Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize is a Canadian literary award presented by Rogers Communications and the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers.[1]

First presented in 1997, the prize goes to the author of the novel or short story collection judged to be the year's best work of fiction. The prize awards $25,000 to the winning book and $3,500 to each of the finalists.[2]

Nominees and recipients

Year Winner Nominated
1997
Jury: Matt Cohen, Elisabeth Harvor, Ann Ireland		 Blue ribbon Austin Clarke, The Origin of Waves
1998
Jury: Joan Clark, Austin Clarke, Trevor Ferguson		 Blue ribbon Greg Hollingshead, The Healer
1999
Jury: Lynn Coady, Sylvia Fraser, Eric Wright		 Blue ribbon Peter Oliva, The City of Yes
2000
Jury: Cynthia Holz, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Peter Oliva		 Blue ribbon Helen Humphreys, Afterimage
2001
Jury: Lesley Choyce, Eliza Clark, Olive Senior		 Blue ribbon Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down with Peter
2002
Jury: Joan Barfoot, Brian Brett, Sarah Sheard		 Blue ribbon Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
2003
Jury: Kevin Chong, Lisa Moore, Diane Schoemperlen		 Blue ribbon Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold
2004
Jury: Sylvia Fraser, Zsuzsi Gartner, Michael Redhill		 Blue ribbon Alice Munro, Runaway
  • Michael Helm, In the Place of Last Things
  • Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing
  • Jeffrey Moore, The Memory Artists
  • Russell Smith, Muriella Pent
2005
Jury: Anita Rau Badami, Lewis DeSoto, Mary Swan		 Blue ribbon Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
2006
Jury: Karen Connelly, Jeffrey Moore, Anna Porter		 Blue ribbon Kenneth J. Harvey, Inside
2007
Jury: Kevin Major, Kim Moritsugu, Madeleine Thien		 Blue ribbon Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes
2008
Jury: Lawrence Hill, Annabel Lyon, Heather O'Neill		 Blue ribbon Miriam Toews, The Flying Troutmans
2009
Jury: Marina Endicott, Miriam Toews, R.M. Vaughan		 Blue ribbon Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
2010
Jury: Andrew Pyper, Eden Robinson, Lisa Moore.[3]		 Blue ribbon Emma Donoghue, Room
2011
Jury: Emma Donoghue, Rabindranath Maharaj, Margaret Sweatman		 Blue ribbon Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers[4]
2012
Jury: Esi Edugyan, Lynn Coady, Drew Hayden Taylor		 Blue ribbon Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13[5]
2013
Jury: Caroline Adderson, Alison Pick, Miguel Syjuco		 Blue ribbon Colin McAdam, A Beautiful Truth
2014
Jury: Neil Bissoondath, George Murray, Helen Humphreys		 Blue ribbon Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows[6]

References

  1. ↑ The Writers' Trust of Canada, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  2. ↑ The Writers' Trust of Canada, Prizes & Awards Guidelines 2009.
  3. ↑ "Emma Donoghue’s Room a Writers’ Trust finalist". Toronto Star, September 29, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Patrick deWitt’s 'The Sisters Brothers' wins Writers’ Trust Prize". The Globe and Mail, November 1, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Tamas Dobozy wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Siege 13". National Post, November 7, 2012.
  6. ↑ Medley, Mark (4 November 2014). "Miriam Toews wins Writers’ Trust award for All My Puny Sorrows". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 5 November 2014.

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