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Awards

Awards news from Canada and around the world

2019 Evergreen Award Winner Announced!

Congratulations to author and journalist Waubgeshig Rice, who won the Evergreen Award for his novel Moon on the Crusted Snow, published by ECW Press. 
The dystopian novel explores what happens within a northern Anishinaabe community when outsiders arrive as society in the south collapses. 

Read the Evergreen announcement. 

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BC National Non-Fiction Award 2018

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All we leave behind by Carol Off Winner!

Game change by Ken Dryden

Maximum Canada by Doug Saunders

Seven fallen feathers by Tanya Talaga

Canada Reads 2019

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By chance alone by Max Eisen Winner!

Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

Brother by David Chariandy 

Suzanne by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette

The woo-woo by Lindsay Wong Coming soon!

First Nation Communities Read - YA/Adult Nominees 2019

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#NotYourPrincess by Lisa Charleyboy

My conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle

The marrow thieves by Cherie Dimaline

Seven fallen feathers by Tanya Talaga

He who dreams by Melanie Florence

First Nation Communities Read - Children's Nominees 2019

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When we were alone by David Robertson*

My heart fills with happiness by Monique Gray Smith

The cloud artist by Sherri Maret Check your public library!

The water walker by Joanne Roberston

Akilak's adventure by Deborah Kigjugalik Check your public library!

*Printbraille. Please use the printbraille form to request.

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 2018

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All things consoled by Elizabeth Hay Winner!

Antigone undone by Will Aitken Coming soon!

Heart berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

In praise of blood by Judi Rever

The woo-woo by Lindsay Wong Coming soon!

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2019

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Days by Moonlight by André Alexis

Season of Fury and Wonder by Sharon Butala Coming soon!

The Innocents by Michael Crummey

Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji 

Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2019

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Reproduction by Ian Willams Winner!

Immigrant city by David Bezmozgis

Small game hunting at the local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles

The innocents by Michael Crummey

Dual citizens by Alix Ohlin

Lampedusa by Steven Price

Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2018

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Boys by Rachel Giese Winner!

Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

Breaching the peace by Sarah Cox Coming soon!

Pipe dreams by Jacques Poitras Coming soon!

Big lonely Doug by Harley Rustad 

TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards 2019

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TD Children’s Literature Award - Ebb & flow by Heather Smith

Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award - Africville by Shauntay Grant (Please use Printbraille request form)

Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction - Turtle pond by James Gladstone Coming soon!

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction - The journey of little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis 

John Spray Mystery Award - Sadie by Courtney Summers

Amy Mathers Teen Book Award - The house of one thousand eyes by Michelle Barker Coming soon!

CBC Fan Choice Award - They say blue by Jillian Tamaki

Trillium Book Award 2019

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The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand Winner!

Queen Solomon by Tamara Faith Berger

Heartbreaker by Sylvia Dey 

Late Breaking by K.D Miller

Women talking by Miriam Toews

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