Trillium Book Award

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Trillium Award is given annually by the government of the Province of Ontario and is open to books in any genre: fiction, non-fiction, drama, children's books, and poetry. Anthologies, new editions, re-issues and translations are not eligible. Three jury members per language judge the submissions, select the shortlist and the winning title. The jury is composed of writers and other members of the literary community.

Canadian citizens and landed immigrants who have lived in Ontario for at least three out of the past five years and who have been published anywhere in the world are eligible. Their publishers are invited to submit titles to the Ministry of Culture for consideration. In 1993 the award was expanded by Bob Rae's government to also include a French language category. In 2003, English and French poetry categories were added to the awards.

[edit] Winners

  • 1994
    • English - Donald Harman Akenson, Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien; Volume 1 Narrative
    • French - Andrée Lacelle, Tant de vie s'égare
  • 1996
    • English - Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
    • French - Nancy Vickers, Le Pied de Sappho and Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
  • 1997
    • English - Dionne Brand, Land to Light On
    • French - Roger Levac, Petite Crapaude!
  • 1999
    • English - Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
    • French - Andrée Christensen and Jacques Flamand, Lithochronos ou le premier vol de la pierre
  • 2002
    • English - Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe and Nino Ricci, Testament
    • French - Michel Ouellette, Le testament du couturier and Éric Charlebois, Faux-fuyants
  • 2004
    • English - Wayson Choy, All That Matters
    • English (Poetry) - Maureen Scott Harris, Drowning Lessons
    • French - Antonio D'Alfonso, Un vendredi du mois d'aout
    • French (Poetry) - there was no prize given this year, as there were fewer than 5 submissions. The prize money is being used to create a scholarship for French-language emerging poets.
  • 2005
    • English - Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly
    • English (Poetry) - Kevin Connolly, drift
    • French - Jean Mohsen Fahmy, L'Agonie des dieux
    • French (Poetry) - Éric Charlebois, Centrifuge