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Awards

Awards news from Canada and around the world

The Lambda Literary Awards celebrate more than 150 LGBTQ writers across 26 categories spanning a number of genres, lived identities, and experiences.

Read the nominated titles for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards!


The Booker Prize celebrates the best works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK.

Read the longlisted titles for the 2025 Booker Prize!

 

Books nominated for the 2025 Booker Prize

Governor General's Literary Awards 2024

Book covers of the finalists for the 2024 GG Awards
  • Read the winners for the 2024 GG Awards
  • Read the finalists for the 2024 GG Awards

Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2024

Book covers for the shortlisted Atwood Gibson Prize for Fiction
  • Batshit Seven by Sheung-King Winner!
  • What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
  • Prairie Edge by Connor Kerr
  • Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
  • Hi, It’s Me by Fawn Parker

BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2025

Book cover of Death by a thousand cuts with photograph of author

The BC and Yukon Book Prizes celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers, illustrators and publishers.

Read the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Nominees

Canada Reads 2025

The 2025 Canada Reads contenders holding copies of the shortlisted titles

Canada Reads is back for 2025! This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to change the narrative. The books on this year's longlist all have the power to change how we see, share and experience the world around us.

  • Read the 2025 Canada Reads Shortlist
  • Read the 2025 Canada Reads Longlist

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2024

Book covers of shortlisted titles for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
  • Brotherless Night by V. V Ganeshananthan Winner!
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
  • Daughter by Claudia Dey
  • Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote
  • A History of Burning by Janika Oza

OLA Evergreen Award 2025

Book cover of Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
  • Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott
  • Crooked Teeth by Danny Ramadan
  • Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat
  • Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue by Christine Higdon
  • Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin
  • Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung
  • North of Nowhere by Marie Wilson
  • Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr
  • Roar by Shelley Thompson
  • We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr

Festival of Literary Diversity 2025

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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 2025 FOLD titles 

First Nation Communities Read 2025-2026

Book cover of Prairie Edge

The First Nation Communities READ celebrates and holds up the very best in Indigenous literature in Canada! The shortlisted titles will be announced during the second week of September 2025 with the selected titles announced during First Nation Public Library Week in October 2025.

Read the long list of titles nominated for the 2025-2026 reading year!

 

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2024

Book covers of the finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
  • There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
  • Vantage Points by Chase Joynt
  • Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin
  • Invisible Prisons by Lisa Moore
  • Everything and Nothing At All: Essays by Jenny Heijun

Indigenous Voices Award 2025

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The Indigenous Voices Awards is the only major literary prize to celebrate creativity and excellence for work by emerging Indigenous writers. 

Read the finalists for the 2025 IVA's

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2024

Photograph of 2024 Giller Prize winner Ann Michaels holding her prize statue
  • Held by Anne Michaels Winner!
  • What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
  • Curiosities by Anne Fleming
  • Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr
  • Peacocks of Instagram by Deepa Rajagopalan

 

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2025

Book cover of The Knowing with photograph of author Tanya Talaga
  • Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity by Raymond B. Blake Check at your public library!
  • The Prince by Stephen Maher
  • Health for All by Jane Philpott
  • The Adaptable Country by Alasdair Roberts
  • The Knowing by Tanya Talaga

Toronto Book Awards 2025

Book covers of 2025 longlisted Toronto Book Award nominees

Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the Toronto Book Awards honour books of literary merit that are evocative of Toronto. The 2025 awards offer $15,000 in prize money: finalists receive $1,000 and the winning author is awarded $10,000.

Read the Toronto Book Award longlist

Trillium Book Award 2024

Book cover of The Clarion

Nina Dunic has won the Trillium Book Award for The Clarion, a novel about two siblings struggling to find a sense of purpose and belonging. As the siblings endure the many trials and tribulations of their generation like promotions and absent lovers, can they find their sense of self and keep their connection strong?

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