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The Governor General's Literary
Awards (Canada)
Adult Fiction:
2008 Winner:
The Origin of Species. Nino Ricci
2008 Finalists:
Atmospheric Disturbances. Rivka Galchen
Cockroach. Rawi Hage
The Lost Highway. David Adams Richards
The Great Karoo. Fred Stenson
Past Winners:
2007 Divisadero. Michael Ondaatje
2006 The Law of
Dreams. Peter Behrens
2005 A Perfect
Night to Go to China. David
Gilmour
2004 A
Complicated Kindness. Miriam Toews
2003 Elle. Douglas Glover
2002 A Song For Nettie Johnson. Gloria Sawai
2001 Clara
Callan. Richard Wright
2000 Anil's
Ghost. Michael Ondaatje
1999 Elizabeth and After. Matt Cohen
1998 Forms of Devotion. Diane Schoemperlen
1997 The
Underpainter. Jane Urquhart
1996 The
Englishman's Boy. Guy Vanderhaeghe
1995 The Roaring Girl. Greg Hollingshead
1994 A Discovery of Strangers. Rudy Wiebe
1993 The
Stone Diaries. Carol Shields
1992 The
English Patient. Michael Ondaajte
1991 Such
a Long Journey. Rohinton Mistry
1990 Lives
of the Saints. Nino Ricci
Non-Fiction:
2008 Winner:
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army. Christie Blatchford
2008 Finalists:
God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery. Douglas Hunter
The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek. Sid Marty
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century. James Orbinski
The Geography of Hope. Chris Turner
Past Winners:
2007 I've Got a Home in Glory Land. Karolyn Smardz Frost
2006 The Judgment of Paris. Ross King
2005 The Golden
Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed. John Vaillant
2004 Shake
Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Lt. Gen.
Roméo Dallaire
2003 Paris 1919: Six Months
that Changed the World. Margaret MacMillan
2002 Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil. Andrew Nikiforuk
2001 The
Ingenuity Gap. Thomas Homer-Dixon
2000 Notes from the Hyena's Belly. Nega Mezlekia
1999 Water.
Marq de Villiers
1998 Lines
on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi. David Adams Richards
1997 Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. Rachel Manley
1996 The
Unconscious Civilization. John Ralston Saul
1995 Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Rosemary Sullivan
1994 Rogue Primate. John A. Livingston
1993 Touch the Dragon. Karen Connelly
1992 Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a
Saskatchewan Farm. Maggie Siggins
1991 Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past.
Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo
1990 Trudeau and Our Times. Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall
Poetry:
2008 Winner:
More to Keep us Warm. Jacob Scheier
2008 Finalists:
Noise from the Laundry. Weyman Chan
The Sentinel. A.F. Moritz
The Invisibility Exhibit. Sachiko Murakami
Aide-Mémoire. Ruth Roach Pierson
Past Winners:
2007 All our Wonder Unavenged. Don Domanski
2006 Stumbling in the Bloom. John Pass
2005 Processional. Anne Compton
2004 Short
Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. Roo Borson
2003 Kill-site. Tim Lilburn
2002 Surrender. Roy Miki
2001 Execution Poems. George Elliott Clarke
2000 Another Gravity. Don McKay
1999 Songs
for Relinquishing the Earth. Jan Zwicky
1998 White Stone: The Alice Poems. Stephanie Bolster
1997 Land
to Light On. Dionne Brand
1996 Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. E.D. Blodgett
1995 Voice. Anne Szumigalski
1994 Cantos from a Small Room. Robert Hilles
1993 Forests of the Medieval World. Don Coles
1992 Inventing
the Hawk. Lorna Crozier
1991 Night Field. Don McKay
1990 No Time. Margaret Avison
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The Giller Prize
(Canada)
2008 Winner:
Through Black Spruce. Joseph Boyden
2008 Finalists:
Barnacle Love. Anthony De Sa
Good to a Fault. Marina Endicott
Cockroach. Rawi Hage
The Boys in the Trees. Mary Swan
Past Winners:
2007 Late Nights on Air. Elizabeth Hay
2006 Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. Vincent Lam
2005 The Time
In Between. David Bergen
2004 Runaway. Alice
Munro
2003 The In-Between
World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
2002 The Polished Hoe. Austin Clarke
2001
Clara
Callan. Richard B. Wright
2000 Anil's
Ghost. Michael Ondaatje
2000 Mercy
Among The Children. David Adams Richards
1999 A
Good House. Bonnie Burnard
1998 The
Love of a Good Woman. Alice Munro
1997 Barney's
Version. Mordecai Richler
1996 Alias
Grace. Margaret Atwood
1995 A
Fine Balance. Rohinton Mistry
1994 The
Book of Secrets. M.G. Vassanji
For more information, visit the Giller
Prize Web Site.
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Stephen Leacock Medal For Humour
(Canada)
2008 The Best Laid Plans. Terry Fallis
2007 Secrets
from the Vinyl Cafe. Stuart McLean
2006 Pitch Black. Arthur Black
2005 Beauty
Tips from Moose Jaw. Will Ferguson
2004 Village of the Small Houses. Ian Ferguson
2003 With Axe and Flask. Dan Needles
2002 Generica (HappinessTM).
Will Ferguson
2001 Vinyl
Cafe Unplugged. Stuart McLean
2000 Black Tie and Tales. Arthur Black
1999 Home
from the Vinyl Cafe. Stuart McLean
1998 Barney's
Version. Mordecai Richler
1997 Black in the Saddle Again. Arthur Black
1996 Letters from the Country. Marsha Boulton
1995 Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life. Josh Freed
1994 Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast. Bill Richardson
1993 Waiting for Aquarius. Joseph Levesque
1992 Prayers of a Very Wise Child. Roch Carrier
1991 Waiting in the Rain. Howard White
1990 According to Jake and the Kid. W.O. Mitchell
1989 Winter Tulips. John Kertes
1988 King Leary. Paul Quarrington
1987 The Fencepost Chronicles. W.P. Kinsella
1986 No Axe too Small to Grind. Joey Slinger
1985 Love is a Long Shot. Ted Allan
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Canada Reads
2009 Winner:
The
Book of Negroes. Lawrence Hill
2009 Canada Reads Shortlist:
The
Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant. Michel Tremblay
Fruit. Brian Francis
Mercy Among the Children. David Adams Richards
The
Outlander. Gil Adamson
Past Winners:
2008 King
Leary. Paul Quarrington
2007 Lullabies
for Little Criminals. Heather O'Neill
2006 A
Complicated Kindness. Miriam Toews
2005 Rockbound.
Frank Parker Day
2004 The
Last Crossing. Guy Vanderhaeghe
2003 The Next Episode. Hubert Aquin
2002 In
the Skin of a Lion. Michael Ondaatje
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BC
Book Prizes
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
2009 Winner:
The Man Game. Lee Henderson
2009 Finalists:
Cellist of Sarajevo. Steven Galloway
Red Dog, Red Dog. Patrick Lane
Renovating Heaven. Andreas Schroeder
That Tune Clutches My Heart. Paul Headrick
Past Winners:
2008 Conceit. Mary Novik
2007 Home Schooling.Carol Windley
2006 Ladykiller. Charlotte Gill
2005 Beyond Measure. Pauline
Holdstock
2004 Sitting
Practice. Caroline Adderson
2003 Unless. Carol
Shields
2002 Simple Recipes. Madeleine Thien
2001 Monkey
Beach. Eden Robinson
2000 The Pornographer's Poem. Michael Turner
1999 Broken
Ground. Jack Hodgins
1998 Visible Worlds. Marilyn Bowering
1997 The Cure for Death
by Lightning. Gail Anderson-Dargatz
1996 Coming Down from Wa. Audrey Thomas
1995 To Be There With You. Gayla Reid
1994 Bad Imaginings. Caroline Adderson
1993 The Girl with the Botticelli Face. W.D. Valgardson
1992 Blue Husbands. Don Dickinson
1991 Wild Blue Yonder. Audrey Thomas
1990 Motet. Keith Maillard
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
2009 Winner:
Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia. Stephen Hume
2009 Finalists:
Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome
The Peace: A History in Photographs. Donald A. Pettit
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect. Daphne Bramham
Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929. Margaret Horsfield
Past Winners:
2008 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. J. B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith
2007 Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia . Katherine Gordon
2006 The Golden Spruce:
A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed. John Vaillant
2005 A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast
Salmon Farming. Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella
M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford
2004 Building
the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia. Donald Luxton
2003 Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan. Ernest Perrault
2002 A
Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield,
Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe
and David Smith
2001 The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Dan Francis
2000 Cougar
Annie's Garden. Margaret Horsfield
1999 River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola. Mark Hume with
Harvey Thommassen
1998 Mighty River. Richard Bocking
1997 The Fraser River. Alan Haig-Brown
1996 HR: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan. Ken Drushka
1995 Raincoast
Chronicles. Howard White
1994 Nisga'a. Alex Rose
1993 Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller. Harry Robinson
& Wendy Wickwire
1992 Seeing the Forest Among the Trees. Herb Hammond
1991
Aboriginal Peoples & Politics. Paul Tennant
1990 Carmanah. (Western Canada Wilderness Committee)
Hubert Evans
Non-Fiction Prize
2009 Winner:
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Gabor Maté
2009 Finalists:
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America. Chris Wood
Going Home: Essays. Tim Lilburn
The Jesus Sayings. Rex Weyler
What is America? A Short History of the New World Order. Ronald Wright
Past Winners:
2008 Everywhere Being is Dancing. Robert Bringhurst
2007 The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust. Heather Pringle
2006 The Short Version: An ABC Book. Stan Persky
2005 The Last Heathen.
Charles Montgomery
2004 Bill Reid:
The Making of an Indian. Maria Tippett
2003 Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba. Sandra Shields and David
Campion
2002 The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr. Susan Crean
2001 The
Last Great Sea. Terry Glavin
2000 Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels. Rita Moir
1999 Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power. Peter Newman
1998 Stolen
from Our Embrace. Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey
1997 O-bon in Chimunesu. Catherine Lang
1996 Letter from Vienna. Claudia Cornwall
1995 Uncommon Will. Lisa Hobbs Birnie
1994 Some Become Flowers. Sharon Brown
1993 Muddling Through. Lynne Bowen
1992 Down the Road. Rosemary Neering
1991 Jack
Shadbolt. Scott Watson
1990 Marshall McLuhan. Philip Marchand
BC Booksellers’
Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
2009 Winner:
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver. Stephen Bown
2009 Finalists:
British Columbia: Spirit of the People. Jean Barman
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet. Cathy Converse
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent. Andrew Nikiforuk
Past Winners:
2008 The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest. Ian McAllister
2007 David Suzuki: The Autobiography. David Suzuki
2006 Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime
Story of Greater Vancouver. James P. Delgado
2005 Birds
of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat. Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings,
R. Wayne Campbell, & Mark Hume
2004 The
Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580. R. Samuel Bawlf
2003
Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's
Working Tugboats. Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson and Betty Keller
2002
Illustrated History of British Columbia. Terry Reksten
2001 The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Dan Francis
2000 Historical
Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Derek Hayes
1999 Westcoasters:
Boats That Built BC. Tom Henry
1998 The
Great Bear Rainforest. Ian & Karen McAllister and Cameron Young
1997 British Columbia: A Natural History. Richard Cannings & Sydney
Cannings
1996 Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book. Bill Richardson
1995 Eagle Transforming. Ulli Steltzer & Robert Davidson
1994 Fishing for a Living. Alan Haig-Brown
1993 Sabine's
Notebook. Nick Bantock
1992 The Black Canoe. Robert Bringhurst & Ulli Steltzer
1991 Vanishing Vancouver. Michael Kluckner
1990 Carmanah Western. Canada Wilderness Committee
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
2009 Winner:
The Given.
2009 Finalists:
Chameleon Hours. Elise Partridge
Daphne Marlatt
Shirin and Salt Man. Nilofar Shidmehr
Vancouver: A Poem. George Stanley
Water Strider. Karen Hofmann
Past Winners:
2008 Forage. Rita Wong
2007 Strike / Slip. Don McKay
2006 Vancouver Walking. Meredith Quartermain
2005 Robinson's
Crossing. Jan Zwicky
2004 Taking the Names Down From the Hill. Philip Kevin Paul
2003 peter among th towring boxes. bill bissett
2002 Short
Haul Engine. Karen Solie
2001 Another
Gravity. Don McKay
2000 What the Living Won't Let Go. Lorna Crozier
1999 How I Joined Humanity At Last. David Zieroth
1998 What I Remember from My Time on Earth. Patricia Young
1997 The Unhinging of Wings. Margo Button
1996 Too Spare, Too Fierce. Patrick Lane
1995 Hard Candy. Linda Rogers
1994 The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. Gregory Scofield
1993 Inkorrect Thots. Bill Bissett
1992 Pulplog. Barry McKinnon
1991 Down Time. Jeff Derksen
1990 Suitcase. Victoria Walker
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
2009 Terry Glavin
2008 Gary Geddes
2007 Patrick Lane
2006 Jack Hodgins
2005 Robert Bringhurst
2004 P.K. (Patricia Kathleen)
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The
City of Victoria Butler Book Prize (Victoria, Canada)
Adult Book Prize
2008 Winner:
Paper Trail. Arleen Paré
Past Winners:
2007 Gargoyles. Bill Gaston
2006 Holding
Juno. Mark Zuehlke
2005 After Goodlake’s. Terence Young
2004 Country of Cold. Kevin Patterson
Bolen Children's Book Prize
2008 Winner:
Mechanimals. Chris Tougas
For more information, visit the The City
of Victoria Butler Book Prize Web Site.
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The
Man Booker Prizes (UK & Commonwealth)
The Man Booker Prize
2008 Winner:
The
White Tiger. Aravind Adiga
2008 Finalists:
The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies. Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on their Backs. Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency.
Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole. Steve Toltz
Past Winners:
2007 The
Gathering. Anne Enright
2006 The
Inheritance of Loss. Kiran Desai
2005 The Sea.
John Banville
2004 Line
of Beauty. Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon
God Little. D B C Pierre
2002 Life
of Pi. Yann Martel
2001 True
History of the Kelly Gang. Peter Carey
2000 The
Blind Assassin. Margaret Atwood
1999 Disgrace.
J M Coetzee
1998 Amsterdam.
Ian McEwan
1997 The
God of Small Things. Arundhati Roy
1996 Last
Orders. Graham Swift
1995 The
Ghost Road. Pat Barker
1994 How
Late It Was, How Late. James Kelman
1993 Paddy
Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Roddy Doyle
1992 The
English Patient. Michael Ondaatje
1992 Sacred
Hunger. Barry Unsworth
1991 Possession.
A S Byatt
The Man Booker International Prize (awarded every two years)
2009 Alice Munro
2007 Chinua Achebe
2005 Ismail Kadare
For more information, visit the Man Booker
Prize Web Site.
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The Orange Broadband Prize
(UK & Commonwealth - Women Writers Only)
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction
2009 Winner:
Home. Marilynne Robinson
2009 Finalists:
Scottsboro. Ellen Feldman
The Wilderness. Samantha Harvey
The Invention of Everything Else. Samantha Hunt
Molly Fox's Birthday. Deirdre Madden
Burnt Shadows. Kamila Shamsie
Past Winners:
2008 The Road Home. Rose Tremain
2007 Half
of a Yellow Sun. Adichie Ngozi Chimamanda
2006 On
Beauty. Zadie Smith
2005 We
Need to Talk About Kevin. Lionel Shriver
2004 Small Island. Andrea Levy
2003 Property. Valerie Martin
2002 Bel
Canto. Ann Patchett
2001 The
Idea of Perfection. Kate Grenville
2000 When I Lived in Modern Times. Linda Grant
1999 A Crime in the Neighborhood. Suzanne Berne
1998 Larry’s
Party. Carol Shields
1997 Fugitive
Pieces. Anne Michaels
1996 A Spell for Winter. Helen Dunmore
Orange Broadband Award for New Writers
2009 Winner:
An Equal Stillness. Francesca Kay
2009 Finalists:
Miles From Nowhere. Nami Mun
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. Ann Weisgarber
Past Winners:
2008 Inglorious. Joanna Kavenna
2007 Lizard
Cage. Karen Connelly
2006 Disobedience. Naomi Alderman
2005 26a. Diana Evans
For more information, visit the Orange
Prize Web Site.
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The Costa Book Awards(formerly
the Whitbread Book Awards)
Costa Book of the Year
2008 Winner:
The Secret Scripture.
Sebastian Barry
Past Winners:
2007 Day.
A. L. Kennedy
2006 The Tenderness of Wolves.
Stef Penney
2005 Matisse the Master.
Hilary Spurling
2004 Small Island.
Andrea Levy
2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Mark Haddon
2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self.
Claire Tomalin
2001 The
Amber Spyglass. Philip Pullman
2000 English Passengers. Matthew Kneale
1999 Beowulf. Seamus Heaney
1998
Birthday Letters. Ted Hughes
1997 Tales
from Ovid. Ted Hughes
1996 The Spirit Level. Seamus Heaney
1995 Behind
the Scenes at the Museum. Kate Atkinson
1994 Felicia's Journey. William Trevor
1993 Theory of War. Joan Brady
1992 Swing Hammer Swing! Jeff Torrington
1991 Alma Cogan. Gordon Burn
1990 A Life of Picasso. John Richardson
Costa First Novel Award
2008 Winner:
The Outcast. Sadie Jones
Past Winners:
2007 What was Lost. Catherine O'Flynn
2006 The Tenderness of Wolves. Stef Penney
2005 The Harmony Silk Factory. Tash Aw
2004 Eve Green. Susan Fletcher
2003 Vernon God Little.
D.B.C. Pierre
2002 The Song of Names. Norman Lebrecht
2001 Something Like a House. Sid Smith
2000 White
Teeth. Zadie Smith
1999 White City Blue. Tim Lott
1998 The Last King of Scotland. Giles Foden
1997 The Ventriloquist’s Tale. Pauline Melville
1996 The
Debt to Pleasure. John Lanchester
1995 Behind
the Scenes at the Museum. Kate Atkinson
1994 The Longest Memory. Fred D'Aguiar
1993 Saving Agnes. Rachel Cusk
1992 Swing Hammer Swing! Jeff Torrington
1991 Alma Cogan. Gordon Burn
1990 The Buddha of Suburbia. Hanif Kureishi
Costa Novel Award
2008 Winner:
The Secret Scripture.
Sebastian Barry
Past Winners:
2007 Day.
A. L. Kennedy
2006 Restless.
William Boyd
2005 The Accidental.
Ali Smith
2004 Small Island.
Andrea Levy
2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Mark Haddon
2002 Spies. Michael Frayn
2001 Twelve Bar Blues. Patrick Neate
2000 English Passengers. Matthew Kneale
1999 Music
and Silence. Rose Tremain
1998 Leading the Cheers. Justin Cartwright
1997 Quarantine. Jim Crace
1996 Every Man for Himself. Beryl Bainbridge
1995 The
Moor's Last Sigh. Salman Rushdie
1994 Felicia's Journey. William Trevor
1993 Theory of War. Joan Brady
1992 Poor Things. Alasdair Gray
1991 The Queen of the Tambourine. Jane Gardham
1990 Hopeful Monsters. Nicholas Mosley
For more information, visit the Costa
Book Award Web Site.
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The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2009 Winner:
Man Gone Down. Micheal Thomas
2009 Nominees:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Junot Diaz
Ravel. Jean Echenoz
The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Mohsin Hamid
The Archivist’s Story. Travis Holland
The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles. Roy Jacobsen
The Indian Clerk. David Leavitt
Animal’s People. Indra Sinha
Past Winners:
2008 De Niro's Game. Rawi Hage
2007 Out Stealing Horses. Per Petterson
2006 The Master. Colm Tóibín
2005 The Known World. Edward P. Jones
2004 The Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
2003 My Name is Red. Orhan Pamuk
2002 The Elementary Particles. Michel Houellebecq
2001 No Great Mischief. Alistair MacLeod
2000 Wide Open. Nicola Barker
1999 Ingenious Pain. Andrew Miller
1998 The Land of Green Plums. Herta Müller
1997 A Heart So White. Javier Marias
1996 Remembering Babylon. David Malouf
For more information, visit the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Web Site.
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