Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
The Rogers Writers 'Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian literary prize awarded annually by Rogers Communications and the Writers' Trust of Canada . The prize was first awarded in 1997. The award goes to the author of a novel or a collection of short stories who is classified by a jury of three people as the most important work by a Canadian author of the respective year. The winner will receive 50,000 Canadian dollars, the other four nominated finalists will each receive 5000 Canadian dollars (as of 2019).
Award winners, jury and nominations
- 1997
- Winner: Austin Clarke , The Origin of Waves
- Jury: Matt Cohen , Elisabeth Harvor , Ann Ireland
- Nominations:
- Elizabeth Hay , Small Change
- Brian Moore , The Magician's Wife
- Mordecai Richler , Barney's version
- Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter
- 1998
- Winner: Greg Hollingshead , The Healer
- Jury: Joan Clark , Austin Clarke , Trevor Ferguson
- Nominations:
- André Alexis , Childhood
- Barbara Gowdy , The White Bone
- Wayne Johnston , The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- Alice Munro , The Love of a Good Woman
- 1999
- Winner: Peter Oliva , The City of Yes
- Jury: Lynn Coady , Sylvia Fraser , Eric Wright
- Nominations:
- Caroline Adderson , A History of Forgetting
- Elyse Gasco , Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
- Judy MacDonald , Jane
- Alistair MacLeod , No Great Mischief
- 2000
- Winner: Helen Humphreys , Afterimage
- Jury: Cynthia Holz, Janice Kulyk Keefer , Peter Oliva
- Nominations:
- Todd Babiak , choke hold
- Lynn Coady , Play the Monster Blind
- Douglas Glover , 16 Categories of Desire
- Michael Winter , This All Happened
- 2001
- Winner: Margaret Sweatman , When Alice Lay Down with Peter
- Jury: Lesley Choyce , Eliza Clark , Olive Senior
- Nominations:
- Alice Munro , Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
- Elizabeth Ruth , Ten Good Seconds of Silence
- Timothy Taylor , Stanley Park
- Thomas Wharton , salamander
- 2002
- Winner: Paulette Jiles , Enemy Women
- Jury: Joan Barfoot , Brian Brett , Sarah Sheard
- Nominations:
- Terry Griggs , Rogues' Wedding
- Ann Ireland , Exile
- Lori Lansens , Rush Home Road
- Nino Ricci , will
- 2003
- Winner: Kevin Patterson , Country of Cold
- Jury: Kevin Chong , Lisa Moore , Diane Schoemperlen
- Nominations:
- Jacqueline Baker , A Hard Witching & Other Stories
- Gil Courtemanche , A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
- Barbara Gowdy , The Romantic
- Judith McCormack , The Rule of Last Clear Chance
- 2004
- Winner: Alice Munro , Runaway
- Jury: Sylvia Fraser , Zsuzsi Gartner , Michael Redhill
- Nominations:
- Michael Helm , In the Place of Last Things
- Colin McAdam , Some Great Thing
- Jeffrey Moore , The Memory Artists
- Russell Smith , Muriella Pent
- 2005
- Winner: Joseph Boyden , Three Day Road
- Jury: Anita Rau Badami , Lewis DeSoto, Mary Swan
- Nominations:
- Michael Crummey , The Wreckage
- Lauren B. Davis , The Radiant City
- Allan Donaldson , Maclean
- Rabindranath Maharaj , A Perfect Pledge
- 2006
- Winner: Kenneth J. Harvey , Inside
- Jury: Karen Connelly , Jeffrey Moore, Anna Porter
- Nominations:
- Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams
- Rawi Hage , De Niro's Game
- Catherine Hanrahan , Lost Girls and Love Hotels
- Mary Lawson , The Other Side of the Bridge
- 2007
- Winner: Lawrence Hill , The Book of Negroes
- Jury: Kevin Major , Kim Moritsugu , Madeleine Thien
- Nominations:
- Shaena Lambert , Radiance
- Robert Hough , The Culprits
- Nancy Huston , Fault Lines
- MG Vassanji , The Assassin's Song
- 2008
- Winner: Miriam Toews , The Flying Troutmans
- Jury: Lawrence Hill , Annabel Lyon , Heather O'Neill
- Nominations:
- Rivka Galchen , Atmospheric Disturbances
- Rawi Hage , Cockroach
- Lee Henderson , The Man Game
- Patrick Lane , Red Dog, Red Dog
- 2009
- Winner: Annabel Lyon , The Golden Mean
- Jury: Marina Endicott , Miriam Toews , RM Vaughan
- Nominations:
- Nicole Brossard , Fences in Breathing
- Douglas Coupland , Generation A
- Alice Munro , Too Much Happiness
- Andrew Steinmetz , Eva's Threepenny Theater
- 2010
- Winner: Emma Donoghue , Room
- Jury: Andrew Pyper , Eden Robinson , Lisa Moore .
- Nominations:
- Trevor Cole , Practical Jean
- Michael Helm , Cities of Refuge
- Kathleen Winter , Annabel
- Michael Winter , The Death of Donna Whalen
- 2011
- Winner: Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers
- Jury: Emma Donoghue , Rabindranath Maharaj , Margaret Sweatman
- Nominations:
- Clark Blaise , The Meagre Tarmac
- Michael Christie , The Beggar's Garden
- Esi Edugyan , Half-Blood Blues
- Dan Vyleta , The Quiet Twin
- 2012
- Winner: Tamas Dobozy , victories 13
- Jury: Esi Edugyan , Lynn Coady , Drew Hayden Taylor
- Nominations:
- Tim Bowling , The Tinsmith
- Rawi Hage , Carnival
- Alix Ohlin , Inside
- Linda Spalding , The Purchase
- 2013
- Winner: Colin McAdam , A Beautiful Truth
- Jury: Caroline Adderson , Alison Pick , Miguel Syjuco
- Nominations:
- Krista Bridge , The Elliot Girls
- Lynn Coady , Hellgoing
- Cary Fagan , A Bird's Eye
- Lisa Moore , Caught
- 2014
- Winner: Miriam Toews , All My Puny Sorrows
- 2015
- Winner: André Alexis , Fifteen Dogs
- 2016
- Winner: Yasuko Thanh , Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
- 2017
- Winner: David Chariandy , Brother
- 2018
- Winner: Kathy Page , Dear Evelyn
- 2019
- Winner: André Alexis , Days by Moonlight
Web links
- Official website (English).
Single receipts
- ↑ The Writers 'Trust of Canada, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Emma Donoghue's Room a Writers' Trust finalist" . Toronto Star , September 29, 2010.
- ^ "Patrick deWitt's' The Sisters Brothers' wins Writers' Trust Prize" . The Globe and Mail , November 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Tamas Dobozy wins Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Siege 13" ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . National Post , Nov. 7, 2012.