Fiction
2012 Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
2011 Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists
2010 Michael Crummey, Galore
2009 Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species
2008 Paulette Jiles, Stormy Weather
2007 Richard Wagamese, Dream Wheels
2006 Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
2005 Jeffrey Moore, The Memory Artists
2004 Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
2003 Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
2002 Will Ferguson, Generica
2001 Elizabeth Hay, A Student of Weather
2000 Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
1999 Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
1998 Rita Donovan, Landed
1997 Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
1996 L.R. Wright, Mother Love
1995 Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time
1994 Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
1993 Neil Bissoondath, The Innocence of Age
1992 Alberto Manguel, News from a Foreign Country Came
1991 David Adams Richards, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
1990 James Houston, Running West
1989 Joan Clark, The Victory of Geraldine Gull
1988 Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood
1987 No award
1986 Robertson Davies, What’s Bred in the Bone
1985 Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage
1984 Heather Robertson, Willie: A Romance
1983 W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
1982 Joy Kogawa, Obasan
1981 Hugh MacLennan, Voices in Time
1980 No award
1979 Marian Engel, The Glassy Sea
1978 Jane Rule, The Young in One Another’s Arms
1977 Carol Shields, Small Ceremonies
1976 No award
1975 Fred Stenson, Lonesome Hero
Canadian History
2012 Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times
2011 Shelagh D. Grant, Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America
2010 Jonathan F. Vance, A History of Canadian Culture
2009 J.M. Bumsted, Lord Selkirk: A Life
2008 Robert Wright, Three Nights in Havana
2007 Mark Zuehlke, For Honour’s Sake: the War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace
2006 J.L. Granatstein, The Last Good War
2005 Charlotte Gray, The Museum Called Canada
2004 Ishmael Alunik, Eddie D. Kolausok and David Morrison Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
2003 Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Canada
2002 Ken McGoogan, Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin
2001 Will Ferguson, Canadian History for Dummies
2000 D’Arcy Jenish, Indian Fall (The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy)
1999 Rod McQueen, The Eatons
1998 Dorothy Harley Eber, Images of Justice
1997 Phil Jenkins, An Acre of Time
Poetry
2012 Goran Simiç, Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman
2011 Julia McCarthy, Return from Erebus
2010 Tom Dawe, Where Genesis Begins
2009 Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours
2008 Asa Boxer, The Mechanical Bird
2007 Sarah Klassen, A Curious Beatitude
2006 Barry Dempster, The Burning Alphabet
2005 Peter Trower, Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys
2004 Chris Banks, Bonfires
2003 Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
2002 Tim Bowling, Darkness and Silence
2001 Carmine Starnino, Credo
2000 Helen Humphreys, Anthem
1999 Janice Kulyk Keefer Marrying the Sea
1998 Anne Szumigalski, On Glassy Wings
1997 E.D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: woman at a piano
1996 Di Brand, Jerusalem, beloved
1995 Tim Lilburn, Moosehead Sandhills
1994 George Bowering, George Bowering Selected Poems
1993 Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
1992 Anne Michaels, Miner’s Pond
1991 Richard Lemm, Prelude to the Bacchanal
1990 Don Bailey, Homeless Heart
1989 Bruce Rice, Daniel
1988 Pat Lane, Selected Poems
1987 Al Purdy, The Collected Poems 1956–1986
1986 P.K. Page, The Glass Air
1985 Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
1984 Don McKay, Birding or Desire
1983 George Amabile, the presence of fire
1982 Gary Geddes, the acid test
1980 Michael Ondaatje, There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems, 1963–1978
1981 Leona Gom, Land of The Peace
1979 Andrew Suknaski, The Ghosts You Call Poor
1978 Alden Nowlan, Smoked Glass
1977 Sid Stephen, Beothuck Poems
1976 Jim Green, North Book
1975 Tom Wayman, For and Against the Moon
Emerging Writer
2012 Ryan Flavelle
2011 Titilope Sonuga
2010 Rachelle Delaney
2009 James Cummins
2008 Mark Haroun
2007 Annette Lapointe
2006 Souvankham Thammavongsa