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Awards

Awards news from Canada and around the world

Winners for the 2023 Hugo Award Announced! 

  • Best novel: Nettle & bone by T. Kingfisher
  • Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book: Akata woman (The Nsibidi Scripts Ser. #3) by Nnedi Okorafor
  • Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Legends & lattes by Travis Baldree
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Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2023

Book cover for The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
  • Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
  • The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
  • A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter
  • In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas Winner!
  • The Book of Rain by Thomas Wharton

BC and Yukon Book Prizes 2023

Book cover of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

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 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Nominees

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

Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2023

Book cover of The sleeping car porter
  • When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar Winner!
  • Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
  • What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
  • The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
  • Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

OLA Evergreen Award 2024

Book cover of Adrift by Lisa Brideau
  • Adrift by Lisa Brideau
  • The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
  • The Burden of Exile by Aaron Berhane
  • Dancing in Small Spaces by Leslie A. Davidson
  • Far Cry by Alissa York
  • Fire Weather by John Vaillant
  • Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis
  • Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Story of Us by Catherine Hernandez
  • Superfan by Jen Sookfong Lee

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 2023 FOLD titles 

First Nation Communities Read 2023-2024

Book cover of My Indian Summer

Twelve-year-old Hunter may be getting out of Red Rock sooner than he hoped. For Hunter Frank, the summer of '79 begins with his mother returning home only to collect the last two months' welfare cheques, leaving her three "fucking half-breeds" to fend for themselves. When his older sister escapes their northern BC town and his brother goes to fight forest fires, Hunter is on his own, with occasional care coming from a trio of elders—his kohkums—and companionship from his two best friends. It's been a good summer for the young entrepreneur, but the cash in the purple Crown Royal bag hidden in his mattress still isn't enough to fund his escape from his monstrous mother and the town of Red Rock. As the Labour Day weekend arrives, so does a new friend with old wisdom and a business opportunity that might be just a boy at the crossroads needs. 

Read My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum

Governor General's Fiction Award 2023

Book covers of GG fiction nominees
  • Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese Winner!
  • A History of Burning by Janika Oza
  • In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas 
  • The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
  • We Spread by Iain Reid

Governor General's Non-Fiction Award 2023

2023 Governor General award nominees in non-fiction
  • Unearthing by Kyo Maclear Winner!
  • Gendered Islamophobia by Monia Mazigh 
  • Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney
  • Message in a Bottle by Holly Hogan
  • Unbroken by Angela Sterritt

Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2023

Book cover of Unbroken with photo of author Angela Sterritt
  • My Road from Damascus by Jamal Saeed
  • Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe Winner!
  • Unbroken by Angela Sterritt
  • Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart
  • Fire Weather by John Vaillant

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 2023

Book covers of 2023 Giller Prize finalists
  • Study For Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Winner!
  • Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
  • The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin Chong
  • The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving
  • All The Colour In The World by CS Richardson

 

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2023

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  • Kinauvit?  by Norma Dunning
  • Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman
  • From Left to Right  by Dale Eisler
  • Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy by Josh O’Kane
  • How to Be a Climate Optimist by Chris Turner Winner!

Toronto Book Awards 2023

Book covers of 2023 shortlisted Toronto Book Award nominees
  • Clara at the Door with a Revolver by Carolyn Whitzman
  • Finding Edward by Sheila Murray
  • Moving the Museum by Wanda Nanibush Check at your public library!
  • Nomenclature by Dionne Brand
  • Wild Fires by Sophie Jai

Read available longlisted titles for the 2023 Toronto Book Awards!

Trillium Book Award 2023

Book cover of Cobalt with photograph of author Charlie Angus
  • The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross Winner!
  • Cobalt by Charlie Angus
  • William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal
  • All the Shining People: Stories by Kathy Friedman
  • Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir by Emma Healey

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