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Awards news from Canada and around the world

2022 Hugo Award Finalists Announced!

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members. The Hugo is widely considered the premier award in science fiction.

Read the 2022 Hugo Award Nominees!

Book cover of A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark

Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2021

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  • The strangers by Katherina Vermette Winner!
  • Fight night by Miriam Toews
  • Everyone knows your mother is a witch by Rivka Galchen
  • August into winter by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • We want what we want by Alix Ohlin

BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2022

Collage of the 2002 shortlisted titles for the BC & Yukon Book Prizes

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 finalists

Canada Reads 2022

Book cover of Life in the city of dirty water
  • Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Winner!
  • Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez
  • What strange paradise by Omar El Akkad
  • Life in the city of dirty water by Clayton Thomas-Muller
  • Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

OLA Evergreen Award 2022

Book cover of Swimming back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng
  • The Captive by Fiona King Foster
  • The Centaur's Wife by Amanda Leduc
  • Everyone knows your mother is a witch by Rivka Galchen
  • Murder on the Inside by Catherine Fogarty
  • Nothing but the Truth by Marie Henein
  • Permanent Astonishment by Tomson Highway
  • Shadow life by Hiromi Goto Coming soon!
  • Speak, Silence by Kim Echlin
  • Swimming back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng
  • A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)

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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 2022 FOLD list Part 1

Read the 2022 FOLD list Part 2

Governor General's Fiction Award 2021

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  • Home Waltz by G. A. Grisenthwaite Coming soon!
  • Fictional Father by Joe Ollmann Coming soon!
  • Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning
  • Second Place by Rachel Cusk
  • You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. by Sheung-King

Governor General's Non-Fiction Award 2021

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  • Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan Coyote
  • The Day the World Stops Shopping by J.B. MacKinnon
  • Revery: A Year of Bees by Jenna Butler
  • What I Remember, What I Know by Larry Audlaluk Coming soon!
  • alfabet/alphabet by Sadiqa de Meijer

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2021

Book cover of Permanent astonishment by Thompson Highway
  • Permanent astonishment by Thompson Highway Winner!
  • NISHGA by Jordan Abel
  • On foot to Canterbury by Ken Haigh 
  • Peyakow by Darrel J. McLeod 
  • Disorientation by Ian Williams

Indigenous Voices Award 2020

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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

Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021

Photograph of author Omar El Akkad receiving the Giller Prize
  • What strange paradise by Omar El Akkad Winner!
  • Glorious frazzled beings by Angélique Lalonde
  • The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
  • The listeners by Jordan Tannahill
  • Fight Night by Miriam Toews

Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2022

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

Toronto Book Awards 2021

Books cover of Speak, silence by Kim Echlin
  • Speak, silence by Kim Echlin Winner!
  • Missing From the Village by Justin Ling
  • Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez
  • Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric by Catherine Graham Coming soon!
  • Swimmers in Winter by Faye Guenther Coming soon!
  • On Property by Rinaldo Walcott Coming soon!

Trillium Book Award 2021

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  • How to pronounce knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa Winner!
  • Cascade by Craig Davidson
  • Seven by Farzana Doctor
  • The pull of the stars by Emma Donoghue
  • As far as you know by A.F. Moritz

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