The Trillium Award (Fiction, English)
2023 Nina Dunic’s The Clarion
Mike Barnes Sleep Is Now a Foreign Country
D.A. Lockhart North of Middle Island
Kathryn Mockler Anecdotes
✔Zalika Reid-Benta River Mumma
2022 Stuart Ross The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
Charlie Angus Cobalt
Cliff Cardinal Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling
✔Kathy Friedman All the Shining People
Emma Healey Best Young Woman Job Book
2021 Ann Shin, The Last Exiles
Brian Francis, Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent
Catherine Graham, AEther: An Out-of-Body Lyric
Sydney Hegele, The Pump
Pamela Korgemagi, The Hunter and the Old Woman
2020 Souvankham Thammavongsa
How to Pronounce Knife
2019 Téa Mutonji Shut Up You’re Pretty
2018 ✔Dionne Brand The Blue Clerk
2017 ✔Melanie Mah The Sweetest One
2016 Kevin Hardcastle Debris
2015 Kate Cayley How You Were Born
2014 Hannah Moscovitch This Is War
2013 ✔Alice Munro Dear Life
2012 Phil Hall Killdeer
2011 ✔Rabindranath Maharaj The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2010 Ian Brown The Boy in the Moon
2009 ✔Pasha Malla The Withdrawal Method
2008 ✔Barbara Gowdy Helpless
2007 Mark Frutkin Fabrizio’s Return
2006 ✔Camilla Gibb Sweetness in the Belly
2005 ✔Wayson Choy All That Matters
2004✔Thomas King The Truth About Stories
2003 Austin Clarke The Polished Hoe
Nino Ricci, Testament
2002 ✔Richard B. Wright Clara Callan
2001 Don Coles Kurgan
✔2000 Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief
1999 André Alexis Childhood
✔Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman
1998 ✔Dionne Brand Land to Light On
1997 ✔Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces
1996 Margaret Atwood Morning in the Burned House
✔Wayson Choy The Jade Peony
1995 Donald Harman Akenson Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien
1994 ✔Jane Urquhart Away
✔Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride
1993 ✔Michael Ondaatje The English Patient
1992 ✔Margaret Atwood Wilderness Tips
1991✔ Alice Munro Friend of My Youth
1990 Modris Eksteins Rites of Spring
1989 Timothy Findley Stones
1988 ✔Michael Ondaatje In the Skin of a Lion