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Awards

Awards news from Canada and around the world

2021 Winners of the CODE Burt Awards for Indigenous YA literature announced!

The CODE Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Young Adult Literature is a Canadian literary award and readership initiative that recognizes excellence in Indigenous-authored literature for young adults. 

Richard Van Camp won for Moccasin Square Gardens, a collection of humorous short fiction set in Denendeh, the land of the people north of the 60th parallel. 

Michael Hutchinson's middle grade book The case for Windy Lake was named an Honour book in the English language category. 

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Canada Reads 2021

Photograph of author Joshua Whitehead and cover of their book Jonny Appleseed
  • Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead Winner!
  • Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 
  • Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi 
  • Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee 
  • The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk 

First Nation Communities Read - YA/Adult Nominees 2020

Book cover of Chasing painted horses with photo of author Drew Hayden Taylor
  • Chasing painted horses by Drew Hayden Taylor Winner!
  • Crow winter by Karen McBride
  • If I go missing by Brianna Jonnie Check at your public library!
  • In my own moccasins by Helen Knott
  • A mind spread out on the ground by Alicia Elliott

Governor General's Fiction Award 2019

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  • Five wives by Joan Thomas Winner!
  • Eye by Marianne Micros
  • Late breaking by K.D. Miller
  • The innocents by Michael Crummey
  • The student by Cary Fagan 

Governor General's Non-Fiction Award 2019

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  • To the river by Don Gillmor Winner!
  • City of omens by Dan Werb
  • Fryderyk Chopin: a life and times by Alan Walker 
  • Sea trial by Brian Harvey
  • Tiny lights for travellers by Naomi K. Lewis

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2020

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  • Two trees make a forest by Jessica J. Lee  Winner!
  • Through the garden by Lorna Crozier
  • Reaching Mithymna by Steven Heighton
  • Shame on me by Tessa McWatt
  • The way home by David A. Neel

2020 Indigenous Voices Award

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Winner for Published prose in English:

  • From the ashes: my story of being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle 

Winner for Published Poetry in English:

  • Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

RBC Taylor Prize 2020

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  • Bush runner by Mark Bourrie Winner!
  • Had it coming by Robyn Doolittle
  • Highway of tears by Jessica McDiarmid
  • The reality bubble by Ziya Tong
  • The mosquito by Timothy Winegard

Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2020

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  • Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson Winner!
  • The beguiling by Zsuzsi Gartner
  • Five little Indians by Michelle Good 
  • Indians on vacation by Thomas King
  • Good citizens need not fear by Maria Reva

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020

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  • How to pronounce knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa Winner!
  • Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
  • Here the dark by David Bergen
  • Polar vortex by Shani Mootoo
  • The glass hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2020

Book cover of Truth be told with photo of author Beverley McLachlin
  • Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin Winner!
  • Peace and good order by Harold Johnson
  • Canada on the United Nations Security Council by Adam Chapnick
  • Claws of the Panda by Jonathan Manthorpe
  • Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice by Kent Roach

Trillium Book Award 2020

Book cover of Shut up you're pretty with photo of author Téa Mutonji
  • Shut up, you're pretty by Téa Mutonji Winner!
  • Frying plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
  • Sister language by Martha and Christina Baillie Coming soon!
  • I become a delight to my enemies by Sara Peters
  • Clyde fans by Seth Check at your public library!
  • The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand 2019 Winner!

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