Canadian Literary Awards
2000s
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 Barclay – Too 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 McClintock – Out 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
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
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 Adamson – The 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 Emery – Sign 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
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
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 Walters – Shattered
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 Gaston – Gargoyles
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
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 Boyden – Three 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 Slade – Megiddo'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 Juby – Miss Smithers
Books in Canada First Novel Award
Canada Reads
- Canada Reads
- Frank Parker Day – Rockbound
Combat des livres
- Combat des livres
- Réjean Ducharme – L'avalée des avalés
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
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 Lawson – Crow 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 Boyden – Three 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 Adderson – Sitting 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
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Kenneth Oppel – Airborn
- Fiction
- Miriam Toews – A 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 McClintock – Hit 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 Munro – Runaway
- 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 McClintock – Break and Enter
- Nonfiction
- Andrew Mitrovica – Covert Entry
- Novel
- Rick Mofina – Blood 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
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 Walters – Camp 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 Redfern – The Boy Must Die
- French
- Anne-Michèle Lévesque – Fleur invitait au troisième
- Juvenile
- Norah McClintock – Scared 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
Canada Reads
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 Zuehlke – Hands Like Clouds
- French
- Norman Spehner – Le roman policier en Amerique francaise
- Juvenile
- Tim Wynne-Jones – The 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 Ondaatje – Anil's Ghost
Governor General's Literary Awards
- Children's Literature
- Deborah Ellis – Looking for X
- Fiction
- Michael Ondaatje – Anil'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
