Edna Staebler Award

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The Edna Staebler Award is an annual Canadian literary award, presented to the year's best work of creative nonfiction. The award was established in 1991 by writer Edna Staebler, and is administered by Wilfrid Laurier University.

[edit] Winners

  • 1991 - Susan Mayse, Ginger
  • 1992 - Marie Wadden, Nitassinan
  • 1993 - (tie) Liza Potvin, White Lies (For My Mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana
  • 1994 - Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life
  • 1995 - Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children: Portrait of a Family Divided
  • 1996 - George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944
  • 1997 - Anne Mullens, Timely Death: Considering Our Last Rights
  • 1998 - Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
  • 1999 - Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijuana Grower
  • 2000 - Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
  • 2001 - Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
  • 2002 - Tom Allen, Rolling Home: A Cross-Canada Railroad Memoir
  • 2003 - Alison Watt, The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island
  • 2004 - Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck
  • 2005 - Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret
  • 2006 - Francis Chalifour, After

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