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Other Names: Books in Canada First Novel Award, Books in Canada First Novel Award Shortlist
45 Works 20,691 Books 726 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Books in Canada First Novel Award is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.

While founded and show more originally solely managed by the literary magazine Books in Canada, sponsorship changes throughout its history have renamed the award Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Currently, it is the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

For the sake of simplicity and organization, the original name has been kept.

The shortlist can be found here. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (45), Shortlist (169)
Years:
All, 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (2), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1), 1976 (2)

Winner 45

WorkYear
Little Fish by Casey Plett2019
The Water Beetles by Michael Kaan2018
The Break by Katherena Vermette2017
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad2016
All True Not a Lie in It: A Novel by Alix Hawley2014
Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady2013
Malarky by Anakana Schofield2012
The Free World by David Bezmozgis2011
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton2010
Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant2009
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas2008
The Outlander by Gil Adamson2007
Certainty by Madeleine Thien2006
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden2005
Some Great Thing by Colin McAdam2004
Black Bird by Michel Basilieres2003
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson2002
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill2001
Necessary Lies by Eva Stachniak2000
Summer Gone by David Macfarlane1999
Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization by Ian Wilson1999
Childhood by André Alexis1998
Opium Dreams by Margaret Gibson1997
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels1996
Popular Anatomy by Keath Fraser1995
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai1994
Losing Eddie by Deborah Joy Corey1993
The Afterlife of George Cartwright by John Steffler1992
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry1991
Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci1990
The Missing Child by Sandra Birdsell1989
A Man of Little Faith by Rick Salutin1988
The Butterfly Chair by Marion Quednau1987
The Life of Helen Alone by Karen Lawrence1986
The Story of Bobby O'Malley by Wayne Johnston1985
Perdue, or, How the west was lost : a novel by Geoffrey Ursell1984
Willie : A Romance: Volume 1 of the King Years (King Years, Vol 1) by Heather Robertson1983
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella1982
Obasan by Joy Kogawa1981
Gentle Sinners by W. D. Valgardson1980
Lunar Attractions by Clark Blaise1979
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot1978
Sandbars by Oonah Mcfee1977
The Seventh Hexagram by Ian McLachlan1976
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje1976

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The Books in Canada First Novel Award is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.

While founded and originally solely managed by the literary magazine Books in Canada, sponsorship changes throughout its history have renamed the award Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Currently, it is the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

For the sake of simplicity and organization, the original name has been kept.

The shortlist can be found here. (English, Member-written)
The Books in Canada First Novel Award is a literary award given annually to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.

While founded and originally solely managed by the literary magazine Books in Canada, sponsorship changes throughout its history have renamed the award Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Currently, it is the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

For the sake of simplicity and organization, the original name has been kept.

The winner's list can be found here. (English, Member-written)

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