The Saskatchewan Book Awards were established in 1993 by the joint efforts of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Saskatchewan Publishers Group and Saskatchewan Library Association. Saskatchewan Book Awards Inc. was incorporated in 1994.
Their mandate is to recognize and celebrate the achievements of Saskatchewan authors and publishers and help promote their books. Awards have been added or changed according to demand and when a sponsor can be found. Leading up to the awards, short list readings help promote nominated books. The awards gala, held toward the end of November, positions winning books for the Christmas market
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2010 Winners
Book of the year: David Carpenter, A Hunter’s Confession (Greystone Books)
Fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Waiting for Joe (Random House Canada)
Non-fiction: Alexandra Popoff, Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography (Free Press)
Regina book award: Dianne Warren, Cool Water (HarperCollins Canada)
Saskatoon book award: Alexandra Popoff, Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography (Free Press)
Young adult literature award: Arthur Slade, The Dark Deeps: The Hunchback Assignment II (HarperCollins Canada)
First book award: Amy Jo Ehman, Prairie Feast: A Writer’s Journey Home for Dinner (Coteau Books)
Award for poetry: Dave Margoshes, Dimensions of an Orchard (Black Moss Press)
First Peoples’ writing award: Jo-Ann Episkenew, Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy and Healing (University of Manitoba Press)
Scholarly writing award: Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts (University of Toronto Press)
Prix du livre francais: Martine Noel-Maw, Dans le pli des collines (Editions de la nouvelle plume)
First Peoples’ publishing award: Purich Publishing, Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples: Achieving UN Recognition, by James (Sa’ke’j) Youngblood Henderson
Publishing in education award: Purich Publishing, The Duty to Consult: New Relationships with Aboriginal Peoples, by Dwight G. Newman
Award for publishing: Hagios Press, Fallout, by Sandra Ridley
2009 Saskatchewan Book Award winners
28 November 2009 - Fourteen awards were presented, with the big winner of the evening being Dancing in my Bones written by Wilfred Burton and Anne Patton, published by the Gabriel Dumont Institute, which captured the Award for Publishing, the First Peoples' Publishing Award, and, new this year, the First Peoples' Writing Award.
Both the Non‐Fiction and the Regina Book Award went to Trevor Herriot for Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds, while Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings written by Margaret Hryniuk and Frank Korvemaker published by Coteau Books captured the coveted Book of the Year Award.
Other winners were: Fiction Award ‐ Connie Gault, Euphoria: A Novel (Coteau Books); Children's Literature Award ‐ Karen Edwards, One Cold Armpit (Art Department Saskatoon); First Book Award ‐ George Epp, Off Road (Xlibris Corporation); Award for Poetry ‐ Gerald Hill, 14 Tractors (NeWest Press); Saskatoon Book Award ‐ David Carpenter, Niceman Cometh (Porcupine's Quill); Scholarly Writing Award ‐ Joanne Episkenew, Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing (University of Manitoba Press); Readers' Choice Award ‐ Marlene Millar, Dené Honϋ ‐ Stories from the People (Birch Narrows Dené Nation); Publishing in Education Award ‐ Purich Publishing, Negotiating the Numbered Treaties: An Intellectual and Political Biography of Alexander Morris by Robert J. Talbot.
Before the awards, Rudy Wiebe, multiple‐award‐winning author delighted the crowd speaking about his connection to the Saskatchewan writing community and Poet Laureate Robert Currie spoke on the importance of writers and poets.
2008
Book Of The Year Award
Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected (Coteau Books)
Fiction Award
Pam Bustin, Mostly Happy (Thistledown Press)
Non-Fiction Award
Donna Caruso, Journey Without a Map, Growing Up Italian: A Memoir (Thistledown Press)
First Book Award
Pam Bustin, Mostly Happy (Thistledown Press)
Children's Literature Award
Alison Lohans, This Land We Call Home (Raupo/Pearson Education New Zealand)
Poetry Award
Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors: Poems New and Selected (Coteau Books)
Regina Book Award
David McLennan, Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Saskatoon Book Award
Louise Bernice Halfe, The Crooked Good (Coteau Books)
Scholarly Writing Award
James Youngblood Henderson, Treaty Rights in the Constitution of Canada (Thomson Carswell)
Reader's Choice Award
Janita Van de Velde, Postcards Never Written (Van de Velde Publications)
Publishing Award
Coteau Books, for Norman Leach's Passchendaele: Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders
First Peoples Publishing Award
Coteau Books, for Louise Bernice Halfe's The Crooked Good
Publishing In Education Award
Canadian Plains Research Center, for David McLennan's Our Towns: Saskatchewan Communities from Abbey to Zenon Park
Prix du Livre Award
David Baudemont, Olga, (Éditions de la Nouvelle Plume)
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Full 2008 Shortlist at official site
2007 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2007
Dave Margoshes (left), Bix's Trumpet and other stories, (NeWest Press)
Fiction Award 2007
Bernice Friesen, The Book of Beasts, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 2007
Mary-Ann Kirkby, I Am Hutterite, (Polka Dot Press)
First Book Award 2007
Alice Kuipers, Life on the Refrigerator Door, (Harper Collins Canada)
Children's Literature Award 2007
R.P. MacIntyre, Feeding at Nine, (Thistledown Press)
Poetry Award 2007
Sheri Benning, Thin Moon Psalm, (Brick Books)
Regina Book Award 2007
Dave Margoshes, Bix's Trumpet and other stories, (NeWest Press)
Saskatoon Book Award 2007
Sheri Benning, Thin Moon Psalm, (Brick Books)
Scholarly Writing Award 2007
Garrett Wilson, Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West, (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Scholarly Writing Award 2007
Amanda Deitz, Longer than Life, Volume 2, (Amanda Deitz)
Publishing Award 2007
Nature Saskatchewan, The Great Sand Hills: A Prairie Oasis, Rebecca L. Grambo (photographs by Branimir Gjetvaj)
First Peoples Publishing Award 2007
Purich Publishing Ltd, Two Families: Treaties and Government, Harold Johnson
Publishing In Education Award 2007
Canadian Plains Research Center, Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives, Bernard D. Thraves, Marilyn L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, Hansgeorg Schlichtmann (editors)
2006 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2006
Michael Trussler, Encounters, (NeWest Press)
Fiction Award 2006
Martha Blum, The Apothecary, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 2006
Marie Elyse St. George, Once in A Blue Moon: An Artist's Life, (Coteau Books)
First Book Award 2006
Annette Lapointe, Stolen, (Anvil Press)
Children's Literature Award 2006
Arthur Slade, Megiddo's Shadow, (Harper Collins Canada)
Poetry Award 2006
Daniel Scott Tysdal, Predicting the Next Big Advertising Breakthrough Using a Potentially Dangerous Method, (Coteau Books)
Regina Book Award 2006
Michael Trussler, Encounters, (NeWest Press)
Saskatoon Book Award 2006
Annette Lapointe, Stolen, (Anvil Press)
Scholarly Writing Award 2006
Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan, (Coteau Books)
Reader's Choice Award 2006
Gail Bowen, The Endless Knot, (McClelland & Stewart)
Publishing Award 2006
Coteau Books, Reading The River, Myrna Kostash (with Duane Burton)
First Peoples Publishing Award 2006
Gabriel Dumont Institute, The Métis Alphabet Book, Joseph Jean Fauchon
Publishing In Education Award 2006
Coteau Books, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan, Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle
Prix Du Livre Award 2006
Martine Noël-Maw, Amélia et les Papillons, (Les Éditions Hurtubise HMH)
2005 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2005
Steven Ross Smith, fluttertongue 3: disarray, (Turnstone Press)
Fiction Award 2005
Sandra Birdsell, Children of the Day, (Random House Canada)
Non-Fiction Award 2005
Sharon Butala, Lilac Moon, (Harper Collins)
First Book Award 2005
Eric Greenway, The Darkness Beneath All Things, (Hagios Press)
Children's Literature Award 2005
Beth Goobie, Fixed, (Orca Book Publishers)
Poetry Award 2005
Allan Safarik, When Light Falls from the Sun, (Hagios Press)
Regina Book Award 2005
Maggie Siggins, Bitter Embrace, (McClelland & Stewart)
Saskatoon Book Award 2005
Don Kerr, The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor, (University of Calgary Press)
Scholarly Writing Award 2005
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Reader's Choice Award 2005
Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Publishing Award 2005
Canadian Plains Research Center, Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan,
First Peoples Publishing Award 2005
Allen Sapp Gallery, Through the Eyes of the Cree and Beyond, Dean Bauche (curator)
Publishing In Education Award 2005
Canadian Plains Research Center, Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan,
2004 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2004
Candace Savage, Prairie, A Natural History, (Greystone Books)
Fiction Award 2004
Larry Gasper, Princes in Waiting, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 2004
Candace Savage, Prairie, A Natural History, (Greystone Books)
First Book Award 2004
Bonnie Dunlop, The Beauty Box, (Thistledown Press)
Children's Literature Award 2004
Beth Goobie, Flux, (Orca Books)
Poetry Award 2004
Gerald Hill, Getting to Know You, (Spotted Cow Press)
Regina Book Award 2004
Byrna Barclay, The Room with Five Walls, (NeWest Press)
Saskatoon Book Award 2004
Robert Calder, Beware the British Serpent, (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Scholarly Writing Award 2004
Robert Calder, Beware the British Serpent, (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Reader's Choice Award 2004
Byrna Barclay, Girl at the Window, (Coteau Books)
Publishing Award 2004
Canadian Plains Research Centre, Water and Wetland Plants of the Prairie Provinces, Heinjo Lahring
First Peoples Publishing Award 2004
Coteau Books, The Gift of the Hawk, Randy Lundy
Publishing In Education Award 2004
Rivard & Littlejohn, The History of the Métis of Willow Bunch, Ron Rivard & Catherine Littlejohn
Prix Du Livre Award 2004
David Baudemont, Les Beaux Jours, (Editions des Plaines)
2003 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2003
Donald Ward, Nobody Goes to Earth Any More, (Coteau Books)
Fiction Award 2003
J. Jill Robinson, Residual Desire, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 2003
Bill Waiser, All Hell Can't Stop Us, (Fifth House Publishing)
First Book Award 2003
Michael Hetherton, Grasslands, (Coteau Books)
Children's Literature Award 2003
Judith Silverthorne, Dinosaur Hideout, (Coteau Books)
Poetry Award 2003
Elizabeth Brewster, Jacob's Dream, (Oberon Press)
Regina Book Award 2003
Bruce Rice, The Illustrated Statue of Liberty, (Coteau Books)
Saskatoon Book Award 2003
J. Jill Robinson, Residual Desire, (Coteau Books)
Scholarly Writing Award 2003
Ross Green & Kearney Healy, Tough on Kids, (Purich Publishing)
Reader's Choice Award 2003
Lois Simmie, What I'm Trying to Say is Goodbye, (Coteau Books)
Publishing Award 2003
Canadian Plains Research Center, Building for the Future, Gordon L. Barnhart
First Peoples Publishing Award 2003
Gabriel Dumont Institute, Expressing Our Heritage, Cheryl Troupe
Publishing In Education Award 2003
Gabriel Dumont Institute, Expressing Our Heritage, Cheryl Troupe
2002 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2002
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing, (McClelland & Stewart)
Fiction Award 2002
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing, (McClelland & Stewart)
Non-Fiction Award 2002
Frances Greenslade, A Pilgrim in Ireland, (Penguin Books)
First Book Award 2002
Sheri Benning, Earth After Rain, (Thistledown Press)
Children's Literature Award 2002
Candace Savage, Wizards, (Greystone Books)
Poetry Award 2002
Sheri Benning, Earth After Rain, (Thistledown Press)
Regina Book Award 2002
Edward Willett, Spirit Singer, (Earthling Press)
Saskatoon Book Award 2002
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing, (McClelland & Stewart)
Scholarly Writing Award 2002
Greg Marchildon, Sid Robinson, Canoeing the Churchill, (Canadian Plains Research Center)
Reader's Choice Award 2002
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing, (McClelland & Stewart)
Publishing Award 2002
Canadian Plains Research Center, Their Names Live On, Doug Chisholm and Gerry Hill
Coteau Books, Herstory 2003:The Canadian Women´s Calendar, Saskatoon Womens Calendar Collective
First Peoples Publishing Award 2002
Gabriel Dumont Institute, The Bulrush Helps the Pond, Ken Carriere
Publishing In Education Award 2002
Gabriel Dumont Institute, Métis Legacy, L. Barkwell, L. Dorion, D. Prefontaine
Prix Du Livre Award 2002
Laurier Gareau, (editor) 50 ans de radio, (Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Plume)
2001 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2001
Sandra Birdsell, The Russländer, (McClelland & Stewart)
Fiction Award 2001
Sandra Birdsell, The Russländer, (McClelland & Stewart)
Non-Fiction Award 2001
Warren Goulding, Just Another Indian, (Fifth House)
First Book Award 2001
Katherine Lawrence, Ring Finger, Left Hand, (Coteau Books)
Children's Literature Award 2001
Arthur Slade, Dust, (HarperCollins)
Poetry Award 2001
Ken Howe, Household Hints for the End of Time, (Brick Books)
Regina Book Award 2001
Sandra Birdsell, The Russländer, (McClelland & Stewart)
Saskatoon Book Award 2001
Glen Sorestad, Leaving Holds Me Here, (Thistledown Press)
Scholarly Writing Award 2001
P.W.B. Phillips & G.G. Khachatourians, The Biotechnology Revolution in Global Agriculture, (CABI Publishing)
Reader's Choice Award 2001
Deanna Christensen, Ahtahkakoop, (Ahtahkakoop Publishing)
Publishing Award 2001
Native Law Centre, Emerging Justice?, Kent McNeil
First Peoples Publishing Award 2001
Ahtahkakoop Publishing, Ahtahkakoop, Deanna Christensen
Publishing In Education Award 2001
Native Law Centre, Emerging Justice?, Kent McNeil
2000 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 2000
Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land, (Stoddart Publishing)
Patricia Monture-Angus, Journeying Forward, (Fernwood Publishing)
Fiction Award 2000
Leona Theis, Sightlines, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 2000
Tom Molloy, The World Is Our Witness, (Fifth House)
First Book Award 2000
Tom Molloy, The World Is Our Witness, (Fifth House)
Children's Literature Award 2000
Beth Goobie, Before Wings, (Orca Book Publishers)
Poetry Award 2000
Elizabeth Philips, A Blue with Blood in It, (Coteau Books)
Regina Book Award 2000
Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land, (Stoddart Publishing)
Maggie Siggins, In Her Own Time, (HarperCollins)
Saskatoon Book Award 2000
Leona Theis, Sightlines, (Coteau Books)
Scholarly Writing Award 2000
Henderson, Benson & Findlay, Aboriginal Tenure in the Constitution of Canada, (Carswell)
Publishing Award 2000
University of Saskatchewan, Atlas of Saskatchewan, Dr. Ka-iu Fung (Editors)
First Peoples Publishing Award 2000
Purich Publishing, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, Battiste & Henderson
Publishing In Education Award 2000
University of Saskatchewan, Atlas of Saskatchewan, Dr. Ka-iu Fung (Editors)
1999 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1999
Tim Lilburn, To the River, (McClelland & Stewart)
Fiction Award 1999
Brenda Baker, The Maleness of God, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 1999
Tim Lilburn, Living in the World as if It Were Home, (Cormorant Books)
First Book Award 1999
Martha Blum, The Walnut Tree, (Coteau Books)
Children's Literature Award 1999
David Richards, The Lady at Batoche, (Thistledown Press)
Poetry Award 1999
Hilary Clark, More Light, (Brick Books)
Regina Book Award 1999
Paul Wilson, The Long Landscape, (Coteau Books)
Saskatoon Book Award 1999
Martha Blum, The Walnut Tree, (Coteau Books)
Scholarly Writing Award 1999
William A. Stahl, God and the Chip, (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Publishing Award 1999
MacKenzie Art Gallery, The Man Who Waits and Sleeps While I Dream, Joey Morgan, Jeanne Randolph
First Peoples Publishing Award 1999
United Church Sask. Conference/UCPH, From Our Mothers' Arms, Connie Deiter
Publishing In Education Award 1999
Canadian Plains Research Center, Messages from the Real World, Ted Godwin
1998 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1998
Susan Andrews Grace, Ferry Woman's History of the World, (Coteau Books)
Fiction Award 1998
Larry Warwaruk, The Ukrainian Wedding, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 1998
Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Wiebe, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman, (Knopf Canada)
First Book Award 1998
Harriet Richards, The Lavender Child, (Thistledown Press)
Children's Literature Award 1998
Betty Fitzpatrick Dorion, Bay Girl, (Coteau Books)
Poetry Award 1998
Steven Michael Berzensky, Variations on the Birth of Jacob, (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)
Regina Book Award 1998
Britt Holmström, The Man Next Door, (Cormorant Books)
Saskatoon Book Award 1998
R.P. MacIntyre, The Crying Jesus, (Thistledown Press)
Publishing Award 1998
Mendel Art Gallery, Plain Truth, Keith Bell, Dan Ring, Sheila Petty
Publishing In Education Award 1998
Thistledown Press, In the Clear, A Forrie, P. O'Rourke, G. Sorestad (eds)
1997 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1997
Sandra Birdsell, The Two-Headed Calf, (McClelland & Stewart)
Fiction Award 1997
Joanne Gerber, In the Misleading Absence of Light, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 1997
Anne Szumigalski, Sermons on Stones, (Hagios Press)
First Book Award 1997
Joanne Gerber, In the Misleading Absence of Light, (Coteau Books)
Children's Literature Award 1997
Sandra Birdsell, The Town that Floated Away, (HarperCollins)
Poetry Award 1997
Anne Szumigalski, On Glassy Wings: Poems New and Selected, (Coteau Books)
Regina Book Award 1997
Ven Begamudré, Laterna Magika, (Oolichan Books)
Sandra Birdsell, The Two-Headed Calf, (McClelland & Stewart)
Joanne Gerber, In the Misleading Absence of Light, (Coteau Books)
Publishing Award 1997
Coteau Books, Herstory 1998, Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective
University Extension Press, Creating the Prairie Xeriscape, Sara Williams
First Peoples Publishing Award 1997
Fifth House Publishers, Loyal till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, Blair Stonechild, Bill Waiser
Publishing In Education Award 1997
University Extension Press, Creating the Prairie Xeriscape, Sara Williams
1996 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1996
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy, (McClelland & Stewart)
Fiction Award 1996
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy, (McClelland & Stewart)
Non-Fiction Award 1996
David Carpenter, Courting Saskatchewan, (Greystone Books)
J.R. Miller, Shingwauk's Vision, (University of Toronto Press)
First Book Award 1996
Dave Little, Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies, (ECW Press)
Children's Literature Award 1996
Judith Silverthorne, The Secret of Sentinel Rock, (Coteau Books)
Poetry Award 1996
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Clay Birds, (Coteau Books)
Regina Book Award 1996
Connie Gault, Inspection of a Small Village, (Coteau Books)
Publishing Award 1996
Fifth House Publishers, Buffalo Nation: History and Legend of the North American Bison, Valerius Geist
1995 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1995
Anne Szumigalski, Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom, (Coteau Books)
Fiction Award 1995
Byrna Barclay, Crosswinds, (Coteau Books)
Non-Fiction Award 1995
Connie Sampson, Buried in the Silence, (NeWest Press)
First Book Award 1995
Kate Sutherland, Summer Reading, (Thistledown Press)
Children's Literature Award 1995
Lois Simmie, Mister Got to Go, (Red Deer College Press)
Poetry Award 1995
Elizabeth Philips, Beyond My Keeping, (Coteau Books)
Regina Book Award 1995
Dianne Warren, Club Chernobyl, (Coteau Books)
Publishing Award 1995
Fifth House, Waiting For The Light, Brock V. Silversides
1994 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1994
Bonnie Burnard, Casino and Other Stories, (HarperCollins)
Non-Fiction Award 1994
Sharon Butala, The Perfection of Morning, (HarperCollins)
First Book Award 1994
Terry Jordan, It's A Hard Cow, (Thistledown Press)
Regina Book Award 1994
Maggie Siggins, Riel: A Life of Revolution, (HarperCollins)
Publishing Award 1994
Fifth House Publishers, The Urban Prairie, Dan Ring, Guy Vanderhaeghe & George Melnyk
Spirit Of Saskatchewan Award 1994
Sharon Butala, The Perfection of Morning, (HarperCollins)
1993 Winners- back to top
Book Of The Year Award 1993
Dianne Warren, Bad Luck Dog,
Regina Book Award 1993
Dianne Warren, Bad Luck Dog,
Publishing Award 1993
Sun Angel, Chris Fisher
