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Scotiabank Giller Prize: An annual prize awarded in honour of Doris Giller, celebrating the best in Canadian fiction.  view listing >> 

Arthur Ellis Award: Awarded by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best in Canadian crime and mystery writing. There are 9 categories: Best Novel, Best Short Story, Best First Novel, Best True Crime Book, Best Juvenile Crime Book, Best French Crime Writing, Best Genre Criticism/Reference, Best Play, and the Derrick Murdoch Award, which is a special achievement award for contribution to the crime and mystery genre.  view listing >> 

Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award: Awarded through nomination and vote by members of the bookselling community to an author who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in the Canadian bookselling industry.  view listing >> 

Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award (Currently the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award): Awarded for best first novel written in English to a citizen or resident of Canada.  view listing >> 

Gemini Award for Best Screenplay: Awarded to best Canadian English-language television screenplay.  view listing >> 

Governor General Award: Awarded annually for best English-language and French-language book. There are 7 categories: Fiction, Literary Non-Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration), and Translation (French into English).  view listing >> 

The Griffin Poetry Prize: Two awards for best English-language poetry collection, one to a living Canadian poet or translator, and the other to a poet or translator from any other country.  view listing >> 

Trillium Book Award: Awarded by the Ontario government for a book of any genre, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and children's, in English and in French.  view listing >> 

Booker Prize (Man Booker Prize): Awarded for the best contemporary fiction to a citizen from any Commonwealth country or Republic of Ireland.  view listing >> 

Orange Prize: Awarded to a woman of any nationality for best novel written in English.  view listing >> 

Writer's Trust Awards:  view listing >> 

Pearson Award for Non-Fiction: Awarded for best literary non-fiction
Matt Cohen Award: Awarded to a Canadian writer for a lifetime of distinguished work, either poetry or prose, and in either French or English
Marian Engel Award: Awarded annually to a female Canadian writer for a body of work and her contribution to Canadian literature
Rogers Writers' Fiction Prize: Awarded for the year's best novel or collection of short stories.
W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize: Awarded for an outstanding body of work, mentorship of other writers, and publication of a work of fiction or production of a stage play during the three-year competition period.

Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Awarded for best work of fiction by a writer in any of the Commonwealth countries International  view listing >> 

IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Awarded for high literary merit for an English-language book or an English translation, in any genre. Books must be nominated for this award by libraries in capital and major cities.  view listing >> 

Scotiabank Giller Prize:
•  David Bergen / The Time in Between (2005)
•  Alice Munro / Runaway (2004)
•  Michael Ondaatje / Anil's Ghost (2000)
•  Alice Munro / The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
•  Margaret Atwood / Alias Grace (1996)
•  Rohinton Mistry / A Fine Balance (1995)
•   Moyez Vassanji / The Book of Secrets (1994)
Arthur Ellis Award:
•  Peter Robinson / The Summer That Never Was (Best Novel Nominee, 2004)
•  Gordon Sinclair Jr. / Cowboys and Indians (Best True Crime, 1999)
•  Maureen Jennings / Except the Dying (Best First Novel Nominee, 1998)
•  William Deverell / Trial of Passion (Best Crime Novel, 1997)
•  Gail Bowen / A Colder Kind of Death (Best Crime Novel, 1994)
•  Michael Harris / The Prodigal Husband (Best True Crime, 1994)
•  Lisa Priest / Conspiracy of Silence (Best True Crime, 1989)
•  Edward O. Phillips / Buried on Sunday (Best Crime Novel, 1986)
•  Elliott Leyton / Hunting Humans (Best True Crime, 1986)
Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award:
•  Alice Munro / Runaway (Author of the Year, 2005)
•  Alistair MacLeod / No Great Mischief (Fiction, 2000)
•  Alistair MacLeod / No Great Mischief (Author of the Year, 2000)
•  Alice Munro / Love of a Good Woman (Fiction, 1998)
•  Alice Munro / Love of a Good Woman (Author of the Year, 1998)
•  John Crosbie / No Holds Barred (Non-Fiction, 1997)
•  Margaret Atwood / Alias Grace (Fiction, 1996)
•  Alice Munro / Open Secrets (Fiction, 1995)

Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award
(Currently the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award):

•  Andre Alexis / Childhood (1998)
•  Margaret Gibson / Opium Dreams (1997)
•  Anne Michaels / Fugitive Pieces (1996)
•  Shyam Selvadurai / Funny Boy (1994)
•  John Steffler / The Afterlife of George Cartwright (1992)
•  Rohinton Mistry / Such A Long Journey (1991)
•  Rick Salutin / A Man of Little Faith (1989)
Gemini Award for Best Screenplay:
•  David Adams Richards / For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down (1999)
Governor General Award:
•  Jessica Warner / The Incendiary (Nominee, Non-fiction, 2005)
•  Tim Lilburn / Kill-site (Poetry, 2003)
•  Michael Ondaatje / Anil's Ghost (Fiction, 2000)
•  Don McKay / Another Gravity (Poetry, 2000)
•  Patricia Claxton / Gabrielle Roy: A Life (Translation, 1999)
•  Jane Urquhart / The Underpainter (Fiction, 1997)
•  Dionne Brand / Land to Light On (Poetry, 1997)
•  Guy Vanderhaeghe / The Englishman's Boy (Fiction, 1996)
•  Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Fiction, 1992)
•  Maggie Siggins / Revenge of the Land (Non-fiction, 1992)
•  Lorna Crozier / Inventing the Hawk (Poetry, 1992)
•  Rohinton Mistry / Such a Long Journey (Fiction, 1991)
•  Don McKay / Night Field (Poetry, 1991)
•  Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo / Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past (Non-fiction, 1991)
•  Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall / Trudeau and Our Times (Non-fiction, 1990)
•  David Adams Richards / Nights Below Station Street (Fiction, 1988)
•  Gwendolyn MacEwen / Afterworlds (Poetry, 1987)
•  Alice Munro / The Progress of Love (Fiction, 1986)
•  Al Purdy / The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (Poetry, 1986)
•   Margaret Atwood / The Handmaid's Tale (Fiction, 1985)
•  Paulette Jiles / Celestial Navigation (Poetry, 1984)
•  Sandra Gwyn / The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (Non-fiction, 1984)
•  David Donnell / Settlements (Poetry, 1983)
•  F.R. Scott / The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott (Poetry, 1981)
•  Michael Ondaatje / There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do (Poetry or Drama, 1979)
•  Marian Engel / Bear (Fiction, 1976)
•  Brian Moore / The Great Victorian Collection (Fiction, 1975)
•  Ralph Gustafson / Fire on Stone (Poetry or Drama, 1974)
•  Margaret Laurence / The Diviners (Fiction, 1974)
•  Michael Bell / Painters in a New Land (Non-fiction, 1973)
•  Rudy Wiebe / The Temptations of Big Bear (Fiction, 1973)
•  John Newlove / Lies (Poetry or Drama, 1972)
•  Pierre Berton / The Last Spike (Non-fiction, 1971)
•  Mordecai Richler / St. Urbain's Horseman (Fiction, 1971)
•  George Bowering / Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos (co-pub'd with the House of Anansi; Poetry or Drama, 1969)
•  Leonard Cohen / Selected Poems 1956-68 (Poetry, 1968)
•  Mordecai Richler / Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass (Fiction and essays, 1968)
•  Margaret Laurence / A Jest of God (Fiction, 1966)
•  Alfred Purdy / The Cariboo Horses (Poetry or Drama, 1965)
•  Douglas LePan / The Deserter (Fiction, 1964)
•  Irving Layton / Red Carpet for the Sun (Poetry or Drama, 1959)
•  Pierre Berton / Klondike (Non-fiction, 1958)
•  Gabrielle Roy / Streets of Riches (translation; Fiction, 1957)
•  Pierre Berton / The Mysterious North (co-pub'd with Knopf; Non-fiction, 1956)
•  P.K. Page / The Metal and the Flower (Poetry or Drama, 1954)
•  James Wrenford Watson / Of Time and the Lover (Poetry or Drama, 1950)
•  James Reaney / The Red Heart (Poetry or Drama, 1949)
•  R.S. Lambert / Franklin of the Arctic (Juvenile, 1949)
•  Thomas N. Raddall / Halifax, Warden of the North (Non-fiction, 1948)
•  Gabrielle Roy / The Tin Flute (translation; co-pub'd with Reynal & Hitchcock; Fiction, 1947)
•  Thomas N. Raddall / The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek (co-pub'd with Wm. Blackwood & Son; Fiction, 1943)
•  John Murray Gibbon / The Canadian Mosaic (Non-fiction, 1938)
The Griffin Poetry Prize
•  Anne Simpson / Loop (2004)
Trillium Book Award
•  Alistair MacLeod / No Great Mischief (Fiction, 1999)
•  Andre Alexis / Childhood (Fiction, 1998)
•  Alice Munro / Love of a Good Woman (Fiction, 1998)
•  Dionne Brand / Land to Light On (Poetry, 1997)
•  Anne Michaels / Fugitive Pieces (Fiction, 1996)
•  Margaret Atwood / morning in the burned house (Poetry, 1995)
•  Margaret Atwood / The Robber Bride (Fiction, 1994)
•  Jane Urquhart / Away (Fiction, 1994)
•  Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Fiction, 1993)
•  Margaret Atwood / Wilderness Tips (Fiction, 1992)
•  Alice Munro / Friend of My Youth (Fiction, 1991)
•  Michael Ondaatje / In the Skin of a Lion (Fiction, 1988)
Booker Prize (Man Booker Prize)
•  Margaret Atwood / The Blind Assassin (2000)
•  Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (1992)
Orange Prize

•  Margaret Atwood / Oryx and Crake (long list nominee for Fiction, 2004)
•  Anne Michaels / Fugitive Pieces (Fiction, 1996)
Writer's Trust Award
•  Jake MacDonald / Houseboat Chronicles (Pearson Award for Non-Fiction, 2003)
•  Mavis Gallant (Matt Cohen Award, 2001)
•  Elizabeth Hay / Complete Works (Marian Engel Award, 2002)
•  Jane Urquhart / Complete Works (Marian Engel Award, 1994)
•  Sandra Birdsell / Complete Works (Marian Engel Award, 1992)
•  Alice Munro / Complete Works (Marian Engel Award, 1986)
•  Peter Oliva / The City of Yes (Rogers Writers' Fiction Prize, 1999)
•  Austin Clarke / Origin of Waves (Rogers Writers' Fiction Prize, 1997)
•  Austin Clarke / Complete Works (W. O. Mitchell Literary Prize, 1998)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
•  Alice Munro / Runaway (Best Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 2005)
•  Trevor Cole / Norman Bray, in the Performance of His Life (Shortlisted, Best First Book, Caribbean and Canada Region, 2005)
•  Madelaine Thien / Simple Recipies (Best First Book, 2002)
•  Alice Munro / Friendship, Loveship, Marriage (Best Book, Regional Caribbean and Canada, 2001)
•  Rohinton Mistry / A Fine Balance (Best Book, Regional Caribbean and Canada, 1995)
•  Margaret Atwood / The Robber Bride (Best Book, Regional Caribbean and Canada, 1994)
•  Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient (Best Book, Regional Caribbean and Canada, 1993)
•  Rohinton Mistry / Such a Long Journey (1992)
•  M.G. Vassanji / The Gunny Sack (1989)
•  Anne Michaels / The Weight of Oranges (1986)
IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
•  Rohinton Mistry / Family Matters (Shortlisted, 2004)
•  Alistair MacLeod / No Great Mischief (Winner, 2001)
•  Rohinton Mistry / A Fine Balance (Shortlisted, 1997)
 
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