Amazon Canada First Novel Award

The Amazon Canada First Novel Award, formerly the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented by Amazon.ca and The Walrus to the best first novel in English published the previous year by a citizen or resident of Canada.^[1] It has been awarded since 1976.^[1]

The First Novel Award was founded by the literary magazine Books in Canada.^[1] Between 1976 and 1994, the award was sponsored by SmithBooks. During this period, the award was known as the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award.^[1] When SmithBooks was acquired by Chapters, it became the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award.^[1]

The award was reorganized when Books in Canada was acquired by Adrian and Olga Stein in 1995. The Steins retained a first novel editor, introduced a comprehensive first novel review program, and formalized the adjudication process.

Amazon first signed on as a sponsor of the award in 2001,^[2] with the award presented as the amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award through the 2000s. Full administration of the award was taken over by Amazon in 2009 and its name was changed to the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The Amazon.com arrangement saw the prize award initially doubled to $10,000, and then increased to its current amount of $40,000, with shortlisted finalists each receiving over $6,000.

Winners and nominees

At different times in its history, the award has been presented early in the year for works published in the preceding year, late in the year for works published in the same year as the presentation, or mid-year for an eligibility period that straddled parts of both years. For clarity, the list below is organized by the year of presentation rather than the year of publication eligibility.

1970s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1977-1979

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1977	Ian McLachlan	The Seventh Hexagram	Winner	[3]
	Michael Ondaatje	Coming Through Slaughter
	Alice Boissoneau	Eileen McCullough	Finalist	[4]
	David Kellum	The Falling World of Tristram Pocket
	Susan Kerslake	Middlewatch
	Sharon Riis	The True Story of Ida Johnson
	Carol Shields	Small Ceremonies
	Mary Soderstrom	The Descent of Andrew McPherson
1978	Oonah McFee	Sandbars	Winner	[5]
	Shane Dennison	Sidehill Gouger	Finalist	[6]
	Pauline Gedge	Child of the Morning
	Jack Hodgins	The Invention of the World
	M. T. Kelly	I Do Remember the Fall
	Helen Levi	A Small Informal Dance
	Morley Torgov	The Abramsky Variations
1979	Joan Barfoot	Abra	Winner	[1]
	Michael Dorland	The Double-Cross Circuit	Finalist	[7]
	Clive Doucet	Disneyland, Please
	Margaret Drury Gane	Parade on an Empty Street
	Kevin Major	Hold Fast
	Frank Paci	The Italians

1980s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1980-1989

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1980	Clark Blaise	Lunar Attractions	Winner	[8]
	Victoria Branden	Mrs. Job	Finalist
	Stan Dragland	Peckertracks
	Florence Evans	A Man Without Passion
	Shirley Faessler	Everything in the Window
	Katherine Govier	Random Descent
	Betty Lambert	Crossings
1981	W. D. Valgardson	Gentle Sinners	Winner	[9]
	Martyn Burke	Laughing War	Finalist
	Susan Musgrave	The Charcoal Burners
	Graham Petrie	Seahorse
	Leon Rooke	Fat Woman
1982	Joy Kogawa	Obasan	Winner	[10]
	Jim Christy	Streethearts	Finalist	[11]
	George Jonas	Final Decree
	Edward O. Phillips	Sunday's Child
	Gary Ross	Always Tip the Dealer
1983	W. P. Kinsella	Shoeless Joe	Winner	[12]
	Lorris Elliott	Coming for to Carry	Finalist	[13]
	Geraldine Rahmani	Blue
	Nessa Rapoport	Preparing for Sabbath
	Ann Rosenberg	The Bee Book
1984	Heather Robertson	Willie: A Romance	Winner	[8]
	Robert G. Collins	Tolerable Levels of Violence	Finalist	[14]
	Susan Swan	The Biggest Modern Woman in the World
	George Szanto	Not Working
	Wayne Tefs	Figures on a Wharf
1985	Geoffrey Ursell	Perdue, or How the West Was Lost	Winner	[15]
	Sharon Butala	Country of the Heart	Finalist	[16]
	Douglas Glover	Precious
	John Gray	Dazzled
	Sara Stambaugh	I Hear the Reaper's Song
	Armin Wiebe	The Salvation of Yasch Siemens
1986	Wayne Johnston	The Story of Bobby O'Malley	Winner	[17]
	Susan Charlotte Haley	A Nest of Singing Birds	Finalist	[18]
	Ann Ireland	A Certain Mr. Takahashi
	Frank Jones	Master and Maid
	Robert Walshe	Wales' Work
1987	Karen Lawrence	The Life of Helen Alone	Winner	[19]
	Marc Diamond	Momentum	Finalist	[20]
	David Gilmour	Back on Tuesday
	Paulette Jiles	The Late Great Human Road Show
	Jo Anne Williams Bennett	Downfall People
1988	Marion Quednau	The Butterfly Chair	Winner	[21]
	D.F. Bailey	Fire Eyes	Finalist	[22]
	W.D. Barcus	Squatters' Island
	Pauline Holdstock	The Blackbird's Song
	Seán Virgo	Selakhi
1989	Rick Salutin	A Man of Little Faith	Winner	[23]
	Neil Bissoondath	A Casual Brutality	Finalist	[24]
	Joan Clark	The Victory of Geraldine Gull
	David Homel	Electrical Storms
	Janice Kulyk Keefer	Constellations
	Helen Fogwill Porter	January, February, June or July

1990s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 1990-1999

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1990	Sandra Birdsell	The Missing Child	Winner	[25]
	Marilyn Bowering	To All Appearances a Lady	Finalist	[26]
	Barry Callaghan	The Way the Angel Spread Her Wings
	Jacqueline Dumas	Madeleine and the Angel
	Kristjana Gunnars	The Prowler
	Kenneth Radu	Distant Relations
1991	Nino Ricci	Lives of the Saints	Winner	[27]
	Gail Bowen	Deadly Appearances	Finalist	[28]
	Rita Donovan	The Dark Jewels
	Glen Huser	Grace Lake
	Margot Livesey	Homework
	Carsten Stroud	Sniper's Moon
1992	Rohinton Mistry	Such a Long Journey	Winner	[29]
	Douglas Coupland	Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture	Finalist	[30]
	Ekbert Faas	Woyzeck's Head
	Michael Kenyon	Kleinberg
	Alberto Manguel	News From a Foreign Country Came
1993	John Steffler	The Afterlife of George Cartwright	Winner	[31]
	Douglas Anthony Cooper	Amnesia	Finalist	[32]
	Carole Corbeil	Voice-Over
	Kenneth J. Harvey	Brud
	Greg Hollingshead	Spin Dry
1994	Deborah Joy Corey	Losing Eddie	Winner	[33]
	Catherine Bush	Minus Time	Finalist	[34]
	Don Dickinson	The Crew
	Douglas How	Blow Up the Trumpet in the New Moon
	Carol Malyon	If I Knew I'd Tell You
1995	Shyam Selvadurai	Funny Boy	Winner	[35]
	Charles Foran	Kitchen Music	Finalist	[36]
	Diane Schoemperlen	In the Language of Love
	Russell Smith	How Insensitive
	Cordelia Strube	Alex & Zee
1996	Keath Fraser	Popular Anatomy	Winner	[37]
	Diana Atkinson	Highways and Dancehalls	Finalist	[38]
	Wayson Choy	The Jade Peony
	Larissa Lai	When Fox Is a Thousand
	Yan Li	Daughters of the Red Land
1997	Anne Michaels	Fugitive Pieces	Winner	[39]
	Gail Anderson-Dargatz	The Cure for Death by Lightning	Finalist	[40]
	Ann-Marie MacDonald	Fall on Your Knees
	Yann Martel	Self
	Shani Mootoo	Cereus Blooms at Night
1998	Margaret Gibson	Opium Dreams	Winner	[41]
	Kim Echlin	Elephant Winter	Finalist	[42]
	Allan Levine	The Blood Libel
	Rabindranath Maharaj	Homer in Flight
	Tim Wynveen	Angel Falls
1999	André Alexis	Childhood	Winner	[43]
	Loranne Brown	The Handless Maiden	Finalist	[44]
	Tomson Highway	Kiss of the Fur Queen
	Terry Jordan	Beneath That Starry Place
	Kerri Sakamoto	The Electrical Field

2000s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2000-2009

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	David Macfarlane	Summer Gone	Winner	[45]
	Alan R. Wilson	Before the Flood
	Alistair MacLeod	No Great Mischief	Finalist	[46]
	Donna Morrissey	Kit's Law
	Jim Munroe	Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask
	Catherine Simmons-Niven	A Fine Daughter
2001	Eva Stachniak	Necessary Lies	Winner	[47]
	Steven Galloway	Finnie Walsh	Finalist	[48]
	Scott Gardiner	The Dominion of Wyley McFadden
	Susan Juby	Alice, I Think
	Lydia Kwa	This Place Called Absence
2002	Michael Redhill	Martin Sloane	Winner	[49]
	Dennis Bock	The Ash Garden	Finalist	[49]
	Michael Crummey	River Thieves
	Marina Endicott	Open Arms
	Linda Little	Strong Hollow
	Elizabeth Ruth	Ten Good Seconds of Silence
2003	Mary Lawson	Crow Lake	Winner	[50]
	Christy Ann Conlin	Heave	Finalist	[51]
	Aislinn Hunter	Stay
	Clint Hutzulak	The Beautiful Dead End
	Michael V. Smith	Cumberland
	Marnie Woodrow	Spelling Mississippi
2004	Michel Basilières	Black Bird	Winner	[52]
	Clayton Bailey	The Expedition	Finalist	[53]
	John Bemrose	The Island Walkers
	Lisa Grekul	Kalyna's Song
	Edeet Ravel	Ten Thousand Lovers
	Bettina von Kampen	Blue Becomes You
2005	Colin McAdam	Some Great Thing	Winner	[54]
	David Elias	Sunday Afternoon	Finalist	[55]
	Ibi Kaslik	Skinny
	Arthur Motyer	What's Remembered
	Catherine Safer	Bishop's Road
2006	Joseph Boyden	Three Day Road	Winner	[56]
	Howard Akler	The City Man	Finalist	[57]
	Brenda Brooks	Gotta Find Me an Angel
	Anne Giardini	The Sad Truth About Happiness
	Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer	The Nettle Spinner
	B. Glen Rotchin	The Rent Collector
2007	Madeleine Thien	Certainty	Winner	[58]
	Peter Behrens	The Law of Dreams	Finalist	[59]
	John Degen	The Uninvited Guest
	Annette Lapointe	Stolen
	Heather O'Neill	Lullabies for Little Criminals
	Adam Lewis Schroeder	Empress of Asia
2008	Gil Adamson	The Outlander	Winner	[60]
	David Chariandy	Soucouyant	Finalist	[61]
	Kyo Maclear	The Letter Opener
	C.S. Richardson	The End of the Alphabet
	Brian Tucker	Big White Knuckles
	Andrew Wedderburn	The Milk Chicken Bomb
2009	Joan Thomas	Reading by Lightning	Winner	[62]
	Michael Blouin	Chase & Haven	Finalist	[63]
	Claudia Dey	Stunt
	Patrick Lane	Red Dog, Red Dog
	Mary Swan	The Boys in the Trees

2010s

Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2010-2019

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Jessica Grant	Come, Thou Tortoise	Winner	[64]
	Diana Fitzgerald Bryden	No Place Strange	Finalist	[65]
	Annabel Lyon	The Golden Mean
	Damian Tarnopolsky	Goya's Dog
	Dragan Todorović	Diary of Interrupted Days
	Ian Weir	Daniel O'Thunder
2011	Eleanor Catton	The Rehearsal	Winner	[66]
	Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall	Ghosted	Finalist	[67]
	Miguel Syjuco	Ilustrado
	Dianne Warren	Cool Water
	Kathleen Winter	Annabel
2012	David Bezmozgis	The Free World	Winner	[68]
	Fraser Nixon	The Man Who Killed	Finalist	[69]
	Sina Queyras	Autobiography of Childhood
	Olive Senior	Dancing Lessons
	Alexi Zentner	Touch
2013	Anakana Schofield	Malarky	Winner	[70]
	Marjorie Celona	Y	Finalist	[71]
	Scott Fotheringham	The Rest Is Silence
	Pasha Malla	People Park
	Kim Thúy	Ru
2014	Wayne Grady	Emancipation Day	Winner	[72]
	Kenneth Bonert	The Lion Seeker	Finalist	[73]
	Krista Bridge	The Eliot Girls
	Susan Downe	Juanita Wildrose: My True Life
	D. W. Wilson	Ballistics
2015	Alix Hawley	All True Not a Lie in It	Winner	[74]
	Emma Hooper	Etta and Otto and Russell and James	Finalist	[75]
	Sean Michaels	Us Conductors
	Guillaume Morissette	New Tab
	Chelsea Rooney	Pedal
2016	Mona Awad	13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl	Winner	[76]
	Karim Alrawi	Book of Sands	Finalist	[77]
	Aaron Cully Drake	Do You Think This Is Strange?
	W. Mark Giles	Seep
	Judith McCormack	Backspring
	Elizabeth Philips	The Afterlife of Birds
2017	Katherena Vermette	The Break	Winner	[78]
	Catherine Cooper	White Elephant	Finalist	[79]
	Kaie Kellough	Accordéon
	Rebecca Rosenblum	So Much Love
	Yasuko Thanh	Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains
2018	Michael Kaan	The Water Beetles	Winner	[80]
	Sharon Bala	The Boat People	Finalist	[81]
	David Demchuk	The Bone Mother
	Omar El Akkad	American War
	Rachel Manley	The Black Peacock
	Alison Watt	Dazzle Patterns
2019	Casey Plett	Little Fish	Winner	[82]
	Liz Harmer	The Amateurs	Finalist	[83]
	Tyler Hellard	Searching for Terry Punchout
	Tanya Tagaq	Split Tooth
	Joshua Whitehead	Jonny Appleseed
	Ian Williams	Reproduction

2020s

Amazon Canada First Novel Award winners and finalists, 2020–present

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Stéphane Larue (tr. Pablo Strauss)	The Dishwasher	Winner	[84]
	Nancy Jo Cullen	The Western Alienation Merit Badge	Finalist	[84]
	James Gregor	Going Dutch
	Victoria Hetherington	Mooncalves
	Nazanine Hozar	Aria
	Andrew David MacDonald	When We Were Vikings
2021	Michelle Good	Five Little Indians	Winner	[85]
	Sheung-King	You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.	Finalist	[86]
	Francesca Ekwuyasi	Butter Honey Pig Bread
	Marlowe Granados	Happy Hour
	Jael Richardson	Gutter Child
	John Elizabeth Stintzi	Vanishing Monuments
2022	Pik-Shuen Fung	Ghost Forest	Winner	[87]
	Emily Austin	Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead	Finalist	[88]
	Lisa Bird-Wilson	Probably Ruby
	Brian Thomas Isaac	All the Quiet Places
	Conor Kerr	Avenue of Champions
	Aimee Wall	We, Jane
2023	Jasmine Sealy	The Island of Forgetting	Winner	[89]
	Billy-Ray Belcourt	A Minor Chorus	Finalist	[90]
	André Forget	In the City of Pigs
	Jessica Johns	Bad Cree
	William Ping	Hollow Bamboo
	Kai Thomas	In the Upper Country
2024	Alicia Elliott	And Then She Fell	Winner	[91]
	Jordan Abel	Empty Spaces	Finalist	[92]
	Caroline Dawson	As the Andes Disappeared
	Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall	Tauhou
	Janika Oza	A History of Burning
	Amanda Peters	The Berry Pickers

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External links

• First Novel Award at Amazon.ca