Ann Connor Brimer Award
The Ann Connor Brimer Book Award is a $2000 prize given each year to an Atlantic Canadian writer deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to children's literature. The award is named for Ann Elisabeth Connor Brimer - a Nova Scotia teacher, executive director of the Canadian Learning Materials Centre, a research associate with the Atlantic Institute of Education, a program coordinator in continuing education at Dalhousie University, a founding member of the Nova Scotia Coalition on Arts and Culture, and Atlantic officer of the Canadian Children's Centre - and is sponsored by the Nova Scotia Library Association.
Winners
- 2014 - Jill MacLean - Nix Minus One
- 2013 - Lisa Harrington - Live to Tell
- 2012 - Susan White - The Year Mrs. Montague Cried
- 2011 - Valerie Sherrard - The Glory Wind
- 2010 - Jill MacLean - The Present Tense of Prinny Murphy
- 2009 - Jill MacLean - The Nine Lives of Travis Keating
- 2008 - K.V. Johansen - Nightwalker
- 2007 - Budge Wilson - Friendships
- 2006 - Kevin Major - Aunt Olga’s Christmas Postcards
- 2005 - Alice Walsh, Pomiuk, Prince of the North
- 2004 - Don Aker, The First Stone
- 2003 - Lesley Choyce, Shoulder the Sky
- 2002 - Francis Wolfe, Where I Live
- 2001 - Janet McNaughton, The Secret Under My Skin
- 2000 - David Weale, The True Meaning of Crumbfest
- 1999 - Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring
- 1998 - Kevin Major, The House of Wooden Santas
- 1997 - Janet McNaughton, To Dance at the Palais Royale
- 1996 - Don Aker, Of Things Not Seen
- 1995 - Sheree Fitch, Mabel Murple
- 1994 - Lesley Choyce, Good Idea Gone Bad
- 1993 - Budge Wilson, Oliver's War
- 1992 - Kevin Major, Eating Between the Lines
- 1991 - Joyce Barkhouse, Pit Pony
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