The Dartmouth Book Awards. Winners 1989 to present.

The Dartmouth Book Awards honour Nova Scotian literature. Two prizes of $1500 each are awarded - one for fiction and one for non-fiction.

The Dartmouth Book and Writing Awards were established in 1988 by the then Mayor of Dartmouth, Dr. John P. Savage, with the financial support of corporations interested in the province's artistic life. The intent was to honour Nova Scotian fiction and non-fiction by Canadian authors. The awards are administered by a steering committee composed of representatives from the Halifax Public Libraries, the Halifax Regional Municipality and members of the community. The Dartmouth Book Award for fiction is sponsored by Jarislowsky-Fraser Ltd. and the non-fiction award is sponsored by Seamark Asset Management Ltd.

Dartmouth Book Award Winners:

2008 :
Fiction - Beatrice MacNeil for Where White Horses Gallop
Non-Fiction - Marq de Villiers for Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award - Stephanie Domet for Homing: the whole story ( from the inside out)

2007:
Fiction - Linda Little, for "Scotch River"
Non-Fiction - Keith McLaren, for "A Race for Real Sailors"
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award -
John G. Langley for "Steam Lion - A Biography of Samuel Cunard"

2006:
Fiction - George Elliott Clarke, for "George and Rue"
Non-Fiction - Laura M. MacDonald, for "Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award -
Tom Gallant, for "A Hard Chance: Sailing Into the Heart of Love"

2005:
Fiction - Jonathan Campbell for Tarcadia
Non-fiction - Paul Erickson for Historic North End Halifax
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award - Jonathan Campbell for Tarcadia

2004:
Fiction - Leo McKay Jr. for Twenty-Six
Non-fiction - Elizabeth Pacey for Miracle on Brunswick Street
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award - Beth Ryan for What is Invisible

2003:
Fiction - Beatrice MacNeil for Butterflies Dance in the Dark
Non-fiction - Stephen Kimber for Sailors, Slacker and Blind Pigs, Halifax at War
Margaret and John Savage First Book Award - Dan Falk for Universe on a T-Shirt

2002:
Fiction - David Doucette for Strong at the Broken Places
Non-fiction - Kate Langan for The Art of Worship
Cunard First Book Award - Linda Little for Strong Hollow

2001:
Fiction - Carol Bruneau for Purple for Sky
Non-fiction - Harry Chapman for In the Wake of the Alderney

2000:
Fiction - Alistair MacLeod for No Great Mischief
Non-fiction - David Frank for J.B. MacLachlan: a Biography

1999:
Fiction - Lynn Coady for Strange Heaven
Non-fiction - James Mahar, Rowena Mahar for Too Many to Mourn: One Family's Tragedy in the Halifax Explosion

1998:
Fiction - Betty Boudreau for I'll Buy You an Ox
Non-fiction - Merritt Gibson for The Old Place

1997:
Fiction - Ann-Marie MacDonald for Fall on Your Knees
Non-fiction - Lance Woolaver, Bob Brooks for The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis

1996:
Fiction - Leo McKay Jr for Like This: Stories
Non-fiction - J.R.C. Perkin for Ordinary Magic

1995:
Fiction - Lesley Choyce for Republic of Nothing
Non-fiction - Dean Jobb for Calculated Risk

1994:
Fiction - Beatrice MacNeil for Moonlight Skater
Non-fiction - (tie) Daniel Paul for We Were Not the Savages and Leslie Smith Dow for Adele Hugo: La Miserable

1993:
Fiction - Robert MacNeil for Burden of Desire
Non-fiction - Sally Ross/Alphonse Deveau for Acadians of Nova Scotia

1992:
Fiction - (tie) Donna Smyth for Loyalist Runaway and Kim Atwood for Two of Me
Non-fiction - Silver Donald Cameron for Wind, Whales and Whiskey

1991:
Fiction - Budge Wilson for The Leaving
Non-fiction - Harry Thurston for Tidal Life

1990:
Fiction - Lesley Choyce for The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson
Non-fiction - Claude Bissell for Ernest Buckler, Remembered

1989:
Harry Bruce for Down Home
(in the award's first year, there were no fiction and non-fiction categories)