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WINNERS AND NOMINEES

1976

The 1976 award was a tie.

Ian McLachlan , ''The Seventh Hexagram''

Michael Ondaatje , ''Coming Through Slaughter''

Alice Boissoneau , ''Eileen McCullough''

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''

1977

Oonah McFee , ''Sandbars''

Shane Dennison , ''Sidehill Gouger''

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''

1978

Joan Barfoot , ''Abra''

Michael Dorland , ''The Double-Cross Circuit''

Clive Doucet , ''Disneyland, Please''

Margaret Drury Gane , ''Parade on an Empty Street''

Kevin Major , ''Hold Fast''

Frank Paci , ''The Italians''

1979

Clark Blaise , ''Lunar Attractions''

Victoria Branden , ''Mrs. Job''

Stan Dragland , ''Peckertracks''

Florence Evans , ''A Man Without Passion''

Shirley Faessler , ''Everything in the Window''

Katherine Govier , ''Random Descent''

Betty Lambert , ''Crossings''

1980

W.D. Valgardson , ''Gentle Sinners''

Martyn Burke , ''Laughing War''

Susan Musgrave , ''The Charcoal Burners''

Graham Petrie , ''Seahorse''

Leon Rooke , ''Fat Woman''

1981

Joy Kogawa , ''Obasan''

Jim Christy , ''Streethearts''

George Jonas , ''Final Decree''

Edward O. Phillips , ''Sunday's Child''

Gary Ross , ''Always Tip the Dealer''

1982

W.P. Kinsella , ''Shoeless Joe''

Lorris Elliott , ''Coming for to Carry''

Nessa Rapoport , ''Preparing for Sabbath''

Geraldine Rahmani , ''Blue''

Ann Rosenberg , ''The Bee Book''

1983

Heather Robertson , ''Willie: A Romance''

Robert G. Collins , ''Tolerable Levels of Violence''

Susan Swan , ''The Biggest Modern Woman in the World''

George Szanto , ''Not Working''

Wayne Tefs , ''Figures on a Wharf''

1984

Geoffrey Ursell , ''Perdue, or How the West Was Lost''

Sharon Butala , ''Country of the Heart''

Douglas Glover , ''Precious''

John Gray , ''Dazzled''

Sara Stambaugh , ''I Hear the Reaper's Song''

Armin Wiebe , ''The Salvation of Yasch Siemens''

1985

Wayne Johnston , ''The Story of Bobby O'Malley''

Susan Charlotte Haley , ''A Nest of Singing Birds''

Ann Ireland , ''A Certain Mr. Takahashi''

Frank Jones , ''Master and Maid''

Robert Walshe , ''Wales' Work''

1986

Karen Lawrence , ''The Life of Helen Alone''

Jo Anne Williams Bennett , ''Downfall People''

Marc Diamond , ''Momentum''

David Gilmour , ''Back on Tuesday''

Paulette Jiles , ''The Late Great Human Road Show''

1987

Marion Quednau , ''The Butterfly Chair''

D.F. Bailey , ''Fire Eyes''

W.D. Barcus , ''Squatters' Island''

Pauline Holdstock , ''The Blackbird's Song''

Seán Virgo , ''Selakhi''

1988

Rick Salutin , ''A Man of Little Faith''

Neil Bissoondath , ''A Casual Brutality''

Joan Clark , ''The Victory of Geraldine Gull''

David Homel , ''Electrical Storms''

Janice Kulyk Keefer , ''Constellations''

Helen Fogwill Porter , ''January, February, June or July''

1989

Sandra Birdsell , ''The Missing Child''

Marilyn Bowering , ''To All Appearances a Lady''

Barry Callaghan , ''The Way the Angel Spread Her Wings''

Jacqueline Dumas , ''Madeleine and the Angel''

Kristjana Gunnars , ''The Prowler''

Kenneth Radu , ''Distant Relations''

1990

Nino Ricci , ''Lives of the Saints''

Gail Bowen , ''Deadly Appearances''

Rita Donovan , ''The Dark Jewels''

Glen Huser , ''Grace Lake''

Margot Livesey , ''Homework''

Carsten Stroud , ''Sniper's Moon''

1991

Rohinton Mistry , ''Such a Long Journey''

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Ekbert Faas , ''Woyzeck's Head''

Michael Kenyon , ''Kleinberg''

Alberto Manguel , ''News From a Foreign Country Came''

1992

John Steffler , ''The Afterlife of George Cartwright''

Douglas Cooper , ''Amnesia''

Carole Corbeil , ''Voice-Over''

Kenneth J. Harvey , ''Brud''

Greg Hollingshead , ''Spin Dry''

1993

Deborah Joy Corey , ''Losing Eddie''

Catherine Bush , ''Minus Time''

Don Dickinson , ''The Crew''

Douglas How , ''Blow Up the Trumpet in the New Moon''

Carol Malyon , ''If I Knew I'd Tell You''

1994

Shyam Selvadurai , ''Funny Boy''

Charles Foran , ''Kitchen Music''

Diane Schoemperlen , ''In the Language of Love''

Russell Smith , ''How Insensitive''

Cordelia Strube , ''Alex & Zee''

1995

Keath Fraser , ''Popular Anatomy''

Diana Atkinson , ''Highways and Dancehalls''

Wayson Choy , ''The Jade Peony''

Larissa Lai , ''When Fox Is a Thousand''

Yan Li , ''Daughters of the Red Land''

1996

Anne Michaels , ''Fugitive Pieces''

Gail Anderson-Dargatz , ''The Cure for Death by Lightning''

Ann-Marie MacDonald , ''Fall on Your Knees''

Yann Martel , ''Self''

Shani Mootoo , ''Cereus Blooms at Night''

1997

Margaret Gibson , ''Opium Dreams''

Kim Echlin , ''Elephant Winter''

Allan Levine , ''The Blood Libel''

Rabindranath Maharaj , ''Homer in Flight''

Tim Wynveen , ''Angel Falls''

1998

André Alexis , ''Childhood''

Loranne Brown , ''The Handless Maiden''

Tomson Highway , ''Kiss of the Fur Queen''

Terry Jordan , ''Beneath That Starry Place''

Kerri Sakamoto , ''The Electrical Field''

1999

The 1999 award was a tie.

David Macfarlane , ''Summer Gone''

Alan R. Wilson , ''Before the Flood''

Alistair MacLeod , ''No Great Mischief''

Donna Morrissey , ''Kit's Law''

Jim Munroe , ''Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask''

Catherine Simmons-Niven , ''A Fine Daughter''

2000

Eva Stachniak , ''Necessary Lies''

Steven Galloway , ''Finnie Walsh''

Scott Gardiner , ''The Dominion of Wyley McFadden''

Susan Juby , ''Alice, I Think''

Lydia Kwa , ''This Place Called Absence''

2001

Michael Redhill , ''Martin Sloane''

Dennis Bock , ''The Ash Garden''

Michael Crummey , ''River Thieves''

Marina Endicott , ''Open Arms''

Linda Little , ''Strong Hollow''

Elizabeth Ruth , ''Ten Good Seconds of Silence''

2002

Mary Lawson , ''Crow Lake''

Christy Ann Conlin , ''Heave''

Aislinn Hunter , ''Stay''

Clint Hutzulak , ''The Beautiful Dead End''

Michael V. Smith , ''Cumberland''

Marnie Woodrow , ''Spelling Mississippi''

2003

Michel Basilières , ''Black Bird''

Clayton Bailey , ''The Expedition''

John Bemrose , ''The Island Walkers''

Lisa Grekul , ''Kalyna's Song''

Bettina Von Kampen , ''Blue Becomes You''

Edeet Ravel , ''Ten Thousand Lovers''

2004

Colin McAdam , ''Some Great Thing''

David Elias , ''Sunday Afternoon''

Ibi Kaslik , ''Skinny''

Arthur Motyer , ''What's Remembered"

Catherine Safer , ''Bishop's Road''