Toronto Book Awards

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The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto".^[1]

Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000.

The award has frequently gone to multiple winners. 1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.

[edit] Winners

• 1974 - multiple winners

William Kurelek, O Toronto

Desmond Morton, Mayor Howland

Richard B. Wright, In the Middle of a Life

• 1975 - multiple winners

Claude Bissell, Halfway up Parnassus

The Labour History Collective, Women at Work

Loren Lind, The Learning Machine

• 1976 - multiple winners

Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper, Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930

Hugh Hood, The Swing in the Garden

• 1977 - multiple winners

Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

Margaret Gibson, The Butterfly Ward

• 1978 - multiple winners

Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company

Timothy Findley, The Wars

• 1979 - multiple winners

Michael Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire

William Dendy, Lost Toronto

John Morgan Gray, Fun Tomorrow

• 1980 - multiple winners

Raymond Souster, Hanging In

Stephen A. Speisman, The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937

• 1981 - multiple winners

Timothy Colton, Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto

Mary Larratt Smith, Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada

Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls

• 1982 - multiple winners

Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey

Marian Engel, Lunatic Villas

• 1983 - multiple winners

Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin

Lucy Booth Martyn, The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936

• 1984 - multiple winners

Edith G. Firth, Toronto in Art

Gerald Killan, David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist

Eric Wright, The Night the Gods Smiled

• 1985 - multiple winners

Warabe Aska, Who Goes to the Park

J.M.S. Careless, Toronto to 1918

Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls

• 1986 - multiple winners

Morley Callaghan, Our Lady of the Snows

Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone

• 1987 - William Dendy and William Kilbourn, Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History
• 1988 - Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
• 1989 - Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
• 1990 - multiple winners

Hilary Russell, Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres

Guy Vanderhaeghe, Homesick

• 1991 - Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald, eds., Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories
• 1992 - Katherine Govier, Hearts of Flame
• 1993 - multiple winners

Carole Corbeil, Voice-Over

David Donnell, China Blues

• 1994 - Timothy Findley, Headhunter
• 1995 - Ezra Schabas, Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian
• 1996 - Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
• 1997 - Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
• 1998 - Helen Humphreys, Leaving Earth
• 1999 - Richard Outram, Benedict Abroad
• 2000 - Camilla Gibb, Mouthing the Words
• 2001 - A.B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
• 2002 - Sarah Dearing, Courage My Love
• 2003 - Joe Fiorito, The Song Beneath the Ice
• 2004 - multiple winners

Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould

Kate Taylor, Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

• 2005 - David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories
• 2006 - Dionne Brand, What We All Long For
• 2007 - Michael Redhill, Consolation
• 2008 - Glen Downie, Loyalty Management
• 2009 - Austin Clarke, More

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Toronto Book Awards (City of Toronto Web site)