McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

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The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award is associated with Brave New Words: The Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards and was established in 1988. It is presented to the Manitoba writer whose adult English language book is judged the best written. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.

Winners

1988 — Jan Horner, Recent Mistakes

1989 — Kristjana Gunnars, The Prowler

1990 — Di Brandt, Agnes in the sky

1991 — Margaret Sweatman, Fox

1992 — Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite

1993 — Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

1994 — Patrick Friesen, Blasphemer's Wheel

1995 — Victoria Jason, Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak

1996 — David Bergen, A Year of Lesser

1997 — Catherine Hunter, Latent Heat

1998 — Miriam Toews, A Boy of Good Breeding

1999 — Gordon Sinclair, Jr., Cowboys and Indians

2000 — Miriam Toews, Swing Low: A Life

2001 — Margaret Sweatman, When Alice Lay Down With Peter

2002 — Jake MacDonald, Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country

2003 — Armin Wiebe, Tatsea

2004 — Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness

2005 — David Bergen, The Time in Between

2006 — Faith Johnston, A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen

2008 — Wayne Tefs, Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold Kaletsch

2009 — David Bergen, The Retreat

2010 — Allan Levine,Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba

2011 — Dora Dueck, This Hidden Thing

2012 — Esme Claire Keither, Not Being on a Boat

2013 — Meira Cook, The House on Sugarbush Road

2014 — Barbara Huck, Kisiskatchewan

References

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award Wikipedia

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