Manitoba Books Awards/Les Prix du livre du Manitoba is the premiere annual book awards for Manitoba, Canada. Originating in 1988, an award gala is usually held in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrating the best of Manitoba writing and publishing from the previous year.

Depending on the year, there are several awards conferred, as some of the awards are only bestowed biannually. The awards are co-produced by the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers and the Manitoba Writers' Guild. Awards include the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Award for best Winnipeg book, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and others. Past winners include Miriam Toews, David Bergen, Joan Thomas, W.P. Kinsella, Carol Shields and others.

Winners

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Manitoba Book Awards winners
Year Award Author Title Ref.
2007 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Faith Johnston A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen [1]
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Laurie Block Time out of Mind
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Early Masters: Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Serena Keshavjee Winnipeg Modern: Architecture 1945 to 1975
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Faith Johnston A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Anita Daher
le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault Bathélemy Bolivar Manguiers têtus
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design Relish Design Going Downtown: A History of Portage Avenue
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Melissa Steele Beautiful Girl Thumb
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Faith Johnston A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Larry Verstraete Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discovery
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger Colleen Sydor Raise a Little Stink
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Faith Johnston A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen
2008 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Jim Shilliday Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Alison Calder Wolf Tree
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Frank Reimer Design (design) and Ernest Mayer (photography) Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Roland Penner A Glowing Dream: A Memoir
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Alison Calder Wolf Tree
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Carolyn Gray
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design Frank Reimer Design (design) and Ernest Mayer (photography) Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Lois Braun The Penance Drummer and Other Stories
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher John Paskievich The North End: Photographs by John Paskievich
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Kevin Marc Fournier Sandbag Shuffle
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Wayne Tefs Be Wolf
2009 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction J.M. Bumsted Lord Selkirk: A Life
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Rosanna Deerchild this is a small northern town
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Darlene Coward Wight and Frank Reimer The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award André Fauchon Carol J. Harvey Saint-Boniface 1908-2008 : reflets d'une ville
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Daria Salamon The Prairie Bridesmaid
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Michael Van Rooy
le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault Lise Gaboury-Diallo L'endroit et l'envers
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design Louise Duguay and Susan Chafe Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction David Bergen The Retreat
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Louise Duguay Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Colleen Sydor My Mother is a French Fry and Further Proof of my Fuzzed-Up Life
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger Joe McLellan and Matrine McLellan Goose Girl
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award David Bergen The Retreat
2010 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Robert J. Young An American by Degrees: The Extraordinary Lives of French Ambassador Jules Jusserand
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Jan Horner Mama Dada
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Gerry Kopelow All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Esyllt W. Jones Gerald Friesen Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Michael Nathanson Talk
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Ariel Gordon
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design Zach Pauls Dead on Arrival: Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba Journal 2009
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Deborah Schnitzer an unexpected break in the weather
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Heather Beattie and Barbara Huck Wild West: Nature Living on the Edge
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Eva Wiseman Puppet
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger Colleen Sydor Timmerman Was Here
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Allan Levine Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba
2011 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Emma LaRocque When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Ariel Gordon Hump
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Greg Chomichuk and John Toone with James Rewucki The Imagination Manifesto
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award David Bergen The Matter With Morris
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Sheila McClarty High Speed Crow
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Michelle Elrick
Le Prix Littéraire rue-Deschambault Lise Gaboury-Diallo Lointaines
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design Jess Young A Dogs Breakfast: A Chef's Guide to Healthy Home Cooking for Your Favorite Pooch
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction David Bergen The Matter With Morris
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Michelle Berry I Still Don't Even Know You
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Maureen Fergus Ortega
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Dora Dueck This Hidden Thing
2012 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Allan Levine King: William Lyon MacKenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry J. R. Léveillé Poème Pierre Prière
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Miriam Rudolph David's Trip to Paraguay: The Land of Amazing Colours
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award Sandi Krawchenko Altner Ravenscraig
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Sue Sorensen A Large Harmonium
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Jennifer Still
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design J. R. Léveillé Poème Pierre Prière
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Alison Preston The Girl in the Wall
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher W. P. Kinsella Butterfly Winter
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Colleen Nelson Tori by Design
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger Larry Verstraete S is for Scientists: A Discovery Alphabet
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Esmé Claire Keith Not Being on a Boat
Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction Susie Moloney The Thirteen
2013 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Darlene Coward Wight Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art
Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Jonathan Ball The Politics of Knives
Best Illustrated Book of the Year Esyllt Jones Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award David Bergen The Age of Hope
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Kristian Enright Sonar
John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award Kristian Enright
Le Prix Littéraire rue-Deschambault Raymond M. Hebert La Révolution Tranquille
Lifetime Achievement Award Dennis Cooley
Manuela Dias Award for Book Design Nicole Hunt and Brandon Bergem Warehouse Journal Vol. 21
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction David Bergen The Age of Hope
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Chadwick Ginther Thunder Road
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Kevin Marc Fournier The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Meira Cook The House on Sugarbush Road
2021 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction David Robertson Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Money [2]
Book Design Julie Nagam (editor) Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice
Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award David Robertson Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Money
Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright Lara Rae Dragonfly
Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Andrew Unger Once Removed
Graphic Novel Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm et al. This Place: 150 Years Retold
Illustration Lisa Boivin I Will See You Again
Le Prix Littéraire rue-Deschambault Amber O'Reilly Boussole Franche
Manitowapow Award Duncan Mercredi and Lenard Monkman
Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Jonathan Ball The Lightning of Possible Storms
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher Magdalene Redekop Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art
McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older Colleen Nelson Harvey Comes Home
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award David Bergen Here the Dark [3][2]

References

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  1. ^ CBC Arts (2007-04-29). "Biography of Dorise Nielsen wins 4 Manitoba book awards". CBC. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  2. ^ a b Eva, Zhu (2021-05-21). "David A. Robertson wins two 2021 Manitoba Book Awards for memoir Black Water". CBC. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
  3. ^ Sigurdson, Ben (2021-05-20). "Bergen wins book of the year a fourth time". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2022-02-11.
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