina Book Award
Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Saskatoon Book Award
David Carpenter – Niceman Cometh

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Jessica Grant – Come, Thou Tortoise

Writers Trust Awards

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Annabel Lyon – The Golden Mean
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
David Bergen
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life

2008


Amazon.ca First Novel Award

Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Joan Thomas – Reading by Lightning

Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Liam Durcan – Garcia's Heart
French
Mario Bolduc – Tsiganes
Juvenile
Shane Peacock – Eye of the Crow
Nonfiction
Julian Sher – One Child at a Time: The Global Fight to Rescue Children from Online Predators
Novel
Jon Redfern – Trumpets Sound No More

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Robert Heidbreder, Kady MacDonald Denton – A Sea-Wishing Day
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Rita Wong – Forage
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Mary Novik – Conceit
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Robert Bringhurst – Everywhere Being is Dancing
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith – The 100-Mile Diet
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Polly Horvath – The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Paul QuarringtonKing Leary

Combat des livres

Combat des livres
Éric Dupont – La logeuse

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Andrew Hood – Pardon Our Monsters

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Joseph Boyden – Through Black Spruce

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
John Ibbitson – The Landing
Fiction
Nino Ricci – The Origin of Species
Non-fiction
Christie Blatchford – Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
Poetry
Jacob Scheier – More to Keep Us Warm

Études et essais
Pierre Ouellet – Hors-temps : poétique de la posthistoire
Littérature Jeunesse
Sylvie Desrosiers – Les trois lieues
Poésie
Michel Pleau – La lenteur du monde
Romans et nouvelles
Marie-Claire Blais – Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Robin Blaser – The Holy Forest

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Julie Lawson – No Safe Harbour
Non-fiction
Kathy Kacer – Hiding Edith

Documentaire
Melvin Gallant – Ti-Jean-le-Rusé
Romans
Denis Boucher – Le monstre du lac Baker

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Terry FallisThe Best Laid Plans

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Rosemary Sullivan

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Mélanie Watt – Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Evergreen Award
Lawrence Hill – The Book of Negroes
Golden Oak Award
Deborah Ellis – I Am a Taxi
Red Maple Award
Eric Walters – Safe as Houses
Silver Birch Award
Linda DeMeulemeester – The Secret of Grim Hill
Helaine Becker, Dave Whamond – Secret Agent Y.O.U: The Official Guide to Secret Codes, Disguises, Surveillance and More
Dan Bar-el – Things are Looking Grimm, Jill
OLA: White Pine Award
Martine Leavitt – Keturah and Lord Death

ReLit Awards

Novel
Gil AdamsonThe Outlander
Poetry
Gillian Wigmore – Soft Geography
Short Fiction
Roberta Rees – Long After Fathers

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Gary Hyland – Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected
Fiction
Pam Bustin – Mostly Happy
First Book
Pam Bustin – Mostly Happy
Non-Fiction
Donna Caruso – Journey Without A Map, Growing Up Italian: A Memoir
Poetry
Gary Hyland – Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected
Prix du Livre
David Baudemont – Olga
Reader's Choice
Janita Van de Velde – Postcards Never Written
Regina Book Award
David McLennan – Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park
Saskatoon Book Award
Louise Bernice Halfe – The Crooked Good
Young Adult
Alison Lohans – This Land We Call Home

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Randall Maggs – Night Work: The Sawchuck Poems

Writers Trust Awards

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Miriam Toews – The Flying Troutmans
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Michael Kusugak
Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
Michael Winter
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Taras Grescoe – Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood

2007


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Anne EmerySign of the Cross
Juvenile
Sean Cullen – Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates
Nonfiction
Brian O'Dea – High: Confessions of a Pot Smuggler
Novel
Barbara Fradkin – Honour Among Men

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Maggie de Vries, Renné Benoit – Tale of a Great White Fish
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Don McKay – Strike / Slip
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Carol Windley – Home Schooling
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Heather Pringle – The Master Plan
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Katherine Gordon – Made to Measure
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Sarah Ellis – Odd Man Out

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Gil AdamsonThe Outlander

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Heather O'Neill – Lullabies for Little Criminals

Combat des livres

Combat des livres
Denis Thériault – L'iguane

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Nathan SellynIndigenous Beasts

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Elizabeth Hay – Late Nights on Air

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Iain Lawrence – Gemini Summer
Fiction
Michael Ondaatje – Divisadero
Non-fiction
Karolyn Smardz Frost – I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Poetry
Don Domanski – All Our Wonder Unavenged

Études et essais
Annette Hayward – La querelle du régionalisme au Québec (1904-1931): Vers l'autonomisation de la littérature québécoise
Littérature Jeunesse
François Barcelo – La fatigante et le fainéant
Poésie
Serge Patrice Thibodeau – Seul on est
Romans et nouvelles
Sylvain Trudel – La mer de la tranquillité

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Don McKay – Strike/Slip

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Pamela Porter – The Crazy Man
Non-fiction
Elizabeth MacLeod – Harry Houdini: A Magical Life

Documentaire
Annie Groovie – Léon et les expressions
Romans
Diane Bergeron – L'atlas perdu

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Stuart McLean – Secrets From the Vinyl Cafe

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Mélanie Watt – Scaredy Squirrel
Evergreen Award
Ami McKay – The Birth House
Golden Oak Award
Pamela Porter – The Crazy Man
Red Maple Award
Fiction: Eric Walters – We All Fall Down
Non-Fiction: Andreas Schroeder – Thieves!
Silver Birch Award
L.M. Falcone – Walking With the Dead
Kathy Kacer – Hiding Edith
Nancy Shouse – Any Pet Will Do
White Pine Award
Eric WaltersShattered

ReLit Awards

Novel
Ivan E. Coyote – Bow Grip
Poetry
Daniel Scott Tysdal – Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
Short Fiction
Bill GastonGargoyles

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet and other stories
Children
R.P. MacIntyre – Feeding at Nine
Fiction
Bernice Friesen – The Book of Beasts
First Book
Alice Kuipers – Life on the Refrigerator Door
Non-Fiction
Mary-Ann Kirkby – I Am Hutterite
Poetry
Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm
Reader's Choice
Amanda Deitz – Longer than Life, Volume 2
Regina Book Award
Dave Margoshes – Bix's Trumpet and other stories
Saskatoon Book Award
Sheri Benning – Thin Moon Psalm

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Kathleen Winter – boYs

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Diane Schoemperlen
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Lawrence Hill – The Book of Negroes
Timothy Findley Award
Michael Crummey
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Martha Brooks
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Anna Porter – Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

2006


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Louise Penny – Still Life
French
Gérard Galarneau – Motel Riviera
Juvenile
Vicki Grant – Quid Pro Quo
Nonfiction
Rebecca Godfrey – Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
Novel
William Deverell – April Fool

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Tanya Lloyd Kyi – The Blue Jean Book
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Meredith Quartermain – Vancouver Walking
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Charlotte Gill – Ladykiller
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Stan Persky – The Short Version
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Barbara Nickel – Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Madeleine Thien – Certainty

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Miriam ToewsA Complicated Kindness

Combat des livres

Combat des livres
Francine Noël – La femme de ma vie

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Charlotte Gill – Ladykiller

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Vincent Lam – Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
William Gilkerson – Pirate's Passage
Fiction
Peter Behrens – The Law of Dreams
Non-fiction
Ross King – The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Poetry
John Pass – Stumbling in the Bloom

Études et essais
Pierre Ouellet – À force de voir: histoire de regards
Littérature Jeunesse
Dany Laferrière – Je suis fou de Vava
Poésie
Hélène Dorion – Ravir: les lieux
Romans et nouvelles
Andrée Laberge – La rivière du loup

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Sylvia Legris – Nerve Squall

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Natale Ghent – No Small Thing
Non-fiction
Linda Bailey – Adventures in the Ice Age
Romans
Diane Carmel Léger – La butte à Pétard

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Arthur Black – Pitch Black

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Paul Wyczynski

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
George Elliott, Andrej Krystoforski – The Boy Who Loved Bananas
Evergreen Award
Joseph BoydenThree Day Road
Golden Oak Award
Deborah Ellis – The Heaven Shop
Red Maple Award
Kenneth Oppel – Skybreaker
Silver Birch Award
Edo van Belkom – Wolf Pack
Helaine Becker – Boredom Blasters
White Pine Award
Charles De Lint – The Blue Girl

ReLit Awards

Novel
Lisa Moore – Alligator
Poetry
Leon Rooke – Hot Poppies
Short Fiction
Barry Webster – The Sound of All Flesh

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Michael Trussler – Encounters
Fiction
Martha Blum – The Apothecary
First Book
Annette Lapointe – Stolen
Prix du Livre
Martine Noël-Maw – Amelia et les Papillons
Non-Fiction
Marie Elyse St. George – Once in A Blue Moon: An Artist's Life
Poetry
Daniel Scott Tysdal – Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method
Reader's Choice
Gail Bowen – The Endless Knot
Regina Book Award
Michael Trussler – Encounters
Saskatoon Book Award
Annette Lapointe – Stolen
Young Adult
Arthur SladeMegiddo's Shadow

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Kenneth J. Harvey – Inside

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Caroline Adderson
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Kenneth J. Harvey – Inside
Timothy Findley Award
Douglas Glover
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Kenneth Oppel
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Dragan Todorovic – The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

2005


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Jon Evans – Dark Places
French
Ann Lamontagne – Les Douze Pierres
Juvenile
Carrie Mac – The Beckoners
Nonfiction
Matthew Hart – The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art
Novel
Barbara Fradkin – Fifth Son

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Marilynn Reynolds, Renné Benoit – Goodbye to Griffith Street
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Jan Zwicky – Robinson's Crossing
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Pauline Holdstock – Beyond Measure
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer, Don Staniford – A Stain Upon the Sea
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Susan JubyMiss Smithers

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Joseph BoydenThree Day Road

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Frank Parker Day – Rockbound

Combat des livres

Combat des livres
Réjean Ducharme – L'avalée des avalés

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
David BezmozgisNatasha and Other Stories

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
David Bergen – The Time In Between

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Pamela Porter – The Crazy Man
Fiction
David Gilmour – A Perfect Night to Go to China
Non-fiction
John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
Poetry
Anne Compton – Processional

Études et essais
Michel Bock – Quand la nation débordait les frontières: les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx
Littérature Jeunesse
Camille Bouchard – Le ricanement des hyènes
Poésie
Jean-Marc Desgent – Vingtièmes siècles
Romans et nouvelles
Aki Shimazaki – Hotaru

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Roo Borson – Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Deborah Ellis – Mud City
Non-fiction
Diane Swanson – Tunnels!
Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award: Romans
Alain M. Bergeron – Zak le fantôme

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Will Ferguson – Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Robert Heidbreder, Bill Slavin, Esperança Melo – Drumheller Dinosaur Dance
Evergreen Award
Mary LawsonCrow Lake
Golden Oak Award
Richardo Keens-Douglas – Tales From the Isle of Spice
Red Maple Award
Fiction: Kenneth Oppel – Airborn
Non-Fiction: Andreas Schroeder – Scams!
Silver Birch Award
Sharon Stewart – Raven Quest
Marg Meikle, Tina Holdcroft – Ask Me Anything: Strange But True Answers to 99 Wacky Questions
White Pine Award
Marnelle Tokio – More Than You Can Chew

ReLit Awards

Novel
Sky Gilbert – An English Gentleman
Poetry
A.F. Moritz – Night Street Repairs
Short Fiction
James Grainger – The Long Slide

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Steven Ross Smith – fluttertongue 3: disarray
Children
Beth Goobie – Fixed
Fiction
Sandra Birdsell – Children of the Day
First Book
Eric Greenway – The Darkness Beneath All Things
Non-Fiction
Sharon Butala – Lilac Moon
Poetry
Allan Safarik – When Light Falls from the Sun
Reader's Choice
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
Regina Book Award
Maggie Siggins – Bitter Embrace
Saskatoon Book Award
Don Kerr – The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Joan Clark – An Audience of Chairs

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Gayla Reid
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Joseph BoydenThree Day Road
Timothy Findley Award
Rohinton Mistry
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Marie-Louise Gay
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

2004


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Jan Rehner – Just Murder
French
Jean Lemieux – On finit toujours par payer
Juvenile
Graham McNamee – Acceleration
Nonfiction
Julian Sher & William Marsden, The Road to Hell
Novel
Giles Blunt – The Delicate Storm

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin – Stanley's Party
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Philip Kevin Paul – Taking the Names Down From the Hill
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Caroline AddersonSitting Practice
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Maria Tippett, Bill Reid – The Making of an Indian
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Donald Luxton – Building the West
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Dennis Foon – Skud

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Colin MacAdam – Some Great Thing

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing

Combat des livres

Combat des livres
Gil Courtemanche – Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Jacqueline Baker – A Hard Witching & Other Stories

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Alice MunroRunaway

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Kenneth Oppel – Airborn
Fiction
Miriam ToewsA Complicated Kindness
Non-fiction
Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire – Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Poetry
Roo Borson – Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

Études et essais
Jean-Jacques Simard – La Réduction: l'Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d'aujourd'hui
Littérature Jeunesse
Nicole Leroux – L'Hiver de Léo Polatouche
Poésie
André Brochu – Les jours à vif
Romans et nouvelles
Pascale Quiviger – Le cercle parfait

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Anne Simpson – Loop

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Alan Cumyn – The Secret Life of Owen Skye
Non-fiction
Karen Levine – Hana's Suitcase
Romans
Lucia Cavezzali – Opération Juliette

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Ian Ferguson – Village of the Small Houses

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
William H. New

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Linda Bailey, Bill Slavin – Stanley's Party
Golden Oak Award
Deborah Ellis – Parvana's Journey
Red Maple Award
Norah McClintockHit and Run
Silver Birch Award
Michael McGowan – Newton and the Giant
Larry Verstraete – Survivors! True Death-Defying Escapes
White Pine Award
Don Aker – The First Stone

ReLit Awards

Novel
Darren Greer – Still Life with June
Poetry
Souvankham Thammavongsa – Small Arguments
Short Fiction
Tony Burgess – Fiction for Lovers

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Candace Savage – Prairie, A Natural History
Fiction
Larry Gasper – Princes in Waiting
First Book
Bonnie Dunlop – The Beauty Box
Non-Fiction
Candace Savage – Prairie, A Natural History
Poetry
Gerald Hill – Getting to Know You
Reader's Choice
Byrna Barclay – Girl at the Window
Regina Book Award
Byrna Barclay – The Room with Five Walls
Saskatoon Book Award
Robert Calder – Beware the British Serpent
Young Adult
Beth Goobie – Flux

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Edward Riche – The Nine Planets

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Dianne Warren
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Alice MunroRunaway
Timothy Findley Award
David Adams Richards
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Deborah Ellis
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Elaine Dewar – The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality

2003


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
James W. Nichol – Midnight Cab
French
Jacques Côté – Le rouge ideal
Juvenile
Norah McClintockBreak and Enter
Nonfiction
Andrew Mitrovica – Covert Entry
Novel
Rick MofinaBlood of Others

BC Book Prizes

Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Annette LeBox, Karen Reczuch – Salmon Creek
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
bill bisset – peter among th towring boxes
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Carol Shields – Unless
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Sandra Shields, David Campion – Where Fire Speaks
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Ernest Perrault – Tong
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
James Heneghan – Flood

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Michel Basilières – Black Bird

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Hubert Aquin – Next Episode (Prochain Épisode)

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Lee HendersonThe Broken Record Technique

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
M.G. Vassanji – The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Glen Huser – Stitches
Fiction
Douglas Glover – Elle
Non-fiction
Margaret MacMillan – Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Poetry
Tim Lilburn – Kill-site

Études et essais
Thierry Hentsch – Raconter et mourir: aux sources narratives de l'imaginaire occidental
Littérature Jeunesse
Danielle Simard – J'ai vendu ma soeur
Poésie
Pierre Nepveu – Lignes aériennes
Romans et nouvelles
Élise Turcotte – La maison étrangère

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Margaret Avison – Concrete and Wild Carrot

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Deborah Ellis – The Breadwinner
Non-fiction
Linda Bailey – Adventures With The Vikings
Romans
Marthe Pelletier – Chante pour moi, Charlotte

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Dan Needles – With Axe and Flask: A History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Matt Napier, Melanie Rose – Z is for Zamboni
Golden Oak Award
Karen Levine – Hana's Suitcase
Red Maple Award
Gayle Friesen – Losing Forever
Silver Birch Award
Eric WaltersCamp X
Karen Levine – Hana's Suitcase
White Pine Award
Gillian Chan – A Foreign Field

ReLit Awards

Novel
Peter Darbyshire – Please
Poetry
Margaret Christakos – Excessive Love Prostheses
Short Fiction
Sean Johnston – A Day Does Not Go By

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Donald Ward – Nobody Goes to Earth Any More
Children
Judith Silverthorne – Dinosaur Hideout
Fiction
J. Jill Robinson – Residual Desire
First Book
Michael Hetherton – Grasslands
Non-Fiction
Bill Waiser – All Hell Can't Stop Us
Poetry
Elizabeth Brewster – Jacob's Dream
Reader's Choice
Lois Simmie – What I'm Trying to Say is Goodbye
Regina Book Award
Bruce Rice – The Illustrated Statue of Liberty
Saskatoon Book Award
J. Jill Robinson – Residual Desire

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Robert Mellin – Tilting

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Elisabeth Harvor
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Kevin Patterson – Country of Cold
Timothy Findley Award
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Roslyn Schwartz
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Brian Fawcett – Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown

2002


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Jon RedfernThe Boy Must Die
French
Anne-Michèle Lévesque – Fleur invitait au troisième
Juvenile
Norah McClintockScared to Death
Nonfiction
Stevie Cameron & Harvey Cashore – The Last Amigo
Novel
Michelle Spring – In the Midnight Hour

BC Book Prizes

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Karen Solie – Short Haul Engine
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Madeleine Thien – Simple Recipes
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Susan Crean – The Laughing One
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe, David Smith – A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Polly Horvath – Everything on a Waffle

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Mary LawsonCrow Lake

Canada Reads

Canada Reads
Michael OndaatjeIn The Skin of A Lion

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Gloria Sawai – A Song for Nettie Johnson

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Austin Clarke – The Polished Hoe

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Martha Brooks – True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Fiction
Gloria Sawai – A Song for Nettie Johnson
Non-fiction
Andrew Nikiforuk – Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
Poetry
Roy Miki – Surrender

Études et essais
Judith Lavoie – Mark Twain et la parole noire
Littérature Jeunesse
Hélène Vachon – L'oiseau de passage
Poésie
Robert Dickson – Humains paysages en temps de paix relative
Romans et nouvelles
Monique LaRue – La Gloire de Cassiodore

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Christian Bök – Eunoia

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Sharon E. McKay – Charlie Wilcox
Non-fiction
Vivien Bowers – WOW Canada!: Exploring this Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
Romans
François Barcelo – Premier trophée pour Momo de Sinro

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Will Ferguson – Generica

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Sandra Djwa

Ontario Library Association

Blue Spruce Award
Valerie Coulman, Roge – When Pigs Fly
Red Maple Award
Kathy Kacer – Clara's War
Silver Birch Award
Virginia Frances Schwartz – If I Just Had Two Wings
Lyn Thomas – Ha! Ha! Ha!
White Pine Award
Shelley Hrdlitschka – Dancing Naked

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing
Fiction
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing
First Book
Sheri Benning – Earth After Rain
Non-Fiction
Frances Greenslade – A Pilgrim in Ireland
Poetry
Sheri Benning – Earth After Rain
Prix du Livre
Laurier Gareau – 50 ans de radio
Reader's Choice
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing
Regina Book Award
Edward Willett – Spirit Singer
Saskatoon Book Award
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Last Crossing
Young Adult
Candace Savage – Wizards

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Joan Clark – The Word for Home

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Terry Griggs
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Paulette Jiles – Enemy Women
Timothy Findley Award
Bill Gaston
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Julie Johnston
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Jake MacDonald – Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country

2001


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Mark ZuehlkeHands Like Clouds
French
Norman Spehner – Le roman policier en Amerique francaise
Juvenile
Tim Wynne-JonesThe Boy in the Burning House
Nonfiction
A.B. McKillop – The Spinster and the Prophet
Novel
Peter Robinson – Cold is the Grave

BC Book Prizes

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Don McKay – Another Gravity
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Eden Robinson – Monkey Beach
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Dan Francis – The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
James Heneghan – The Grave

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Michael Redhill – Martin Sloane

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Barbara Lambert – Message for Mr. Lazarus

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Richard B. Wright – Clara Callan

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Arthur Slade – Dust
Fiction
Richard B. Wright – Clara Callan
Non-fiction
Thomas Homer-Dixon – The Ingenuity Gap
Poetry
George Elliott Clarke – Execution Poems

Études et essais
Renée Dupuis – Quel Canada pour les Autochtones? La fin de l'exclusion
Littérature Jeunesse
Christiane Duchesne – Jomusch et le troll des cuisines
Poésie
Paul Chanel Malenfant – Des ombres portées
Romans et nouvelles
Andrée A. Michaud – Le ravissement

Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize
Anne Carson – Men in the Off Hours

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Kathy Kacer – The Secret of Gabi's Dresser
Non-fiction
Andy Turnbull with Debora Pearson – By Truck to the North: My Arctic Adventure

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Stuart McLean – Vinyl Cafe Unplugged

Ontario Library Association

Red Maple Award
Eric Walters – Rebound
Silver Birch Award
Bill Richardson – After Hamelin
Linda Bailey – Adventure in the Middle Ages

ReLit Awards

Novel
Bonnie Bowman – Skin
Poetry
S.D. Johnson – Hymns to Phenomena
Short Fiction
Mark Anthony Jarman – 19 Knives

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Sandra Birdsell – The Russländer
Children
Arthur Slade – Dust
Fiction
Sandra Birdsell – The Russländer
First Book
Katherine Lawrence – Ring Finger, Left Hand
Non-Fiction
Warren Goulding – Just Another Indian
Poetry
Ken Howe – Household Hints for the End of Time
Reader's Choice
Deanna Christensen – Ahtahkakoop
Regina Book Award
Sandra Birdsell – The Russländer
Saskatoon Book Award
Glen Sorestad – Leaving Holds Me Here

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Michael Crummey – River Thieves

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Elizabeth Hay
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Margaret Sweatman – When Alice Lay Down With Peter
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Linda Granfield
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Clark Blaise – Time Lord

2000


Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
Andrew Pyper – Lost Girls
French
Lionel Noel – Louna
Juvenile
Linda Bailey – How Can a Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark?
Nonfiction
Gordon Sinclair, Jr. – Cowboys and Indians
Novel
Rosemary Aubert – The Feast of Stephen

BC Book Prizes

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Lorna Crozier – What the Living Won't Let Go
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Michael Turner – The Pornographer's Poem
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Vivien Bowers – WOW Canada! Exploring The Land From Coast To Coast to Coast

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Eva Stachniak – Necessary Lies

Danuta Gleed Literary Award

Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Mike Barnes – Aquarium

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
David Adams Richards – Mercy Among The Children
Michael OndaatjeAnil's Ghost

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Deborah Ellis – Looking for X
Fiction
Michael OndaatjeAnil's Ghost
Non-fiction
Nega Mezlekia – Notes from the Hyena's Belly
Poetry
Don McKay – Another Gravity

Études et essais
Gérard Bouchard – Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde
Littérature Jeunesse
Charlotte Gingras – Un été de Jade
Poésie
Normand de Bellefeuille – La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien
Romans et nouvelles
Jean Marc Dalpé – Un vent se lève qui éparpille

Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award

Fiction
Kenneth Oppel – Silverwing
Non-fiction
Sheree Fitch – If You Could Wear My Sneakers

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Arthur Black – Black Tie and Tales

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Jean-Louis Major

Ontario Library Association

Red Maple Award
Anita Horrocks – What They Don't Know
Silver Birch Award
Kathy Kacer – The Secret of Gabi's Dresser
Sheree Fitch – If You Could Wear My Sneakers

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Trevor Herriot – River in a Dry Land
Patricia Monture-Angus – Journeying Forward
Fiction
Leona Theis – Sightlines
First Book
Tom Molloy – The World Is Our Witness
Non-Fiction
Tom Molloy – The World Is Our Witness
Poetry
Elizabeth Philips – A Blue with Blood in It
Regina Book Award
Trevor Herriot – River in a Dry Land
Maggie Siggins – In Her Own Time
Saskatoon Book Award
Leona Theis – Sightlines
Young Adult
Beth Goobie – Before Wings

Winterset Award

Winterset Award
Michael Winter – This All Happened

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Anita Rau Badami
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
Helen Humphreys – Afterimage
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Sheree Fitch
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Erna Paris – Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History