Edna Staebler Award
Encyclopedia
The Edna Staebler Award is an annual Canadian
literary award
, presented to the year's best work of creative nonfiction
. The award was established in 1991 by writer Edna Staebler
, and is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
literary award
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
, presented to the year's best work of creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service...
. The award was established in 1991 by writer Edna Staebler
Edna Staebler
Edna Staebler, CM was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region....
, and is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University
Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
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Winners
- 1991 - Susan Mayse, Ginger
- 1992 - Marie Wadden, Nitassinan
- 1993 - (tie) Liza Potvin, White Lies (For My Mother) and Elizabeth HayElizabeth Hay (novelist)Elizabeth Grace Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her novel A Student of Weather was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award...
, The Only Snow in Havana - 1994 - Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life
- 1995 - Denise ChongDenise Chong- Early life and schooling :A third generation Chinese Canadian, Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 9 June 1953, and was raised in Prince George. She studied economy at the University of British Columbia earning her bachelor degee in 1975...
, The Concubine’s ChildrenThe Concubine’s ChildrenThe Concubine's Children is Denise Chong's first novel. It was published in 1994 by Penguin Books in Toronto. It documents the life of Denise Chong’s grandfather, Chan Sam, grandmother, May-ying, her mother, Hing , her mother’s siblings, Ping, Nan, Gok-leng and half sibling, Yuen...
: Portrait of a Family Divided - 1996 - George G. BlackburnGeorge G. BlackburnGeorge Gideon Blackburn, CM, MC was a Canadian veteran of World War II and author.Born in Wales, Ontario, Blackburn worked in the United States in railway construction as a steam shovel operator and, later, worked as a newspaper reporter for the Ottawa Journal in Pembroke, Ontario...
, The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944 - 1997 - Anne Mullens, Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights
- 1998 - Charlotte GrayCharlotte Gray (author)Charlotte Gray, CM is a Canadian historian and author.Born in Sheffield, England and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Gray came to Canada in 1979. She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for Saturday Night and...
, Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King - 1999 - Michael PooleMichael PooleMichael "Mike" Poole was an award-winning Canadian film maker and author. He began his career as a copy runner for the Vancouver Sun before becoming a reporter. He earned a journalism degree in Virginia, USA, started in the film business in the 1960s and went on to be a television producer for the...
, Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower - 2000 - Wayson ChoyWayson ChoyWayson Choy, CM is a Canadian writer.-Early life:Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. A Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown...
, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown ChildhoodPaper Shadows: A Chinatown ChildhoodPaper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a memoir by Wayson Choy. It was first published in 1999 by Viking Canada.The book recounts Choy's experiences growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s.... - 2001 - Taras GrescoeTaras GrescoeTaras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer, who won the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize in 2008 for his book Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood...
, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec - 2002 - Tom AllenTom Allen (broadcaster)Tom Allen is a Canadian radio broadcaster, concert host, trombonist, and writer. He broadcasts on CBC Radio 2, where, for ten years, he hosted the acclaimed classical music program Music and Company until the station changed formats in September, 2008. He now hosts Shift, a national cross-genre...
, Rolling Home: A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir - 2003 - Alison WattAlison Watt (writer)Alison Watt is a Canadian, writer, and painter.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Watt grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied biology at Simon Fraser University and botany at the University of British Columbia...
, The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island - 2004 - Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck
- 2005 - Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret
- 2006 - Francis ChalifourFrancis Chalifour- Writing :His first published work was the French novel Zoom Papaye, and his second, After, was nominated for the Governor General's Award 2005. He wrote the book called Le fils du pendu....
, After - 2007 - Linden MacIntyreLinden MacIntyreLinden MacIntyre is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won eight Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence.-Life and career:...
, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence - 2008 - Bruce Serafin, Stardust
- 2009 - Russell WangerskyRussell WangerskyRussell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and short story writer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Canada since the age of 3, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University....
, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself - 2010 - John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri
- 2011 - Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery