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Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize - Wikipedia

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The Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, formerly known as the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, is a Canadian literary award presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada after an annual juried competition of works submitted by publishers.^[1] Alongside the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction and the Giller Prize, it is considered one of the three main awards for Canadian fiction in English.^[2] Its eligibility criteria allow for it to garland collections of short stories as well as novels; works that were originally written and published in French are also eligible for the award when they appear in English translation.

The award was first presented in 1997. It was renamed in January 2021, in order to honour the Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson.^[3] Concurrently with the renaming, the prize package was increased from $50,000 to $60,000, matching the amount currently presented by its sibling, the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.^[4] The prize is sponsored by Jim Balsillie.

Nominees and recipients

Year	Jury	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1997	Matt Cohen Elisabeth Harvor Ann Ireland	Austin Clarke	The Origin of Waves	Winner	^[5]
		Elizabeth Hay	Small Change	Shortlist	^[6]
		Brian Moore	The Magician's Wife
		Mordecai Richler	Barney's Version
		Jane Urquhart	The Underpainter
1998	Joan Clark Austin Clarke Trevor Ferguson	Greg Hollingshead	The Healer	Winner	^[7]
		André Alexis	Childhood	Shortlist	^[8]
		Barbara Gowdy	The White Bone
		Wayne Johnston	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
		Alice Munro	The Love of a Good Woman
1999	Lynn Coady Sylvia Fraser Eric Wright	Peter Oliva	The City of Yes	Winner	^[9]
		Caroline Adderson	A History of Forgetting	Shortlist	^[10]
		Elyse Gasco	Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
		Judy MacDonald	Jane
		Alistair MacLeod	No Great Mischief
2000	Cynthia Holz Janice Kulyk Keefer Peter Oliva	Helen Humphreys	Afterimage	Winner	^[11]
		Todd Babiak	Choke Hold	Shortlist	^[12]
		Lynn Coady	Play the Monster Blind
		Douglas Glover	16 Categories of Desire
		Michael Winter	This All Happened
2001	Lesley Choyce Eliza Clark Olive Senior	Margaret Sweatman	When Alice Lay Down with Peter	Winner	^[13]
		Alice Munro	Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage	Shortlist	^[14]
		Elizabeth Ruth	Ten Good Seconds of Silence
		Timothy Taylor	Stanley Park
		Thomas Wharton	Salamander
2002	Joan Barfoot Brian Brett Sarah Sheard	Paulette Jiles	Enemy Women	Winner	^[15]
		Terry Griggs	Rogues' Wedding	Shortlist	^[16]
		Ann Ireland	Exile
		Lori Lansens	Rush Home Road
		Nino Ricci	Testament
2003	Kevin Chong Lisa Moore Diane Schoemperlen	Kevin Patterson	Country of Cold	Winner	^[17]
		Jacqueline Baker	A Hard Witching & Other Stories	Shortlist	^[18]
		Gil Courtemanche	A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
		Barbara Gowdy	The Romantic
		Judith McCormack	The Rule of Last Clear Chance
2004	Sylvia Fraser Zsuzsi Gartner Michael Redhill	Alice Munro	Runaway	Winner	^[19]
		Michael Helm	In the Place of Last Things	Shortlist	^[20]
		Colin McAdam	Some Great Thing
		Jeffrey Moore	The Memory Artists
		Russell Smith	Muriella Pent
2005	Anita Rau Badami Lewis DeSoto Mary Swan	Joseph Boyden	Three Day Road	Winner	^[21]
		Michael Crummey	The Wreckage	Shortlist	^[22]
		Lauren B. Davis	The Radiant City
		Allan Donaldson	Maclean
		Rabindranath Maharaj	A Perfect Pledge
2006	Karen Connelly Jeffrey Moore Anna Porter	Kenneth J. Harvey	Inside	Winner	^[23]
		Peter Behrens	The Law of Dreams	Shortlist	^[24]
		Rawi Hage	De Niro's Game
		Catherine Hanrahan	Lost Girls and Love Hotels
		Mary Lawson	The Other Side of the Bridge
2007	Kevin Major Kim Moritsugu Madeleine Thien	Lawrence Hill	The Book of Negroes	Winner	^[25]
		Shaena Lambert	Radiance	Shortlist	^[26]
		Robert Hough	The Culprits
		Nancy Huston	Fault Lines
		M.G. Vassanji	The Assassin's Song
2008	Lawrence Hill Annabel Lyon Heather O'Neill	Miriam Toews	The Flying Troutmans	Winner	^[27]
		Rivka Galchen	Atmospheric Disturbances	Shortlist	^[28]
		Rawi Hage	Cockroach
		Lee Henderson	The Man Game
		Patrick Lane	Red Dog, Red Dog
2009	Marina Endicott Miriam Toews R.M. Vaughan	Annabel Lyon	The Golden Mean	Winner	^[29]
		Nicole Brossard	Fences in Breathing	Shortlist	^[30]
		Douglas Coupland	Generation A
		Alice Munro	Too Much Happiness
		Andrew Steinmetz	Eva's Threepenny Theatre
2010	Andrew Pyper Eden Robinson Lisa Moore	Emma Donoghue	Room	Winner	^[31]
		Trevor Cole	Practical Jean	Shortlist	^[32]
		Michael Helm	Cities of Refuge
		Kathleen Winter	Annabel
		Michael Winter	The Death of Donna Whalen
2011	Emma Donoghue Rabindranath Maharaj Margaret Sweatman	Patrick deWitt	The Sisters Brothers	Winner	^[33]
		Clark Blaise	The Meagre Tarmac	Shortlist	^[34]
		Michael Christie	The Beggar's Garden
		Esi Edugyan	Half-Blood Blues
		Dan Vyleta	The Quiet Twin
2012	Esi Edugyan Lynn Coady Drew Hayden Taylor	Tamas Dobozy	Siege 13	Winner	^[35]
		Tim Bowling	The Tinsmith	Shortlist	^[36]
		Rawi Hage	Carnival
		Alix Ohlin	Inside
		Linda Spalding	The Purchase
2013	Caroline Adderson Alison Pick Miguel Syjuco	Colin McAdam	A Beautiful Truth	Winner	^[37]
		Krista Bridge	The Elliot Girls	Shortlist	^[38]
		Lynn Coady	Hellgoing
		Cary Fagan	A Bird's Eye
		Lisa Moore	Caught
2014	Neil Bissoondath George Murray Helen Humphreys	Miriam Toews	All My Puny Sorrows	Winner	^[39]
		André Alexis	Pastoral	Shortlist	^[40]
		Steven Galloway	The Confabulist
		K. D. Miller	All Saints
		Carrie Snyder	Girl Runner
2015	Aislinn Hunter Shani Mootoo Richard Wagamese	André Alexis	Fifteen Dogs	Winner	^[41]
		Elizabeth Hay	His Whole Life	Shortlist	^[42]
		Pamela Mordecai	Red Jacket
		Russell Smith	Confidence
		John Vaillant	The Jaguar's Children
2016	Lauren B. Davis Trevor Ferguson Pasha Malla	Yasuko Thanh	Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains	Winner	^[43]
		Michael Helm	After James	Shortlist	^[44]
		Anosh Irani	The Parcel
		Kerry Lee Powell	Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
		Katherena Vermette	The Break
2017	Michael Christie Christy Ann Conlin Tracey Lindberg	David Chariandy	Brother	Winner	^[45]
		Carleigh Baker	Bad Endings	Shortlist	^[46]
		Claire Cameron	The Last Neanderthal
		Omar El Akkad	American War
		Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	This Accident of Being Lost
2018	Ann Y. K. Choi Mireille Silcoff Robert Wiersema	Kathy Page	Dear Evelyn	Winner	^[47]
		Craig Davidson	The Saturday Night Ghost Club	Shortlist	^[48]
		Esi Edugyan	Washington Black
		Rawi Hage	Beirut Hellfire Society
		Jen Neale	Land Mammals and Sea Creatures
2019	Dennis Bock Michael Kaan Suzette Mayr	André Alexis	Days by Moonlight	Winner	^[49]
		Sharon Butala	Season of Fury and Wonder	Shortlist	^[50]
		Michael Crummey	The Innocents
		Téa Mutonji	Shut Up, You're Pretty
		Alix Ohlin	Dual Citizens
2020	Elisabeth de Mariaffi Waubgeshig Rice Yasuko Thanh	Gil Adamson	Ridgerunner	Winner	^[51]
		Zsuzsi Gartner	The Beguiling	Shortlist	^[51]
		Michelle Good	Five Little Indians
		Thomas King	Indians on Vacation
		Maria Reva	Good Citizens Need Not Fear
2021	Rebecca Fisseha Michelle Good Steven Price	Katherena Vermette	The Strangers	Winner	^[52]
		Rivka Galchen	Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch	Shortlist	^[53]
		Alix Ohlin	We Want What We Want
		Miriam Toews	Fight Night
		Guy Vanderhaeghe	August Into Winter
2022	David Bergen Norma Dunning Andrew Forbes	Nicholas Herring	Some Hellish	Winner	^[54]
		Rima Elkouri (tr. Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott)	Manam	Shortlist	^[55]
		Kevin Lambert (tr. Donald Winkler)	Querelle of Roberval
		Darcy Tamayose	Ezra's Ghosts
		Saeed Teebi	Her First Palestinian
2023	Francesca Ekwuyasi Alix Hawley M. G. Vassanji	Kai Thomas	In the Upper Country	Winner	^[56]
		Emma Donoghue	Learned by Heart	Shortlist	^[57]
		Amanda Peters	The Berry Pickers
		Michelle Porter	A Grandmother Begins the Story
		Thomas Wharton	The Book of Rain
2024	Saeed Teebi Joan Thomas Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike	Sheung-King	Batshit Seven	Winner	^[58]
		Éric Chacour (tr. Pablo Strauss)	What I Know About You	Shortlist	^[59]
		Conor Kerr	Prairie Edge
		Canisia Lubrin	Code Noir
		Fawn Parker	Hi, It's Me

References

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^ "Three debut novels among finalists for 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". CBC Books, September 25, 2024.

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