Trillium Book Award, English

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.

All-genre (1994-2002)

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

Prose (2003-present)

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

Poetry (2003-present)

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

References

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