Robertson Davies for ''What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)''
* 1987 ''none''
* 1988
Brian Moore for ''The Colour of Blood''
* 1989
Joan Clark for ''The Victory Of Geraldine Gull''
* 1990
James Houston for ''Running West''
* 1991
David Adams Richards for ''Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace''
* 1992
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such ...
for ''News From A Foreign Country Came''
* 1993
Neil Bissoondath for ''Innocence Of Age''
* 1994
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, ...
for ''The Robber Bride''
* 1995
Bernice Morgan for ''Waiting for Time (Random Passage, #2)''
* 1996
L.R. Wright Laurali Rose "Bunny" Wright (née Appleby) (5 June 1939 – 25 February 2001) was a Canadian writer of mainstream fiction and mystery novels. Many of her stories are set on the coast of British Columbia.
Early life and education
Wright was born in ...
for ''Mother Love (Karl Alberg #7)''
* 1997
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near ...
for ''Fall on Your Knees''
* 1998
Rita Donovan for ''Landed''
* 1999
Wayne Johnston for ''The Colony of Unrequited Dreams''
* 2000
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod, (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of m ...
for ''No Great Mischief''
* 2001
Elizabeth Hay for ''A Student of Weather''
* 2002
Will Ferguson for ''Happiness''
* 2003
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Hi ...
for ''Family Matters''
* 2004
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms ''Generation X'' and '' Mc ...
for ''Hey Nostradamus!''
* 2005
Jeffrey Moore
Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the Sorbonne and the University of Ottawa, MA.
Nov ...
for ''The Memory Artists''
* 2006
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Irish and Scottish descent. He also claims Indigenous descent, but this is widely disputed. Joseph Boyden is best known for writing about First Nations cult ...
for ''Three Day Road''
* 2007
Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario."Indian Horse is a dark ride". ''Calgary Herald'', February 28, 2012. He was be ...
for ''Dream Wheels''
* 2008
Paulette Jiles for ''Stormy Weather''
* 2009
Nino Ricci for ''The Origin of Species''
* 2010
Michael Crummey for ''Galore''
* 2011
Tom Rachman for ''The Imperfectionists''
* 2012
Patrick deWitt for ''The Sisters Brothers''
* 2013
Christopher Meades
Christopher Meades is the Vancouver author of four novels, including ''The Last Hiccup'' (2012), which won the 2013 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction.
His story ''The Walking Lady'' won the 2009 Toyon fiction prize and his short ficti ...
for ''The Last Hiccup''
* 2014
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Irish and Scottish descent. He also claims Indigenous descent, but this is widely disputed. Joseph Boyden is best known for writing about First Nations cult ...
for ''The Orenda''
* 2015
Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews (; born 1964) is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including '' A Complicated Kindness'' (2004), ''All My Puny Sorrows'' (2014), and '' Women Talking'' (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governor ...
for ''All My Puny Sorrows''
* 2016
Nino Ricci for ''Sleep''
* 2017
Alissa York
Alissa York (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and the 1999 winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award. She lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba before settling in Toronto with her writer/filmmaker/publisher husband Clive Holden.
York is best known for ...
for ''The Naturalist''
;CAA Award for Poetry (1975–2017)
* 1975
Tom Wayman
Thomas Ethan Wayman (born 13 August 1945) is a Canadian author.
Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia. He studied at the University of British Columbia (BA 1966), and the University of California, I ...
for ''For and Against the Moon''
* 1976
Jim Green for ''North Book''
* 1977
Sid Stephen for ''Beothuck Poems''
* 1978
Alden Nowlan
Alden Albert Nowlan (; January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright.
History
Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windsor, ...
for''Smoked Glass''
* 1979
Andrew Suknaski
Andrew Suknaski (July 30, 1942 – May 3, 2012) was a Canadian poet and visual artist.
Early life and education
He was born on a homestead near Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan and studied at a number of institutions, receiving a diploma of Fine Art ...
for ''The Ghosts You Call Poor''
* 1980
Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller ...
for ''There's a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems, 1963–1978''
* 1981
Leona Gom for ''Land of The Peace''
* 1982
Gary Geddes
Gary Geddes (born 9 June 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and writer.
Biography
He spent four years of his childhood on the Canadian prairies, but otherwise remained on the west coast until 1963, where he got his bachelor's ...
for ''the acid test''
* 1983
George Amabile
George Amabile (born 29 May 1936) is a Canadian poet who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in Canada, the USA, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magaz ...
for ''the presence of fire''
* 1984
Don McKay Don McKay may refer to:
* Don McKay (poet) (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator
* Don McKay (actor) (1925–2018), American actor, dancer and singer
* Don McKay (rugby union) (born 1937), New Zealand rugby union player
* Sir Don McKay (p ...
for ''Birding or Desire''
* 1985
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...
for ''Book of Mercy''
* 1986
P.K. Page
Patricia Kathleen Page, (23 November 1916 – 14 January 2010) was a British-born Canadian poet,Peter ScowenP.K. Page dies at age 93 ''The Globe and Mail'', 14 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010. though the citation as she was inducted as a ...
for ''The Glass Air''
* 1987
Al Purdy for ''The Collected Poems 1956–1986''
* 1988
Pat Lane for ''Selected Poems''
* 1989
Bruce Rice
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a ...
for ''Daniel''
* 1990
Don Bailey for ''Homeless Heart''
* 1991
Richard Lemm
Richard Lemm (born 1946) is a poet and professor based in Prince Edward Island. He was born in Seattle, immigrated to Canada in 1967, and moved to Atlantic Canada in 1979. He has an MA in English from Queen's University and a PhD from Dalhousie Un ...
for ''Prelude to the Bacchanal''
* 1992
Anne Michaels for ''Miner's Pond''
* 1993
Lorna Crozier for ''Inventing the Hawk''
* 1994
George Bowering for ''George Bowering Selected Poems''
* 1995
Tim Lilburn
Tim Lilburn (born 27 June 1950) is a Canadian poet and essayist. Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Regina, a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, and his PhD from McMaster Uni ...
for ''Moosehead Sandhills''
* 1996
Di Brandt for ''Jerusalem, beloved''
* 1997
E.D. Blodgett
Edward Dickinson Blodgett (26 February 1935 – 15 November 2018) was a Canadian poet, literary critic, and translator who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection ''Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano'' (BuschekBooks).
Bi ...
for ''Apostrophes: woman at a piano''
* 1998
Anne Szumigalski for ''On Glassy Wings''
* 1999
Janice Kulyk Keefer for ''Marrying the Sea''
* 2000
Helen Humphreys for ''Anthem''
* 2001
Carmine Starnino
Carmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator and editor.
Biography
He was born in 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection ''The New World'' (1997) was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Priz ...
for ''Credo''
* 2002
Tim Bowling for ''Darkness and Silence''
* 2003
Margaret Avison for ''Concrete and Wild Carrot''
* 2004
Chris Banks for ''Bonfires''
* 2005
Peter Trower
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
for ''Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys''
* 2006
Barry Dempster
Barry Edward Dempster (born 17 January 1952) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.
Barry Dempster was born in Toronto, Ontario, and educated in child psychology. He is the author of two novels, a children's book, three volumes of short sto ...
for ''The Burning Alphabet''
* 2007
Sarah Klassen for ''A Curious Beatitude''
* 2008
Asa Boxer
ASA as an abbreviation or initialism may refer to:
Biology and medicine
* Accessible surface area of a biomolecule, accessible to a solvent
* Acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin
* Advanced surface ablation, refractive eye surgery
* Anterior spinal ...
for ''The Mechanical Bird''
* 2009
Elise Partridge
Elise or Elyse may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Elise, the unidentified person to whom Beethoven dedicated ''Für Elise''
* ''Elise'', a 1979 speculative fiction novel by Ken Grimwood
* ''Élise ou la vraie vie'' (''Elise, or the Real Life' ...
for ''Chameleon Hours''
* 2010
Tom Dawe for ''Where Genesis Begins''
* 2011
Julia McCarthy for ''Return from Erebus''
* 2012
Goran Simić for ''Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman''
* 2013
Don McKay Don McKay may refer to:
* Don McKay (poet) (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator
* Don McKay (actor) (1925–2018), American actor, dancer and singer
* Don McKay (rugby union) (born 1937), New Zealand rugby union player
* Sir Don McKay (p ...
for ''Paradoxides''
* 2014
Renee Sarojini Saklikar for ''children of air india''
* 2015
Tim Bowling for ''Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief''
* 2016
Joe Denham for ''Regeneration Machine''
* 2017
Johanna Skibsrud
Johanna Shively Skibsrud (born 1980) is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''The Sentimentalists'' won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Career
Skibsrud has published two books of poetry, ''Late Nights with Wild Cowboys'' in 2008 and ''I Do N ...
for ''The Description of the World''
;CAA Award for Canadian History (1997–2017)
*1997
Phil Jenkins for ''An Acre of Time''
*1998
Dorothy Harley Eber for ''Images of Justice''
*1999
Rod McQueen for ''The Eatons''
*2000
D’Arcy Jenish for ''Indian Fall (The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy)''
*2001
Will Ferguson for ''Canadian History for Dummies''
*2002
Ken McGoogan for ''Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin''
*2003
Derek Hayes for ''Historical Atlas of Canada''
*2004
Ishmael Alunik
Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...
,
Eddie D. Kolausok
Eddie or Eddy may refer to:
Science and technology
*Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle
* Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Lin ...
and
David Morrison for ''Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic''
*2005
Charlotte Gray for ''The Museum Called Canada''
*2006
J.L. Granatstein for'' The Last Good War''
*2007
Mark Zuehlke
Mark may refer to:
Currency
* Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
* East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic
* Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927
* Finn ...
for ''For Honour's Sake: the War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace''
*2008
Robert Wright for ''Three Nights in Havana''
*2009
J.M. Bumsted JM may refer to:
Places
* Jamaica (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code JM)
* Jay Em, Wyoming, a community in the United States
Businesses and organizations
* Jack's Mannequin, a piano rock band
* Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic terrorist group ...
for ''Lord Selkirk: A Life''
*2010
Jonathan F. Vance
Jonathan may refer to:
* Jonathan (name), a masculine given name
Media
* ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer
* ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski
* ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
for ''A History of Canadian Culture''
* 2011
Shelagh D. Grant for ''Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America''
* 2012
Richard Gwyn for ''Nation Maker: Sir John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867–1891''
* 2013
Michael S. Cross
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
for ''A Biography of Robert Baldwin: The Morning-Star of Memory''
* 2014
Charlotte Gray for ''The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation''
* 2015
Robert Wright for ''The Night Canada Stood Still''
* 2016
Debra Komer
Debra is a feminine given name.
Debra may refer to:
People
* Debra Adelaide (born 1958), Australian writer
* Debra Allbery (born 1957), American poet
* Debra R. Anderson (1949-2022), American politician
* Debra Austin (born 1955), American bal ...
for ''The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The
Hudson's Bay Company
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trade, fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake b ...
and the Murder of
John McLoughlin Jr.
John McLoughlin Jr. (1812–1842) was a Metis Chief Trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Early life
He was the son of longtime Chief Factor of the Columbia District John McLoughlin and Marguerite Waddens MacKay.
Fort Stikine
He was ...
''
* 2017
Charlotte Gray for ''The Promise of Canada''
;CAA Emerging Writer Award (2006–2017)
* 2011
Titilope Sonuga
Titilope Sonuga, also known as Titi Sonuga, is a Nigerian poet, civil engineer, and actress who spends her time between Lagos and Edmonton, Canada.
Early years
Titilope Sonuga, who was born in Lagos, Nigeria, relocated to Edmonton, Canada, when ...
for ''Down to Earth''
* 2012
Ryan Flavelle
Ryan may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
*Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Places Australia
* Division of Ryan, an electo ...
for ''The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan''
* 2013 Tie:
for several fiction, poetry and review works and
Jay Bahadur for journalistic work and ''The Pirates of Somalia''
* 2014
Grace O'Connell
Grace D. O'Connell is an American biomechanical engineer known for her research on the biomechanics of the human spine, on the degeneration and regeneration of spinal tissue, and on the comparison of its properties with the spines of animals ...
for ''Magnified World''
* 2015
Kim Fu
Kim Fu (born 1987) is a Canadian-born writer, living in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to immigrant parents from Hong Kong,"Gender a 'universal' tale; Author explores struggles of transgender character in first no ...
for ''For Today I Am a Boy''
* 2016
Kayla Czaga
Kayla Czaga (born 1989) is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection ''For Your Safety Please Hold On''. The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry, ...
for ''For Your Safety Please Hold On''
* 2017
Eva Crocker
Eva Crocker is a Canadian writer based in St. John's, whose debut short story collection ''Barrelling Forward'' was published in 2017.
The daughter of writer Lisa Moore and Memorial University of Newfoundland academic Stephen Crocker, she was a ...
for several anthology stories
;CAA Award for Drama (1975–prior 2017)
* 1985
Ken Mitchell
Ken Mitchell (born December 13, 1940) is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. Mitchell was raised on a rural farm outside the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Mitchell began his post-secondary education as a journalism student at Ryerson ...
for ''Gone The Burning Sun''
* 1992
Drew Hayden Taylor
Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is a Canadian playwright, author and journalist.
Life and career
Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is part Ojibwe and part Caucasian. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my own nation. Be ...
for ''The Bootlegger Blues: A Play''
* 1993
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, '' The Englishman's Boy'', ''The Last Crossing'', and ''A Good Man'' set in the 19th-century American and Can ...
for ''I Had A Job I Liked. Once: A Play''
;Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Award
* 2016
Caroline Vu
Caroline Vu is a Canadian novelist of Vietnamese heritage.
Early life and education
Vu was born in 1959 in Dalat, Vietnam (South Vietnam) and grew up in Saigon. At the age of eleven, she immigrated with her mother and brother to Connecticut. Th ...
for ''Palawan Story''
* 2017
Margo Wheaton *** People
* Margo (actress) (1917–1985), Mexican-American actress and dancer
* Margo (magician), American magic performer and actress
* Margo (singer), Irish singer
* Margo (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name
P ...
for ''The Unlit Path Behind the House''
* 2018
Ahmad Danny Ramadan for ''The Clothesline Swing''
* 2019
Maureen Medved
Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, British Columbi ...
for ''Black Star''
* 2020
Adrienne Drobnies
Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "from the city Hadria."
* Adrienne Albert (born 1941), composer
* Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American actress
* Adrienne Armstrong (born 1969), wife of G ...
for ''Salt and Ashes''
* 2021
Joanna Lilley
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from he, יוֹחָנָה, translit=Yôḥānāh, lit=God is gracious. Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice ...
for ''Endlings''
* 2022
Catherine Graham for ''Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric''
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Governor General's Awards
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