The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best Novel was first awarded in 1982 as the Award for Best Outstanding Work and is two awards, one granted to an English-language work and one to a French-language work. Until 1989 it was dedicated to any works, including non-novel length works. It became a dedicated category in 1989 as the Award for Best Long Form (French: Meilleur Livre). It became the Award for Best Novel (French: Meilleur Roman) in 2011, when the Prix Aurora and Prix Boreal combined. No winner was awarded in 1983 and 1986, but shortlists were created.

Robert J. Sawyer has won the English-language award the most times (eight times), and Élisabeth Vonarburg has won the French-language award the most times (seven times).

English-language Award

Winners and nominees

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year Author(s) Work Publisher/Publication Ref.
1982 Phyllis Gotlieb* Judgement of Dragons Berkley [1]
John Robert Colombo (editor) Friendly Aliens: Thirteen Stories of the Fantastic set in Canada Hounslow [1]
Charles R. Saunders Imaro DAW [1]
Lesley Choyce & John Bell (editors) Visions from the Edge Pottersfield [1]
1983 No winner selected [2]
Michael G. Coney Cat Karina Ace [2]
Crawford Killian Eyas Bantam Spectra [2]
Pauline Gedge Stargate Macmillan [2]
Andrew Weiner Station Gehanna F&SF (Apr. 1982) [2]
John Robert Colombo Wendigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction Prairie [2]
1984 Not awarded; no nominees
1985 Eileen Kernaghan Songs from the Drowned Lands Ace [3]
Michael G. Coney The Celestial Steam Locomotive HMH [3]
Spider Robinson Melancholy Elephants Analog (Jun. 1982) [3]
William Gibson Neuromancer Ace [3]
1986 No winner selected [4]
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale McClelland & Stewart [4]
Phyllis Gotlieb The Kingdom of the Cats Ace [4]
Charles de Lint Mulengro Ace [4]
1987 Guy Gavriel Kay The Wandering Fire Collins [5]
Robert Charles Wilson A Hidden Place Bantam Spectra [5]
Crawford Killian Lifter Ace [5]
Charles de Lint Yarrow (novel) Ace [5]
1988 Charles de Lint Jack, the Giant Killer Ace [6]
Guy Gavriel Kay The Darkest Road Collins [6]
Robert Charles Wilson Memory Wire Bantam Spectra [6]
Spider Robinson Time Pressure HRW [6]
1989 William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive Gollancz [7]
Candas Jane Dorsey Machine Sex and Other Stories Porcépic [7]
Robert Charles Wilson Memory Wire Bantam Spectra [7]
Spider Robinson Time Pressure HRW [7]
Élisabeth Vonarburg The Silent City Porcépic [7]
1990 Dave Duncan West of January Del Rey [8]
Terence M. Green Barking Dogs St. Martin's [8]
Tanya Huff Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light DAW [8]
Robert Charles Wilson Gypsies Bantam [8]
Crawford Killian Rogue Emperor Del Rey [8]
Eileen Kernaghan The Sarsen Witch Ace [8]
1991 Guy Gavriel Kay Tigana Viking [9]
Tanya Huff Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light DAW [9]
Robert Charles Wilson Gypsies Bantam [9]
Robert J. Sawyer Golden Fleece Warner [9]
Michael G. Coney King of the Scepter'd Isle Dutton [9]
1992 Robert J. Sawyer Golden Fleece Warner [10]
Tanya Huff Blood Price DAW [10]
William Gibson & Bruce Sterling The Difference Engine Gollancz [10]
Robert Charles Wilson The Divide Doubleday [10]
Spider Robinson Kill the Editor Axolotl [10]
Charles de Lint The Little Country Morrow [10]
1993 Sean Stewart Passion Play Beach Holme [11]
Tanya Huff Blood Trail DAW [11]
Terence M. Green Children of the Rainbow McClelland & Stewart [11]
Robert J. Sawyer Far-Seer Ace [11]
Guy Gavriel Kay A Song for Arbonne Viking [11]
1994 Sean Stewart Nobody's Son Macmillan [12]
Robert J. Sawyer Far-Seer Ace [12]
Guy Gavriel Kay A Song for Arbonne Viking [12]
William Gibson Virtual Light Seal [12]
1995 William Gibson Virtual Light Seal [13]
Spider Robinson Callahan's Touch Ace [13]
Robert J. Sawyer End of an Era Ace [13]
Robert Charles Wilson Mysterium Bantam Spectra [13]
Nancy Kilpatrick Near Death Pocket [13]
1996 Robert J. Sawyer The Terminal Experiment Harper Prism [14]
Dave Duncan The Cursed Del Rey [14]
Guy Gavriel Kay The Lions of Al-Rassan Viking [14]
Robert Charles Wilson Mysterium Bantam Spectra [14]
Sean Stewart Resurrection Man Ace [14]
Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson Star Mind Ace [14]
1997 Robert J. Sawyer Starplex Ace [15]
Nancy Kilpatrick Child of the Night Raven [15]
Tanya Huff No Quarter DAW [15]
Sean Stewart Resurrection Man Ace [15]
Terence M. Green Shadow of Ashland Tor [15]
1998 Candas Jane Dorsey Black Wine Tor [16]
Robert J. Sawyer Frameshift Tor [16]
Robert J. Sawyer Illegal Alien Ace [16]
Terence M. Green Shadow of Ashland Tor [16]
Charles de Lint Trader Tor [16]
1999 Robert Charles Wilson Darwinia Tor [17]
Nancy Kilpatrick Dracul: An Eternal Love Story Lucard [17]
Robert J. Sawyer Factoring Humanity Tor [17]
Phyllis Gotlieb Flesh and Gold Tor [17]
Guy Gavriel Kay Sailing to Sarantium Viking [17]
Charles De Lint Someplace to be Flying Tor [17]
2000 Robert J. Sawyer Flashforward Tor [18]
Julie E. Czerneda Beholder's Eye DAW [18]
Robert Charles Wilson Bios Tor [18]
Nalo Hopkinson Brown Girl in the Ring Warner Aspect [18]
Edo van Belkom Death Drives a Semi Quarry [18]
Peter Watts Starfish Tor [18]
2001 Eileen Kernaghan The Snow Queen Thistledown [19]
Robert J. Sawyer Calculating God Tor [19]
Julie E. Czerneda Changing Vision DAW [19]
James Alan Gardner Hunted Eos [19]
Lisa Smedman The Playback War Warner Aspect [19]
2002 Julie E. Czerneda In the Company of Others DAW [20]
James Alan Gardner Ascending Eos [20]
Robert Charles Wilson The Chronoliths Tor [20]
Peter Watts Maelstrom Tor [20]
Edo van Belkom Teeth Meisha Merlin [20]
2003 Karl Schroeder Permanence Tor [21]
Robert J. Sawyer Hominids Tor [21]
Edo van Belkom Martyrs DIG [21]
Julie E. Czerneda To Trade the Stars DAW [21]
Karin Lowachee Warchild DAW [21]
2004 Robert Charles Wilson Blind Lake Tor [22]
Karin Lowachee Burndive Warner Aspect [22]
Julie E. Czerneda Hidden in Sight DAW [22]
Robert J. Sawyer Humans Tor [22]
Edo van Belkom Scream Queen Pinnacle [22]
Caitlin Sweet A Telling of Stars Penguin [22]
2005 Edo van Belkom Wolf Pack Tundra [23]
Eileen Kernaghan The Alchemist's Daughter Thistledown [23]
Matthew Hughes Black Brillion Tor [23]
Stephanie Bedwell-Grime Fallen Angel Telos [23]
James Alan Gardner Radiant Eos [23]
Julie E. Czerneda Survival DAW [23]
2006 Karin Lowachee Cagebird Warner Aspect [24]
Edo van Belkom Lone Wolf Tundra [24]
Julie E. Czerneda Migration DAW [24]
Robert J. Sawyer Mindscan Tor [24]
Caitlin Sweet Silences of Home Penguin [24]
Robert Charles Wilson Spin Tor [24]
2007 Dave Duncan Children of Chaos Tor [25]
Peter Watts Blindsight Tor [25]
Julie E. Czerneda Regeneration DAW [25]
Lynda Williams Righteous Anger Edge [25]
Tanya Huff Smoke and Ashes DAW [25]
Karl Schroeder Sun of Suns Tor [25]
2008 Nalo Hopkinson The New Moon’s Arms Warner [26]
Denys Bridger As Fate Decrees Edge [26]
Edo van Belkom Cry Wolf McClelland & Stewart/Tundra [26]
Derwin Mak The Moon Under Her Feet Windstorm [26]
Robert J. Sawyer Rollback Tor [26]
2009 Edward Willett Marseguro DAW [27]
Ursula Pflug After the Fires Tightrope [27]
Hayden Trenholm Defending Diana Bundoran [27]
Robert J. Sawyer Identity Theft and Other Stories Red Deer [27]
Douglas Smith Impossibilia PS [27]
2010 Robert J. Sawyer Wake Penguin [28]
Leslie Carmichael The Amulet of Amon-Ra CBAY [28]
Barbara Galler-Smith & Josh Langston Druids Edge [28]
Hayden Trenholm Steel Whispers Bundoran [28]
Edward Willett Terra Insegura DAW [28]
2011 Robert J. Sawyer Watch Penguin [29]
Craig Russell Black Bottle Man Great Plains [29]
Marie Bilodeau Destiny’s Blood Dragon Moon [29]
Hayden Trenholm Stealing Home Bundoran [29]
Guy Gavriel Kay Under Heaven Viking [29]
2012 Robert J. Sawyer Wonder Penguin [30]
Michael Rowe Enter, Night ChiZine [30]
David Nickle Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism ChiZine [30]
Derryl Murphy Napier’s Bones ChiZine [30]
Caitlin Sweet The Pattern Scars ChiZine [30]
Ryan Oakley Technicolor Ultra Mall Edge [30]
2013 Tanya Huff The Silvered DAW [31]
Marie Bilodeau Destiny’s Fall Dragon Moon [31]
Karen Dudley Food for the Gods Ravenstone [31]
Lynda Williams Healer's Sword Edge [31]
Chadwick Ginther Thunder Road Ravenstone [31]
Robert J. Sawyer Triggers Penguin [31]
2014 Julie E. Czerneda A Turn of Light DAW [32]
Robert J. Sawyer Red Planet Blues Penguin [32]
Guy Gavriel Kay River of Stars Viking [32]
Susan MacGregor The Tatooed Witch Five Rivers [32]
Chadwick Ginther Tombstone Blues Ravenstone [32]
2015 Julie E. Czerneda A Play of Shadow DAW [33]
Peter Watts Echopraxia Tor [33]
Tanya Huff The Future Falls DAW [33]
Jo Walton My Real Children Tor [33]
William Gibson The Peripheral Penguin [33]
2016 A. M. Dellamonica A Daughter of No Nation Tor [34]
Ryan T. McFadden Cursed: Black Swan Dragon Moon [34]
E. C. Bell Drowning in Amber Tyche [34]
Randy McCharles Much Ado About Macbeth Tyche [34]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Signal to Noise Solaris [34]
Chadwick Ginther Too Far Gone Ravenstone [34]
2017 Robert J. Sawyer Quantum Night Penguin [35]
Guy Gavriel Kay Children of Earth and Sky Viking [35]
Madeline Ashby Company Town Tor [35]
Gerald Brandt The Courier DAW [35]
A. M. Dellamonica The Nature of a Pirate Tor [35]
Brent Nichols Stars Like Cold Fire Bundoran [35]
2018 Fonda Lee Jade City Orbit [36]
James Alan Gardner All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault Tor [36]
Brent Nichols Light of a Distant Sun Bundoran [36]
Gerald Brandt The Rebel DAW [36]
Costi Gurgu RecipeArium White Cat [36]
Julie E. Czerneda To Guard Against the Dark DAW [36]
2019 Kate Heartfield Armed in Her Fashion ChiZine [37]
Chadwick Ginther Graveyard Mind ChiZine [37]
Craig DiLouie One of Us Orbit [37]
James Alan Gardner They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded Tor [37]
Derek Künsken The Quantum Magician Solaris [37]
C. L. Polk Witchmark Tor [37]
2020 Julie E. Czerneda The Gossamer Mage DAW [38]
Guy Gavriel Kay A Brightness Long Ago Viking Canada [38]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Gods of Jade and Shadow Del Rey [38]
E. C. Bell Haunting the Haunted Tyche [38]
Fonda Lee Jade War Orbit [38]
Derek Künsken The Quantum Garden Solaris [38]
2021 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Mexican Gothic Random House [39]
Premee Mohamed Beneath the Rising Solaris [39]
Randy McCharles A Connecticut Gumshoe in King Arthur’s Court Tyche [39]
Robert J. Sawyer The Oppenheimer Alternative Red Deer Press [39]
Kelley Armstrong A Stitch in Time KLA Fricke [39]
2022 Fonda Lee Jade Legacy Orbit [40]
Premee Mohamed A Broken Darkness Solaris [40]
Derek Künsken The Quantum War Solaris [40]
David Demchuk RED X Strange Light [40]
C. L. Polk Soulstar Tor [40]
2023 Kate Heartfield The Embroidered Book HarperVoyager [41]
Guy Gavriel Kay All the Seas of the World Penguin [41]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Del Rey [41]
Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility HarperCollins [41]
Premee Mohamed The Void Ascendant Solaris [41]

Best of the Decade

A special award was handed out in 2017 for the best novel or series of the 2000s. If continued, this award will be given out once every 10 years.

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year Author(s) Work Publisher/Publication Ref.
2017 Robert J. Sawyer* The Neanderthal Parallax Tor [35]
Robert Charles Wilson Blind Lake Tor [35]
William Gibson Blue Ant Berkley [35]
Steven Erikson Malazan Book of the Fallen Tor [35]
Charles de Lint The Onion Girl Tor [35]
Guy Gavriel Kay Under Heaven Viking [35]

French-language Award

Winners and nominees

  *   Winners and joint winners

Year Author(s) Work Publisher/Publication Ref.
1989 Charles Montpetit Temps mort (Time Out) Paulines [42]
1990 Jacques Brossard Les Années d'apprentissage (Years of Learning) Leméac [42]
1991 Élisabeth Vonarburg Histoire de la princesse et du dragon (Story of the Princess and the Dragon) Québec/Amérique [42]
1992 Élisabeth Vonarburg Ailleurs et au Japon (Elsewhere and in Japan) Québec/Amérique [42]
1993 Élisabeth Vonarburg Chroniques du Pays des Mères (The Maerlande Chronicles) Québec/Amérique [42]
1994 Daniel Sernine Chronoreg Québec/Amérique [42]
1995 Joël Champetier La Mémoire du lac (Memory of the Lake) Québec/Amérique [42]
1996 Élisabeth Vonarburg Les Voyageurs malgré eux (Travellers, Despite Themselves) Québec/Amérique [42]
1997 Yves Meynard La rose du desert (The Desert Rose) Unknown [42]
1998 Jean-Pierre Guillet L'odyssée du Penelope (The Odyssey of the Penelope) Éditions Héritage [42]
1999 Alain Bergeron Corps-machines et rêves d'anges (Body-Machines and the Dreams of Angels) Vent D'Ouest [42]
2000 Francine Pelletier Samiva de Frée Alire [42]
2001 Jean-Louis Trudel Demain, les étoiles (Tomorrow, the Stars) Pierre Tisseyre [42]
2002 Jean-Louis Trudel Les Transfigurés du Centaure (The Transfigured Centaurs) Médiaspaul [42]
2003 Jean-Louis Trudel Le Revenant de Fomalhaut (The Return of Fomalhaut) Médiaspaul [42]
2004 Alain Bergeron Phaos Alire [42]
2005 Michèle Laframboise Les Mémoires de l'arc (Memories of the Arc) Médiaspaul [42]
2006 Dominic Bellavance Alégracia et le serpent d'argent (Alégracia and the Silver Snake) Les Six Brumes [42]
2007 Élisabeth Vonarburg La Princesse de vengeance (The Vengeance Princess) Alire [42]
2008 Diane Boudreau Cimetière du musée (Museum Cemetery) Unknown [42]
2009 Michèle Laframboise Les Vents de Tammerlan (The Winds of Tammerlan) Médiaspaul [42]
2010 Laurent McAllister Suprématie (Supremacy) Bragelonne [42]
2011 Héloïse Côté La Tueuse de dragons (The Dragon Slayer) Alire [42]
2012 Éric Gauthier Montréel Alire [42]
2013 Ariane Gélinas Transtaïga Unknown [42]
2014 Sébastien Chartrand L'Ensorceleuse de Pointe-Lévy (The Enchantress of Pointe-Lévy) Alire [42]
Ariane Gélinas L'île aux naufrages (The Island of Shipwrecks) Marchand de Feuilles [43]
Patrick Senécal Ce qui se passe dans la cave reste dans la cave (What Happens in the Cave Remains in the Cave) Alire [43]
2015 Élisabeth Vonarburg Hôtel Olympia (Hotel Olympia) Alire [42]
Marilou Addison Anita Mortagne [44]
Ariane Gélinas Escalana Marchand de Feuilles [44]
Frédéric Raymond Jardin de chair (Garden of Flesh) Les Six Brumes [44]
Patrick Senécal Grande liquidation (Grand Liquidation) Alire [44]
Daniel Sernine Les Îles du ciel (Islands of the Sky) Soulières [44]
2016 Philippe-Aubert Côté Le Jeu du Démiurge (The Demiurge Game) Alire [42]
Frédérick Durand Au rendez-vous des courtisans glacés (A Rendezvous of Icy Courtesans) Les Six Brumes [45]
Frédérick Durand Quand s'éteindra la dernière chandelle (When the Last Candle is Exhausted) Black Coat [45]
Éric Gauthier Le Grande mort de mononc' Morbide (The Grand Death of Mononc Morbid) Alire [45]
Yves Meynard Les Marches de la lune morte (Steps on the Dead Moon) Alire [45]
2017 Ariane Gélinas* Les Cendres de Sedna (The Ashes of Cedna) Alire [46]
Sébastien Chartrand Le sorcier de l’Île d’Orléans (The Sorcerer of Orléans Island) Alire [46]
Héloïse Côté Les monstres intérieurs (Indoor Monsters) Alire [46]
Martine Desjardins La chambre verte (Green Room) Alto [46]
Frédéric Raymond L’arbre maléfique(The Evil Tree) Éditions du Phoenix [46]
2018 Karoline Georges* De synthèse (Of Synthesis) Alto [47]
David Calvo Toxoplasma La Volte [48]
Yvan Godbout Hansel et Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) AdA [48]
Michèle Laframboise La ruche (The Hive) Les Six Brumes [48]
Matthieu Villeneuve Borealium tremens La Peuplade [48]
2019 Élisabeth Vonarburg Les Pierres et les Roses. Tome 1, 2 et 3 Alire [49]
Yves Meynard Chrysanthe t.1 La princess perdue Alire [49]
Simon Rousseau La Reine des Neiges ADA [49]
Stéphanie Sylvain Le roi des ombres Numeriklivres [49]
Christiane Vadnais Faunes ALTO [49]
2020 Patrick Senécal Ceux de là-bas Alire [50]
2021 Jonathan Reynolds Abîmes Alire [51]
2022 Bernard Gilbert Les Singes bariolés Québec Amérique [52]

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