Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
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The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian
literary award
presented by Rogers Communications
and the Writers' Trust of Canada
after an annual juried competition
between publishers who submit entries.
First presented in 1997, the prize goes to the author of the novel or short story collection judged to be the year's best work of fiction. The prize awards $25,000 to the winning book and $3,500 to each of the finalists.
, and Ann Ireland
Austin Clarke
, The Origin of Waves
, Austin Clarke
, and Trevor Ferguson
Greg Hollingshead
, The Healer
, Sylvia Fraser
, and Eric Wright
Peter Oliva
, The City of Yes
, and Peter Oliva
Helen Humphreys
, Afterimage
, Eliza Clark
, and Olive Senior
Margaret Sweatman
, When Alice Lay Down with Peter
, Brian Brett
, and Sarah Sheard
Paulette Jiles
, Enemy Women
, Lisa Moore
, and Diane Schoemperlen
Kevin Patterson
, Country of Cold
, Zsuzsi Gartner
, and Michael Redhill
Alice Munro
, Runaway
, Lewis DeSoto, and Mary Swan
Joseph Boyden
, Three Day Road
, Jeffrey Moore, and Anna Porter
Kenneth J. Harvey
, Inside
, Kim Moritsugu
, and Madeleine Thien
Lawrence Hill
, The Book of Negroes
, Annabel Lyon
, and Heather O'Neill
Miriam Toews
, The Flying Troutmans
, Miriam Toews
, and R.M. Vaughan Annabel Lyon
, The Golden Mean
, Eden Robinson
and Lisa Moore
.
Emma Donoghue
, Room
, Rabindranath Maharaj
and Margaret Sweatman
.
Patrick deWitt
, The Sisters Brothers
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 by Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...
and the Writers' Trust of Canada
Writers' Trust of Canada
The Writers' Trust of Canada is a non-profit organization which provides financial support to Canadian writers.Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, David Young and Margaret Laurence, the Writers' Trust of Canada was registered as a non-profit organization in 1976...
after an annual juried competition
Juried (competition)
A juried competition is a competition in which participants' work is judged by a person or panel of persons convened specifically to judge the participants' efforts, either by the competition's stated rubric or by a subjective set of criteria dependent upon the nature of the competition or the...
between publishers who submit entries.
First presented in 1997, the prize goes to the author of the novel or short story collection judged to be the year's best work of fiction. The prize awards $25,000 to the winning book and $3,500 to each of the finalists.
1997
Juried by Matt Cohen, Elisabeth HarvorElisabeth Harvor
Erica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had...
, and Ann Ireland
Ann Ireland
Ann Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....
Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke
Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...
, The Origin of Waves
- 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...
, Small Change - Brian MooreBrian Moore (novelist)Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
, The Magician's Wife - Mordecai RichlerMordecai RichlerMordecai Richler, CC was a Canadian Jewish author, screenwriter and essayist. A leading critic called him "the great shining star of his Canadian literary generation" and a pivotal figure in the country's history. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Barney's Version,...
, Barney's Version - Jane UrquhartJane UrquhartJane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...
, The Underpainter
1998
Juried by Joan ClarkJoan Clark
Joan Clark BA, D.Litt is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957...
, Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke
Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...
, and Trevor Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson
Trevor Ferguson , a.k.a John Farrow, is a Canadian novelist who lives in Hudson, Quebec. He is the author of nine novels and four plays. He has been called Canada's best novelist both in Books in Canada and the Toronto Star....
Greg Hollingshead
Greg Hollingshead
Gregory "Greg" Hollingshead is a Canadian novelist. He is currently a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta...
, The Healer
- André AlexisAndré AlexisAndré Alexis is a Canadian writer who grew up in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario....
, Childhood - Barbara GowdyBarbara GowdyBarbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
, The White BoneThe White BoneThe White Bone is a Canadian novel written by Barbara Gowdy and published by HarperCollins in 1999. Sometimes compared to Richard Adams's Watership Down, it is an adult fantasy story about animals—in this case, African elephants--in a realistic natural setting but given the ability to speak to one... - Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited DreamsThe Colony of Unrequited DreamsThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston's breakthrough work, the novel was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Governor General's Award for English fiction.In 2003, Justin...
- Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
, The Love of a Good WomanThe Love of a Good WomanThe Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.The eight stories of this collection deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary...
1999
Juried by Lynn CoadyLynn Coady
-Life and career:Coady grew up in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. After high school, she attended Carleton University in Ottawa; after graduating, she moved to New Brunswick, where she worked at odd jobs for several years and began a career as a playwright...
, Sylvia Fraser
Sylvia Fraser
Sylvia Fraser is a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario...
, and Eric Wright
Eric Wright (writer)
Eric Wright is a professor and Canadian writer of mystery novels.Wright was born on Kennington Park Road, in South London, England. He is the son of seamstress Caroline , and carter Joseph Wright. Wright was born to a large poor family of ten children...
Peter Oliva
Peter Oliva
Peter Oliva is a Canadian novelist who lives in Calgary, Alberta.His first novel, Drowning in Darkness , won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and was shortlisted for a Bressani Prize. The book is set in the Crowsnest Pass of southern Alberta, and in Calabria, Italy...
, The City of Yes
- Caroline AddersonCaroline AddersonCaroline Adderson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published three novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.-Personal life and career:...
, A History of Forgetting - Elyse GascoElyse GascoElyse Gasco, MA is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree....
, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? - Judy MacDonaldJudy MacDonaldJudy MacDonald is a Canadian writer and journalist.In addition to her published books, she has been associated with the online magazine Rabble and news programs for CBC Television, including The National, counterSpin and Face Off. She has also been a backing vocalist on albums by The Hidden...
, Jane - Alistair MacLeodAlistair MacLeodAlistair MacLeod, OC is a noted Canadian author and retired professor of English at the University of Windsor.- Academic career :...
, No Great MischiefNo Great MischiefNo Great Mischief is a 1999 novel by Alistair MacLeod.The novel opens in the present day, with successful orthodontist Alexander MacDonald visiting his elderly older brother Calum in Toronto, Ontario...
2000
Juried by Cynthia Holz, Janice Kulyk KeeferJanice Kulyk Keefer
Janice Kulyk Keefer is a Canadian novelist and poet.Born in Toronto, she studied literature at universities in England and France, and currently teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph....
, and Peter Oliva
Peter Oliva
Peter Oliva is a Canadian novelist who lives in Calgary, Alberta.His first novel, Drowning in Darkness , won the Writers Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award and was shortlisted for a Bressani Prize. The book is set in the Crowsnest Pass of southern Alberta, and in Calabria, Italy...
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys is a Canadian poet and novelist who has written several books. She was born in London, England, and now lives in Kingston, Ontario. When she was younger she was kicked out of high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education...
, Afterimage
- Todd BabiakTodd BabiakTodd Babiak is a Canadian writer living in Edmonton, Alberta. He is co-founder of Story Engine, and has published three bestselling novels. His first novel, Choke Hold, was a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and a winner of the Henry Kreisel Award, and his second novel, The...
, Choke Hold - Lynn CoadyLynn Coady-Life and career:Coady grew up in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. After high school, she attended Carleton University in Ottawa; after graduating, she moved to New Brunswick, where she worked at odd jobs for several years and began a career as a playwright...
, Play the Monster Blind - Douglas GloverDouglas Glover (writer)Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario...
, 16 Categories of Desire - Michael Winter, This All Happened
2001
Juried by Lesley ChoyceLesley Choyce
Lesley Choyce is a Canadian author of novels, non-fiction, children's books, and poetry.Born in Riverside Township, New Jersey, he was educated at Rutgers University, CUNY, and Montclair State University...
, Eliza Clark
Eliza Clark (author)
Eliza Clark is a Canadian writer.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in 1985. She now works steadily as a television producer/director, fiction writer and story editor for both text and film...
, and Olive Senior
Olive Senior
Olive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada.She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston. She later won a scholarship to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales, and then at Carleton...
Margaret Sweatman
Margaret Sweatman
Margaret Sweatman is a Canadian writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sweatman was educated at the University of Winnipeg, Concordia University and Simon Fraser University....
, When Alice Lay Down with Peter
- Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, MarriageHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, MarriageHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001.... - Elizabeth RuthElizabeth RuthElizabeth Ruth is a Canadian novelist.Ruth was born in Windsor, Ontario, was raised by a single mother, and lived in the United States, Canada, and Colombia while growing up. Ruth earned an Honours BA and an MA from the University of Toronto.Before becoming a published writer, she worked in social...
, Ten Good Seconds of Silence - Timothy TaylorTimothy Taylor (writer)Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011....
, Stanley ParkStanley Park (novel)Stanley Park is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Taylor, published in 2001.-Overview:Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw. The novel uses a "Bloods vs... - Thomas Wharton, Salamander
2002
Juried by Joan BarfootJoan Barfoot
Joan Louise Barfoot is a Canadian novelist. She has published 11 novels, including Luck , which was a nomineee for the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Critical Injuries , which was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize...
, Brian Brett
Brian Brett
Brian Brett is a Canadian poet and novelist.He studied literature at Simon Fraser University from 1969 to 1974...
, and Sarah Sheard
Sarah Sheard
Sarah Sheard is a Canadian novelist.Sheard published her first novel, Almost Japanese, in 1985. She has also been a creative writing instructor at Glendon College and Humber College in Toronto, and a member of the editorial board of Coach House Press...
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles-Johnson is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. Born in Salem, Missouri, she was educated at the University of Illinois in Spanish literature...
, Enemy Women
- Terry GriggsTerry GriggsTerry Griggs is a Canadian author. Her book of short stories Quickening was a finalist at the 1991 Governor General's Awards and she won the Marian Engel Award in 2002. She presently lives in Stratford, Ontario, but has occasionally lived on Manitoulin Island since her youth...
, Rogues' Wedding - Ann IrelandAnn IrelandAnn Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....
, Exile - Lori LansensLori LansensLori Lansens is a bestselling, internationally acclaimed novelist. Her first three books - "Rush Home Road", "The Girls", and "The Wife's Tale", have won acclaim throughout the world, and been translated into dozens of languages....
, Rush Home Road - Nino RicciNino RicciNino Ricci is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Leamington, Ontario to Italian immigrants, Virginio and Amelia Ricci, from the province of Isernia, Molise....
, Testament
2003
Juried by Kevin ChongKevin Chong
Kevin Chong is a Canadian author.Born in Hong Kong, Chong studied at the University of British Columbia and Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction writing....
, Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore (writer)
Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Moore studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...
, and Diane Schoemperlen
Diane Schoemperlen
Diane Mavis Schoemperlen is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University....
Kevin Patterson
Kevin Patterson
Kevin Patterson is a Canadian medical doctor and writer. His short story collection, Country of Cold, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003...
, Country of Cold
- Jacqueline Baker, A Hard Witching & Other Stories
- Gil CourtemancheGil CourtemancheGil Courtemanche was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in third-world and international politics. He wrote for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.Courtemanche was born in Montreal, Quebec...
, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Barbara GowdyBarbara GowdyBarbara Gowdy, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.-Literary career:...
, The Romantic - Judith McCormack, The Rule of Last Clear Chance
2004
Juried by Sylvia FraserSylvia Fraser
Sylvia Fraser is a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario...
, Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist.Gartner was born in Winnipeg and moved to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and an MFA from the...
, and Michael Redhill
Michael Redhill
Michael Redhill is an American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Redhill was raised in the metropolitan Toronto, Ontario area. He pursued one year of study at Indiana University, and then returned to Canada, completing his education at York University and the...
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
, Runaway
Runaway (book)
Runaway is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize.- Contents :There are eight short stories in the book...
- Michael HelmMichael HelmMichael Helm is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Eston, Saskatchewan, and received degrees in literature from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto...
, In the Place of Last Things - Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing
- Jeffrey MooreJeffrey MooreJeffrey Moore is an internationally recognized championship accordionist, keyboardist in award-winning alternative rock group The Double Yellow, and multi-instrumentalist composer from Nashua, New Hampshire. He has performed for thousands nationally including venues in the United States like...
, The Memory Artists - Russell Smith, Muriella Pent
2005
Juried by Anita Rau BadamiAnita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami is an Indian-Canadian novelist. Born in Rourkela, Orissa, India, she was educated at the University of Madras and Sophia College in Bombay. She emigrated to Canada in 1991, and earned an M.A. at the University of Calgary...
, Lewis DeSoto, and Mary Swan
Mary Swan
Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is also a trained librarian with a keen eye for history. Her novel The Boys in the Trees, a shortlisted nominee for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. was inspired by a newspaper clipping concerning a death within a family.Swan was the...
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden
Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize...
, Three Day Road
Three Day Road
Three Day Road is the first novel from Canadian writer Joseph Boyden. Joseph’s maternal grandfather, as well as an uncle on his father’s side, served as soldiers during the First World War, and Boyden draws upon a wealth of family narratives...
- Michael CrummeyMichael CrummeyMichael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer.Born in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he received a B.A. in...
, The Wreckage - Lauren B. DavisLauren B. DavisLauren B. Davis is a Canadian writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Davis lived in France for over a decade, and now resides in Princeton, New Jersey, where she runs the SHARPENING THE QUILL WRITERS WORKSHOPS and is past Writer-in-Residence at Trinity Episcopalian Church...
, The Radiant City - Allan Donaldson, Maclean
- Rabindranath MaharajRabindranath MaharajRabindranath Maharaj is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and a founding editor of the literary journal Lichen...
, A Perfect Pledge
2006
Juried by Karen ConnellyKaren Connelly
Karen Marie Connelly is a Canadian writer and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada.-Life and work:...
, Jeffrey Moore, and Anna Porter
Anna Porter
Anna Maria Porter, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian publisher and novelist.Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956 to escape the Soviet presence in Hungary. She received a Bachelor degree and Master of Arts degree from the University of Canterbury. She started at McClelland &...
Kenneth J. Harvey
Kenneth J. Harvey
Kenneth Joseph Thomas Harvey is a Canadian writer and filmmaker. Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, his books are published in Canada, the US, the UK, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark and France...
, Inside
- Peter BehrensPeter BehrensPeter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He was important for the modernist movement, as several of the movements leading names worked for him when they were young.-Biography:Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882...
, The Law of DreamsThe Law of DreamsThe Law of Dreams is a historical fiction novel about the Irish potato famine by Canadian author Peter Behrens. Published in 2006 by House of Anansi Press, it was the recipient of that year's Governor General's Award for English language fiction.... - Rawi HageRawi Hage-Early life and education:Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1984. In 1991, he relocated to Montreal, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had...
, DeNiro's Game - Catherine Hanrahan, Lost Girls and Love Hotels
- Mary LawsonMary LawsonMary Lawson is a Canadian novelist.Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist...
, The Other Side of the Bridge
2007
Juried by Kevin MajorKevin Major
Kevin Major is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays....
, Kim Moritsugu
Kim Moritsugu
Kim Moritsugu is a Canadian writer. An alumna of the University of Toronto, she worked in a corporate setting for several years before publishing her debut novel, Looks Perfect, in 1996...
, and Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien
Madeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under...
Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes....
, The Book of Negroes
The Book of Negroes (novel)
The Book of Negroes is a 2007 award-winning novel from Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. In the United States, Australia and New Zealand, the novel was published under the title Someone Knows My Name.-Plot introduction:...
- Shaena LambertShaena LambertShaena Lambert is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her work has appeared in many periodicals and literary journals including Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All Story, and Toronto Life. Her first book was a collection of short stories called The Falling Woman. She has also published a novel,...
, Radiance - Robert HoughRobert HoughRobert Hough is a Canadian author. Hough graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1985. Following a career as a free-lance magazine journalist, Hough published his first novel titled The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, in 2001.-Published works:* The Final Confession of Mabel Stark ....
, The Culprits - Nancy HustonNancy HustonNancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.-Biography:...
, Fault Lines - M.G. Vassanji, The Assassin's SongThe Assassin's SongThe Assassin's Song is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. It is the story of a young Indian boy whose dream is to escape his family's religious legacy. He wants to be ordinary: to go to school, play cricket, talk to girls, and make his own choices...
2008
Juried by Lawrence HillLawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill is an award-winning Canadian novelist and memoirist. He is best known for the 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada and the 2007 novel The Book of Negroes....
, Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She's published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and an adult historical novel, The Golden Mean.-Life and work:...
, and Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill
Heather O'Neill is a Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. She was born in Montreal, but spent part of her childhood in the American South. She currently lives in Montreal....
Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto in 2009....
, The Flying Troutmans
- Rivka GalchenRivka GalchenRivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008, has been translated into over 20 languages, and was awarded the William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction....
, Atmospheric Disturbances - Rawi HageRawi Hage-Early life and education:Born in Beirut, Hage grew up in Lebanon and Cyprus. He moved to New York City in 1984. In 1991, he relocated to Montreal, where he studied Photography at Dawson College and Fine Arts at Concordia University. He subsequently began exhibiting as a photographer, and has had...
, Cockroach - Lee HendersonLee HendersonLee Henderson is a Canadian writer, the author of The Broken Record Technique and The Man Game . The Broken Record Technique won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English...
, The Man Game - Patrick LanePatrick LanePatrick Lane is an award-winning Canadian poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel Red Dog, Red Dog.-Biography:...
, Red Dog, Red Dog
2009
Juried by Marina EndicottMarina Endicott
Marina Endicott is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Canada and the Caribbean and was short listed for the Giller Prize.-Personal life:...
, Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto in 2009....
, and R.M. Vaughan Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon
Annabel Lyon is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She's published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and an adult historical novel, The Golden Mean.-Life and work:...
, The Golden Mean
- Nicole BrossardNicole BrossardNicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
, Fences in Breathing - Douglas CouplandDouglas CouplandDouglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as McJob and...
, Generation AGeneration AGeneration A is the thirteenth novel from Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland. It takes place in a near future, in a world in which bees have become extinct. The novel is told with a shifting frame narrative perspective, shifting between the novel's five main protagonists... - Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
, Too Much HappinessToo Much HappinessToo Much Happiness is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published on August 25, 2009 by McClelland and Stewart's Douglas Gibson Books imprint.... - Andrew Steinmetz, Eva's Threepenny Theatre
2010
Juried by Andrew PyperAndrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper is a Canadian writer of fiction. Born in 1968, he received a BA and an MA in English Literature from McGill University, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. Although called to the bar in 1996, he has never practiced. He lives in Toronto.-Published works: A collection...
, Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson
Eden Victoria Lena Robinson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, she is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations...
and Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore (writer)
Lisa Moore is a Canadian writer.Born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Moore studied art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...
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Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...
, Room
Room (novel)
Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother...
- Trevor Cole, Practical Jean
- Michael HelmMichael HelmMichael Helm is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Eston, Saskatchewan, and received degrees in literature from the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Toronto...
, Cities of Refuge - Kathleen WinterKathleen WinterKathleen Winter is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Bill Quay, near Gateshead in the north of England and raised in Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter began her career as a script writer for Sesame Street before becoming a columnist for The Telegram in St. John's...
, Annabel - Michael Winter, The Death of Donna Whalen
2011
Juried by Emma DonoghueEmma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue is an Irish-born playwright, literary historian and novelist now living in Canada. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international bestseller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for...
, Rabindranath Maharaj
Rabindranath Maharaj
Rabindranath Maharaj is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and a founding editor of the literary journal Lichen...
and Margaret Sweatman
Margaret Sweatman
Margaret Sweatman is a Canadian writer.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sweatman was educated at the University of Winnipeg, Concordia University and Simon Fraser University....
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Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt
Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and later lived in California and Washington. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon....
, The Sisters Brothers
- Clark BlaiseClark BlaiseClark Blaise, OC is a Canadian author.Born in Fargo, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been married since 1963 to writer Bharati Mukherjee. They have two sons. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, Blaise was also the director of...
, The Meagre Tarmac - Michael ChristieMichael Christie (writer)Michael Christie is a Canadian short story writer, whose debut collection The Beggar's Garden is a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted nominee for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize....
, The Beggar's Garden - Esi EdugyanEsi EdugyanEsi Edugyan is a Canadian novelist. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta to Ghanaian immigrant parents, she studied creative writing at the University of Victoria before publishing her debut novel, The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, in 2004....
, Half-Blood Blues - Dan Vyleta, The Quiet Twin
External links
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, official website