The following is a list of winners and nominees in English-language categories for the Trillium Book Award , a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for French-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in French-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, French.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
1994 | Donald Akenson | Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien; Volume 1 Narrative | Winner | [1] |
Robertson Davies | The Cunning Man | Nominee | [2] | |
Bronwyn Drainie | My Jerusalem: Secular Adventures in the Holy City | |||
Douglas Fetherling | Travels by Night | |||
Katherine Govier | The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery | |||
Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson | Trudeau and Our Times: Volume 2, The Heroic Delusion | |||
Alice Munro | Open Secrets | |||
Oakland Ross | Guerrilla Beach | |||
Russell Smith | How Insensitive | |||
M. G. Vassanji | The Book of Secrets | |||
1995 | Margaret Atwood | Morning in the Burned House | Winner | [3] |
Wayson Choy | The Jade Peony | Winner | ||
George G. Blackburn | The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View | Nominee | [4] | |
Judith Fitzgerald | River | |||
Cecil Foster | Sleep On, Beloved | |||
Robert Fulford | Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto | |||
Barbara Gowdy | Mister Sandman | |||
Denis Smith | Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker | |||
Rosemary Sullivan | Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen | |||
Larry Turner and John de Visser | Rideau | |||
1996 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | Winner | [5] |
Dionne Brand | In Another Place, Not Here | Nominee | [6] | |
Matt Cohen | Last Seen | |||
Katherine Govier | Angel Walk | |||
Janette Turner Hospital | Oyster | |||
Ann Ireland | The Instructor | |||
Ann-Marie MacDonald | Fall on Your Knees | |||
Alice Munro | Selected Stories | |||
1997 | Dionne Brand | Land to Light On | Winner | [7] |
Phyllis Grosskurth | Byron: The Flawed Angel | Nominee | [8] | |
Elizabeth Hay | Small Change | |||
Michael Helm | The Projectionist | |||
Mary Jo Leddy | At the Border Called Hope | |||
Paul Quarrington | The Boy on the Back of the Turtle | |||
John Ralston Saul | Reflections of a Siamese Twin | |||
The STORM Coalition | Oak Ridges Moraine | |||
1998 | André Alexis | Childhood | Winner | [9] |
Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman | |||
Barry Callaghan | Barrelhouse Kings | Nominee | [10] | |
Alan Cumyn | Man of Bone | |||
Sandra Gulland | Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe | |||
Michael Ondaatje | Handwriting | |||
Shyam Selvadurai | Cinnamon Gardens | |||
Linda Spalding | The Follow | |||
1999 | Alistair MacLeod | No Great Mischief | Winner | [11] |
Stephanie Bolster | Two Bowls of Milk | Nominee | [12] | |
Elyse Friedman | Then Again | |||
Catherine Gildiner | Too Close to the Falls | |||
David Gilmour | Lost Between Houses | |||
David Layton | Motion Sickness | |||
Stuart Ross | Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid | |||
2000 | Don Coles | Kurgan | Winner | [13] |
Margaret Christakos | Charisma | Nominee | [14] | |
Deborah Ellis | The Breadwinner | |||
Dennis Lee | Bubblegum Delicious | |||
Nega Mezlekia | Notes from the Hyena's Belly | |||
David Adams Richards | Mercy Among the Children | |||
Darren Wershler-Henry | The Tapeworm Foundry | |||
2001 | Richard B. Wright | Clara Callan | Winner | [15] |
Joan Barfoot | Critical Injuries | Nominee | [16] | |
Lee Gowan | Make Believe Love | |||
Robert Hough | The Final Confession of Mabel Stark | |||
Chris Jones | Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing | |||
Alice Munro | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | |||
Michael Redhill | Martin Sloane | |||
2002 | Austin Clarke | The Polished Hoe | Winner | [17] |
Nino Ricci | Testament | |||
Katherine Ashenburg | The Mourner's Dance | Nominee | [18] | |
Dionne Brand | Thirsty | |||
Claudia Dey | The Gwendolyn Poems | |||
Steve McCaffery | Seven Pages Missing: Volume 2 | |||
Michael Ondaatje | The Conversations |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2003 | Thomas King | The Truth About Stories | Winner | [19] |
Di Brandt | Now You Care | Nominee | [20] | |
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | The Dark Time of Angels | |||
Barbara Gowdy | The Romantic | |||
Djanet Sears | Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God | |||
M. G. Vassanji | The In-Between World of Vikram Lall | |||
2004 | Wayson Choy | All That Matters | Winner | [21] |
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall | Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown | Nominee | [22] | |
Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | |||
Catherine Bush | Claire's Head | |||
Jane Jacobs | Dark Age Ahead | |||
Alice Munro | Runaway | |||
Michael Winter | The Big Why | |||
2005 | Camilla Gibb | Sweetness in the Belly | Winner | [23] |
F. T. Flahiff | Always Someone to Kill the Doves | Nominee | [24] | |
David Gilmour | A Perfect Night to Go to China | |||
Sheila Heti | Ticknor | |||
Stephen Lewis | Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa | |||
Alayna Munce | When I Was Young & In My Prime | |||
2006 | Mark Frutkin | Fabrizio's Return | Winner | [25] |
Anar Ali | Baby Khaki's Wings | Nominee | [26] | |
Dionne Brand | Inventory | |||
Bernice Eisenstein | I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | |||
Charlotte Gray | Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention | |||
Wayne Johnston | The Custodian of Paradise | |||
2007 | Barbara Gowdy | Helpless | Winner | [27] |
Gil Adamson | The Outlander | Nominee | [28] | |
Lorna Goodison | From Harvey River | |||
Robert Hough | The Culprits | |||
Dennis Lee | Yesno | |||
Ray Robertson | What Happened Later | |||
2008 | Pasha Malla | The Withdrawal Method | Winner | [29] |
Kevin Connolly | Revolver | Nominee | [30] | |
Helen Humphreys | Coventry | |||
Ibi Kaslik | The Angel Riots | |||
Nino Ricci | The Origin of Species | |||
Charles Wilkins | In the Land of the Long Fingernails | |||
2009 | Ian Brown | The Boy in the Moon | Winner | [31] |
Margaret Atwood | The Year of the Flood | Nominee | [32] | |
Alexandra Leggat | Animal | |||
Anne Michaels | The Winter Vault | |||
Alice Munro | Too Much Happiness | |||
Emily Schultz | Heaven Is Small | |||
Cordelia Strube | Lemon | |||
2010 | Rabindranath Maharaj | The Amazing Absorbing Boy | Winner | [33] |
Emma Donoghue | Room | Nominee | [34] | |
James FitzGerald | What Disturbs Our Blood | |||
Ken Sparling | Book | |||
Paul Vermeesch | The Reinvention of the Human Hand | |||
Michael Winter | The Death of Donna Whalen | |||
2011 | Phil Hall | Killdeer | Winner | [35] |
Ken Babstock | Methodist Hatchet | Nominee | [36] | |
David Bezmozgis | The Free World | |||
Tony Burgess | Idaho Winter | |||
Kristen den Hartog | And Me Among Them | |||
David Gilmour | The Perfect Order of Things | |||
2012 | Alice Munro | Dear Life | Winner | [37] |
Tamara Faith Berger | Maidenhead | Nominee | [38] | |
Steven Heighton | The Dead Are More Visible | |||
Thomas King | The Inconvenient Indian | |||
Emily Schultz | The Blondes | |||
Linda Spalding | The Purchase | |||
2013 | Hannah Moscovitch | This Is War | Winner | [39] |
Craig Davidson | Cataract City | Nominee | [40] | |
Barry Dempster | The Outside World | |||
Lorna Goodison | Supplying Salt and Light | |||
Helen Humphreys | Nocturne | |||
Peter Unwin | Life Without Death and Other Stories | |||
2014 | Kate Cayley | How You Were Born | Winner | [41] |
Margaret Atwood | Stone Mattress | Nominee | [42] | |
Dionne Brand | Love Enough | |||
James King | Old Masters | |||
Thomas King | The Back of the Turtle | |||
Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo | Up Ghost River | |||
2015 | Kevin Hardcastle | Debris | Winner | [43] |
Lynn Crosbie | Where Did You Sleep Last Night | Nominee | [44] | |
Andrew Forbes | What You Need | |||
Robert Hough | The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan | |||
Janette Platana | A Token of My Affliction | |||
Karen Solie | The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out | |||
2016 | Melanie Mah | The Sweetest One | Winner | [45] |
André Alexis | The Hidden Keys | Nominee | [46] | |
Kamal Al-Solaylee | Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone) | |||
Danila Botha | For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known | |||
Leesa Dean | Waiting for the Cyclone | |||
Susan Holbrook | Throaty Wipes | |||
2017 | Kyo Maclear | Birds Art Life | Winner | [47] |
Cherie Dimaline | The Marrow Thieves | Nominee | [48] | |
Catherine Hernandez | Scarborough | |||
James Maskalyk | Life on the Ground Floor | |||
Rebecca Rosenblum | So Much Love | |||
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | This Accident of Being Lost | |||
2018 | Dionne Brand | The Blue Clerk | Winner | [49] |
Tamara Faith Berger | Queen Solomon | Nominee | [50] | |
Claudia Dey | Heartbreaker | |||
K. D. Miller | Late Breaking | |||
Miriam Toews | Women Talking | |||
2019 | Téa Mutonji | Shut Up You're Pretty | Winner | [51] |
Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie | Sister Language | Nominee | [52] | |
Sara Peters | I Become a Delight to My Enemies | |||
Zalika Reid-Benta | Frying Plantain | |||
Seth | Clyde Fans | |||
2020 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | How to Pronounce Knife | Winner | [53] |
Craig Davidson | Cascade | Nominee | [54] | |
Farzana Doctor | Seven | |||
Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | |||
A. F. Moritz | As Far As You Know | |||
2021 | Ann Shin | The Last Exiles | Winner | [55] |
Brian Francis | Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent | Nominee | [56] | |
Catherine Graham | Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric | |||
Sydney Hegele | The Pump | |||
Pamela Korgemagi | The Hunter and the Old Woman | |||
2022 | Stuart Ross | The Book of Grief and Hamburgers | Winner | [57] |
Charlie Angus | Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower | Nominee | [58] | |
Cliff Cardinal | Shakespeare's As You Like It: A Radical Retelling | |||
Kathy Friedman | All the Shining People | |||
Emma Healey | Best Young Woman Job Book | |||
2023 | Nina Dunic | The Clarion | Winner | [59] |
Mike Barnes | Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny | Nominee | [60] | |
D. A. Lockhart | North of Middle Island | |||
Kathryn Mockler | Anecdotes | |||
Zalika Reid-Benta | River Mumma |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|
2003 | Adam Sol | Crowd of Sounds | Winner | [19] |
Adam Getty | Reconciliation | Nominee | [20] | |
David O'Meara | The Vicinity | Nominee | ||
2004 | Maureen Scott Harris | Drowning Lessons | Winner | [21] |
Ray Hsu | Anthropy | Nominee | [22] | |
Rachel Zolf | Masque | Nominee | ||
2005 | Kevin Connolly | drift | Winner | [23] |
Patria Rivera | Puti/White | Nominee | [24] | |
Karen Solie | Modern and Normal | Nominee | ||
2006 | Ken Babstock | Airstream Land Yacht | Winner | [25] |
Adam Dickinson | Kingdom, Phylum | Nominee | [26] | |
Anita Lahey | Out to Dry in Cape Breton | Nominee | ||
2007 | Rachel Zolf | Human Resources | Winner | [27] |
Emily Schultz | Songs for the Dancing Chicken | Nominee | [28] | |
Rob Winger | Muybridge's Horse | Nominee | ||
2008 | Jeramy Dodds | Crabwise to the Hounds | Winner | [29] |
Joanne Page | Watermarks | Nominee | [30] | |
Adam Sol | Jeremiah | Nominee | ||
2009 | Karen Solie | Pigeon | Winner | [31] |
Susan Holbrook | Joy Is So Exhausting | Nominee | [32] | |
Matthew Tierney | The Hayflick Limit | Nominee | ||
2010 | Jeff Latosik | Tiny, Frantic, Stronger | Winner | [33] |
Dani Couture | Sweet | Nominee | [34] | |
Shane Neilson | Complete Physical | Nominee | ||
Peter Norman | At the Gates of the Theme Park | Nominee | ||
2011 | Nick Thran | Earworm | Winner | [35] |
Helen Guri | Match | Nominee | [36] | |
Jacob McArthur Mooney | Folk | Nominee | ||
2012 | Matthew Tierney | Probably Inevitable | Winner | [37] |
Mathew Henderson | The Lease | Nominee | [38] | |
Sandy Pool | Undark: An Oratorio | Nominee | ||
2013 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | Light | Winner | [39] |
Austin Clarke | Where the Sun Shines Best | Nominee | [40] | |
Adam Dickinson | The Polymers | Nominee | ||
2014 | Brecken Hancock | Broom Broom | Winner | [41] |
Aisha Sasha John | THOU | Nominee | [42] | |
Deanna Young | House Dreams | Nominee | ||
2015 | Soraya Peerbaye | Tell | Winner | [43] |
Madhur Anand | A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes | Nominee | [44] | |
Damian Rogers | Dear Leader | Nominee | ||
2016 | Meaghan Strimas | Yes or Nope | Winner | [45] |
Laurie D. Graham | Settler Education | Nominee | [46] | |
Dane Swan | A Mingus Lullaby | Nominee | ||
2017 | Pino Coluccio | Class Clown | Winner | [47] |
Puneet Dutt | The Better Monsters | Nominee | [48] | |
Phoebe Wang | Admission Requirements | Nominee | ||
2018 | Robin Richardson | Sit How You Want | Winner | [49] |
Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | Nominee | [61] | |
Stevie Howell | I left nothing inside on purpose | Nominee | ||
2019 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable | Winner | [51] |
Doyali Islam | heft | Nominee | [52] | |
Matthew Walsh | these are not the potatoes of my youth | Nominee | ||
2020 | Jody Chan | Sick | Winner | [53] |
Irfan Ali | Accretion | Nominee | [54] | |
Canisia Lubrin | The Dyzgraphxst | Nominee | ||
2021 | Bardia Sinaee | Intruder | Winner | [55] |
Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | Nominee | [56] | |
Liz Howard | Letters in a Bruised Cosmos | Nominee | ||
2022 | Sanna Wani | My Grief, the Sun | Winner | [57] |
Madhur Anand | Parasitic Oscillations | Nominee | [58] | |
Laurie D. Graham | Fast Commute | Nominee | ||
2023 | A. Light Zachary | More Sure | Winner | [59] |
Britta Badour | Wires That Sputter | Nominee | [60] | |
Catriona Wright | Continuity Errors |
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