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Awards

Awards news from Canada and around the world

2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist Announced!

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction’s inaugural longlist was announced on International Women's Day. The list includes 15 writers from across Canada and the U.S., one of whom will win the $150,000 USD grand prize, presented by BMO.

Read the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Longlist

 

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction pictures of authors and book covers

Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2022

Book cover for Some Hellish with photo of author Nicholas Herring
  • Some Hellish by Nicholas Herring Winner!
  • Manam by Rima Elkouri
  • Querelle of Roberval by Kevin Lambert
  • Ezra’s Ghosts by Darcy Tamayose
  • Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi

BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2022

Book cover of The Book of Form and Emptiness

The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers. The prizes are presented annually at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Gala and are administered and awarded by members of a non-profit society who represent all facets of the publishing and writing community.

Read the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes winners

Canada Reads 2023

Book cover of Hotline and photograph of author Dimitri Nasrallah
  • Ducks by Kate Beaton Check at your public library!
  • Greenwood by Michael Christie
  • Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

OLA Evergreen Award 2023

Book cover of Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson
  • Ducks by Kate Beaton Check at your public library!
  • Cobalt by Charlie Angus
  • This is Assisted Dying by Dr. Stefanie Green
  • Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
  • Mad Honey by Katie Welch Coming Soon!
  • Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson
  • Toufah by Toufah Jallow
  • A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand
  • Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
  • Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)

FOLD logo

The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) devotes their programming to the work of marginalized and underrepresented authors and storytellers and takes place annually in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. 

Read the 2022 FOLD list Part 1

Read the 2022 FOLD list Part 2

Governor General's Fiction Award 2022

Book cover of Pure Colour with photograph of author
  • Pure Colour by Sheila Heti Winner!
  • All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
  • Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
  • Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson
  • The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat

Governor General's Non-Fiction Award 2022

Book cover of Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth and photograph of author
  • Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth by Eli Baxter Winner!
  • All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
  • Generation Dread by Britt Wray
  • Persephoneʼs Children by Rowan McCandless
  • Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2022

Book cover of The Invisible Siege with photo of author Dan Werb
  • The Invisible Siege by Dan Werb Winner!
  • Nothing Will Be Different by Tara McGowan-Ross
  • The Petroleum Papers by Geoff Dembicki 
  • The Long Road Home by Debra Thompson 
  • Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead

Indigenous Voices Award 2022

All the Quiet Places book cover on left shows an illustration of a brown tree stump against a pale landscape with mountains. On the right is a portrait of the author Brian Thomas Isaac

Winner for Published prose in English:
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac  

Winner for Published Graphic Novels, Comics, and Illustrated Books:
Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow by Aimée Craft

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2022

Book Cover of The Sleeping Car Porter with photograph of author
  • The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr Winner!
  • Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 
  • Stray Dogs by Rawi Hage
  • If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga 
  • We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama 

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2022

Book covers of nominated titles for the 2022 Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
  • China unbound by Joanna Chiu Winner!
  • The two Michaels by Mike Blanchfield
  • Flora! by Flora MacDonald
  • The next age of uncertainty by Stephen Poloz
  • "Indian" in the cabinet by Jody Wilson-Raybould

Toronto Book Awards 2022

Photograph of author Sarah Polley with bookshelves in the background. The bookshelves hold copies of her books.

In this intimate collection of autobiographical essays, Canadian Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley delves into her past to illuminate powerful truths about post-traumatic memory, our relationship to the body, and how we tell our stories. Each of the literary essays in Run Towards the Danger captures a piece of Sarah’s life, as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality as it is constructed in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person you are now but were not then. 

Read the 2022 winner of the Toronto Book Awards Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

Trillium Book Award 2022

Book cover of Missed Connections with photo of author
  • Missed Connections by Brian Francis
  • Aether by Catherine Graham Check at your public library!
  • The Pump by Sydney Hegele
  • The Hunter and the Old Woman by Pamela Korgemagi
  • The Last Exiles by Ann Shin

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