Canadian Literary Awards
2008
Winners of Canadian literary awards for 2008.
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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
- Leacock Medal for Humour
- Terry Fallis – The Best Laid Plans
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 Non-Fiction Prize
- Taras Grescoe – Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Added 04 November 2008.
Updated 17 June 2010.
