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]
Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
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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 | 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 |
Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
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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 |
Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
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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 |
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