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Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award

The "Amelia" has been presented annually since 1971 to the illustrator of the best Illustrated English language children's book published during the previous year. Given to honour and commemorate the artist of "AN ILLUSTRATED COMIC ALPHABET", published in 1859 and considered to be the first Canadian picture book. Given by the Canadian Association of Children's Librarians, a division of CLA. Books chosen must be suitable for children up to age fourteen and have been published in Canada.

The Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award is sponsored by National Book Service.

2007 Winner
Scaredy Squirrel, Melanie Watt (illustrator)

2007 Shortlist

Alphabetter, Graham Ross (illustrator)
The Birdman, Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and Stephan Daigle (illustrators)
The Farm Team, Bill Slavin (illustrator)
Fox Walked Alone, Barbara Reid (illustrator)
Mwakawa Talks to the Loon, Dale Auger (illustrator)
Sack Full of Feathers, Cindy Revell (illustrator)
Scaredy Squirrel, Melanie Watt (illustrator)
Snow, Kady MacDonald Denton (illustrator)
What Are You Doing Sam?, Marie-Louise Gay (illustrator)
When You Were Small, Sara O'Leary (illustrator)

2006 Winner
The Baabaasheep Quartet, Leslie Elizabeth Watts

2006 Shortlist

Backyard Birds: An Introduction, Robert Bateman
Mixed Beasts, or, A miscellany of rare and fantastic creatures, Kenyon Cox. Wallace Edwards (illustrator)
The Mona Lisa Caper, Rick Jacobsen. Laura Fernandez & Rick Jacobsen (illustrators)
Bear Cub and Mama, Sharon Jennings. Melanie Watt (illustrator)
The Nutcracker: based on the National Ballet of Canada's production by James Kudelka, Karen Kain. Rajka Kupesic (illustrator)
Bigbeard�s Hook, Evan Solomon. Bill Slavin (illustrator)
Bright Red Kisses, Teresa Toten. (Art by Deirdre Betteridge)
The Long White Scarf, Maxine Trottier. David Craig (illustrator)
The Baabaasheep Quartet, Leslie Elizabeth Watts

2005 Winner
Monkey Business, Wallace Edwards

2004 Winner
Stanley's Party, Linda Bailey

2002 Winner
Where I Live, Author and Illustrator: Francis Wolfe (Tundra Books)

2001 Winner
The Magnificent Piano Recital (Orca Books)
Illustrators: Laura Fernandez & Rick Jacobson
Author: Marilynn Reynolds

For more information about the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award

Ann Conner Brimer Award

This award was established by the Nova Scotia Library Association and Recognizes Atlantic Canadian writers who have made an outstanding Contribution to children's literature.

2006 Winner
Kevin Major, Aunt Olga's Christmas Postcards

2005 Winner
Alice Walsh, Pomiuk, Prince of the North

2004 Winner
Don Aker, The First Stone

2003 Winner
Lesley Choyce, Shoulder the Sky

2002 Winner
France Wolfe, Where I Live

2001 Winner
Janet McNaughton, The Secret Under My Skin

2000 Winner
David Weale, The True Meaning of Crumbfest

1999 Winner
Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring

1998 Winner
Kevin Major, The House of Wooden Santas

1997 Winner
Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale

1996 Winner
Don Aker, Of Things Not Seen

1995 Winner
Sheree Fitch, Mabel Murple

1994 Winner
Lesley Choyce, Good Idea Gone Bad

1993 Winner
Budge Wilson, Oliver's War

1992 Winner
Kevin Major, Eating Between the Lines

1991 Winner
Joyce Barkhouse, Pit Pony

For more information about the Ann Conner Brimer Award

Arthur Ellis Award: Best Juvenile Crime Fiction

Began 1993. Annual. The children's category of the Arthur Ellis Awards, named after the nom de travail of Canada's official hangman, is for the best juvenile mystery published during the preceding year by a Canadian resident, regardless of nationality, or a Canadian writer living abroad. Awarded in Spring.

2007 Shortlist

Marty Chan, The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul
Sean Cullen, Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates
L.M. Falcone, The Devil, The Banshee and Me
Norah McClintock, Tell
Monique Polak, All In

Winner 2006
Vicki Grant, Quid Pro Quo

Winner 2005
Carrie Mac, Beckoners

Winner 2004
Graham McNamee, Acceleration

Winner 2003
Norah McClintock, Break and Enter

Winner 2002
Norah McClintock, Scared to Death

Arthur Ellis Award For Best Novel

The Best Novel award is one of six Arthur Ellis awards administered by The Crime Writers of Canada to celebrate and honour Canadian crime writing.

2007 Shortlist

Linwood Barclay, Lone Wolf
Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing
Barbara Fradkin, Honour Among Men
Kathy Reichs, Break No Bones
Peter Robinson, Piece of My Heart

2006 Winner
William Deverell, April Fool

2005 Winner
Barbara Fradkin, Fifth Son

2004 Winner
Giles Blunt, The Delicate Storm

2003 Winner
Rick Mofina, Blood of Others

For more information about the Arthur Ellis Award For Best Novel

Aurora Award, English Language Book

The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association awards the Aurora to the best titles in the genre in the English language.

2006 Winner
Karin Lowachee, Cagebird

2005 Winner
Edo Van Belkom, Wolf Pack

2004 Winner
Robert Charles Wilson. Blind Lake

2003 Winner
Karl Schroeder. Permanence

For more information about the Aurora Award

B

Blue Spruce Award | Booker Prize | Boston Globe-Horn Book

Blue Spruce Award

2008 Nominees

The Farm Team, Linda Bailey, Illustrated , Bill Slavin
Fox Walked Alone, Barbara Reid
Grumpy Bird, Jeremy Tankard
In My Backyard, Margriet Ruurs, Illustrated , Ron Broda
Jeffrey And Sloth, Kari-Lynn Winters, Illustrated , Ben Hodson
Lily And The Paper Man, Rebecca Upjohn, Illustrated , Renné Benoit
The List, Hazel Hutchins, Illustrated , Maria Van Lieshout
Please, Louise!, Frieda Wishinsky And Marie-Louise Gay
A Sack Full Of Feathers, Deb, Waldman, Illustrated , Cindy Revell
Scaredy Squirrel Makes A Friend, Mélanie Watt

2007 Winner
Scaredy Squirrel, Melanie Watt

2007 Nominees

Camilla Chameleon, Colleen Sydor
Clara and the Bossy, Ruth Ohi
Earth to Audrey, Susan Hughes
Penelope and the Monsters, Sheri Radiford
Scaredy Squirrel, Melanie Watt
Sophie and the Sea Monster, Don Gillmor
Stanley's Wild Ride, Linda Bailey
Taming Horrible Harry, Lili Chartrand
Wake Up, Henry Rooster, Margriet Ruurs
Where's My Hockey Sweater, Gilles Tibo

2006 Winner
Boy Who Loved Bananas, George Elliot

2006 Nominees

Ben Over Night, Sarah Ellis
Beneath The Bridge, Hazel Hutchins
Bigbeard's Hook, Evan Solomon
Boy Who Loved Bananas, George Elliot
Gummytoes, Sean Cassidy
Leon's Song, Stephanie Mclellan
Mile High Apple Pie, Laura Langston
Penelope And The Humongous Burp, Sheri Radford
Rainy Days With Bear, Maureen Hull
Stella Princess Of The Sky, Marie Louise Gay

2005 Winner
Drumheiler Dinosaur Dance, Robert Heidbreder

2004 Winner
Stanley's Party, Linda Bailey

2003 Winner
Z is for Zamboni, Matt Napier and Melanie Rose

2002 Winner
When Pigs Fly, Valerie Coulman

For more information about the Blue Spruce Award

Booker Prize

The Booker Prize is one of the world's most famous literary prizes, awarded annually to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. Canadian works often figure prominently on the shortlist. The prize is presently named the Man Booker Prize.

2006 Winner
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

2006 Shortlist
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
Kate Grenville, The Secret River
M.J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men. Not available.
Edward St Aubyn, Mother's Milk
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

2005 Winner
John Banville, The Sea

2004 Winner
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

2003 Winner
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little

2002 Winner
Yann Martel, Life of Pi

2001 Winner
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang

Boston Globe-Horn Book

2006 Winner Fiction/Poetry
Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

2006 Winner Non-fiction
Faith McNulty, If You Decide to Go to the Moon

2006 Winner Picture Book
Lois Ehlert, Leaf Man

2005 Winner Fiction/Poetry
Neal Shusterman, The Schwa Was Here

2005 Winner Non-fiction
Phillip Hoose, The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

2005 Winner Picture Book
Mini Grey, Traction Man is Here!

2004 Winner Fiction/Poetry
David Almond, Fire-Eaters

2004 Winner Non-fiction
Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

2004 Winner Picture Book
Mordicai Gerstein, Man Who Walked Between the Towers

2003 Winner Fiction/Poetry
Anne Fine, The Jamie and Angus Stories (Illustrator: Penny Dale)

2003 Winner Non-fiction
Maira Kalman, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey

2003 Winner Picture Book
Phyllis Root, Big Momma Makes the World (Illustrator: Helen Oxenbury)

2002 Winner Fiction/Poetry
Graham Salisbury, Lord of the Deep

2002 Winner Non-fiction
Elizabeth Partridge, This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie

2002 Winner Picture Book
Bob Graham, "Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate

2001 Winner Fiction/Poetry
Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems (Front Street)

2001 Winner Non-fiction
Dusan Petricic, The Longitude Prize Joan Dash illus. (Foster/Farrar)

2001 Winner Picture Book
Cynthia DeFelice, Cold Feet illus. by Robert Andrew Parker (DK Ink)

C

  CAA Carol Bolt DramaAward  |   CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award
  CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories  |   CAA Lela Common Award For Canadian History
  CAA Mosaid Technology, Inc. Award For Fiction  |   Canada Reads
  Canadian Literature Roundtable: Canadian Information Book Award  |   Carnegie Award
  CBA Libris Fiction Book Of The Year  |   CBA Libris Non-Fiction Book Of The Year
  CLA Book of the Year for Children Award  |   Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction
  Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book  |   Coretta Scott King Award  |   Costa Book Award

CAA Carol Bolt Drama Award

Awarded for the best play for adults.

2007 Winner
Stephen Massicotte, The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion

2006 Winner
John Mighton, Half Life

2005 Winner
Mieko Ouchi, The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)

2004 Winner
Florence Gibson, Home is My Road

2003 Winner
Daniel Goldfarb, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie

2002 Winner
Kent Stetson, The Harps of God

For more information about the CAA Carol Bolt Drama Award

CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award

Awarded for a volume of poetry by one poet.

2007 Winner
Sarah Klassen, A Curious Beatitude

2006 Winner
Barry Dempster, The Burning Alphabet

2005 Winner
Peter Trower, Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys

2004 Winner
Chris Banks, Bonfires

2003 Winner
Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot

2002 Winner
Tim Bowling, Darkness and Silence

For more information about the CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award

CAA Lela Common Award For Canadian History

For a work of historical non-fiction on a Canadian topic. Biographical works are not eligible.

2007 Winner
Mark Zuehlke, For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace

2006 Winner
J. L. Granatstein, The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945

2005 Winner
Charlotte Gray, The Museum Called Canada

2004 Winner
David Morrison, Across Time and Tundra: the Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic

2003 Winner
Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Canada

For more information about the CAA Lela Common Award For Canadian History

CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories

This award allows recognition of Canada's outstanding writers of short stories, who not been eligible for the CAA Award for Fiction.

Award withdrawn 2006

2005 Winner
Frances Itani, Poached Egg on Toast

2004 Winner
Stuart Maclean, Vinyl Cafe Diaries

2003 Winner
Lisa Moore, Open

2002 Winner
Melissa Hardy, Uncharted Heart

2001 Winner
Lynn Coady, Play the Monster Blind

For more information about the CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories

CAA Mosaid Technology, Inc. Award For Fiction

Administered by the Canadian Authors Association, this award is for a full-length novel by an author who is Canadian or a landed immigrant, whose writing combines excellence and popular appeal.

2007 Winner
Richard Wagamese, Dream Wheels

2006 Winner
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road

2005 Winner
Jeffrey Moore, The Memory Artists

2004 Winner
Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus

2003 Winner
Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

2002 Winner
Will Ferguson, Generica. Re-released under the title Happiness

2001 Winner
Elizabeth Hay, A Student of Weather

For more information about the CAA Mosaid Technology, Inc. Award For Fiction

Canada Reads

CANADA READS is a project of CBC Radio. Participants each defend their choice of one work of Canadian fiction as the title all Canadians should read. During Canada Book Week one book is voted off the list each day until a single book remains.

2007 Winner
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

2007 Choices
Gabrielle Roy, Children of My Heart (Ces Enfants de ma vie)
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories
Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
Anosh Irani, The Song of Kahunsha

2006 Winner
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

2006 Choices
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
Frances Itani, Deafening
Mordecai Richler, Cocksure
Al Purdy, Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962-1996
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

2005 Winner
Frank P. Day, Rockbound

2004 Winner
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing

2003 Winner
Hubert Aquin, Next Episode

2002 Winner
Michael Ondaatje, In The Skin of A Lion

For more information about Canada Reads

Canadian Literature Roundtable: Canadian Information Book Award

Issued by the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada, this award recognizes an outstanding information/non-fiction title for children ages 5-15. Eligible are first edition English language information titles (excluding poetry, plays, folklore or text books) written by a Canadian author or landed immigrant and published by a Canadian press during the previous calendar year.

Winner 2006
Bill Slavin, Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made

Winner 2005
Hugh Brewster, On Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Heroes

Winner 2004
Shari Graydon, Made You Look—How Advertising Works and Why you Should Know

Winner 2003
Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase

Winner 2002
Linda Granfield, Where Poppies Grow

Winner 2001
Deborah Hodge, The Kids Book of Canada's Railway and How the CPR was Built. illustrated by John Mantha. (Kids Can Press)

Honour 2001
Linda Granfield, Pier 21: Gateway of Hope (Tundra Books)

For more information about Canadian Literature Roundtable

CBA Libris Fiction Book Of The Year

CBA Libris Awards, nominated and voted on by members of the Canadian bookselling community, honour outstanding achievement in Canada's bookselling industry.

2007 Shortlist

The Birth House, Ami McKay
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam
The Law of Dreams, Peter Behrens

2006 Winner
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road

2006 Nominees
Lori Lansens, The Girls
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
David Bergen, The Time in Between

2005 Winner
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

2004 Winner
Anne-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies

2003 Winner
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing

2002 Winner
Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan

2001 Winner
David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children

For more information about this CBA Libris Fiction Book Of The Year

CBA Libris Non-Fiction Book Of The Year

CBA Libris Awards, nominated and voted on by members of the Canadian bookselling community, honour outstanding achievement in Canada's bookselling industry.

2007 Shortlist

David Suzuki, David Suzuki: The Autobiography
Adrienne Clarkson, Heart Matters
Margaret MacMillan, Nixon in China: The Week That Change the World

2006 Winner
Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time

2005 Winner
Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

2004 Winner
Romeo Dallaire, Shake Hands with the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

2003 Winner
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Carnegie Award

The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children. It was established by The Library Association of Great Britain in 1936, in memory of the great Scottish-born philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).

Carnegie was a self-made industrialist who made his fortune in steel in the USA. His experience of using a library as a child led him to resolve that "if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries."

Please note that the year refers to when the book was published rather than when the medal was awarded i.e. the 2005 winner was announced and the medal presented in July 2006.

Current Shortlist

2007 Finalists
Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead
Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry
Anne Fine, A Road of Bones
Meg Rosoff, Justin Case
Marcus Sedgewick, My Swordhand is Singing

2005 Winner
Tamar, Mal Peet

2004 Winner
Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce

2003 Winner
A Gathering Light, Jennifer Donnelly

2002 Winner
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett

For more information about this Carnegie Award

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award

Created in 1947, this prestigious award provided the first standard of achievement for Canadian Childrens books and is presented annually to the author of the best-written English language book published during the previous year. A panel of judges from the Canadian Association for Childrens Librarians (a division of the Canadian Library Association) makes the selection.

2007 Winner
Johnny Kellock Died Today, Hadley Dyer

2007 Nominees

Aram's Choice, Marsha Skrypuch
The Cassandra Virus, K.V. Johansen
Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates, Sean Cullen
Hiding Edith, Kathy Kacer
Hiding in Hawk's Creek, Brenda Chapman
I am a Taxi, Deborah Ellis
Johnny Kellock Died Today, Hadley Dyer
Odd Man Out, Sarah Ellis
Rex Zero, Tim Wynne-Jones
Things are Looking Grimm Jill, Dan Bar-el

2006 Winner
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter

2006 Nominees

Breaking Trail, Joanne Bell
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter
Earth to Audrey, Susan Hughes
From Charlies Point of View, Richard Scrimger
George Most Wanted, Ingrid Lee
The Gravesavers, Sheree Fitch
Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach, Barbara Kathleen Nichel
Ingrid and the Wolf, Andre Alexis
Quid Pro Quo, Vicki Grant
Summer on the Run, Nancy Belgue

2005 Winner
Last Chance Bay, Anne Laurel Carter

2004 Winner
Boy O'Boy, Brian Doyle

2003 Winner
Hana's Suitcase, Karen Levine

2002 Winner
Orphan at my Door, Jean Little

2001 Winner
Wild Girl & Gran, Nan Gregory

For more information about CLA Book of the Year for Children Award

CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award

The Young Adult Caucus of the Saskatchewan Library Association founded this award in 1980. The first winner was FAR FROM SHORE by Kevin Major. The award became national through its transfer in 1989 to the jurisdiction of the Young Adult Services Interest Group (YASIG) of CLA.The winning book must be a work of creative literature (novel, play or poetry) for young adults and written by a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant. It must be published in Canada. A young adult from Regina designed the Award seal.

2007 Winner
The Blue Helmet, William Bell

2007 Nominees

101 Ways to Dance, Kathy Stinson
The Blue Helmet, William Bell
Droughtlanders, Carrie Mac
Featherless Bipeds, Richard Scarsbrook
Hello, Groin, Beth Goobie
Johnny Kellock Died Today, Hadley Dyer
Me and the Blondes, Teresa Toten
Megiddo's Shadow, Arthur Slade
Mud Girl, Alison Acheson
The View from a Kite, Maureen Hull

2006 Winner
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, Shyam Selvadurai

2006 Nominees

Just Some Stuff I Wrote, William Bell
Wild Orchid, Beverly Brenna
Nelcott is My Darling, Golda Fried
The Isabel Factor, Gayle Friesen
The Sundog Season, John Geddes
The Book of Living and Dying, Natalie Ghent
Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, Shyam Selvadurai
Garbage Head, Christopher Willard
What Gloria Wants, Sarah Withrow

2005 Winner
Complicated Kindness: A Novel, Miriam Toews

2004 Winner
Canning Season, Polly Horvath

2003 Winner
True Confessions Of A Heartless Girl, Martha Brooks

2002 Winner
Stones, William Bell

2001 Winner
Before Wings, Beth Goobie

For more information about CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award

Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction

The prize, commemorating essayist Charles Taylor, is awarded to the author whose book best demonstrates "an uncommon command of the English language, an elegance of style and a subtlety of thought and perception." The prize is awarded every second year.

2007 Winner
Rudy Wiebe, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

2007 Finalists
John English, Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919 - 1968
Ross King, The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Rudy Wiebe, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

2006 Winner
J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise

2006 Finalists
James Chatto, The Greek for Love: a Memoir of Sorrow and Joy
Laura M. MacDonald, Curse of the Narrows
J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise
John Terpstra, The Boys

2005 Winner
Charles Montgomery. The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia

2004 Winner
Isabel Huggan, Belonging: Home Away From Home

2002 Winner
Carol Shields, Jane Austen

For more information about Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction

Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book

The Commonwealth Foundation sponsors this award for novels or short stories written in English by citizens of the Commonwealth. Shortlists are selected for 4 regions. The winner of each region is eligible for the overall winner.

2007 Regional Winners
Africa
Shaun Johnson, The Native Commissioner
Caribbean & Canada
David Adams Richards, The Friends of Meager Fortune
Eurasia
Naeem Murr, The Perfect Man
South East Asia and South Pacific
Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

2006 Winner
Kate Grenville, Secret River

2006 Regional Shortlist for the Caribbean and Canada
Robert Antoni, Carnival
Jane Urquhart, A Map of Glass
Edeet Ravel, A Wall of Light
Rabindranath Maharaj, A Perfect Pledge
Lisa Moore, Alligator

2006 Regional Winners
Africa
Benjamin Kwakye, The Sun by Night
Caribbean & Canada
Lisa Moore, Alligator
Eurasia
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
South East Asia and South Pacific
Kate Grenville, Secret River

2005 Winner—Best Book
Andrea Levy, Small Island

2004 Winner
Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore

Coretta Scott King Award

Winners 2007
Copper Sun, Sharon Draper (Author Award)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator Award)

Winners 2006
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, Julius Lester (Author Award)
Rosa, Nikki Giovanni Illustrator: Bryan Collier (Illustrator Award)

Winners 2005
Remember: The Journey to School, Toni Morrison (Author Award)
Ellington was not a Street, Kadir A. Nelso. Illustrator: Ntozake Shange (Illustrator Award)

Winners 2004
The First Part Last, Angela Johnson (Author Award)
Beautiful Blackbird, Ashley Bryan (Illustrator Award)

Winners 2003
Nikki Grimes, Bronx Masquerade (Author Award)
Brenda Woods, Red Rose Box (Author Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes, Talkin' About Bessie: The Story Of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman (Author Honor Book)
Nikki Grimes, Talkin' About Bessie: The Story Of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman (Illustrator Award)
Leo Dillon, Rap A Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles-Think Of That! (Illustrator Honor Book)
Willie Perdomo, Visiting Langston (Illustrator Honor Book)

Winners 2002
Mildred B. Taylor, Land (Author Award)
Pat McKissack, Goin' Someplace Special (Illustrator Award)
Doreen Rappaport, Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Illustrator Honor Book)

For more information about Coretta Scott King Award

Costa Book Award

The Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Award, recognizes the most enjoyable books of the last year by writers based in the UK and Ireland.

2006 Nominees

Clay, David Almond
The Diamond of Drury Lane, Julia Golding
Set in Stone, Linda Newberry
Just in Case, Meg Rosoff

2005 Winner
The New Policeman, Kate Thompson

2004 Winner
Not the End of the World, Geraldine McCaughrean

2003 Winner
Fire-Eaters, David Almond

2002 Winner
Saffy's Angel, Hilary McKay

2001 Winner
The Amber Spyglass, Phillip Pullman

For more information about Costa Book Award

D,E,F

Donner Prize | Drainie Taylor Biography Prize. The Writers' Trust Of Canada | Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award | Epinette Bleu Award | Evergreen Award

Donner Prize

Award for the best book on Canadian public policy, including topics such as public finance, the environment, regulatory reform, economic policy, urban affairs, health care, educational reform, and social issues.

2006/2007 Winner
Eric Helleiner, Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime

2006/20076 Shortlist
Eric Helleiner, Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime
Roy Rempel, Dreamland: How Canada's Pretend Foreign Policy Has Undermined Sovereignty
Donald J. Savoie, Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes

2005/2006 Winner
Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: the Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy

2005/2006 Shortlist
Ronald J. Daniels and Michael J. Trebilcock, Rethinking the Welfare State: the Prospects for Government by Voucher
John Ibbitson, The Polite Revolution: Perfecting the Canadian Dream
Mark Jaccard, Sustainable Fossil Fuels: the Unusual Suspect in the Quest for Clean and Enduring Energy
David Johnson, Signposts of Success: Interpreting Ontario's Elementary School Test Scores
James B. Kelly. Governing with the Charter: Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent

2004/2005 Winner
David E. W. Laidler and William B.P. Robson, Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991

2003/2004 Winner
Michael Adams, Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values

2002/2003 Winner
John F. Helliwell, Globalization and Well-Being

For more information about the Donner Prize

Drainie Taylor Biography Prize. The Writers' Trust Of Canada

The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize is awarded for a Canadian published biography, autobiography or personal memoir, written in English by a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant.

2005 Winner
Nelofer Pazira, A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan

2004 Winner
Peter C. Newman, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion & Power

2003 Winner
Geoffrey Stevens, Player: The Life And Times Of Dalton Camp

2002 Winner
Warren Cariou, Lake of the Prairies: a Story of Belonging

For more information about the Drainie Taylor Biography Prize

Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award

In her will, the late Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver (1939-1985) left the original fund of $10,000.00 for the establishment of an award to be named the Elizabeth Mrazik Cleaver Picture Book Award. The award is for Best Canadian Illustrator of a picture book published in Canada in English or in French during the previous calendar year. The book must be a first edition and contain original illustrations. All genres are considered (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, folk and fairy tales).

Winner 2006
Kady MacDonald Denton, Snow

Winner 2005
Genevieve Cote, The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Winner 2004
Lucie Papineau, Un Chart de Noel

Winner 2003
Dayle Ann Dodds, Where's Pup

Winner 2002
Janie Jaehyun Park, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon

Winner 2001
Marie-Louise Gay, Stella, Queen of the Snow

Winner 2000
Michele Lemieux, Stormy Night

Epinette Bleu Award

Sponsored by the Durham Board, the Epinette Bleu is a French reading program for primary students in French Immersion.

2007 Nominees

D'Alex a Zoe,Bertrand Gauthier
Je suis Louna et je suis une athlete,Bertrand Gauthier
La souris du fleuriste,Tibo, Gilles
Le coeur des gorilles, Philippe Blanchet
Le tresor de Jacob,Papineau, Lucie
Les mains de ma maman,Francois Barcelo
Mandarine et Kiwi: Les crepes au sirop d'erable, Laila Heloua
Mandarine et Kiwi: La croustade aux pommes, Laila Heloua
Que fais-tu la Sacha?, Marie-louise Gay
Une casserole sur la tete,Alain M. Bergeron

2006 Nominees

Caramba, Marie Louise Gay
Emile Pantalon, Mireille Levert
Je Suis Louna Et Je Suis Une Artiste, Bertrand Gauthier
L'orignal, Michel Quintin
La Souris, Michel Quintin
La Fete Du Dragon, Nancy Montour
Le Souper De Papa, Luc Durocher
Les Petits Souliers, Gilles Tibo
Les Vacances Du Petit Chaperon Rouge, Johanne Gagne
Plaisir De Lire, Simone Leroux

Evergreen Award

A new initiative from the Ontario Library Association the Evergreen Award^TM gives adult library patrons the opportunity to vote for a work of Canadian fiction or non-fiction that they have liked the most.

2007 Nominees—Fiction

C.C. Humphreys, Absolute Honour
Ami McKay, The Birth House
Giles Blunt, By the Time You Read This
Anita Rau Badami, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call
Yves Beauchemin, Charles the Bold
Linden MacIntyre, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence
Ryan Knighton, Cockeyed: A Memoir
Richard Wagamese, Dream Wheels
Gil Courtemanche, A Good Life
Louise Penny, Still Life

2006 Winner
Boyden, Joseph, Three Day Road

2006 Nominees—Fiction

Boyden, Joseph, Three Day Road
Clark, Joan, An Audience of Chairs
Gibb, Camilla, Sweetness in the Belly
Lansens, Lori, The Girls
Rabagliati, Michel, Paul Moves Out
Sawyer, Robert J., Hominids

2006 Nominees—Non-Fiction

Chatto, James, The Greek
Lewis, Stephen Race Against Time
McGoogan, Ken, Lady Franklin's Revenge
Czajkowski, Chris, Snowshoes and Spotted Dick: Letters from a Wilderness Dweller

2005 Winner
Lawson, Mary, Crow Lake: A Novel

2005 Nominees—Fiction

Lawson, Mary, Crow Lake: A Novel
Taylor, Margie, Displaced Persons
Robinson, Peter, In A Dry Season
Bates, Judy Fong, Midnight At The Dragon Cafe
Lansens, Lori, Rush Home Road
Fielding, Joy, See Jane Run Reissue
Urquhart, Jane, Stone Carvers

2005 Nominees—Non-Fiction

Fiorito, Joe, Closer We Are To Dying: A Memoir
Kurlansky, Mark, Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World
Dallaire, Romeo, Shake Hands With The Devil: The Future Of Humanity In Rwanda

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  Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People  |   Giller Prize
  Golden Oak Award  |   Governor General's Literary Awards
  Governor General's Literary Award For Drama  |   Governor General's Literary Award For Fiction
  Governor General's Literary Award For Non Fiction  |   Governor General's Literary Award For Poetry
  Greenaway Award  |   Hackmatack Awards  |   IODE (Toronto) Children's Book Award
  IODE Violet Downey Book Award   |   International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Established in 1988, in memory of Geoffrey Bilson, a respected historian and children's author, who died in 1987, this award goes annually to the author of an outstanding work of historical fiction for young people. The author must be Canadian, and the book must have been published in the previous calendar year.

Winner 2006
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter

Nominees 2006

The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter
The Death of My Country: The Plains of Abraham Diary of Genevieve Aubuchon, Maxine Trottier
Four Steps to Death, John Wilson
Forget-Me-Not, Barbara, Haworth-Attard
Turned Away: World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein, Carol Matas

Winner 2005
Good for Nothing, Michel Noël

Winner 2004
Boy O'Boy, Brian Doyle

Winner 2003
The Word for Home, Joan Clark

Winner 2002
If I Just Had Two Wings, Virginia Francis Schwartz

Winner 2001
Charlie Wilcox, Sharon E. McKay

For more information about the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

Giller Prize

The Giller Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The prize was founded by Jack Rabinovitch, a Toronto businessman, and named in honour of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.

2007 Winner
Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air

2007 Shortlist
Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
Michael Ondaatjie, Divisadero
Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us
M.G. Vassanji, The Assassin's Song
Alissa York, Effigy

2006 Winner
Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

2006 Shortlist
Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
Vincent Lam, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Pascale Quiviger, The Perfect Circle
Gaetan Soucy, Immaculate Conception
Carol Windley, Home Schooling

2005 Winner
David Bergen, The Time in Between

2004 Winner
Alice Munro, Runaway

2003 Winner
M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

2002 Winner
Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe

Golden Oak Award

Golden Oak^TM Adult Literacy Book Club Award is sponsored by the Ontario Library Association. Golden Oak provides a unique opportunity for new readers in adult literacy programs to read books chosen specifically for them. They can read the books by themselves, with their tutors, or as part of a reading group. In this, the first year of the Golden Oak^TM Book Club, ten outstanding Canadian titles are recommended. NBS is the official wholesaler for the OLA reading programs.

2008 Nominees

Aram's Choice, Marsha Skrypuch
Dave Cooks The Turkey, Stuart Mclean
Factory Girl, Barbara Greenwood
I Am A Taxi, Deborah Ellis
June Callwood: A Life Of Action, Anne Dublin
Safe House, James Heneghan

2007 Winner
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter

2007 Nominees

The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter
Earth Magic, Dionne Brand
My Childhood Under Fire, Nadja Hallibegovich
Paul Moves Out, Michel Rabagliati
Shattered, Eric Walters
Terry Fox: A Story of Hope, Maxine Trottier

2006 Winner
The Heaven Shop, Deborah Ellis

2006 Nominees

Fires, Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Heaven Shop, Deborah Ellis
Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hemon
Rachel : The Maybe House, Lynne Kositsky
Rescue Of Nanoose, Mary Borrowman
Rosie's Dream Cape, Zelda Freedman

2005 Winner
Tales from the Isle of Spice, Richardo Keens-Douglas

2004 Winner
Parvana's Journey, Deborah Ellis

2003 Winner
Hana's Suitcase, Karen Levine

For more information about the Golden Oak Award

Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature

Established in 1975 (originally known as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize) and administered by the Canada Council, the Governor General's awards are given annually to books for young people, written or illustrated by a Canadian citizen in the previous year. Awards can be given each year, one each to an English language writer, a French language writer, an illustrator of an English language book, and an illustrator of a French language book.

Winner 2006
Text:
William Gilkerson, Pirate�s Passage

Nominees 2006
Text:

André Alexis, Ingrid and the Wolf
William Gilkerson, Pirate�s Passage
Glen Huser, Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen
Teresa Toten, Me and the Blondes
Budge Wilson, Friendships

Winner 2006
Illustration:
Leo Yerxa, Ancient Thunder

Nominees 2006
Illustration:

Dionne Brand, Earth Magic
Veronika Martenova Charles , The Birdman
Ernest L. Thayer, Casey at the Bat
Maxwell Newhouse , Let�s Go for a Ride
Leo Yerxa, Ancient Thunder

Winner 2005
Text:
Pamela Porter, The Crazy Man

Winner 2005
Illustration:
Rob Gonsalves, Imagine A Day

Winners 2004
Text:
Kenneth Oppel, Airborn
Illustration
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Stephane Jorisch

Winners 2003
Text:
Glen Huser, Stitches
Illustration
Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart

Winners 2002
Text:
Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Illustration
Wallace Edwards, Alphabeasts

Winners 2001
Text:
Arthur Slade, Dust
Illustration
Mireille Levert, An Island in the Soup

Winners 2000
Text:
Deborah Ellis, Looking for X
Illustration
Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, a Love Story

For more information about the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature

Governor General's Literary Award For Drama, English Language

The Governor General's Literary Awards are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

2006 Winner
Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You: Five Plays

2006 Nominees
Morwyn Brebner, The Optimists
Lisa Codrington, Cast Iron
Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You: Five Plays
Jason Sherman, Adapt or Die: Plays New and Used
Drew Hayden Taylor, In A World Created By A Drunken God

2005 Winner
John Mighton, Half Life

2004 Winner
Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl

2003 Winner
Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift

2002 Winner
Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918)

For more information about the Governor General's Literary Award For Drama

Governor General's Literary Award For Fiction

The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction is awarded as one of 14 categories administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

2006 Winner, English Language
Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams: a Novel

2006 Finalists, English Language
Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams: a Novel
Trevor Cole, The Fearsome Particles
Bill Gaston, Gargoyles
Paul Glennon The Dodecahedron or A Frame for Frames
Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game

2005 Winner, English Language
David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China

2004 Winner, English Language
Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

2003 Winner, English Language
Douglas Glover, Elle

2002 Winner, English Language
Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson

2001 Winner, English Language
Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan

For more information about http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/default.asp

Governor General's Literary Award For Non Fiction, English Language

The Governor General's Literary Awards are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

2006 Winner
Ross King, The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism

2006 Nominees

Afua Cooper, The Hanging of Ang�lique: Canada, Slavery and the Burning of Montreal
Ross King, The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave The World Impressionism
Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud, Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
Michael Strangelove, The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Christine Wiesenthal, The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther

2005 Winner
John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: a True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

2004 Winner
Romeo Dallaire, Shake Hands with the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

2003 Winner
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

2002 Winner
Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil

2001 Winner
Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap

For more information about Governor General's Literary Award For Non Fiction, English Language

Governor General's Literary Award For Poetry, English Language

The Governor General's Literary Awards are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

2006 Winner
John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom

2006 Nominees
Ken Babstock, Airstream Land Yacht
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Home of Sudden Service
Dionne Brand, Inventory
John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom
Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria: Poems

2005 Winner
Anne Compton, Processional

2004 Winner
Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Towards Oishida

2003 Winner
Tim Lilburn, Kill-site

2002 Winner
Roy Miki, Surrender

For more information about Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, English Language

Greenaway Award

The Kate Greenaway Medal was established, The Library Association in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular nineteenth century artist known for her fine children's illustrations and designs.

2006 Shortlist

The Elephantom, Ross Collins
Orange Pear Apple Bear, Emily Gravett
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, Mini Grey
Scoop! An Exclusive, Monty Molenski, John Kelly & Cathy Tincknell
Augustus and His Smile, Catherine Rayner
The Emperor of Absurdia, Chris Riddell

2005 Winner
Wolves, Emily Gravett

2004 Winner
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver, Chris Riddell

2003 Winner
Ella's Big Chance, Shirley Hughes

2002 Winner
Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child, Bob Graham

For more information about Greenway Award

Hackmatack Awards

The Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award is a literary program designed for students in Grades 4 - 6 in Atlantic Canada. Each year, thousands of children read from the selection of nominated Canadian books and if they have read at least five of the nominees, vote for their favourite. There are three categories: English Fiction, English Non-fiction, and French. The English nominees are orderable under "Awards" in the "Catalogue" part of our web site.

2007 Winners
Fiction (English):
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter
Non-Fiction (English):
Harry Houdini: A Magical Life, Elizabeth Macleod

2006 Winners
Fiction (English):
No Small Thing, Natale Ghent
Non-Fiction (English):
Adventures in the Ice Age, Linda Bailey

2005 Winners
Fiction (English):
Mud City, Deborah Ellis
Non-Fiction (English):
Tunnels!, Diane Swanson

2004 Winners
Fiction (English):
Secret Life of Owen Skye, Alan Cumyn
Non-Fiction (English):
Hana's Suitcase, Karen Levine

2003 Winners
Fiction (English):
Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis
Non-Fiction (English):
Adventures with the Vikings, Linda Bailey

2001/2002 Winners
Fiction (English):
Charlie Wilcox, Sharon E. McKay
Non-Fiction (English):
WOW Canada! , Vivien Bowers

2000/2001 Winners
Fiction:
The Secret of Gabi's Dresser, Kathy Kacer
Non-Fiction:
By Truck to the North, Andy Turnbull and Debora Pearson

1999/2000 Winners
Fiction:
Silverwing, Kenneth Oppel
Non-Fiction:
If You Could Wear My Sneakers, Sheree Fitch

For more information about Hackmatack Awards

IODE (Toronto) Children's Book Award

Toronto Municipal Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). Established 1974. Presented annually to a Toronto-area writer or illustrator of an outstanding Canadian-published children's book.

Winner 2006
Ian Krykorka, Carl the Christmas Carp

Winner 2005
Ian Wallace, Mavis and Merna

Winner 2004
Kenneth Oppel, Peg and the Yeti

Winner 2003
Audrey Davis, Bagels from Benny

Winner 2002
Marie Day, Edward the Crazy Man

For more information about IODE (Toronto) Children's Book Award

IODE Violet Downey Book Award

This award is offered annually for the best English language book, containing at least 500 words of text (preferably with Canadian content) in any category, suitable for children aged 13 and under.

2006 Winner
Rachna Gilmore, The Sower of Tales

2005 Winner
Anne Dublin, Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything

2004 Winner
Sarah Ellis, Several Lives of Orphan Jack

2003 Winner
Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase

2002 Winner
Brian Doyle, Mary Ann Alice

For more information about IODE Violet Downey Book Award

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize

The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is open to books written in any language and is the largest and most international prize of its kind. The Award is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries.

2007 Shortlist
Arthur and George, Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry
Slow Man, J.M. Coetzee
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The Short Day Dying, Peter Hobbs
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Shalimar the Clown, Salman Rushdie

2006 Winner
Colm Toibin, Master

2006 Shortlist
Chris Abani, Graceland
Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers
Ronan Bennett, Havoc, in Its Third Year
Jonathan Coe, The Closed Circle
Jens Chrisian Grondahl, An Altered Light
Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul
Vyvyane Loh, Breaking the Tongue
Margaret Mazzantini, Don't Move
Colm Toibin, Master
Thomas Wharton, The Logogryph: a Bibliography of Imaginary Books

2005 Winner
Edward P. Jones, The Known World

2004 Winner
Tahar Ben Jelloun, This Blinding Absence of Light

2003 Winner
Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red

2002 Winner
Michel Houellebecq, Atomised. Re-released under the title The Elementary Particles

J,K,L

John Newbery Award | Kiriyama Prize | Lionel Gelber Prize

John Newbery Award

Awarded annually since 1922, the Newbery Award, which was donated by Frederic G. Melcher family, is named for the 18th century English publisher and bookseller John Newbery. This award is to encourage original and creative work in the field of books for children.

2007 Winner
Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

2007 Honor Books
Penny from Heaven, Jennifer L. Holm
Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson
Rules, Cynthia Lord

2006 Winner
Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross

2005 Winner
Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira

2004 Winner
Kate DiCamillo, Tale Of Despereaux

2003 Winner
Avi., Crispin: Cross of Lead

2002 Winner
Linda Park Sue, A Single Shard

For more information about John Newbery Award

Kiriyama Prize

The Kiriyama Prize was established in 1996 to recognize books that promote greater understanding of and among nations of the Pacific Rim and the South Asian subcontinent.

2007 Winner
Fiction Winner
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami
Non-Fiction
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

2006 Winner
Luis Alberto Urrea, Hummingbird's Daughter

2006 Finalists
Luis Alberto Urrea, Hummingbird's Daughter
Karen Connelly, Lizard Cage
Amitav Ghosh, Hungry Tide
Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayer
Jess Row, Train to Lo Wu

2005 Winner
Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers

2005 Finalists
Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers
Rupa Bajwa, The Sari Shop
Ha Jin, War Trash
Kelly Ana Morey, Grace is Gone
Perumal Murugan, Seasons of the Palm

2004 Winner
Sa Shan, Girl Who Played Go

2002 Winner
Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

2001 Winner
Patricia Grace, Dogside Story

For more information about this award, please use this link, http://www.kiriyamaprize.org/

Lionel Gelber Prize

The Gelber Prize at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto celebrates the excellence of those who think and write about the local and global forces of change in international relations.

2007 Shortlist
Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation
Margaret MacMillan, Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World
David Malone, The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

2006 Winner
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

2006 Nominees
Daniel Benjamin , The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right
Caroline Elkins, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Jeffrey D. Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Stephen M. Walt , Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy

2004 Winner
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

2003 Winner
James Lindsay America Unbound: The Bush Revolution In Foreign Policy

2002 Winner
Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How it Changed the World

For more information about this award, please use this link, http://www.utoronto.ca/mcis/gelber/

M,N,O

  Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
  Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature  |   Mildred L. Batchelder Award
  National Book Critics Circle Prize For Fiction  |   National Business Book Award
  National Book Award—Fiction  |   National Book Award—Non Fiction
  National Book Award—Poetry  |   National Book Award—Young People's Literature
  Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, The Writers' Trust Of Canada  |   Norma Fleck Award  |   Orange Prize For Fiction

Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award

This program gives young people the opportunity to vote for their favourite Canadian book from an annual pre-selected list. The titles on this list have been chosen for their quality and reader appeal, thus promoting reading of Canadian literature for young readers.

Nominees 2008

Almost Eden, Anita Horrocks
The Blue Helmet, William Bell
The Devil, the Banshee and Me, L.M. Falcone
Domenic�s War: A Story of the Battle of Monte Cassino, Curtis Parkinson
Gemini Summer, Ian Lawrence
Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates, Sean Cullen
I Am a Taxi, Deborah Ellis
Keturah and Lord Death, Martine Leavitt
Magnifico, Victoria Miles
The Mystery of the Graffiti Ghoul, Marty Chan
Odd Man Out, Sarah Ellis
Pirate�s Passage, William Gilkerson
Ready to Run, Beverly Scudamore
Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen, Glen Huser
Stealing Home, Ellen Schwartz
Strange Times at Western High, Emily Pohl-Weary
The Uncle Duncle Chronicles: Escape from Treasure Island, Darren Krill
We All Fall Down, Eric Walters

2007 Winner
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter

Nominees 2007

The Convicts, Iain Lawrence
The Crazy Man, Pamela Porter
Emily's Piano, Charlotte Gingras
Four Steps to Death, John Wilson
Gem Lakes, Rob Keough
The Gravesavers, Sheree Fitch
Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach, Barbara Nickel
Horse's Shadow, Lawrence Scanlan
One on One, Don Aker
The Path Through the Trees, Peggy Dymond
Pond Scum, Alan Silberberg
Rink of Dreams, Nancy Russell
Skybreaker, Kenneth Oppel
Sun Signs, Shelley Hrdlitschka
The Sower of Tales, Rachna Gilmore
Turned Away, Carol Matas
Walking With the Dead, L. M. Falcone
Wild Orchid, Beverley Brenna

2006 Winner
No One Must Know, Eva Wiseman

2006 Honour Book Awards
Airborn, Kenneth Oppel
Heaven Shop, Deborah Ellis

2005 Winner
Waiting for Sarah, Bruce McBay and James Heneghan

2004 Winner
Firewing, Kenneth Oppel

For more information about Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas School Librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The award is sponsored, Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

2007 Winner
American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang

2006 Winner
John Green, Looking for Alaska

2005 Winner
Meg Roscoff, How I Live Now

2004 Winner
Angela Johnson, The First Part Last

2003 Winner
Aidan Chambers, Postcards From No Man's Land

2003 Honor Books
Nancy Farmer, House Of The Scorpion
G. Freymann-Weyr, My Heartbeat
Jack Gantos, Hole In My Life

2002 Winner
An Na, Step from Heaven

2002 Honor Books
Peter Dickinson, Ropemaker
Chris Lynch, Freewill
Virginia Euwer Wolff, True Believer

For more information about Michael L. Printz Award

Mildred L. Batchelder Award

This award honours Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children. This award, established in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher to a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.

2007 Winner
Delacorte Press, publisher of The Pull of the Ocean, Jean-Claude Mourlevat, translated from the French, Y. Maudet

2006 Winner
Josef Holub, An Innocent Soldier

2005 Winner
Joelle Stoltz, The Shadow of Ghadames

2004 Winner
Uri Orlev, Run, Boy, Run

2003 Winner
Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord

2002 Winner
Karin Gundisch, How I Became An American

Winner 2001
Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic Press
Daniella Carmi, translated from Hebrew by Yael Lotan, Samir and Yonatan (Scholastic Press)
Honor Book
Christian Lehmann, translated from French by William Rodarmor, Ultimate Game (David R. Godine)

For more information about Mildred L. Batchelder Award

National Book Critics Circle Prize For Fiction

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is an American not-for-profit organization of about 750 book editors and critics. Every year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in the English language. Canadian writers are included among past winners of the fiction award.

2006 Winner
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

2006 Nominees
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Dave Eggers, What is the What
Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

2005 Winner
E. L. Doctorow, The March: a Novel

2004 Winner
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

2003 Winner
Edward P.Jones, Known World

2002 Winner
Ian McEwan, Atonement

2001 Winner
W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

For more information about this award, please use this link, http://www.bookcritics.org

National Business Book Award

Canadian award promoting excellence in business writing.

2006 Winner
Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

2006 Finalists
Charlotte Gray, Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Wayne Lilley, Magna Cum Laude: How Frank Stronach Became Canada's Best-Paid Man
Carol Off, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

2005 Winner
Matthew J. Bellamy, Profiting the Crown: Canada's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990

2005 Finalists
Matthew J. Bellamy, Profiting The Crown: Canadan's Polymer Corporation, 1942-1990
Max Lenderman, Experience the Message: How Experiential Marketing is Changing the Brand World
Ian Mulgrew, Bud Inc.: Inside Canada's Marijuna Industry
Gordon Pitt, The Codfathers: Lessons from the Atlantic Business Elite

2004 Winner
Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart, Wrong Way: the Fall of Conrad Black

2003 Winner
Kim Vicente, The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

2002 Winner
Douglas Hunter, The Bubble and the Bear: How Nortel Burst the Canadian Dream

2001 Winner
J.L. Reynolds, Free Rider: How a Bay Street Whiz Kid Stole and Spent $20 Million

For more information about this award, please use this link, National Business Book Award

National Book Award

2007 Finalists—Fiction
Fiction Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork
Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
Jim Shepard, Like You'd Understand, Anyway

2007 Finalists—Nonfiction
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

2007 Finalists—Poetry
Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North
Robert Hass, Time and Materials
David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St.
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006