City of Toronto Book Award

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The City of Toronto Book Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books about or involving Toronto.

Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000.

The award has frequently gone to multiple winners. 1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.

[edit] Winners

1974 - multiple winners

William Kurelek, O Toronto

Desmond Morton, Mayor Howland

Richard B. Wright, In the Middle of a Life

1975 - multiple winners

Claude Bissell, Halfway up Parnassus

The Labour History Collective, Women at Work

Loren Lind, The Learning Machine

1976 - multiple winners

Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper, Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930

Hugh Hood, The Swing in the Garden

1977 - multiple winners

Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

Margaret Gibson, The Butterfly Ward

1978 - multiple winners

Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company

Timothy Findley, The Wars

1979 - multiple winners

Michael Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire

William Dendy, Lost Toronto

John Morgan Gray, Fun Tomorrow

1980 - multiple winners

Raymond Souster, Hanging In

Stephen A. Speisman, The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937

1981 - multiple winners

Timothy Colton, Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto

Mary Larratt Smith, Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada

Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls

1982 - multiple winners

Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey

Marian Engel, Lunatic Villas

1983 - multiple winners

Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin

Lucy Booth Martyn, The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936

1984 - multiple winners

Edith G. Firth, Toronto in Art

Gerald Killan, David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist

Eric Wright, The Night the Gods Smiled

1985 - multiple winners

Warabe Aska, Who Goes to the Park

J.M.S. Careless, Toronto to 1918

Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls

1986 - multiple winners

Morley Callaghan, Our Lady of the Snows

Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone

1987 - William Dendy and William Kilbourn, Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History
1988 - Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of the Lion
1989 - Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
1990 - multiple winners

Hilary Russell, Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres

Guy Vanderhaeghe, Homesick

1991 - Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald, eds., Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories
1992 - Katherine Govier, Hearts of Flame
1993 - multiple winners

Carole Corbeil, Voice-Over

David Donnell, China Blues

1994 - Timothy Findley, Headhunter
1995 - Ezra Schabas, Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian
1996 - Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
1997 - Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
1998 - Helen Humphreys, Leaving Earth
1999 - Richard Outram, Benedict Abroad
2000 - Camilla Gibb, Mouthing the Words
2001 - A.B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
2002 - Sarah Dearing, Courage My Love
2003 - Joe Fiorito, The Song Beneath the Ice
2004 - multiple winners