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Amazon Canada First Novel Award

The Amazon Canada First Novel Award, formerly the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and The Walrus to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.[1] It has been awarded since 1976.[1]

The First Novel Award was founded by the literary magazine Books in Canada.[1] Between 1976 and 1994, the award was sponsored by SmithBooks. During this period, the award was known as the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award.[1] When SmithBooks was acquired by Chapters, it became the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award.[1]

The award was reorganized when Books in Canada was acquired by Adrian and Olga Stein in 1995. The Steins retained a first novel editor, introduced a comprehensive first novel review program, and formalized the adjudication process.

Amazon first signed on as a sponsor of the award in 2001,[2] with the award presented as the amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award through the 2000s. Full administration of the award was taken over by Amazon in 2009 and its name was changed to the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The Amazon.com arrangement saw the prize award initially doubled to $10,000, and then increased to its current amount of $40,000, with shortlisted finalists each receiving over $6,000.

Winners and nominees

At different times in its history, the award has been presented early in the year for works published in the preceding year, late in the year for works published in the same year as the presentation, or mid-year for an eligibility period that straddled parts of both years. For clarity, the list below is organized by the year of presentation rather than the year of publication eligibility.

1970s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1977-1979
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1977 Ian McLachlan The Seventh Hexagram Winner [3]
Michael Ondaatje Coming Through Slaughter
Alice Boissoneau Eileen McCullough Finalist [4]
David Kellum The Falling World of Tristram Pocket
Susan Kerslake Middlewatch
Sharon Riis The True Story of Ida Johnson
Carol Shields Small Ceremonies
Mary Soderstrom The Descent of Andrew McPherson
1978 Oonah McFee Sandbars Winner [5]
Shane Dennison Sidehill Gouger Finalist [6]
Pauline Gedge Child of the Morning
Jack Hodgins The Invention of the World
M. T. Kelly I Do Remember the Fall
Helen Levi A Small Informal Dance
Morley Torgov The Abramsky Variations
1979 Joan Barfoot Abra Winner [1]
Michael Dorland The Double-Cross Circuit Finalist [7]
Clive Doucet Disneyland, Please
Margaret Drury Gane Parade on an Empty Street
Kevin Major Hold Fast
Frank Paci The Italians

1980s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1980-1989
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1980 Clark Blaise Lunar Attractions Winner [8]
Victoria Branden Mrs. Job Finalist
Stan Dragland Peckertracks
Florence Evans A Man Without Passion
Shirley Faessler Everything in the Window
Katherine Govier Random Descent
Betty Lambert Crossings
1981 W. D. Valgardson Gentle Sinners Winner [9]
Martyn Burke Laughing War Finalist
Susan Musgrave The Charcoal Burners
Graham Petrie Seahorse
Leon Rooke Fat Woman
1982 Joy Kogawa Obasan Winner [10]
Jim Christy Streethearts Finalist [11]
George Jonas Final Decree
Edward O. Phillips Sunday's Child
Gary Ross Always Tip the Dealer
1983 W. P. Kinsella Shoeless Joe Winner [12]
Lorris Elliott Coming for to Carry Finalist [13]
Geraldine Rahmani Blue
Nessa Rapoport Preparing for Sabbath
Ann Rosenberg The Bee Book
1984 Heather Robertson Willie: A Romance Winner [8]
Robert G. Collins Tolerable Levels of Violence Finalist [14]
Susan Swan The Biggest Modern Woman in the World
George Szanto Not Working
Wayne Tefs Figures on a Wharf
1985 Geoffrey Ursell Perdue, or How the West Was Lost Winner [15]
Sharon Butala Country of the Heart Finalist [16]
Douglas Glover Precious
John Gray Dazzled
Sara Stambaugh I Hear the Reaper's Song
Armin Wiebe The Salvation of Yasch Siemens
1986 Wayne Johnston The Story of Bobby O'Malley Winner [17]
Susan Charlotte Haley A Nest of Singing Birds Finalist [18]
Ann Ireland A Certain Mr. Takahashi
Frank Jones Master and Maid
Robert Walshe Wales' Work
1987 Karen Lawrence The Life of Helen Alone Winner [19]
Marc Diamond Momentum Finalist [20]
David Gilmour Back on Tuesday
Paulette Jiles The Late Great Human Road Show
Jo Anne Williams Bennett Downfall People
1988 Marion Quednau The Butterfly Chair Winner [21]
D.F. Bailey Fire Eyes Finalist [22]
W.D. Barcus Squatters' Island
Pauline Holdstock The Blackbird's Song
Seán Virgo Selakhi
1989 Rick Salutin A Man of Little Faith Winner [23]
Neil Bissoondath A Casual Brutality Finalist [24]
Joan Clark The Victory of Geraldine Gull
David Homel Electrical Storms
Janice Kulyk Keefer Constellations
Helen Fogwill Porter January, February, June or July

1990s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1990-1999
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1990 Sandra Birdsell The Missing Child Winner [25]
Marilyn Bowering To All Appearances a Lady Finalist [26]
Barry Callaghan The Way the Angel Spread Her Wings
Jacqueline Dumas Madeleine and the Angel
Kristjana Gunnars The Prowler
Kenneth Radu Distant Relations
1991 Nino Ricci Lives of the Saints Winner [27]
Gail Bowen Deadly Appearances Finalist [28]
Rita Donovan The Dark Jewels
Glen Huser Grace Lake
Margot Livesey Homework
Carsten Stroud Sniper's Moon
1992 Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey Winner [29]
Douglas Coupland Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture Finalist [30]
Ekbert Faas Woyzeck's Head
Michael Kenyon Kleinberg
Alberto Manguel News From a Foreign Country Came
1993 John Steffler The Afterlife of George Cartwright Winner [31]
Douglas Anthony Cooper Amnesia Finalist [32]
Carole Corbeil Voice-Over
Kenneth J. Harvey Brud
Greg Hollingshead Spin Dry
1994 Deborah Joy Corey Losing Eddie Winner [33]
Catherine Bush Minus Time Finalist [34]
Don Dickinson The Crew
Douglas How Blow Up the Trumpet in the New Moon
Carol Malyon If I Knew I'd Tell You
1995 Shyam Selvadurai Funny Boy Winner [35]
Charles Foran Kitchen Music Finalist [36]
Diane Schoemperlen In the Language of Love
Russell Smith How Insensitive
Cordelia Strube Alex & Zee
1996 Keath Fraser Popular Anatomy Winner [37]
Diana Atkinson Highways and Dancehalls Finalist [38]
Wayson Choy The Jade Peony
Larissa Lai When Fox Is a Thousand
Yan Li Daughters of the Red Land
1997 Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces Winner [39]
Gail Anderson-Dargatz The Cure for Death by Lightning Finalist [40]
Ann-Marie MacDonald Fall on Your Knees
Yann Martel Self
Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night
1998 Margaret Gibson Opium Dreams Winner [41]
Kim Echlin Elephant Winter Finalist [42]
Allan Levine The Blood Libel
Rabindranath Maharaj Homer in Flight
Tim Wynveen Angel Falls
1999 André Alexis Childhood Winner [43]
Loranne Brown The Handless Maiden Finalist [44]
Tomson Highway Kiss of the Fur Queen
Terry Jordan Beneath That Starry Place
Kerri Sakamoto The Electrical Field

2000s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2000-2009
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2000 David Macfarlane Summer Gone Winner [45]
Alan R. Wilson Before the Flood
Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief Finalist [46]
Donna Morrissey Kit's Law
Jim Munroe Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask
Catherine Simmons-Niven A Fine Daughter
2001 Eva Stachniak Necessary Lies Winner [47]
Steven Galloway Finnie Walsh Finalist [48]
Scott Gardiner The Dominion of Wyley McFadden
Susan Juby Alice, I Think
Lydia Kwa This Place Called Absence
2002 Michael Redhill Martin Sloane Winner [49]
Dennis Bock The Ash Garden Finalist [49]
Michael Crummey River Thieves
Marina Endicott Open Arms
Linda Little Strong Hollow
Elizabeth Ruth Ten Good Seconds of Silence
2003 Mary Lawson Crow Lake Winner [50]
Christy Ann Conlin Heave Finalist [51]
Aislinn Hunter Stay
Clint Hutzulak The Beautiful Dead End
Michael V. Smith Cumberland
Marnie Woodrow Spelling Mississippi
2004 Michel Basilières Black Bird Winner [52]
Clayton Bailey The Expedition Finalist [53]
John Bemrose The Island Walkers
Lisa Grekul Kalyna's Song
Edeet Ravel Ten Thousand Lovers
Bettina von Kampen Blue Becomes You
2005 Colin McAdam Some Great Thing Winner [54]
David Elias Sunday Afternoon Finalist [55]
Ibi Kaslik Skinny
Arthur Motyer What's Remembered
Catherine Safer Bishop's Road
2006 Joseph Boyden Three Day Road Winner [56]
Howard Akler The City Man Finalist [57]
Brenda Brooks Gotta Find Me an Angel
Anne Giardini The Sad Truth About Happiness
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer The Nettle Spinner
B. Glen Rotchin The Rent Collector
2007 Madeleine Thien Certainty Winner [58]
Peter Behrens The Law of Dreams Finalist [59]
John Degen The Uninvited Guest
Annette Lapointe Stolen
Heather O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals
Adam Lewis Schroeder Empress of Asia
2008 Gil Adamson The Outlander Winner [60]
David Chariandy Soucouyant Finalist [61]
Kyo Maclear The Letter Opener
C.S. Richardson The End of the Alphabet
Brian Tucker Big White Knuckles
Andrew Wedderburn The Milk Chicken Bomb
2009 Joan Thomas Reading by Lightning Winner [62]
Michael Blouin Chase & Haven Finalist [63]
Claudia Dey Stunt
Patrick Lane Red Dog, Red Dog
Mary Swan The Boys in the Trees

2010s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2010 Jessica Grant Come, Thou Tortoise Winner [64]
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden No Place Strange Finalist [65]
Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean
Damian Tarnopolsky Goya's Dog
Dragan Todorović Diary of Interrupted Days
Ian Weir Daniel O'Thunder
2011 Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal Winner [66]
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Ghosted Finalist [67]
Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado
Dianne Warren Cool Water
Kathleen Winter Annabel
2012 David Bezmozgis The Free World Winner [68]
Fraser Nixon The Man Who Killed Finalist [69]
Sina Queyras Autobiography of Childhood
Olive Senior Dancing Lessons
Alexi Zentner Touch
2013 Anakana Schofield Malarky Winner [70]
Marjorie Celona Y Finalist [71]
Scott Fotheringham The Rest Is Silence
Pasha Malla People Park
Kim Thúy Ru
2014 Wayne Grady Emancipation Day Winner [72]
Kenneth Bonert The Lion Seeker Finalist [73]
Krista Bridge The Eliot Girls
Susan Downe Juanita Wildrose: My True Life
D. W. Wilson Ballistics
2015 Alix Hawley All True Not a Lie in It Winner [74]
Emma Hooper Etta and Otto and Russell and James Finalist [75]
Sean Michaels Us Conductors
Guillaume Morissette New Tab
Chelsea Rooney Pedal
2016 Mona Awad 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Winner [76]
Karim Alrawi Book of Sands Finalist [77]
Aaron Cully Drake Do You Think This Is Strange?
W. Mark Giles Seep
Judith McCormack Backspring
Elizabeth Philips The Afterlife of Birds
2017 Katherena Vermette The Break Winner [78]
Catherine Cooper White Elephant Finalist [79]
Kaie Kellough Accordéon
Rebecca Rosenblum So Much Love
Yasuko Thanh Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
2018 Michael Kaan The Water Beetles Winner [80]
Sharon Bala The Boat People Finalist [81]
David Demchuk The Bone Mother
Omar El Akkad American War
Rachel Manley The Black Peacock
Alison Watt Dazzle Patterns
2019 Casey Plett Little Fish Winner [82]
Liz Harmer The Amateurs Finalist [83]
Tyler Hellard Searching for Terry Punchout
Tanya Tagaq Split Tooth
Joshua Whitehead Jonny Appleseed
Ian Williams Reproduction

2020s

Amazon Canada First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2020–present
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2020 Stéphane Larue (tr. Pablo Strauss) The Dishwasher Winner [84]
Nancy Jo Cullen The Western Alienation Merit Badge Finalist [84]
James Gregor Going Dutch
Victoria Hetherington Mooncalves
Nazanine Hozar Aria
Andrew David MacDonald When We Were Vikings
2021 Michelle Good Five Little Indians Winner [85]
Sheung-King You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked. Finalist [86]
Francesca Ekwuyasi Butter Honey Pig Bread
Marlowe Granados Happy Hour
Jael Richardson Gutter Child
John Elizabeth Stintzi Vanishing Monuments
2022 Pik-Shuen Fung Ghost Forest Winner [87]
Emily Austin Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Finalist [88]
Lisa Bird-Wilson Probably Ruby
Brian Thomas Isaac All the Quiet Places
Conor Kerr Avenue of Champions
Aimee Wall We, Jane
2023 Jasmine Sealy The Island of Forgetting Winner [89]
Billy-Ray Belcourt A Minor Chorus Finalist [90]
André Forget In the City of Pigs
Jessica Johns Bad Cree
William Ping Hollow Bamboo
Kai Thomas In the Upper Country
2024 Alicia Elliott And Then She Fell Winner [91]
Jordan Abel Empty Spaces Finalist [92]
Caroline Dawson As the Andes Disappeared
Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall Tauhou
Janika Oza A History of Burning
Amanda Peters The Berry Pickers

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