Thomas Head Raddall Award

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The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. [1] The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $30,000, with additional finalists receiving $500 each. [2]

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Winners and nominees

1990s

YearWriterTitleRef.
1991 Wayne Johnston The Divine Ryans [3]
1992 Herb Curtis The Last Tasmanian [4]
1993 John Steffler The Afterlife of George Cartwright [5]
1994 David Adams Richards For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down [6]
1995 Bernice Morgan Waiting for Time [7]
1996 M. T. Dohaney A Marriage of Masks [8]
1997 Alfred Silver Acadia [9]
1998 Shree Ghatage Awake When All the World Is Asleep [10]
Edward Riche Rare Birds [11]
1999 Wayne Johnston The Colony of Unrequited Dreams [12]
Lynn Coady Strange Heaven [13]
Don Hannah The Wise and Foolish Virgins
David Adams Richards The Bay of Love and Sorrows

2000s

YearWriterTitleRef.
2000 Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief [14]
Carmelita McGrath Stranger Things Have Happened [15]
Donna Morrissey Kit's Law
2001 Carol Bruneau Purple for Sky [16]
Robert Finley The Accidental Indies [17]
David Adams Richards Mercy Among the Children
2002 Michael Crummey River Thieves [18]
Linda Little Strong Hollow [19]
Anne Simpson Canterbury Beach
2003 Donna Morrissey Downhill Chance [20]
Christy Ann Conlin Heave [21]
Susan Goyette Lures
2004 Kenneth J. Harvey The Town That Forgot How to Breathe [22]
Leo McKay Jr. Twenty-Six [23]
David Adams Richards River of the Brokenhearted
2005 Edward Riche The Nine Planets [24]
Kelly Cooper Eyehill [25]
Michael Winter The Big Why
2006 Donna Morrissey Sylvanus Now [20]
George Elliott Clarke George & Rue [26]
Lisa Moore Alligator
2007 Linda Little Scotch River [27]
Wayne Johnston The Custodian of Paradise [28]
Ami McKay The Birth House
2008 Don Hannah Ragged Islands [29]
Bernice Morgan Cloud of Bone [30]
David Adams Richards The Lost Highway
2009 Douglas Arthur Brown Quintet [31]
Ian Colford Evidence
Sara Tilley Skin Room

2010s

YearWriterTitleRef.
2010 Shandi Mitchell Under This Unbroken Sky [32]
Michael Crummey Galore
Linden MacIntyre The Bishop's Man
2011 Kathleen Winter Annabel [33]
Alexander MacLeod Light Lifting [34]
Beth Powning The Sea Captain's Wife
2012 David Adams Richards Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul [1]
Valerie Compton The Road [35]
Heather Jessup The Lightning Field
2013 Russell Wangersky Whirl Away [36]
Keir Lowther Dirty Bird [37]
Donna Morrissey The Deception of Livvy Higgs
2014 William Kowalski The Hundred Hearts [38]
Shashi Bhat The Family Took Shape [39]
Ed Kavanagh Strays
2015 Darren Greer Just Beneath My Skin [40]
Michael Crummey Sweetland [41]
David Adams Richards Crimes Against My Brother
2016 R. W. Gray Entropic [42]
Elisabeth de Mariaffi The Devil You Know [43]
Mark Anthony Jarman Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
2017 Donna Morrissey The Fortunate Brother [44]
Darren Greer Advocate [45]
Ami McKay The Witches of New York
2018 Oisín Curran Blood Fable [46]
Carol Bruneau A Bird on Every Tree [47]
Sarah Faber All Is Beauty Now
2019 Lisa Moore Something for Everyone [48]
Sharon Bala The Boat People [49]
Elisabeth de Mariaffi Hysteria

2020s

YearWriterTitleRef.
2020 Michael Crummey The Innocents [50]
Jaime Burnet Crocuses Hatch from Snow [51]
Shandi Mitchell The Waiting Hours
2021 Anne Simpson Speechless [52]
Bridget Canning Some People's Children [53]
Morgan Murray Dirty Birds
2022 Michelle Butler Hallett Constant Nobody [54]
David Huebert Chemical Valley [55]
Sharon Robart-Johnson Jude and Diana
2023 K.R. Byggdin Wonder World [56]
Bobbi French The Good Women of Safe Harbour [57]
Lisa Moore This Is How We Love
2024 Michelle Porter A Grandmother Begins the Story [58]
Violet Browne This Is the House That Luke Built [59]
Charlene Carr Hold My Girl
Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers
William Ping Hollow Bamboo

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