Awards

Book Award Winners (Since 1990)

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1. The Giller Prize (Canada)
2. The Governor Generals Literary Awards (Canada)
3. The Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour (Canada)
4. Canada Reads
5. Writers' Trust (Canada)
6. BC Book Prize (British Columbia, Canada)
7. The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize (Victoria, Canada)
8. The Man Booker Prize (UK & Commonwealth)
9. The Orange Prize (UK ' Commonwealth Women)
10. The Costa Book Awards (UK)
11. The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Other Award web sites (other than the ones listed here)

• The Pulitzer Prize (USA)
• The Nobel Prize for Literature (International)
• The PEN/Faulkner Award (USA)
• The National Book Awards (USA)

2011 Winner:

• 419. Will Ferguson

2012 Finalists:

• Inside. Alix Ohlin
• The Imposter Bride. Nancy Richler
• Ru. Kim Thúy
• Whirl Away. Russell Wangersky

Past Winners:

• 2011 Half-Blood Blues. Esi Edugyan
• 2010 The Sentimentalists. Johanna Skibsrud
• 2009 The Bishop's Man. Linden MacIntyre
• 2008 Through Black Spruce. Joseph Boyden
• 2007 Late Nights on Air. Elizabeth Hay
• 2006 Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. Vincent Lam
• 2005 The Time In Between. David Bergen
• 2004 Runaway. Alice Munro
• 2003 The In-Between World of Vikram Lall. M.G. Vassanji
• 2002 The Polished Hoe. Austin Clarke
• 2001 Clara Callan. Richard B. Wright
• 2000 Anil's Ghost. Michael Ondaatje
• 2000 Mercy Among The Children. David Adams Richards
• 1999 A Good House. Bonnie Burnard
• 1998 The Love of a Good Woman. Alice Munro
• 1997 Barney's Version. Mordecai Richler
• 1996 Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood
• 1995 A Fine Balance. Rohinton Mistry
• 1994 The Book of Secrets. M.G. Vassanji

For more information, visit the Giller website.

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Adult Fiction

2012 Winner:

• The Purchase. Linda Spalding

2012 Finalists:

• Siege 13. Tamas Dobozy
• Headmaster's Wager. Vincent Lam
• Dr. Brinkley's Tower. Robert Hough
• The Juliet Stories. Carrie Snyder

Past Winners:

• 2011 The Sisters Brothers. Patrick DeWitt
• 2010 Cool Water. Diane Warren
• 2009 The Mistress of Nothing. Kate Pullinger
• 2008 The Origin of Species. Nino Ricci
• 2007 Divisadero. Michael Ondaatje
• 2006 The Law of Dreams. Peter Behrens
• 2005 A Perfect Night to Go to China. David Gilmour
• 2004 A Complicated Kindness. Miriam Toews
• 2003 Elle. Douglas Glover
• 2002 A Song For Nettie Johnson. Gloria Sawai
• 2001 Clara Callan. Richard Wright
• 2000 Anil's Ghost. Michael Ondaatje
• 1999 Elizabeth and After. Matt Cohen
• 1998 Forms of Devotion. Diane Schoemperlen
• 1997 The Underpainter. Jane Urquhart
• 1996 The Englishman's Boy. Guy Vanderhaeghe
• 1995 The Roaring Girl. Greg Hollingshead
• 1994 A Discovery of Strangers. Rudy Wiebe
• 1993 The Stone Diaries. Carol Shields
• 1992 The English Patient. Michael Ondaajte
• 1991 Such a Long Journey. Rohinton Mistry
• 1990 Lives of the Saints. Nino Ricci

Non-Fiction

2012 Winner:

• Leonardo and the Last Supper. Ross King

2012 Finalists:

• The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca. Carol Bishop-Gwyn
• What We Talk About When We Talk About War. Noah Richler
• A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring. Nahlah Ayed
• Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. Wade Davis

Past Winners:

• 2011 Mordecai: His Life And Times. Charles Foran
• 2010 Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada. Allan Casey
• 2009 A Place Within. M.G. Vassanji
• 2008 Fifteen Days. Christie Blatchford
• 2007 I've Got a Home in Glory Land. Karolyn Smardz Frost
• 2006 The Judgment of Paris. Ross King
• 2005 The Golden Spruce. John Vaillant
• 2004 Shake Hands with the Devil. Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire
• 2003 Paris 1919. Margaret MacMillan
• 2002 Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil. Andrew Nikiforuk
• 2001 The Ingenuity Gap. Thomas Homer-Dixon
• 2000 Notes from the Hyena's Belly. Nega Mezlekia
• 1999 Water. Marq de Villiers
• 1998 Lines on the Water. David Adams Richards
• 1997 Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood. Rachel Manley
• 1996 The Unconscious Civilization. John Ralston Saul
• 1995 Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen. Rosemary Sullivan
• 1994 Rogue Primate. John A. Livingston
• 1993 Touch the Dragon. Karen Connelly
• 1992 Revenge of the Land. Maggie Siggins
• 1991 Occupied Canada. Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo
• 1990 Trudeau and Our Times. Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall

Poetry

2012 Winner:

• Monkey Ranch. Julie Bruck

2012 Finalists:

• Lil Bastard. David McGimpsey
• Any Bright Horse. Lisa Pasold
• The New Measures. A. F. Moritz
• Sailing To Babylon. James Pollock

Past Winners:

• 2011 Killdeer. Phil Hall
• 2010 Boxing the Compass. Richard Greene
• 2009 The Fly in Autumn. David Zieroth
• 2008 More to Keep us Warm. Jacob Scheier
• 2007 All our Wonder Unavenged. Don Domanski
• 2006 Stumbling in the Bloom. John Pass
• 2005 Processional. Anne Compton
• 2004 Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. Roo Borson
• 2003 Kill-site. Tim Lilburn
• 2002 Surrender. Roy Miki
• 2001 Execution Poems. George Elliott Clarke
• 2000 Another Gravity. Don McKay
• 1999 Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. Jan Zwicky
• 1998 White Stone: The Alice Poems. Stephanie Bolster
• 1997 Land to Light On. Dionne Brand
• 1996 Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano. E.D. Blodgett
• 1995 Voice. Anne Szumigalski
• 1994 Cantos from a Small Room. Robert Hilles
• 1993 Forests of the Medieval World. Don Coles
• 1992 Inventing the Hawk. Lorna Crozier
• 1991 Night Field. Don McKay
• 1990 No Time. Margaret Avison

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• 2012 Sisters Brothers. Patrick deWitt
• 2011 Practical Jean. Trevor Cole
• 2010 Beyond Belfast. Will Ferguson
• 2009 Never Shoot a Stampede Queen. Mark Leiren-Young
• 2008 The Best Laid Plans. Terry Fallis
• 2007 Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe. Stuart McLean
• 2006 Pitch Black. Arthur Black
• 2005 Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw. Will Ferguson
• 2004 Village of the Small Houses. Ian Ferguson
• 2003 With Axe and Flask. Dan Needles
• 2002 Generica (HappinessTM). Will Ferguson
• 2001 Vinyl Cafe Unplugged. Stuart McLean
• 2000 Black Tie and Tales. Arthur Black
• 1999 Home from the Vinyl Cafe. Stuart McLean
• 1998 Barney's Version. Mordecai Richler
• 1997 Black in the Saddle Again. Arthur Black
• 1996 Letters from the Country. Marsha Boulton
• 1995 Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life. Josh Freed
• 1994 Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast. Bill Richardson
• 1993 Waiting for Aquarius. Joseph Levesque
• 1992 Prayers of a Very Wise Child. Roch Carrier
• 1991 Waiting in the Rain. Howard White
• 1990 According to Jake and the Kid. W.O. Mitchell
• 1989 Winter Tulips. John Kertes
• 1988 King Leary. Paul Quarrington
• 1987 The Fencepost Chronicles. W.P. Kinsella
• 1986 No Axe too Small to Grind. Joey Slinger
• 1985 Love is a Long Shot. Ted Allan

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2012 Canada Reads Winner:

• Something Fierce. Carmen Aguirre

Voted Off:

• The Game. Ken Dryden
• On A Cold Road. Dave Bidini
• The Tiger. John Vaillant
• Prisoner of Tehran. Marina Nemat

Past Winners:

• 2011 The Best Laid Plans. Terry Fallis
• 2010 Nikolski. Nicolas Dickner
• 2009 The Book of Negroes. Lawrence Hill
• 2008 King Leary. Paul Quarrington
• 2007 Lullabies for Little Criminals. Heather O'Neill
• 2006 A Complicated Kindness. Miriam Toews
• 2005 Rockbound. Frank Parker Day
• 2004 The Last Crossing. Guy Vanderhaeghe
• 2003 The Next Episode. Hubert Aquin
• 2002 In the Skin of a Lion. Michael Ondaatje

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Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

2012 Winner:

• Siege 13. Tamas Dobozy

2012 Finalists:

• The Tinsmith. Tim Bowling
• Carnival. Rawi Hage
• Inside. Alix Ohlin
• The Purchase. Linda Spalding

Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize

2012 Winner:

• A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape. Candice Savage

2012 Finalists:

• Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes. Kamal Al-Solaylee
• Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age. Modris Eksteins
• Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile . Taras Grescoe
• The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. JJ Lee

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Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

2011 Winner:

• Everything Was Good-Bye. Gurjinder Basran

Past Winners:

• 2010 Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison. Cathleen With
• 2009 The Man Game. Lee Henderson
• 2008 Conceit. Mary Novik
• 2007 Home Schooling.Carol Windley
• 2006 Ladykiller. Charlotte Gill
• 2005 Beyond Measure. Pauline Holdstock
• 2004 Sitting Practice. Caroline Adderson
• 2003 Unless. Carol Shields
• 2002 Simple Recipes. Madeleine Thien
• 2001 Monkey Beach. Eden Robinson
• 2000 The Pornographer's Poem. Michael Turner
• 1999 Broken Ground. Jack Hodgins
• 1998 Visible Worlds. Marilyn Bowering
• 1997 The Cure for Death by Lightning. Gail Anderson-Dargatz
• 1996 Coming Down from Wa. Audrey Thomas
• 1995 To Be There With You. Gayla Reid
• 1994 Bad Imaginings. Caroline Adderson
• 1993 The Girl with the Botticelli Face. W.D. Valgardson
• 1992 Blue Husbands. Don Dickinson
• 1991 Wild Blue Yonder. Audrey Thomas
• 1990 Motet. Keith Maillard

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

2011 Winner:

• Images from the Likeness House. Dan Savard

Past Winners:

• 2010 Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names. Andrew Scott
• 2009 Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia. Stephen Hume
• 2008 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. J. B. MacKinnon and Alisa Smith
• 2007 Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia. Katherine Gordon
• 2006 The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed. John Vaillant
• 2005 A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming. Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford
• 2004 Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia. Donald Luxton
• 2003 Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan. Ernest Perrault
• 2002 A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith
• 2001 The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Dan Francis
• 2000 Cougar Annie's Garden. Margaret Horsfield
• 1999 River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola. Mark Hume with Harvey Thommassen
• 1998 Mighty River. Richard Bocking
• 1997 The Fraser River. Alan Haig-Brown
• 1996 HR: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan. Ken Drushka
• 1995 Raincoast Chronicles. Howard White
• 1994 Nisga'a. Alex Rose
• 1993 Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller. Harry Robinson & Wendy Wickwire
• 1992 Seeing the Forest Among the Trees. Herb Hammond
• 1991 Aboriginal Peoples & Politics. Paul Tennant
• 1990 Carmanah. (Western Canada Wilderness Committee)

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

2011 Winner:

• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. John Vaillant

Past Winners:

• 2010 Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir. Lorna Crozier
• 2009 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. Gabor Maté
• 2008 Everywhere Being is Dancing. Robert Bringhurst
• 2007 The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust. Heather Pringle
• 2006 The Short Version: An ABC Book. Stan Persky
• 2005 The Last Heathen. Charles Montgomery
• 2004 Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian. Maria Tippet
• 2003 Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba. Sandra Shields and David Campion
• 2002 The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr. Susan Crean
• 2001 The Last Great Sea. Terry Glavin
• 2000 Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels. Rita Moir
• 1999 Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power. Peter Newman
• 1998 Stolen from Our Embrace. Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey
• 1997 O-bon in Chimunesu. Catherine Lang
• 1996 Letter from Vienna. Claudia Cornwal
• 1995 Uncommon Will. Lisa Hobbs Birnie
• 1994 Some Become Flowers. Sharon Brown
• 1993 Muddling Through. Lynne Bowen
• 1992 Down the Road. Rosemary Neering
• 1991 Jack Shadbolt. Scott Watso
• 1990 Marshall McLuhan. Philip Marchand

BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie

2011 Winner:

• Adventures in Solitude. Grant Lawrence

Past Winners:

• 2010 Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life. Brian Brett
• 2009 Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver. Stephen Bown
• 2008 The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest. Ian McAllister
• 2007 David Suzuki: The Autobiography. David Suzuki
• 2006 Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver. James P. Delgado
• 2005 Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat. Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, & Mark Hume
• 2004 The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580. R. Samuel Bawlf
• 2003 Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats. Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson and Betty Keller
• 2002 Illustrated History of British Columbia. Terry Reksten
• 2001 The Encyclopedia of British Columbia. Dan Francis
• 2000 Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. Derek Hayes
• 1999 Westcoasters: Boats That Built BC. Tom Henry
• 1998 The Great Bear Rainforest. Ian & Karen McAllister and Cameron Young
• 1997 British Columbia: A Natural History. Richard Cannings & Sydney Cannings
• 1996 Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book. Bill Richardson
• 1995 Eagle Transforming. Ulli Steltzer & Robert Davidson
• 1994 Fishing for a Living. Alan Haig-Brown
• 1993 Sabine's Notebook. Nick Bantock
• 1992 The Black Canoe. Robert Bringhurst & Ulli Steltzer
• 1991 Vanishing Vancouver. Michael Kluckner
• 1990 Carmanah Western. Canada Wilderness Committee

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

2011 Winner:

• On the Material. Stephen Collis

Past Winners:

• 2010 is a door. Fred Wah
• 2009 The Given. Daphne Marlatt
• 2008 Forage. Rita Wong
• 2007 Strike / Slip. Don McKay
• 2006 Vancouver Walking. Meredith Quartermain
• 2005 Robinson's Crossing. Jan Zwicky
• 2004 Taking the Names Down From the Hill. Philip Kevin Paul
• 2003 peter among th towring boxes. bill bissett
• 2002 Short Haul Engine. Karen Solie
• 2001 Another Gravity. Don McKay
• 2000 What the Living Won't Let Go. Lorna Crozier
• 1999 How I Joined Humanity At Last. David Zieroth
• 1998 What I Remember from My Time on Earth. Patricia Young
• 1997 The Unhinging of Wings. Margo Button
• 1996 Too Spare, Too Fierce. Patrick Lane
• 1995 Hard Candy. Linda Rogers
• 1994 The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel. Gregory Scofield
• 1993 Inkorrect Thots. Bill Bissett
• 1992 Pulplog. Barry McKinnon
• 1991 Down Time. Jeff Derksen
• 1990 Suitcase. Victoria Walker
  

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence

• 2011 George Bowering
• 2010 Stan Persky
• 2009 Terry Glavin
• 2008 Gary Geddes
• 2007 Patrick Lane
• 2006 Jack Hodgins
• 2005 Robert Bringhurst
• 2004 P.K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page

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Adult Book Prize

2011 Winner:

• The Master of Happy Endings. Jack Hodgins

Past Winners:

• 2010 Children of the Klondike. Frances Backhouse
• 2009 Red Dog, Red Dog. Patrick Lane
• 2008 Paper Trail. Arleen Paré
• 2007 Gargoyles. Bill Gaston
• 2006 Holding Juno. Mark Zuehlke
• 2005 After Goodlake's. Terence Young
• 2004 Country of Cold. Kevin Patterson

Bolen Children's Book Prize

2011 Winner:

• Uirapuru. Kristi Bridgeman

Past Winners:

• 2010 Counting on Hope. Sylvia Olsen
• 2009 Graveyard of the Sea. Penny Draper
• 2008 Mechanimals. Chris Tougas

For more information, visit the The City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Web Site.

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The Man Booker Prizes

The Man Booker Prize

2011 Winner:

• The Sense of an Ending. Julian Barnes

2011 Shortlist:

• Half-Blood Blues. Esi Edugyan
• Jamrach's Menagerie. Carol Birch
• The Sisters Brothers. Patrick DeWitt
• Pigeon English. Stephen Kelman
• Snowdrops. A. D. Miller

Past Winners:

• 2010 The Finkler Question. Howard Jacobson
• 2009 Wolf Hall. Hilary Mantel
• 2008 The White Tiger. Aravind Adiga
• 2007 The Gathering. Anne Enright
• 2006 The Inheritance of Loss. Kiran Desai
• 2005 The Sea. John Banville
• 2004 Line of Beauty. Alan Hollinghurst
• 2003 Vernon God Little. D B C Pierre
• 2002 Life of Pi. Yann Martel
• 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang. Peter Carey
• 2000 The Blind Assassin. Margaret Atwood
• 1999 Disgrace. J M Coetzee
• 1998 Amsterdam. Ian McEwan
• 1997 The God of Small Things. Arundhati Roy
• 1996 Last Orders. Graham Swift
• 1995 The Ghost Road. Pat Barker
• 1994 How Late It Was, How Late. James Kelman
• 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Roddy Doyle
• 1992 The English Patient. Michael Ondaatje
• 1992 Sacred Hunger. Barry Unsworth
• 1991 Possession. A S Byatt
  

The Man Booker International Prize

• 2009 Alice Munro
• 2007 Chinua Achebe
• 2005 Ismail Kadare

For more information, visit the Man Booker Prize Web Site.

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The Orange Prize

Orange Prize for Fiction

2011 Winner:

• The Tiger's Wife. Téa Obreht

2011 Shortlist:

• Room. Emma Donoghue
• The Memory of Love. Aminatta Forna
• Grace Williams Says it Loud. Emma Henderson
• Great House. Nicole Krauss
• Annabel. Kathleen Winter

Past Winners:

• 2010 The Lacuna. Barbara Kingsolver
• 2009 Home. Marilynne Robinson
• 2008 The Road Home. Rose Tremain
• 2007 Halfof a Yellow Sun. Adichie Ngozi Chimamanda
• 2006 On Beauty. Zadie Smith
• 2005 We Need to Talk About Kevin. Lionel Shriver
• 2004 Small Island. Andrea Levy
• 2003 Property. Valerie Martin
• 2002 Bel Canto. Ann Patchett
• 2001 The Idea of Perfection. Kate Grenville
• 2000 When I Lived in Modern Times. Linda Grant
• 1999 A Crime in the Neighborhood. Suzanne Berne
• 1998 Larry's Party. Carol Shields
• 1997 Fugitive Pieces. Anne Michaels
• 1996 A Spell for Winter. Helen Dunmore
  

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The Costa Book Awards

Costa Book of the Year

2011 Winner:

• Pure. Andrew Miller

Past Winners:

• 2010 Of Mutability. Jo Shapcott
• 2009 A Scattering. Christopher Reid
• 2008 The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry
• 2007 Day. A. L. Kennedy
• 2006 The Tenderness of Wolves. Stef Penney
• 2005 Matisse the Master. Hilary Spurling
• 2004 Small Island. Andrea Levy
• 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon
• 2002 Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self. Claire Tomalin
• 2001 The Amber Spyglass. Philip Pullman
• 2000 English Passengers. Matthew Kneale
• 1999 Beowulf. Seamus Heaney
• 1998 Birthday Letters. Ted Hughes
• 1997 Tales from Ovid. Ted Hughes
• 1996 The Spirit Level. Seamus Heaney
• 1995 Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Kate Atkinson
• 1994 Felicia's Journey. William Trevor
• 1993 Theory of War. Joan Brady
• 1992 Swing Hammer Swing! Jeff Torrington
• 1991 Alma Cogan. Gordon Burn
• 1990 A Life of Picasso. John Richardson

Costa First Novel Award

2011 Winner:

• Tiny Sunbirds Far Away. Christie Watson

Past Winners:

• 2010 Witness the Night. Kishwar Desai
• 2009 Beauty. Raphael Selbourne
• 2008 The Outcast. Sadie Jones
• 2007 What was Lost. Catherine O'Flynn
• 2006 The Tenderness of Wolves. Stef Penney
• 2005 The Harmony Silk Factory. Tash Aw
• 2004 Eve Green. Susan Fletcher
• 2003 Vernon God Little. D.B.C. Pierre
• 2002 The Song of Names. Norman Lebrecht
• 2001 Something Like a House. Sid Smith
• 2000 White Teeth. Zadie Smith
• 1999 White City Blue. Tim Lott
• 1998 The Last King of Scotland. Giles Foden
• 1997 The Ventriloquist's Tale. Pauline Melville
• 1996 The Debt to Pleasure. John Lanchester
• 1995 Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Kate Atkinson
• 1994 The Longest Memory. Fred D'Aguiar
• 1993 Saving Agnes. Rachel Cusk
• 1992 Swing Hammer Swing! Jeff Torrington
• 1991 Alma Cogan. Gordon Burn
• 1990 The Buddha of Suburbia. Hanif Kureishi

Costa Novel Award

2011 Winner:

• Pure. Pure Miller

Past Winners:

• 2010 The Hand That First Held Mine. Maggie O'Farrell
• 2009 Brooklyn. Colm Toibin
• 2008 The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry
• 2007 Day. A. L. Kennedy
• 2006 Restless. William Boyd
• 2005 The Accidental. Ali Smith
• 2004 Small Island. Andrea Levy
• 2003 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon
• 2002 Spies. Michael Frayn
• 2001 Twelve Bar Blues. Patrick Neate
• 2000 English Passengers. Matthew Kneale
• 1999 Music and Silence. Rose Tremain
• 1998 Leading the Cheers. Justin Cartwright
• 1997 Quarantine. Jim Crace
• 1996 Every Man for Himself. Beryl Bainbridge
• 1995 The Moor's Last Sigh. Salman Rushdie
• 1994 Felicia's Journey. William Trevor
• 1993 Theory of War. Joan Brady
• 1992 Poor Things. Alasdair Gray
• 1991 The Queen of the Tambourine. Jane Gardham
• 1990 Hopeful Monsters. Nicholas Mosley

For more information, visit the Costa Book Award Web Site.

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The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

2011 Winner:

• Let the Great World Spin. Colum McCann

2011 Shortlist:

• Galore. Michael Crummey
• The Lacuna. Barbara Kingsolver
• The Vagrants. Yiyun Li
• Ransom. David Malouf
• Little Bird Of Heaven. Joyce Carol Oates
• Jasper Jones. Craig Silvey
• Brooklyn. Colm Toibin

Past Winners:

• 2010 The Twin. Gerbrand Bakker
• 2009 Man Gone Down. Micheal Thomas
• 2008 De Niro's Game. Rawi Hage
• 2007 Out Stealing Horses. Per Petterson
• 2006 The Master. Colm Tóibín
• 2005 The Known World. Edward P. Jones
• 2004 The Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
• 2003 My Name is Red. Orhan Pamuk
• 2002 The Elementary Particles. Michel Houellebecq
• 2001 No Great Mischief. Alistair MacLeod
• 2000 Wide Open. Nicola Barker
• 1999 Ingenious Pain. Andrew Miller
• 1998 The Land of Green Plums. Herta Müller
• 1997 A Heart So White. Javier Marias
• 1996 Remembering Babylon. David Malouf

For more information, visit the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Web Site.

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