Award Winners

Booker Prize

The Booker Prizes reward the finest in fiction, highlighting great books to readers and transforming authors’ careers. The symmetrical relationship between The Booker Prize for Fiction and The International Booker Prize ensures that they honour fiction and the best writing on a global basis.

Booker Prize Winners Booker Prize Nominees

Canada Reads

Canada Reads is a "literary Survivor," with celebrities championing books. Each day, panellists vote to eliminate one book, until a single title is chosen as the title the whole country should read this year.

Canada Reads Winners Canada Reads Nominees

The RBC Taylor Prize commemorates Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in the field of literary non-fiction. The Prize is awarded to the author whose book best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style, and a subtlety of thought and perception. The RBC Taylor Prize was discontinued in 2020.

Past RBC Taylor Nonfiction Prize Winners Past RBC Taylor Nonfiction Prize Nominees

The Evergreen Award™ is the only adult award in the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading program. The selections are comprised of Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles.

Evergreen Award Winners

Evergreen Award Nominees

The Canada Council for the Arts is responsible for administering the Governor General’s Literary Awards, which recognizes Canada’s best books in multiple categories.
Governor General's Literary Fiction Award Winners Governor General's Literary Fiction Award NomineesGovernor General's Literary Non-Fiction Award Winners Governor General's Literary Non-Fiction Award Nominees

The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year’s best novel or short story collection as selected by a three-member, independent judging panel.

Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Winners Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Nominees

Scotiabank Giller Prize recognizes excellence in Canadian fiction – long format or short stories.

Scotiabank Giller Prize Winners Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominees

The Ontario government established the Trillium Book Award to recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing.
Trillium Book Award Winners Trillium Book Award Nominees

The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Caldecott Medal Winners

The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

Coretta Scott King Award Winners

The Forest of Reading is Canada's largest recreational reading program! This initiative of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) offers seven reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators.

The Canada Council for the Arts is responsible for administering the Governor General’s Literary Awards, which recognizes Canada’s best books in multiple categories.

Governor General's Young People's Literature Award Winners Governor General's Young People's Literature Award Finalists Governor General's Young People's Illustration Award Winners Governor General's Young People's Illustration Award Finalists

The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Newbery Medal Winners

Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards have recognized artistic excellence in Canadian children’s literature. The winners are nominated by a three person awards committee comprised of a bookseller, a librarian and a children’s book reviewer. The winners are selected by juries of young readers from an Ontario public school. 
Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award Winners

The TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award recognizes the most distinguished book of the year in any genre, written by a Canadian for children ages 1 through 12. 

TD Canadian Children's Literature Award Winners TD Canadian Children's Literature Award Finalists