Award-Winning Books
Whether you're in the mood for fiction, non-fiction, plays or poetry, the UC Library has award-winning books for you.
Click a book below find it in the U of T Library Catalogue. Or browse our shelves and watch for the bright green Award Winner stickers.
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Booker Prize
- 2024: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- 2023: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
- 2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- 2021: The Promise by Damon Galgut
- 2020: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- 2019: TIE: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo; The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- 2018: Milkman by Anna Burns
- 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- 2016: The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- 2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
- 2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- 2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- 2012: Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
- 2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
- 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright
- 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
- 2005: The Sea by John Banville
- 2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
- 2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
- 2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- 1999: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- 1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift
- 1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
- 1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
- 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
- 1992: TIE: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje; Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
- 1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
- 1990: Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
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CBC Canada Reads
- 2025: A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby
- 2024: The Future by Catherine Leroux
- 2023: Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
- 2022: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- 2021: Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- 2020: We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
- 2019: By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz by Max Eisen
- 2018: Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto
- 2017: Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue by André Alexis
- 2016: The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
- 2015: Ru by Kim Thuy
- 2014: The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
- 2013: February by Lisa Moore
- 2012: Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter by Carmen Aguirre
- 2011: The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
- 2010: Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
- 2009: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- 2008: King Leary by Paul Quarrington
- 2007: Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
- 2006: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- 2005: Rockbound by Frank Parker Day
- 2004: The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 2003: Next Episode by Hubert Aquin
- 2002: In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
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Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
- 2020: Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson by Mark Bourrie
- 2019: Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
- 2018: Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
- 2017: Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
- 2016: Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan
- 2015: They Left Us Everything: A Memoir by Plum Johnson
- 2014: The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
- 2013: Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy by Andrew Preston
- 2012: The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery by Andrew Westoll
- 2011: Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran
- 2010: The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son by Ian Brown
- 2009: Canadians Fighting the Great War: 1914-1916 by Tim Cook
- 2008: John A.: The Man Who Made Us, The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald by Richard Gwyn
- 2007: Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebe
- 2006: Dead Man in Paradise by J. B. MacKinnon
- 2005: The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia by Charles Montgomery
- 2004: Belonging: Home Away from Home by Isabel Huggan
- 2003: [no award given]
- 2002: Jane Austen by Carol Shields
- 2001: [no award given]
- 2000: Baltimore’s Mansion by Wayne Johnston
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Giller Prize
- 2024: Held: A Novel by Anne Michaels
- 2023: Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
- 2022: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
- 2021: What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- 2020: How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- 2019: Reproduction by Ian Williams
- 2018: Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- 2017: Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill
- 2016: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- 2015: Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue by André Alexis
- 2014: Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
- 2013: Hellgoing by Lynn Coady
- 2012: 419 by Will Ferguson
- 2011: Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
- 2010: The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
- 2009: The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
- 2008: Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
- 2007: Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
- 2006: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
- 2005: The Time In Between by David Bergen
- 2004: Runaway by Alice Munro
- 2003: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji
- 2002: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
- 2001: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
- 2000: TIE: Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards; Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- 1999: A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
- 1998: The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
- 1997: Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
- 1996: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- 1995: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- 1994: The Book of Secrets M.G. Vassanji
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Governor General's Award for DRAMA (in English)
- 2024: There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death, or The Born-Again Crow by Caleigh Crow
- 2023: William Shakespeareʼs As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal
- 2022: The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key by Dorothy Dittrich
- 2021: Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes by Hannah Moscovitch
- 2020: Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story by Kim Senklip Harvey
- 2019: Other Side of the Game by Amanda Parris
- 2018: Botticelli in the Fire; &, Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill
- 2017: Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa
- 2016: Pig Girl by Colleen Murphy
- 2015: Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave by David Yee
- 2014: Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays by Jordan Tannahill
- 2013: Fault Lines: Three Plays by Nicolas Billon
- 2012: It is Solved by Walking by Catherine Banks
- 2011: If We Were Birds by Erin Shields
- 2010: Afterimage by Robert Chafe
- 2009: Where the Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring
- 2008: Bone Cage by Catherine Banks
- 2007: The December Man (L’homme de décembre) by Colleen Murphy
- 2006: I Still Love You by Daniel MacIvor
- 2005: Half Life by John Mighton
- 2004: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych
- 2003: Einstein’s Gift by Vern Thiessen
- 2002: Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr
- 2001: The Harps of God by Kent Stetson
- 2000: Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley
- 1999: The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey
- 1998: Harlem Duet by Djanet Sears
- 1997: fareWel by Ian Ross
- 1996: The Monument by Colleen Wagner
- 1995: Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman
- 1994: The Ends of the Earth by Morris Panych
- 1993: Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia
- 1992: Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night by John Mighton
- 1991: Amigo's Blue Guitar by Joan MacLeod
- 1990: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Governor General's Award for FICTION (in English)
- 2024: Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel
- 2023: Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese
- 2022: Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
- 2021: Tainna: The Unseen Ones by Norma Dunning
- 2020: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
- 2019: Five Wives by Joan Thomas
- 2018: The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
- 2017: We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night: A Novel by Joel Thomas Hynes
- 2016: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- 2015: Daddy Lenin and Other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 2014: The Back of the Turtle: A Novel by Thomas King
- 2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- 2012: The Purchase by Linda Spalding
- 2011: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- 2010: Cool Water by Dianne Warren
- 2009: The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
- 2008: The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
- 2007: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
- 2006: The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
- 2005: A Perfect Night to Go to China by David Gilmour
- 2004: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
- 2003: Elle by Douglas Glover
- 2002: A Song for Nettie Johnson by Gloria Sawai
- 2001: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
- 2000: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
- 1999: Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen
- 1998: Forms of Devotion by Diane Schoemperlen
- 1997: The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
- 1996: The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 1995: The Roaring Girl by Greg Hollingshead
- 1994: A Discovery of Strangers by Rudy Wiebe
- 1993: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- 1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- 1991: Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
- 1990: Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci
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Governor General's Award for NON-FICTION (in English)
- 2024: Winipek: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair
- 2023: Unearthing by Kyo Maclear
- 2022: Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth by Eli Baxter
- 2021: alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language by Sadiqa de Meijer
- 2020: This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves by Madhur Anand
- 2019: To the River: Losing My Brother by Don Gillmor
- 2018: Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod
- 2017: The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood
- 2016: A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 by Bill Waiser
- 2015: Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive by Mark L. Winston
- 2014: The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Harris Michael
- 2013: Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa
- 2012: Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
- 2011: Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran
- 2010: Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada by Allan Casey
- 2009: A Place Within by M.G. Vassanji
- 2008: Fifteen Days by Christie Blatchford
- 2007: I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
- 2006: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
- 2005: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
- 2004: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Roméo Dallaire
- 2003: Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
- 2002: Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2001: The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon
- 2000: Notes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia
- 1999: Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource by Marq de Villiers
- 1998: Lines on the Water: A Fly Fisherman’s Life on the Miramichi by David Adams Richards
- 1997: Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood by Rachel Manley
- 1996: The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
- 1995: Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
- 1994: Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication by John A. Livingston
- 1993: Touch the Dragon by Karen Connelly
- 1992: Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm by Maggie Siggins
- 1991: Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past by Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo
- 1990: Trudeau and Our Times by Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall
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Governor General's Award for POETRY (in English)
- 2024: Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi
- 2023: Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green
- 2022: Shadow Blight by Annick MacAskill
- 2021: The Junta of Happenstance by Tolu Oloruntoba
- 2020: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
- 2019: Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
- 2018: Wayside Sang: Poems by Cecily Nicholson
- 2017: On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood by Richard Harrison
- 2016: The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton
- 2015: My Shoes Are Killing Me by Robyn Sarah
- 2014: Lake of Two Mountains by Arleen Paré
- 2013: North End Love Songs by Katherena Vermette
- 2012: Monkey Ranch by Julie Bruck
- 2011: Killdeer by Phil Hall
- 2010: Boxing the Compass by Richard Greene
- 2009: The Fly in Autumn by David Zieroth
- 2008: More to Keep Us Warm by Jacob Scheier
- 2007: All Our Wonder Unavenged by Don Domanski
- 2006: Stumbling in the Bloom by John Pass
- 2005: Processional by Anne Compton
- 2004: Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida by Roo Borson
- 2003: Kill-site by Tim Lilburn
- 2002: Surrender by Roy Miki
- 2001: Execution Poems by George Elliott Clarke
- 2000: Another Gravity by Don McKay
- 1999: Songs for Relinquishing the Earth by Jan Zwicky
- 1998: White Stone: The Alice Poems by Stephanie Bolster
- 1997: Land to Light On by Dionne Brand
- 1996: Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano by E.D. Blodgett
- 1995: Voice by Anne Szumigalski
- 1994: Cantos from a Small Room by Robert Hilles
- 1993: Forests of the Medieval World by Don Coles
- 1992: Inventing the Hawk by Lorna Crozier
- 1991: Night Field by Don McKay
- 1990: No Time by Margaret Avison
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Governor General's Award for TRANSLATION (French to English)
- 2024: Nights Too Short to Dance by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Katia Grubisic
- 2023: Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution by Eric Dupont, translated by Peter McCambridge
- 2022: History of the Jews in Quebec by Pierre Anctil, translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth
- 2021: This Radiant Life by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erin Moure
- 2020: If You Hear Me by Pascale Quiviger, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- 2019: Birds of a Kind by Wajdi Mouawad
- 2018: Descent into Night by Edem Awumey, translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott
- 2017: Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei
- 2016: The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- 2015: Twenty-One Cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by Rhonda Mullins
- 2014: Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography by François-Marc Gagnon, translated by Peter Feldstein
- 2013: The Major Verbs by Pierre Nepveu, translated by Donald Winkler
- 2012: Mai at the Predators’ Ball by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Nigel Spencer
- 2011: Partita for Glenn Gould by Georges Leroux, translated by Donald Winkler
- 2010: Forests by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau
- 2009: Pieces of Me by Charlotte Gingras, translated by Susan Ouriou
- 2008: Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- 2007: Augustino and the Choir of Destruction by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Nigel Spencer
- 2006: Vetiver by Joël Des Rosiers, translated by Hugh Hazelton
- 2005: Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition by Thierry Hentsch, translated by Fred A. Reed
- 2004: Mirabel by Pierre Nepveu, translated by Judith Cowan
- 2003: Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian's Life by Marcel Trudel, translated by Jane Brierley
- 2002: Thunder and Light by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Nigel Spencer
- 2001: Fairy Ring by Martine Desjardins, translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel
- 2000: Just Fine by France Daigle, translated by Robert Majzels
- 1999: Gabrielle Roy: A Life by François Ricard, translated by Patricia Claxton
- 1998: Bambi and Me by Michel Tremblay, translated by Sheila Fischman
- 1997: The Euguelion by Louky Bersianik, translated by Howard Scott
- 1996: Stone and Ashes by Daniel Danis, translated by Linda Gaboriau
- 1995: Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex? by Dany Laferrière, translated by David Homel
- 1994: The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers by François Ricard, translated by Donald Winkler
- 1993: Categorics: 1, 2 & 3 by Normand de Bellefeuille, translated by D.G. Jones.
- 1992: Imagining the Middle East by Thierry Hentsch, translated by Fred A. Reed
- 1991: A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z by Bernard Dupriez, translated by Albert W. Halsall
- 1990: Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, translated by Jane Brierley
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Griffin Poetry Prize: Canadian
- 2021: The DyzgraphXst by Canisia Lubrin
- 2020: Magnetic Equator by Kaie Kellough
- 2019: Quarrels by Eve Joseph
- 2018: This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt
- 2017: Injun by Jordan Abel
- 2016: Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard
- 2015: Blue Sonoma by Jane Munro
- 2014: Red Doc> by Anne Carson
- 2013: What’s the Score?: 99 Poems by David W. McFadden
- 2012: Methodist Hatchet: Poems by Ken Babstock
- 2011: Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
- 2010: Pigeon by Karen Solie
- 2009: The Sentinel by A. F. Moritz
- 2008: The Holy Forest: Collected Poems by Robin Blaser
- 2007: Strike/Slip by Don McKay
- 2006: Nerve Squall by Sylvia Legris
- 2005: Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida by Roo Borson
- 2004: Loop by Anne Simpson
- 2003: Concrete and Wild Carrot by Margaret Avison
- 2002: Eunoia by Christian Bök
- 2001: Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
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Griffin Poetry Prize: International
- 2024: Self-Portrait in the Zone of Silence by George McWhirter
- 2023: Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves
- 2022: Sho by Douglas Kearney
- 2021: Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort
- 2020: Time by Etel Adnan, translated by Sarah Riggs
- 2019: Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
- 2018: Debths by Susan Howe
- 2017: Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
- 2016: The Quotations of Bone by Norman Dubie
- 2015: The Stairwell by Michael Longley
- 2014: Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman
- 2013: Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Fady Joudah
- 2012: Night by David Harsent
- 2011: Heavenly Questions by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- 2010: The Sun-fish by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
- 2009: Rising, Falling, Hovering by C. D. Wright
- 2008: Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems by John Ashbery
- 2007: Scar Tissue by Charles Wright
- 2006: Born to Slow Horses by Kamau Brathwaite
- 2005: Selected Poems: 1963-2003 by Charles Simic
- 2004: The Strange Hours Travelers Keep by August Kleinzahler
- 2003: Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
- 2002: Disobedience by Alice Notley
- 2001: Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh
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International Dublin Literary Award
- 2024: Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu
- 2023: Marzahn, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp
- 2022: The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter
- 2021: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
- 2020: Milkman by Anna Burns
- 2019: Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
- 2018: Solar Bones by Mike McCormack
- 2017: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
- 2016: Family Life by Akhil Sharma
- 2015: Harvest by Jim Crace
- 2014: The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
- 2013: City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
- 2012: Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
- 2011: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
- 2010: The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
- 2009: Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
- 2008: De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage
- 2007: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
- 2006: The Master by Colm Tóibín
- 2005: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2004: This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
- 2003: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- 2002: Atomised (or The Elementary Particles) by Michel Houellebecq
- 2001: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- 2000: Wide Open by Nicola Barker
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- 2024: Primary Trust by Eboni Booth
- 2023: English by Sanaz Toossi
- 2022: Fat Ham by James Ijames
- 2021: The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall
- 2020: A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson
- 2019: Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
- 2018: Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
- 2017: Sweat by Lynn Nottage
- 2016: Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- 2015: Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis
- 2014: The Flick by Annie Baker
- 2013: Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
- 2012: Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
- 2011: Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
- 2010: Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
- 2009: Ruined by Lynn Nottage
- 2008: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
- 2007: Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
- 2006: [no award given]
- 2005: Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley
- 2004: I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
- 2003: Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
- 2002: Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
- 2001: Proof by David Auburn
- 2000: Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies
- 1999: Wit by Margaret Edson
- 1998: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
- 1997: [no award given]
- 1996: Rent by Jonathan Larson
- 1995: The Young Man from Atlanta by Horton Foote
- 1994: Three Tall Women by Edward Albee
- 1993: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
- 1992: The Kentucky Cycle by Robert Schenkkan
- 1991: Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
- 1990: The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 2024: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
- 2023: TIE: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Trust by Hernan Diaz
- 2022: The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen
- 2021: The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- 2020: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- 2019: The Overstory by Richard Powers
- 2018: Less by Andrew Sean Greer
- 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- 2016: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- 2015: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- 2014: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- 2013: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson
- 2012: [no award given]
- 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 2010: Tinkers by Paul Harding
- 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- 2007: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 2006: March by Geraldine Brooks
- 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- 2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- 2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 2002: Empire Falls by Richard Russo
- 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- 2000: Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Stonewall Book Award for Literature
- 2024: Freedom House by KB Brookins
- 2023: The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harper
- 2022: Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
- 2021: The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
- 2020: Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
- 2019: The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- 2018: Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett
- 2017: Desert Boys by Chris McCormick
- 2016: The Gods of Tango by Carolina De Robertis
- 2015: Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones
- 2014: Art on Fire by Hilary Sloin
- 2013: The Last Nude by Ellis Avery
- 2012: Sweet Like Sugar by Wayne Hoffman
- 2011: More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
- 2010: Stray Dog Winter: A Novel by David Francis
- 2009: Light Fell by Evan Fallenberg
- 2008: The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
- 2007: Grief by Andrew Holleran
- 2006: Babyji: A Novel by Abha Dawesar
- 2005: The Master by Colm Tóibín
- 2004: The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
- 2003: Letters to Montgomery Clift: A Novel by Noel Alumit
- 2002: The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theatre Project
- 2001: Affinity by Sarah Waters
- 2000: Po Man's Child: A Novel by Marci Blackman
- 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- 1998: Working Parts: A Novel by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
- 1997: Hood by Emma Donoghue
- 1996: Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
- 1995: Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence, edited by Marion Dane Bauer
- 1994: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
- 1993: Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill
- 1992: Halfway Home by Paul Monette
- 1991: Crime Against Nature by Minnie Bruce Pratt
- 1990: Eighty-Sixed by David B. Feinberg
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Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction
- 2024: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
- 2023: TIE: The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan; Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili
- 2022: Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
- 2021: Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg
- 2020: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
- 2019: Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst
- 2018: Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham
- 2017: How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
- 2016: Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial by Kenji Yoshino
- 2015: Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
- 2014: TIE: American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men by David McConnell; Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son by Lori Duron
- 2013: For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out and Coming Home, edited by Keith Boykin
- 2012: TIE: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward; A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History) by Michael Bronski
- 2011: Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
- 2010: Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank
- 2009: Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
- 2008: Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty
- 2007: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
- 2006: The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson
- 2005: Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden
- 2004: Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
- 2003: How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz
- 2002: The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth
- 2001: Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge
- 2000: My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich
- 1999: Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman
- 1998: The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon
- 1997: Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson
- 1996: Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid
- 1995: TIE: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature by Dorothy Allison; Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman
- 1994: Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke
- 1993: Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus
- 1992: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman
- 1991: Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, edited by Wayne Dynes
- 1990: In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller
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Toronto Book Award
- 2024: I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop
- 2023: Moving the Museum by Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik
- 2022: Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
- 2021: Speak, Silence by Kim Echlin
- 2020: The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
- 2019: Theory by Dionne Brand
- 2018: Brother by David Chariandy
- 2017: In the Black: My life by B. Denham Jolly
- 2016: On the Shores of Darkness, There is Light by Cordelia Strube
- 2015: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- 2014: The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, And the Trial That Shocked a Country by Charlotte Gray
- 2013: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes by Kamal Al-Solaylee
- 2012: Copernicus Avenue by Andrew J. Borkowski
- 2011: The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
- 2010: The Carnivore by Mark Sinnett
- 2009: More by Austin Clarke
- 2008: Loyalty Management by Glen Downie
- 2007: Consolation by Michael Redhill
- 2006: What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
- 2005: Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
- 2004: TIE: Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana; Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen by Kate Taylor
- 2003: The Song Beneath the Ice by Joe Fiorito
- 2002: Courage My Love by Sarah Dearing
- 2001: The Spinster and The Prophet by A.B. McKillop
- 2000: Mouthing the Words by Camilla Gibb
- 1999: Benedict Abroad by Richard Outram
- 1998: Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
- 1997: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- 1996: Shadow Maker, The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
- 1995: Sir Ernest MacMillan, The Importance of Being Canadian by Ezra Schabas
- 1994: Headhunter by Timothy Findley
- 1993: TIE: Voice-Over by Carole Corbeil; China Blues by David Donnell
- 1992: Hearts of Flame by Katherine Govier
- 1991: Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories, edited by Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald
- 1990: TIE: Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres by Hilary Russell; Homesick by Guy Vanderhaeghe
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Trillium Book Award
- 2024: The Clarion by Nina Dunic
- 2023: The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross
- 2022: The Last Exiles by Ann Shin
- 2021: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
- 2020: Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji
- 2019: The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
- 2018: Birds Art Life by Kyo Maclear
- 2017: The Sweetest One by Melanie Mah
- 2016: Debris Stories by Kevin Hardcastle
- 2015: How You Were Born by Kate Cayley
- 2014: This Is War by Hannah Moscovitch
- 2013: Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro
- 2012: Killdeer by Phil Hall
- 2011: The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
- 2010: The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for his Disabled Son by Ian Brown
- 2009: The Withdrawal Method: Stories by Pasha Malla
- 2008: Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
- 2007: Fabrizio’s Return by Mark Frutkin
- 2006: Sweetness in The Belly by Camilla Gibb
- 2005: All That Matters by Wayson Choy
- 2004: The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King
- 2003: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke
- 2002: Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright
- 2001: Kurgan by Don Coles
- 2000: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
- 1999: Childhood by André Alexis
- 1998: Land to Light On by Dionne Brand
- 1997: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
- 1996: Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood
- 1995: Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien: Volume 1, Narrative by Donald Haram Akenson
- 1994: Away by Jane Urquhart
- 1993: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- 1992: Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
- 1991: Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
- 1990: Rites of Spring by Modris Eksteins
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Women's Prize for Fiction
- 2024: Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan
- 2023: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2022: The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
- 2021: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- 2020: Hamnet & Judith by Maggie O'Farrell
- 2019: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- 2018: Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- 2017: The Power by Naomi Alderman
- 2016: The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
- 2015: How to Be Both by Ali Smith
- 2014: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
- 2013: May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes
- 2012: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- 2011: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
- 2010: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
- 2009: Home by Marilynne Robinson
- 2008: The Road Home by Rose Tremain
- 2007: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 2006: On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- 2005: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
- 2004: Small Island by Andrea Levy
- 2003: Property by Valerie Martin
- 2002: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- 2001: The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
- 2000: When I Lived in Modern Times by Linda Grant
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Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- 2024: Batshit Seven by Sheung-King
- 2023: In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
- 2022: Some Hellish by Nicholas Herring
- 2021: The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
- 2020: Ridgerunner by Gil Adamson
- 2019: Days by Moonlight by André Alexis
- 2018: Dear Evelyn by Kathy Page
- 2017: Brother by David Chariandy
- 2016: Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh
- 2015: Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue by André Alexis
- 2014: All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- 2013: A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
- 2012: Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy
- 2011: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- 2010: Room by Emma Donoghue
- 2009: The Golden Mean: A Novel by Annabel Lyon
- 2008: The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
- 2007: The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
- 2006: Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey
- 2005: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
- 2004: Runaway by Alice Munro
- 2003: Country of Cold: Stories of Sex and Death by Kevin Patterson
- 2002: Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
- 2001: When Alice Lay Down with Peter by Margaret Sweatman
- 2000: Afterimage by Helen Humphreys
- 1999: The City of Yes by Peter Oliva
- 1998: The Healer by Greg Hollingshead
- 1997: The Origin of Waves by Austin Clarke
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Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
- 2024: There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie
- 2023: Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
- 2022: The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werb
- 2021: Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir by Tomson Highway
- 2020: Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past by Jessica J. Lee
- 2019: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related by Jenny Heijun Wills
- 2018: All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir by Elizabeth Hay
- 2017: Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine by James Maskalyk
- 2016: A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War by Deborah Campbell
- 2015: Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
- 2014: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
- 2013: The Dogs are Eating them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith
- 2012: A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage
- 2011: Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran
- 2010: What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past by James FitzGerald
- 2009: Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
- 2008: Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe
- 2007: Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust by Anna Porter
- 2006: The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia by Dragan Todorovic
- 2005: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
- 2004: The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras and Quests for Immortality by Elaine Dewar
- 2003: Virtual Clearcut: Or, the Way Things Are in My Hometown by Brian Fawcett
- 2002: Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country by Jake MacDonald
- 2001: Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World by Clark Blaise
- 2000: Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History by Erna Paris
- 1999: Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins
- 1998: Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson
- 1997: Small Mercies: A Boy After War by Ernest Hillen