Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Canadian literary award

The Amazon Canada First Novel Award, formerly the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and The Walrus to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.[1] It has been awarded since 1976.[1]

The First Novel Award was founded by the literary magazine Books in Canada.[1] Between 1976 and 1994, the award was sponsored by SmithBooks. During this period, the award was known as the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award.[1] When SmithBooks was acquired by Chapters, it became the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award.[1]

The award was reorganized when Books in Canada was acquired by Adrian and Olga Stein in 1995. The Steins retained a first novel editor, introduced a comprehensive first novel review program, and formalized the adjudication process.

Amazon first signed on as a sponsor of the award in 2001,[2] with the award presented as the amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award through the 2000s. Full administration of the award was taken over by Amazon in 2009 and its name was changed to the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The Amazon.com arrangement saw the prize award initially doubled to $10,000, and then increased to its current amount of $40,000, with shortlisted finalists each receiving over $6,000.

## Winners and nominees

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At different times in its history, the award has been presented early in the year for works published in the preceding year, late in the year for works published in the same year as the presentation, or mid-year for an eligibility period that straddled parts of both years. For clarity, the list below is organized by the year of presentation rather than the year of publication eligibility.

### 1970s

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Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1977-1979  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1977 | Ian McLachlan | The Seventh Hexagram | Winner | [3]
Michael Ondaatje | Coming Through Slaughter
Alice Boissonneau | Eileen McCullough | Finalist  | [4]
David Kellum | The Falling World of Tristram Pocket
Susan Kerslake | Middlewatch
Sharon Riis | The True Story of Ida Johnson
Carol Shields | Small Ceremonies
Mary Soderstrom | The Descent of Andrew McPherson
1978 | Oonah McFee | Sandbars | Winner | [5]
Shane Dennison | Sidehill Gouger | Finalist  | [6]
Pauline Gedge | Child of the Morning
Jack Hodgins | The Invention of the World
M. T. Kelly | I Do Remember the Fall
Helen Levi | A Small Informal Dance
Morley Torgov | The Abramsky Variations
1979 | Joan Barfoot | Abra | Winner | [1]
Michael Dorland | The Double-Cross Circuit | Finalist  | [7]
Clive Doucet | Disneyland, Please
Margaret Drury Gane | Parade on an Empty Street
Kevin Major | Hold Fast
Frank Paci | The Italians

### 1980s

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Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1980-1989  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1980 | Clark Blaise | Lunar Attractions | Winner | [8]
Victoria Branden | Mrs. Job | Finalist  |
Stan Dragland | Peckertracks
Florence Evans | A Man Without Passion
Shirley Faessler | Everything in the Window
Katherine Govier | Random Descent
Betty Lambert | Crossings
1981 | W. D. Valgardson | Gentle Sinners | Winner | [9]
Martyn Burke | Laughing War | Finalist  |
Susan Musgrave | The Charcoal Burners
Graham Petrie | Seahorse
Leon Rooke | Fat Woman
1982 | Joy Kogawa | Obasan | Winner | [10]
Jim Christy | Streethearts | Finalist  | [11]
George Jonas | Final Decree
Edward O. Phillips | Sunday's Child
Gary Ross | Always Tip the Dealer
1983 | W. P. Kinsella | Shoeless Joe | Winner | [12]
Lorris Elliott | Coming for to Carry | Finalist  | [13]
Geraldine Rahmani | Blue
Nessa Rapoport | Preparing for Sabbath
Ann Rosenberg | The Bee Book
1984 | Heather Robertson | Willie: A Romance | Winner | [8]
Robert G. Collins | Tolerable Levels of Violence | Finalist  | [14]
Susan Swan | The Biggest Modern Woman in the World
George Szanto | Not Working
Wayne Tefs | Figures on a Wharf
1985 | Geoffrey Ursell | Perdue, or How the West Was Lost | Winner | [15]
Sharon Butala | Country of the Heart | Finalist  | [16]
Douglas Glover | Precious
John Gray | Dazzled
Sara Stambaugh | I Hear the Reaper's Song
Armin Wiebe | The Salvation of Yasch Siemens
1986 | Wayne Johnston | The Story of Bobby O'Malley | Winner | [17]
Susan Charlotte Haley | A Nest of Singing Birds | Finalist  | [18]
Ann Ireland | A Certain Mr. Takahashi
Frank Jones | Master and Maid
Robert Walshe | Wales' Work
1987 | Karen Lawrence | The Life of Helen Alone | Winner | [19]
Marc Diamond | Momentum | Finalist  | [20]
David Gilmour | Back on Tuesday
Paulette Jiles | The Late Great Human Road Show
Jo Anne Williams Bennett | Downfall People
1988 | Marion Quednau | The Butterfly Chair | Winner | [21]
D.F. Bailey | Fire Eyes | Finalist  | [22]
W.D. Barcus | Squatters' Island
Pauline Holdstock | The Blackbird's Song
Seán Virgo | Selakhi
1989 | Rick Salutin | A Man of Little Faith | Winner | [23]
Neil Bissoondath | A Casual Brutality | Finalist  | [24]
Joan Clark | The Victory of Geraldine Gull
David Homel | Electrical Storms
Janice Kulyk Keefer | Constellations
Helen Fogwill Porter | January, February, June or July

### 1990s

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Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1990-1999  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1990 | Sandra Birdsell | The Missing Child | Winner | [25]
Marilyn Bowering | To All Appearances a Lady | Finalist  | [26]
Barry Callaghan | The Way the Angel Spread Her Wings
Jacqueline Dumas | Madeleine and the Angel
Kristjana Gunnars | The Prowler
Kenneth Radu | Distant Relations
1991 | Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints | Winner | [27]
Gail Bowen | Deadly Appearances | Finalist  | [28]
Rita Donovan | The Dark Jewels
Glen Huser | Grace Lake
Margot Livesey | Homework
Carsten Stroud | Sniper's Moon
1992 | Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | Winner | [29]
Douglas Coupland | Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture | Finalist  | [30]
Ekbert Faas | Woyzeck's Head
Michael Kenyon | Kleinberg
Alberto Manguel | News From a Foreign Country Came
1993 | John Steffler | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | Winner | [31]
Douglas Anthony Cooper | Amnesia | Finalist  | [32]
Carole Corbeil | Voice-Over
Kenneth J. Harvey | Brud
Greg Hollingshead | Spin Dry
1994 | Deborah Joy Corey | Losing Eddie | Winner | [33]
Catherine Bush | Minus Time | Finalist  | [34]
Don Dickinson | The Crew
Douglas How | Blow Up the Trumpet in the New Moon
Carol Malyon | If I Knew I'd Tell You
1995 | Shyam Selvadurai | Funny Boy | Winner | [35]
Charles Foran | Kitchen Music | Finalist  | [36]
Diane Schoemperlen | In the Language of Love
Russell Smith | How Insensitive
Cordelia Strube | Alex & Zee
1996 | Keath Fraser | Popular Anatomy | Winner | [37]
Diana Atkinson | Highways and Dancehalls | Finalist  | [38]
Wayson Choy | The Jade Peony
Larissa Lai | When Fox Is a Thousand
Yan Li | Daughters of the Red Land
1997 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | Winner | [39]
Gail Anderson-Dargatz | The Cure for Death by Lightning | Finalist  | [40]
Ann-Marie MacDonald | Fall on Your Knees
Yann Martel | Self
Shani Mootoo | Cereus Blooms at Night
1998 | Margaret Gibson | Opium Dreams | Winner | [41]
Kim Echlin | Elephant Winter | Finalist  | [42]
Allan Levine | The Blood Libel
Rabindranath Maharaj | Homer in Flight
Tim Wynveen | Angel Falls
1999 | André Alexis | Childhood | Winner | [43]
Loranne Brown | The Handless Maiden | Finalist  | [44]
Tomson Highway | Kiss of the Fur Queen
Terry Jordan | Beneath That Starry Place
Kerri Sakamoto | The Electrical Field

### 2000s

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Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2000-2009  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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2000 | David Macfarlane | Summer Gone | Winner | [45]
Alan R. Wilson | Before the Flood
Alistair MacLeod | No Great Mischief | Finalist  | [46]
Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law
Jim Munroe | Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask
Catherine Simmons-Niven | A Fine Daughter
2001 | Eva Stachniak | Necessary Lies | Winner | [47]
Steven Galloway | Finnie Walsh | Finalist  | [48]
Scott Gardiner | The Dominion of Wyley McFadden
Susan Juby | Alice, I Think
Lydia Kwa | This Place Called Absence
2002 | Michael Redhill | Martin Sloane | Winner | [49]
Dennis Bock | The Ash Garden | Finalist  | [49]
Michael Crummey | River Thieves
Marina Endicott | Open Arms
Linda Little | Strong Hollow
Elizabeth Ruth | Ten Good Seconds of Silence
2003 | Mary Lawson | Crow Lake | Winner | [50]
Christy Ann Conlin | Heave | Finalist  | [51]
Aislinn Hunter | Stay
Clint Hutzulak | The Beautiful Dead End
Michael V. Smith | Cumberland
Marnie Woodrow | Spelling Mississippi
2004 | Michel Basilières | Black Bird | Winner | [52]
Clayton Bailey | The Expedition | Finalist  | [53]
John Bemrose | The Island Walkers
Lisa Grekul | Kalyna's Song
Edeet Ravel | Ten Thousand Lovers
Bettina von Kampen | Blue Becomes You
2005 | Colin McAdam | Some Great Thing | Winner | [54]
David Elias | Sunday Afternoon | Finalist  | [55]
Ibi Kaslik | Skinny
Arthur Motyer | What's Remembered
Catherine Safer | Bishop's Road
2006 | Joseph Boyden | Three Day Road | Winner | [56]
Howard Akler | The City Man | Finalist  | [57]
Brenda Brooks | Gotta Find Me an Angel
Anne Giardini | The Sad Truth About Happiness
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | The Nettle Spinner
B. Glen Rotchin | The Rent Collector
2007 | Madeleine Thien | Certainty | Winner | [58]
Peter Behrens | The Law of Dreams | Finalist  | [59]
John Degen | The Uninvited Guest
Annette Lapointe | Stolen
Heather O'Neill | Lullabies for Little Criminals
Adam Lewis Schroeder | Empress of Asia
2008 | Gil Adamson | The Outlander | Winner | [60]
David Chariandy | Soucouyant | Finalist  | [61]
Kyo Maclear | The Letter Opener
C.S. Richardson | The End of the Alphabet
Brian Tucker | Big White Knuckles
Andrew Wedderburn | The Milk Chicken Bomb
2009 | Joan Thomas | Reading by Lightning | Winner | [62]
Michael Blouin | Chase & Haven | Finalist  | [63]
Claudia Dey | Stunt
Patrick Lane | Red Dog, Red Dog
Mary Swan | The Boys in the Trees

### 2010s

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Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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2010 | Jessica Grant | Come, Thou Tortoise | Winner | [64]
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden | No Place Strange | Finalist  | [65]
Annabel Lyon | The Golden Mean
Damian Tarnopolsky | Goya's Dog
Dragan Todorović | Diary of Interrupted Days
Ian Weir | Daniel O'Thunder
2011 | Eleanor Catton | The Rehearsal | Winner | [66]
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall | Ghosted | Finalist  | [67]
Miguel Syjuco | Ilustrado
Dianne Warren | Cool Water
Kathleen Winter | Annabel
2012 | David Bezmozgis | The Free World | Winner | [68]
Fraser Nixon | The Man Who Killed | Finalist  | [69]
Sina Queyras | Autobiography of Childhood
Olive Senior | Dancing Lessons
Alexi Zentner | Touch
2013 | Anakana Schofield | Malarky | Winner | [70]
Marjorie Celona | Y | Finalist  | [71]
Scott Fotheringham | The Rest Is Silence
Pasha Malla | People Park
Kim Thúy | Ru
2014 | Wayne Grady | Emancipation Day | Winner | [72]
Kenneth Bonert | The Lion Seeker | Finalist  | [73]
Krista Bridge | The Eliot Girls
Susan Downe | Juanita Wildrose: My True Life
D. W. Wilson | Ballistics
2015 | Alix Hawley | All True Not a Lie in It | Winner | [74]
Emma Hooper | Etta and Otto and Russell and James | Finalist  | [75]
Sean Michaels | Us Conductors
Guillaume Morissette | New Tab
Chelsea Rooney | Pedal
2016 | Mona Awad | 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl | Winner | [76]
Karim Alrawi | Book of Sands | Finalist  | [77]
Aaron Cully Drake | Do You Think This Is Strange?
W. Mark Giles | Seep
Judith McCormack | Backspring
Elizabeth Philips | The Afterlife of Birds
2017 | Katherena Vermette | The Break | Winner | [78]
Catherine Cooper | White Elephant | Finalist  | [79]
Kaie Kellough | Accordéon
Rebecca Rosenblum | So Much Love
Yasuko Thanh | Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
2018 | Michael Kaan | The Water Beetles | Winner | [80]
Sharon Bala | The Boat People | Finalist  | [81]
David Demchuk | The Bone Mother
Omar El Akkad | American War
Rachel Manley | The Black Peacock
Alison Watt | Dazzle Patterns
2019 | Casey Plett | Little Fish | Winner | [82]
Liz Harmer | The Amateurs | Finalist  | [83]
Tyler Hellard | Searching for Terry Punchout
Tanya Tagaq | Split Tooth
Joshua Whitehead | Jonny Appleseed
Ian Williams | Reproduction

### 2020s

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Amazon Canada First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2020–present  Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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2020 | Stéphane Larue (tr. Pablo Strauss) | The Dishwasher | Winner | [84]
Nancy Jo Cullen | The Western Alienation Merit Badge | Finalist  | [84]
James Gregor | Going Dutch
Victoria Hetherington | Mooncalves
Nazanine Hozar | Aria
Andrew David MacDonald | When We Were Vikings
2021 | Michelle Good | Five Little Indians | Winner | [85]
Sheung-King  | You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. | Finalist  | [86]
Francesca Ekwuyasi | Butter Honey Pig Bread
Marlowe Granados | Happy Hour
Jael Richardson | Gutter Child
John Elizabeth Stintzi | Vanishing Monuments
2022 | Pik-Shuen Fung | Ghost Forest | Winner | [87]
Emily Austin | Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead | Finalist  | [88]
Lisa Bird-Wilson | Probably Ruby
Brian Thomas Isaac | All the Quiet Places
Conor Kerr | Avenue of Champions
Aimee Wall | We, Jane
2023 | Jasmine Sealy | The Island of Forgetting | Winner | [89]
Billy-Ray Belcourt | A Minor Chorus | Finalist  | [90]
André Forget | In the City of Pigs
Jessica Johns | Bad Cree
William Ping | Hollow Bamboo
Kai Thomas | In the Upper Country
2024 | Alicia Elliott | And Then She Fell | Winner | [91]
Jordan Abel | Empty Spaces | Finalist  | [92]
Caroline Dawson | As the Andes Disappeared
Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall | Tauhou
Janika Oza | A History of Burning
Amanda Peters | The Berry Pickers

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## External links

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* First Novel Award at Amazon.ca

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Winners of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award

1970s|

* Ian McLachlan and Michael Ondaatje (1977)
* Oonah McFee (1978)
* Joan Barfoot (1979)

1980s|

* Clark Blaise (1980)
* W. D. Valgardson (1981)
* Joy Kogawa (1982)
* W. P. Kinsella (1983)
* Heather Robertson (1984)
* Geoffrey Ursell (1985)
* Wayne Johnston (1986)
* Karen Lawrence (1987)
* Marion Quednau (1988)
* Rick Salutin (1989)

1990s|

* Sandra Birdsell (1990)
* Nino Ricci (1991)
* Rohinton Mistry (1992)
* John Steffler (1993)
* Deborah Joy Corey (1994)
* Shyam Selvadurai (1995)
* Keath Fraser (1996)
* Anne Michaels (1997)
* Margaret Gibson (1998)
* André Alexis (1999)

2000s|

* David Macfarlane and Alan R. Wilson (2000)
* Eva Stachniak (2001)
* Michael Redhill (2002)
* Mary Lawson (2003)
* Michel Basilières (2004)
* Colin McAdam (2005)
* Joseph Boyden (2006)
* Madeleine Thien (2007)
* Gil Adamson (2008)
* Joan Thomas (2009)

2010s|

* Jessica Grant (2010)
* Eleanor Catton (2011)
* David Bezmozgis (2012)
* Anakana Schofield (2013)
* Wayne Grady (2014)
* Alix Hawley (2015)
* Mona Awad (2016)
* Katherena Vermette (2017)
* Michael Kaan (2018)
* Casey Plett (2019)

2020s|

* Stéphane Larue (2020)
* Michelle Good (2021)
* Pik-Shuen Fung (2022)
* Jasmine Sealy (2023)
* Alicia Elliott (2024)

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