Toronto Book Awards
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The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the City of Toronto government to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto".[1] The award is presented in the fall of each year, with its advance promotional efforts including a series of readings by the nominated authors at each year's The Word on the Street festival.
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.
Winners and nominees
[edit]1970s
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1974 | William Kurelek | O Toronto | Winner | [2] |
Desmond Morton | Mayor Howland | Winner | ||
Richard B. Wright | In the Middle of a Life | Winner | ||
Sandra Budden and Joseph Ernst | The Movable Airport | Finalist | [3] | |
Austin Clarke | Storm of Fortune | Finalist | ||
Michael Filey | Richard Howard and Helmut Weyerstrahs, Passengers Must Not Ride on Fender | Finalist | ||
Hugh Hood | The Governor's Bridge Is Closed | Finalist | ||
George Jonas | Cities | Finalist | ||
1975 | Claude Bissell | Halfway Up Parnassus | Winner | [4] |
The Labour History Collective | Women at Work | Winner | ||
Loren Lind | The Learning Machine | Winner | ||
Max Braithwaite | Sick Kids | Finalist | [5] | |
Juan Butler | Canadian Healing Oil | Finalist | ||
Jon Caulfield | The Tiny Perfect Mayor | Finalist | ||
Dennis Lee | Alligator Pie - Nicholas Knock | Finalist | ||
Harold Town | Albert Franck: His Life, Times and Work | Finalist | ||
1976 | Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper | Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930 | Winner | [6] |
Hugh Hood | The Swing in the Garden | Winner | ||
Jack Batten | The Leafs in Autumn | Finalist | ||
Morley Callaghan | A Fine and Private Place | Finalist | ||
Austin Clarke | The Bigger Light | Finalist | ||
Hans Jewinski | Poet Cop | Finalist | ||
Harry Pollock | Gabriel | Finalist | ||
Ian Wallace and Angela Wood | The Sandwich | Finalist | ||
1977 | Margaret Atwood | Lady Oracle | Winner | [7] |
Margaret Gibson | The Butterfly Ward | Winner | ||
Michael Filey | Trillium and Toronto Island | Finalist | [7] | |
William Kilbourn | The Toronto Book | Finalist | ||
Raymond Massey | When I Was Young | Finalist | ||
Stan Obodiac | The Leafs: The First 50 Years | Finalist | ||
Miriam Waddington | The Price of Gold | Finalist | ||
1978 | Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles | The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company | Winner | [8] |
Timothy Findley | The Wars | Winner | ||
Harry Adaskin | A Fiddler's World | Finalist | [9] | |
Morley Callaghan | Close to the Sun Again | Finalist | ||
George Jonas and Barbara Amiel | By Persons Unknown | Finalist | ||
1979 | Michael Bliss | A Canadian Millionaire | Winner | [10] |
William Dendy | Lost Toronto | Winner | ||
John Morgan Gray | Fun Tomorrow | Winner | ||
Morley Callaghan | No Man's Meat and The Enchanted Pimp | Finalist | [10] | |
Paul Duval | The Tangled Garden | Finalist | ||
Marian Engel | The Glassy Sea | Finalist | ||
James Lorimer | The Developers | Finalist | ||
Peter Mellen | Landmarks of Canadian Art | Finalist | ||
David Lewis Stein | City Boys | Finalist |
1980s
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | Raymond Souster | Hanging In | Winner | [11] |
Stephen A. Speisman | The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937 | Winner | ||
Eric Arthur | From Front Street to Queen's Park: The Story of Ontario's Parliament Buildings | Finalist | [12] | |
Margaret Atwood | Life Before Man | Finalist | ||
Shirley Faessler | Everything in the Window | Finalist | ||
Hugh Hood | Reservoir Ravine | Finalist | ||
Richard B. Howard | Upper Canada College 1928-1979: Colbourne's Legacy | Finalist | ||
Blair G. Laing | Memoirs of an Art Dealer | Finalist | ||
1981 | Timothy Colton | Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto | Winner | [13] |
Mary Larratt Smith | Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada | Winner | ||
Helen Weinzweig | Basic Black with Pearls | Winner | ||
Gregory S. Kealey | Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892 | Finalist | [13] | |
John Lownsbrough | The Privileged Few: The Grange & Its People in Nineteenth Century Toronto | Finalist | ||
Austin Seton Thompson | Jarvis Street: A Story of Triumph and Tragedy | Finalist | ||
Richard B. Wright | Final Things | Finalist | ||
1982 | Claude Bissell | The Young Vincent Massey | Winner | [14] |
Marian Engel | Lunatic Villas | Winner | ||
Robertson Davies | The Rebel Angels | Finalist | [14] | |
Michael Filey | I Remember Sunnyside | Finalist | ||
Bernice Thurman Hunter | That Scatterbrain Booky | Finalist | ||
Charles Sauriol | Remembering the Don | Finalist | ||
Conn Smythe with Scott Young | If You Can't Beat 'Em in the Alley | Finalist | ||
1983 | Michael Bliss | The Discovery of Insulin | Winner | [15] |
Lucy Booth Martyn | The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936 | Winner | ||
Larry Partridge | The Witts | Finalist | [15] | |
Clara Thomas and John Lennox | William Arthur Deacon: A Canadian Literary Life | Finalist | ||
Tim Wynne-Jones | The Knot | Finalist | ||
1984 | Edith G. Firth | Toronto in Art | Winner | [16] |
Gerald Killan | David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist | Winner | ||
Eric Wright | The Night the Gods Smiled | Winner | ||
Bill Ivy | A Little Wilderness: The Natural History of Toronto | Finalist | [16] | |
Rod McQueen | The Money-Spinners | Finalist | ||
Marion Royce | Eunice Dyke: Health Care Pioneer | Finalist | ||
1985 | Warabe Aska | Who Goes to the Park | Winner | [17] |
J.M.S. Careless | Toronto to 1918 | Winner | ||
Josef Skvorecky | The Engineer of Human Souls | Winner | ||
Patrick Brode | Sir John Beverley Robinson | Finalist | [18] | |
Margaret McKelvey and Merlyn McKelvey | Toronto: Carved in Stone | Finalist | ||
David G. Pitt | E.J. Pratt: The Truant Years 1882-1927 | Finalist | ||
Victor L. Russell | Forging a Consensus | Finalist | ||
1986 | Morley Callaghan | Our Lady of the Snows | Winner | [19] |
Robertson Davies | What's Bred in the Bone | Winner | ||
Neil Bissoondath | Digging Up the Mountains | Finalist | [20] | |
Rosemary Donegan | Spadina Avenue | Finalist | ||
James Lemon | Toronto Since 1918: An Illustrated History | Finalist | ||
Patricia McHugh | Toronto Architecture: A City Guide | Finalist | ||
1987 | William Dendy and William Kilbourn | Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History | Winner | [21] |
John Coldwell Adams | Sir Charles God Damn: The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts | Finalist | [21] | |
June Callwood | Twelve Weeks in Spring | Finalist | ||
Lovat Dickson | The Museum Makers: The Story of the Royal Ontario Museum | Finalist | ||
Michael Filey | Not a One-Horse Town: 125 Years of Toronto and Its Streetcars | Finalist | ||
Martin O'Malley | Hospital: Life and Death in a Major Medical Centre | Finalist | ||
1988 | Michael Ondaatje | In the Skin of a Lion | Winner | [22] |
Joan Hollobon | The Lion's Tale: A History of the Wellesley Hospital, 1912-1978 | Finalist | [23] | |
Cyril H. Levitt and William Shaffir | The Riot at Christie Pits | Finalist | ||
Tom MacDonnell | Never Let Go: The Tragedy of Kristy McFarlane | Finalist | ||
Anna Porter | Mortal Sins | Finalist | ||
1989 | Margaret Atwood | Cat's Eye | Winner | [24] |
Shirley Faessler | A Basket of Apples | Finalist | [25] | |
Robert Fulford | Best Seat in the House | Finalist | ||
Alison Gordon | The Dead Pull Hitter | Finalist | ||
Michael Kluckner | Toronto The Way It Was | Finalist | ||
Rick Salutin | A Man of Little Faith | Finalist | ||
Paul Stuewe | The Storm Below: The Turbulent Life and Times of Hugh Garner | Finalist |
1990s
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1990 | Hilary Russell | Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres | Winner | [26] |
Guy Vanderhaeghe | Homesick | Winner | ||
John Ayre | Northrop Frye | Finalist | [27] | |
Don Bailey | Memories of Margaret | Finalist | ||
Stuart McLean | The Morningside World of Stuart McLean | Finalist | ||
M. NourbeSe Philip | Harriet's Daughter | Finalist | ||
Jack Pollock | Dear M | Finalist | ||
1991 | Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald (eds.) | Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories | Winner | [28] |
Cary Fagan | City Hall and Mrs. God: A Passionate Journey Through a Changing Toronto | Finalist | [29] | |
Mary Jo Leddy | Say to the Darkness, We Beg to Differ | Finalist | ||
Claire MacKay and Johnny Wales | The Toronto Story | Finalist | ||
Jocko Thomas | From Police Headquarters | Finalist | ||
Morley Torgov | St. Farb's Day | Finalist | ||
Dan Yashinsky | Tales for an Unknown City | Finalist | ||
1992 | Katherine Govier | Hearts of Flame | Winner | [30] |
Margaret Atwood | Wilderness Tips | Finalist | [30] | |
David Gilmour | How Boys See Girls | Finalist | ||
Kenneth Oppel and Regolo Ricci | Cosimo Cat | Finalist | ||
Allan Stratton | Bag Babies | Finalist | ||
Gregory Ward | The Carpet King | Finalist | ||
Marianne Zeitlin | Next of Kin | Finalist | ||
1993 | Carole Corbeil | Voice-Over | Winner | [31] |
David Donnell | China Blues | Winner | ||
Paul Donovan | Paint Cans | Finalist | [32] | |
Paul Kropp | Ellen/Elena/Luna | Finalist | ||
Don Ritchie | North Toronto | Finalist | ||
1994 | Timothy Findley | Headhunter | Winner | [33] |
Margaret Atwood | The Robber Bride | Finalist | [34] | |
Nancy Baker | The Night Inside | Finalist | ||
Catherine Bush | Minus Time | Finalist | ||
John Ibbitson | The Night Hazel Came to Town | Finalist | ||
William Kilbourn | Intimate Grandeur | Finalist | ||
1995 | Ezra Schabas | Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian | Winner | [35] |
Jack Batten | The Leafs: An Anecdotal History of the Toronto Maple Leafs | Finalist | [36] | |
Cary Fagan | The Animals' Waltz | Finalist | ||
Eric Wright | Moodie's Tale | Finalist | ||
1996 | Rosemary Sullivan | Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen | Winner | [37] |
Timothy Findley | The Piano Man's Daughter | Finalist | [38] | |
Robert Fulford | Accidental City | Finalist | ||
Wayne Grady | Toronto the Wild, Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist | Finalist | ||
Greg Kramer | The Pursemonger of Fugu | Finalist | ||
Tim Wynne-Jones | The Maestro | Finalist | ||
1997 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | Winner | [39] |
David Eddie | Chump Change | Finalist | [39] | |
Kevin Irie | The Colour of Eden | Finalist | ||
Kim Moritsugu | Looks Perfect | Finalist | ||
Richard Scrimger | Crosstown | Finalist | ||
1998 | Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | Winner | [40] |
Carole Corbeil | In the Wings | Finalist | [41] | |
Joanne Gerber | In the Misleading Absence of Light | Finalist | ||
Bruce McCall | Thin Ice | Finalist | ||
Barbara Nichol | Dippers | Finalist | ||
Antanas Sileika | Buying on Time | Finalist | ||
1999 | Richard Outram | Benedict Abroad | Winner | [42] |
Dennis Bock | Olympia | Finalist | [43] | |
James Chatto | The Man Who Ate Toronto: Memoirs of a Restaurant Lover | Finalist | ||
Derek McCormack and Chris Chambers | Wild Mouse | Finalist | ||
Stuart McLean | Home from the Vinyl Cafe | Finalist |
2000s
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Camilla Gibb | Mouthing the Words | Winner | [44] |
Jennifer Duncan | Sanctuary and Other Stories | Finalist | [45] | |
Greg Gatenby | Toronto - A Literary Guide | Finalist | ||
Conrad E. Heidenreich, Betty Ida Roots, and Donald A. Chant | Betty Ida Roots and Donald A. Chant, Special Places: The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region | Finalist | ||
Russell Smith | Young Men | Finalist | ||
2001 | A.B. McKillop | The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past | Winner | [46] |
Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | Finalist | [47] | |
Catherine Bush | The Rules of Engagement | Finalist | ||
Jean Cochrane and Vincenzo Pietropaolo | Kensington | Finalist | ||
Tessa McWatt | Dragons Cry | Finalist | ||
2002 | Sarah Dearing | Courage My Love | Winner | [48] |
Douglas Bell | Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and An Accident | Finalist | [48] | |
Jane Lind | Joyce Wieland: Artist on Fire | Finalist | ||
Erín Moure | Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person | Finalist | ||
Michael Redhill | Martin Sloane | Finalist | ||
Elizabeth Ruth | Ten Good Seconds of Silence | Finalist | ||
2003 | Joe Fiorito | The Song Beneath the Ice | Winner | [49] |
Dionne Brand | thirsty | Finalist | [50] | |
Eric McCormack | The Dutch Wife | Finalist | ||
Judith Merril and Emily Pohl-Weary | Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril | Finalist | ||
Makeda Silvera | The Heart Does Not Bend | Finalist | ||
2004 | Kevin Bazzana | Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould | Winner | [51] |
Kate Taylor | Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen | Winner | ||
Tom Cruickshank and John de Visser | Old Toronto Houses | Finalist | [52] | |
Kristen den Hartog | The Perpetual Ending | Finalist | ||
Aren X. Tulchinsky | The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky | Finalist | ||
2005 | David Bezmozgis | Natasha and Other Stories | Winner | [53] |
Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse | The Heiress vs. the Establishment: Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice | Finalist | [53] | |
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall | Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown | Finalist | ||
Don Coles | Doctor Bloom's Story | Finalist | ||
Russell Smith | Muriella Pent | Finalist | ||
2006 | Dionne Brand | What We All Long For | Winner | [54] |
Howard Akler | The City Man | Finalist | [55] | |
Stephen Marche | Raymond and Hannah | Finalist | ||
Jason McBride and Alana Wilcox (eds.) | uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto | Finalist | ||
M.G. Vassanji | When She Was Queen | Finalist | ||
2007 | Michael Redhill | Consolation | Winner | [56] |
Sally Gibson | Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to 1920s | Finalist | [57] | |
Geoffrey James | Toronto | Finalist | ||
Vincent Lam | Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures | Finalist | ||
Raymond Souster | Uptown Downtown | Finalist | ||
2008 | Glen Downie | Loyalty Management | Winner | [58] |
Elspeth Cameron | And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle | Finalist | [58] | |
David Chariandy | Soucouyant | Finalist | ||
Elyse Friedman | Long Story Short | Finalist | ||
Barbara Gowdy | Helpless | Finalist | ||
2009 | Austin Clarke | More | Winner | [59] |
Anthony De Sa | Barnacle Love | Finalist | [60] | |
Maggie Helwig | Girls Fall Down | Finalist | ||
Mark Osbaldeston | Unbuilt Toronto | Finalist | ||
Charles Wilkins | In the Land of Long Fingernails | Finalist |
2010s
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | Mark Sinnett | The Carnivore | Winner | [61] |
Seán Cullen | The Prince of Neither Here Nor There | Finalist | [62] | |
Cary Fagan | Valentine's Fall | Finalist | ||
Lauren Kirshner | Where We Have to Go | Finalist | ||
Dragan Todorović | Diary of Interrupted Days | Finalist | ||
2011 | Rabindranath Maharaj | The Amazing Absorbing Boy | Winner | [63] |
James FitzGerald | What Disturbs Our Blood | Finalist | [64] | |
James King | Étienne's Alphabet | Finalist | ||
Nicholas Ruddock | The Parabolist | Finalist | ||
Alissa York | Fauna | Finalist | ||
2012 | Andrew J. Borkowski | Copernicus Avenue | Winner | [65] |
Dave Bidini | Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972 | Finalist | [66] | |
Farzana Doctor | Six Metres of Pavement | Finalist | ||
Michele Landsberg | Writing the Revolution | Finalist | ||
Suzanne Robertson | Paramita, Little Black | Finalist | ||
2013 | Kamal Al-Solaylee | Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes | Winner | [67] |
Patrick Cummins and Shawn Micallef | Full Frontal T.O. | Finalist | [68] | |
Kevin Irie | Viewing Tom Thomson, A Minority Report | Finalist | ||
Aga Maksimowska | Giant | Finalist | ||
Katrina Onstad | Everybody Has Everything | Finalist | ||
2014 | Charlotte Gray | The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country | Winner | [69] |
Anthony De Sa | Kicking the Sky | Finalist | [68] | |
Carrianne Leung | The Wondrous Woo | Finalist | ||
Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis | The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement | Finalist | ||
Shyam Selvadurai | The Hungry Ghosts | Finalist | ||
2015 | Emily St. John Mandel | Station Eleven | Winner | [70] |
André Alexis | Fifteen Dogs | Finalist | [70] | |
Margaret Atwood | Stone Mattress | Finalist | ||
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer | All the Broken Things | Finalist | ||
Bruce McDougall | The Last Hockey Game | Finalist | ||
2016 | Cordelia Strube | On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light | Winner | [71] |
Howard Akler | Men of Action | Finalist | [71] | |
Ann Y. K. Choi | Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety | Finalist | ||
John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg, and Tatum Taylor | The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood | Finalist | ||
Marnie Woodrow | Heyday | Finalist | ||
2017 | B. Denham Jolly | In the Black: My Life | Winner | [72] |
Jen Agg | I Hear She's a Real Bitch | Finalist | [73] | |
Catherine Hernandez | Scarborough | Finalist | ||
John Lorinc, Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer, and Ed Jackson | Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer | Finalist | ||
James Maskalyk | Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine | Finalist | ||
2018 | David Chariandy | Brother | Winner | [74] |
Dionne Brand | The Unpublished City | Finalist | [75] | |
Carrianne Leung | That Time I Loved You | Finalist | ||
Lee Maracle | My Conversations with Canadians | Finalist | ||
Kerri Sakamoto | Floating City | Finalist | ||
2019 | Dionne Brand | Theory | Winner | [76] |
Mike Barnes | Be With: Letters to a Caregiver | Finalist | [76] | |
Cary Fagan | The Student | Finalist | ||
Didier Leclair | This Country of Mine | Finalist | ||
Ian Williams | Reproduction | Finalist |
2020s
[edit]Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | Desmond Cole | The Skin We're In | Winner | [77] |
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | In the Beggarly Style of Imitation | Finalist | [78] | |
Vivian Chong and Georgia Webbe | Dancing after TEN | Finalist | ||
Katie Daubs | The Missing Millionaire | Finalist | ||
Zalika Reid-Benta | Frying Plantain | Finalist | ||
2021 | Kim Echlin | Speak, Silence | Winner | [79] |
Catherine Graham | Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric | Finalist | [80] | |
Faye Guenther | Swimmers in Winter | Finalist | ||
Catherine Hernandez | Crosshairs | Finalist | ||
Justin Ling | Missing from the Village | Finalist | ||
Rinaldo Walcott | On Property | Finalist | ||
2022 | Sarah Polley | Run Towards the Danger | Winner | [81] |
Camilla Gibb | The Relatives | Finalist | [81] | |
Falen Johnson | Two Indians | Finalist | ||
H. N. Khan | Wrong Side of the Court | Finalist | ||
Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, and Karolyn Smardz Frost | The Underground Railroad | Finalist | ||
2023 | Wanda Nanibush, Georgiana Uhlyarik | Moving the Museum | Winner | [82] |
Dionne Brand | Nomenclature | Finalist | [83] | |
Sophie Jai | Wildfires | Finalist | ||
Sheila Murray | Finding Edward | Finalist | ||
Carolyn Whitzman | Clara at the Door with a Revolver | Finalist |
References
[edit]- ^ "About the Toronto Book Awards". City of Toronto, official Web site. Retrieved 2009-06-19.
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- ^ Dundas, Deborah (October 10, 2018). "David Chariandy's novel Brother wins $10,000 Toronto Book Award". Toronto Star.
- ^ van Koeverden, Jane (August 9, 2018). "Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Lee Maracle shortlisted for $10K Toronto Book Award". CBC News.
- ^ a b Dundas, Deborah (October 2, 2019). "Dionne Brand named winner of 2019 Toronto Book Awards". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
- ^ Porter, Ryan (December 2, 2020). "Desmond Cole will donate half his Toronto Book Award prize winnings as he calls for TPL, city of Toronto "to do better"". Quill and Quire.
- ^ Porter, Ryan (November 2, 2020). "Shortlist announced for $10,000 Toronto Book Awards". Quill and Quire.
- ^ Drudi, Cassandra (October 5, 2021). "Kim Echlin wins $10,000 Toronto Book Award". Quill & Quire.
- ^ Qiao, Vicky (11 August 2021). "Missing From the Village by Justin Ling among six books shortlisted for $10K Toronto Book Awards". CBC News.
- ^ a b "Sarah Polley wins $10K Toronto Book Award for 'brave, intelligent' memoir Run Towards Danger". CBC Books. November 23, 2022.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik win 2023 Toronto Book Award". Quill & Quire, October 11, 2023.
- ^ "Shortlist announced for 2023 Toronto Book Awards". Quill & Quire, September 5, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Toronto Book Awards (City of Toronto Web site)