The following is a list of winners and nominees in French-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 English-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in English-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, English.
From 1994 to 2002, a single annual award was presented for French-language books regardless of genre; in 2002, an award for best first book of poetry was introduced for francophone poets, but was only presented once, and established poets were still considered for the main all-genre award.
In 2003, the award was fully split into separate categories for prose and poetry; however, in the second year of the poetry categories, the program failed to receive a sufficient number of submissions to present a French-language poetry award. The prize money that had been earmarked for the French poetry category was instead used that year to create an academic scholarship for French-language creative writing students in Ontario, and the category was further adjusted so that it now encompasses a two-year eligibility period instead of one, and alternates with a two-year category for French-language children's literature.
In 2024, for the first time since the two-year alternation for poetry and children's literature was introduced, the two-year eligibility period still did not produce enough French poetry titles to present an award in that category. [1]
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
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1994 | Andrée Lacelle | Tant de vie s'égare | [2] |
Michel Ouellette | French Town | [3] | |
Pierre Pelletier | Petites incarnations de la pensee delinquante | ||
Daniel Poliquin | L'Écureuil noir | ||
Gabrielle Poulin | Le Livre de déraison | ||
Danièle Vallée | La Caisse | ||
1995 | Maurice Henrie | Le Balcon dans le ciel | [4] |
Estelle Beauchamp | Les Memoires de Christine Marshall | [5] | |
Andrée Lacelle | La Voyageuse | ||
Alain Bernard Marchand | L'Homme qui pleure | ||
Jean-Louis Trudel | Le prisonnier de Serendib | ||
Les rescapés de Serendib | |||
1996 | Nancy Vickers | Le Pied de Sappho | [6] |
Alain Bernard Marchand | Tintin au pays de la ferveur | ||
Hélène Brodeur | L'Ermitage | [7] | |
Nicole V. Champeau | O Sirènes, libérez-moi | ||
Robert Marinier | L'Insomnie | ||
1997 | Roger Levac | Petite Crapaude! | [8] |
Michel Dallaire | Ponts brûlés et appartenances | [9] | |
Robbert Fortin | Jour buvard d'encre | ||
Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | La voie de Laum | ||
Stefan Psenak | Le fantasme d'immortalité | ||
1998 | Daniel Poliquin | L'homme de paille | [10] |
Stefan Psenak | Du chaos et de l'ordre des choses | ||
Marguerite Andersen | Les Crus de l'Esplanade | [11] | |
Jean Mohsen Fahmy | Amina et le mamelouk blanc | ||
Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | Il faut crier l'injure | ||
Stefan Psenak | Les corps en sursis | ||
1999 | Andrée Christensen, Jacques Flamand | Lithochronos ou le premier vol de la pierre | [12] |
Hédi Bouraoui | Ainsi parle la Tour CN | [13] | |
Claude Guilmain | L'Égoiste | ||
Michel Ouellette | La dernière fugue | ||
Claire Rochon | La Ville bleue | ||
2000 | Didier Leclair | Toronto, je t'aime | [14] |
Marguerite Andersen | Bleu sur blanc | [15] | |
Michel A. Therien | Corps sauvage | ||
Arash Mohtashami-Maali | Deuils d'automne | ||
Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | La Donne | ||
2001 | Michèle Matteau | Cognac et Porto | [16] |
Esther Beauchemin | Maïta | [17] | |
Antonio D'Alfonso | Comment ça se passe | ||
Richard J. Léger | Faust: chroniques de la démesure | ||
Melchior Mbonimpa | Le Totem des Baranda | ||
2002 | Michel Ouellette | Le testament du couturier | [18] |
Danièle Vallée | Debout sur la tete d'un chat | [19] | |
Michel A. Therien | Eaux d'Ève | ||
Robert Dickson | Humains paysages en temps de paix relative | ||
Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | Meme les fougeres ont des cancers de peau |
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
2003 | Serge Denis | Social-démocratie et mouvements ouvriers | [20] |
François Paré | La distance habitée | ||
Franco Catanzariti | Sahel | [21] | |
Michèle Cook | En un tour de main | ||
Gabrielle Poulin | Ombres et lueurs | ||
2004 | Antonio D'Alfonso | Un vendredi du mois d'aout | [22] |
Marguerite Andersen | Parallèles | [23] | |
Jacques Flamand | Quand eclate la pierre (1986-2004) | ||
Maurice Henrie | Les Roses et le verglas | ||
Nathalie Stephens | L'Injure | ||
2005 | Jean Mohsen Fahmy | L'Agonie des dieux | [24] |
Gilles Dubois | L'homme aux yeux de loup | [25] | |
Robert Marinier | Épinal | ||
Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | Pour ce qui reste de la beauté du monde | ||
Colette St-Denis | Un temps pour se souvenir | ||
2006 | Paul Savoie | Crac | [26] |
Daniel Castillo Durante | La Passion des nomades | ||
Marguerite Andersen | Doucement le bonheur | [27] | |
Claude Forand | Ainsi parle le Saigneur | ||
Daniel Poliquin | La Kermesse | ||
2007 | Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | L'Oeil de la lumière | [28] |
Andrée Christensen | Depuis toujours, j'entendais la mer | [29] | |
Michel Dallaire | l'anarchie des innocences | ||
Gilles Lacombe | La Jouissance des nuages de la pensee | ||
Richard Poulin | Enfances devastees, tome 1 : L'Enfer de la prostitution | ||
Michèle Vinet | Parce que chanter c'est trop dur | ||
2008 | Marguerite Andersen | Le Figuier sur le toit | [30] |
Hédi Bouraoui | Cap Nord | [31] | |
Daniel Marchildon | L'Eau de vie | ||
Melchior Mbonimpa | La terre sans mal | ||
Nancy Vickers | Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles | ||
2009 | Ryad Assani-Razaki | Deux Cercles | [32] |
Nicole V. Champeau | Pointe Maligne: L'infiniment oubliee | [33] | |
Jean Mohsen Fahmy | Frères ennemis | ||
Daniel Poliquin | René Lévesque | ||
Daniel Soha | La Maison: une parabole | ||
2010 | Estelle Beauchamp | Un souffle venu de loin | [34] |
Murielle Beaulieu | Laisse-moi te dire | [35] | |
Andrée Christensen | La mémoire de l'aile | ||
Michel Dallaire | pendant que l'Autre en moi t'ecoute | ||
Didier Leclair | Le soixantieme parallèle | ||
2011 | Michèle Vinet | Jeudi Novembre | [36] |
Yann Garvoz | Plantation Massa-Lanmaux | [37] | |
Maurice Henrie | L'enfant Cement | ||
Monia Mazigh | Miroirs et mirages | ||
Joëlle Roy | Xman est back en Huronie | ||
2012 | Paul Savoie | Bleu bemol | [38] |
Claude Guilmain | Comment on dit ça, -- t'es mort --, en anglais? | [39] | |
Marie-Josée Martin | Un jour, ils entendront mes silences | ||
Michèle Matteau | Avant que ne tombe la nuit | ||
Daniel Soha | Le manuscrit | ||
2013 | Marguerite Andersen | La mauvaise mère | [40] |
Andrée Christensen | Racines de neige | [41] | |
Véronique-Marie Kaye | Afghanistan | ||
Philippe Porée-Kurrer | Les Gardiens de l'Onirisphere : La revelation de Stockholm | ||
Danièle Vallée | Sous la jupe | ||
2014 | Michel Dallaire | Violoncelle pour lune d'automne | [42] |
Martine Batanian | Clinique | [43] | |
Blaise Ndala | J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor | ||
Daniel Poliquin | Le vol de l'ange | ||
Patricia Smart | De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan | ||
2015 | Véronique-Marie Kaye | Marjorie Chalifoux | [44] |
Alain Doom | Un neurinome sur une balancoire | [45] | |
Caroline Durand | Nourrir la machine humaine | ||
Didier Leclair | Pour l'amour de Dimitri | ||
Carlos Taveira | Mots et marees, tome 2 : Les maux de Marie-Josephe-Angelique | ||
2016 | Jean Boisjoli | La Mésure du temps | [46] |
Louis L'Allier | Nikolaos, le copiste | [47] | |
Éric Mathieu | Les suicides d'Eau-Claire | ||
Paul-Francois Sylvestre | Cinquante ans de 'p'tits bonheurs' au Theatre francais de Toronto | ||
Michèle Vinet | L'enfant-feu | ||
2017 | Aurélie Resch | Sous le soleil de midi | [48] |
Maurice Henrie | Le poids du temps | [49] | |
Didier Leclair | Le bonheur est un parfum sans nom | ||
Alain Bernard Marchand | Sept vies, dix-sept morts | ||
Blaise Ndala | Sans capote ni kalachnikov | ||
2018 | Lisa L'Heureux | Et si un soir | [50] |
Alain Doom | Un quai entre deux mondes | [51] | |
Gilles Latour | À la merci de l’étoile | ||
Yvon Malette | Entre le risque et le rêve | ||
David Ménard | Poupée de rouille | ||
2019 | Paul Ruban | Crevaison en corbillard | [52] |
Jean Boisjoli | Moi, Sam, Elle, Janis | [53] | |
Claude Guilmain | AmericanDream.ca | ||
Aristote Kavungu | Mon père, Boudarel et moi | ||
2020 | Danièle Vallée | Sept nuits dans la vie de Chérie | [54] |
Nicole V. Champeau | Niagara... la voie qui y mène | [55] | |
Daniel Castillo Durante | Tango | ||
Charles-Étienne Ferland | Métamorphoses | ||
Melchior Mbonimpa | Au sommet du Nanzerwé il s'est assis et il a pleuré | ||
2021 | Robert Marinier | Un conte de l’apocalypse | [56] |
Soufiane Chakkouche | Zahra | [57] | |
Marie-Hélène Larochelle | Je suis le courant la vase | ||
Michèle Vinet | Le malaimant | ||
Marie-Thé Morin | Errances | ||
2022 | Gilles Lacombe | Circé des hirondelles | [58] |
Andrée Lacelle | Dire | [59] | |
Gilles Latour | Feux du naufrage | ||
Marie-Thé Morin | Frontières libres | ||
Nancy Vickers | Capharnaum | ||
2023 | Nicolas Weinberg | Vivre ou presque | [60] |
Martin Bélanger | La fin de nos programmes | [1] | |
Andrée Christensen | Plonge, Freya, vole ! | ||
David Ménard | L'aurore martyrise l'enfant | ||
Paul Ruban | Le parfum de la baleine |
Year | Author | Title | Ref |
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2002 | Éric Charlebois | Faux-fuyants | [18] |
Tina Charlebois | Tatouages et testaments | [19] | |
2003 | Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo | Avec tes mots | [20] |
Marc LeMyre | Gaga pour ton zoom | [21] | |
2004 | No award presented | [22] | |
2005 | Éric Charlebois | Centrifuge | [24] |
Joël Beddows | des planches à la palette | [25] | |
2006 | Françoise Lepage | Poupeska | [26] |
Mireille Desjarlais-Heynneman | La nuit ou le Soleil est parti | [27] | |
Céline Forcier | Un canard majuscule | ||
2007 | Tina Charlebois | Poils lisses | [28] |
Christian Milat | Douleureuse aurore | [29] | |
2008 | Paul Prud'homme | Les Rebuts: Hockey 2 | [30] |
Michèle Laframboise | La quête de Chaaas tome 1 | [31] | |
Françoise Lepage | Les chercheurs d'etoiles | ||
2009 | Michèle Matteau | Passerelles | [32] |
Jacqueline Borowick | Le chant du coucou | [33] | |
2010 | Daniel Marchildon | La première guerre de Toronto | [34] |
Gilles Dubois | La piste sanglante | [35] | |
Sylvie Frigon | Ariane et son secret | ||
Jean-Claude Larocque, Denis Sauvé | Etienne Brule: Le fils de Champlain | ||
Aurélie Resch | Les Voleurs de couleurs | ||
2011 | Sonia Lamontagne | À tire d’ailes | [36] |
Francois Baril Pelletier | Apocryphes du coeur | [37] | |
Aurélie Resch | Cendres de lune | ||
2012 | Claude Forand | Un moine trop bavard | [38] |
Michèle Laframboise | Mica, fille de Transyl | [39] | |
Daniel Marchildon | Les guerriers de l'eau | ||
2013 | Daniel Groleau Landry | Rêver au réel | [40] |
Michèle Matteau | Le fol aujourd'hui | [41] | |
2014 | Micheline Marchand | Mauvaise mine | [42] |
Diya Lim | Les enfants du ciel | [43] | |
Larouspiol | |||
2015 | David Ménard | Neuvaines | [44] |
Sonia Lamontagne | Comptine a rebours | [45] | |
Gilles Latour | Mots qu'elle a faits terre | ||
2016 | Pierre-Luc Belanger | Ski, Blanche et avalanche | [46] |
Gilles Dubois | Nanuktalva | [47] | |
Daniel Marchildon | Zazette, la chatte des Ouendats | ||
2017 | Sylvie Bérard | Oubliez | [48] |
Chloé LaDuchesse | Furies | [49] | |
Christian Milat | Si je connaissais… | ||
2018 | Diya Lim | La marchande, la sorcière, la lune et moi | [50] |
Pierre-Luc Bélanger | L’Odyssée des neiges | [51] | |
Daniel Marchildon | Otages de la nature | ||
2019 | Véronique Sylvain | Premier quart | [52] |
Daniel Groleau Landry | Fragments de ciels | [53] | |
2020 | Éric Mathieu | Capitaine Boudu et les enfants de la Cédille | [54] |
Marise Gasque | La Neva pour se retrouver | [55] | |
Micheline Marchand | Perdue au bord de la baie d'Hudson | ||
2021 | Chloé LaDuchesse | Exosquelette | [56] |
Sylvie Bérard | À croire que j’aime les failles | [57] | |
Sonia-Sophie Courdeau | Ce qui reste sans contour | ||
2022 | Michèle Laframboise | Le secret de Paloma | [58] |
Pierre-Luc Bélanger | Dany à la dérive | [59] | |
Hélène Koscielniak | Mégane et Mathis | ||
2023 | No award presented | [1] |
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