The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.[1] The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $25,000.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year Writer Title Ref.
1991 Wayne Johnston The Divine Ryans [2]
1992 Herb Curtis The Last Tasmanian [3]
1993 John Steffler The Afterlife of George Cartwright [4]
1994 David Adams Richards For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down [5]
1995 Bernice Morgan Waiting for Time [6]
1996 M. T. Dohaney Marriage of Masks [7]
1997 Alfred Silver Acadia [8]
1998 Shree Ghatage Awake When All the World Is Asleep [9]
Edward Riche Rare Birds [10]
1999 Wayne Johnston The Colony of Unrequited Dreams [11]
Lynn Coady Strange Heaven [12]
Don Hannah The Wise and Foolish Virgins
David Adams Richards The Bay of Love and Sorrows

2000s

Year Writer Title Ref.
2000 Alistair MacLeod No Great Mischief [13]
Carmelita McGrath Stranger Things Have Happened [14]
Donna Morrissey Kit's Law
2001 Carol Bruneau Purple for Sky [15]
Robert Finley The Accidental Indies [16]
David Adams Richards Mercy Among the Children
2002 Michael Crummey River Thieves [17]
Linda Little Strong Hollow [18]
Anne Simpson Canterbury Beach
2003 Donna Morrissey Downhill Chance [19]
Christy Ann Conlin Heave [20]
Susan Goyette Lures
2004 Kenneth J. Harvey The Town That Forgot How to Breathe [21]
Leo McKay Jr. Twenty-Six [22]
David Adams Richards River of the Brokenhearted
2005 Edward Riche The Nine Planets [23]
Kelly Cooper Eyehill [24]
Michael Winter The Big Why
2006 Donna Morrissey Sylvanus Now [19]
George Elliott Clarke George & Rue [25]
Lisa Moore Alligator
2007 Linda Little Scotch River [26]
Wayne Johnston The Custodian of Paradise [27]
Ami McKay The Birth House
2008 Don Hannah Ragged Islands [28]
Bernice Morgan Cloud of Bone [29]
David Adams Richards The Lost Highway
2009 Douglas Arthur Brown Quintet [30]
Ian Colford Evidence
Sara Tilley Skin Room

2010s

Year Writer Title Ref.
2010 Shandi Mitchell Under This Unbroken Sky [31]
Michael Crummey Galore
Linden MacIntyre The Bishop's Man
2011 Kathleen Winter Annabel [32]
Alexander MacLeod Light Lifting [33]
Beth Powning The Sea Captain's Wife
2012 David Adams Richards Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul [1]
Valerie Compton The Road [34]
Heather Jessup The Lightning Field
2013 Russell Wangersky Whirl Away [35]
Keir Lowther Dirty Bird [36]
Donna Morrissey The Deception of Livvy Higgs
2014 William Kowalski The Hundred Hearts [37]
Shashi Bhat The Family Took Shape [38]
Ed Kavanagh Strays
2015 Darren Greer Just Beneath My Skin [39]
Michael Crummey Sweetland [40]
David Adams Richards Crimes Against My Brother
2016 R. W. Gray Entropic [41]
Elisabeth de Mariaffi The Devil You Know [42]
Mark Anthony Jarman Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
2017 Donna Morrissey The Fortunate Brother [43]
Darren Greer Advocate [44]
Ami McKay The Witches of New York
2018 Oisín Curran Blood Fable [45]
Carol Bruneau A Bird on Every Tree [46]
Sarah Faber All Is Beauty Now
2019 Lisa Moore Something for Everyone [47]
Sharon Bala The Boat People [48]
Elisabeth de Mariaffi Hysteria

2020s

Year Writer Title Ref.
2020 Michael Crummey The Innocents [49]
Jaime Burnet Crocuses Hatch from Snow [50]
Shandi Mitchell The Waiting Hours
2021 Anne Simpson Speechless [51]
Bridget Canning Some People's Children [52]
Morgan Murray Dirty Birds
2022 Michelle Butler Hallett Constant Nobody [53]
David Huebert Chemical Valley [54]
Sharon Robart-Johnson Jude and Diana
2023 K.R. Byggdin Wonder World [55]
Bobbi French The Good Women of Safe Harbour [56]
Lisa Moore This Is How We Love

References

  1. ^ a b "Adams Richards wins $20,000 Thomas Head Raddall prize". The Chronicle Herald, October 13, 2012.
  2. ^ Val Ross, "Johnston's Divinely novel scores fiction prize 'People were belly-laughing and it was loud'". The Globe and Mail, June 15, 1991.
  3. ^ "Wright, Orca honoured". The Globe and Mail, June 30, 1992.
  4. ^ "Raddall, Richardson awards presented". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, November 5, 1993.
  5. ^ "Raddall prize story rooted in everyday life". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, October 28, 1994.
  6. ^ "Morgan earns book prize". Halifax Daily News, September 22, 1995.
  7. ^ "Masks reveals gift for details: NB's Dohaney winner of Raddall fiction award". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 27, 1996.
  8. ^ Marilyn Smulders, "Silver wins fiction prize for novel of Acadia's past". Halifax Daily News, September 30, 1997.
  9. ^ "Trio of literary awards". Halifax Daily News, May 15, 1998.
  10. ^ "Local authors short-listed for awards". The Telegram, April 24, 1998.
  11. ^ Marilyn Smulders, "The Rock dominates local literary awards: Cameron the only mainlander to walk away with Atlantic Canadian Literary Award". Halifax Daily News, May 29, 1999.
  12. ^ "Atlantic Writing Award nominees announced". Halifax Daily News, April 24, 1999.
  13. ^ "UNB professor wins regional literary award". The Daily Gleaner, June 1, 2000.
  14. ^ "Time for books: Local awards consolidated in special week". Halifax Daily News, April 28, 2000.
  15. ^ "Eight awards go to Atlantic writers". New Glasgow Evening News, May 30, 2001.
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  17. ^ "Crummey novel wins double set of awards". The Globe and Mail, May 28, 2002.
  18. ^ "Four Goose Lane books nominated for this year's Atlantic Book Awards". The Daily Gleaner, April 27, 2002.
  19. ^ a b Paul Chafe, "Donna Morrissey". The Canadian Encyclopedia, April 10, 2007.
  20. ^ "Atlantic Book Award nominees announced". Journal Pioneer, April 28, 2003.
  21. ^ "Kenneth J. Harvey wins Atlantic fiction prize". The Globe and Mail, May 26, 2004.
  22. ^ "Nominees are...: Atlantic Writing Awards 2004 nods go to ...". New Glasgow Evening News, April 28, 2004.
  23. ^ Paul Chafe, "Edward Riche". The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 3, 2007.
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  25. ^ "2006 Atlantic Book Awards nominees announced". Telegraph-Journal, April 11, 2006.
  26. ^ "Scotch River by Linda Little wins Atlantic book of the year". CBC Arts, May 12, 2007.
  27. ^ Stephen Clare, "Celebrating our own; Atlantic Book Festival launches week-long celebration; Bernard Riordon and David Adams Richards up for big prizes". Telegraph-Journal, May 5, 2007.
  28. ^ "Beaverbrook story takes 2 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Arts, May 13, 2008.
  29. ^ "CBC journalists among nominees for Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Arts, April 16, 2008.
  30. ^ Rodger J. Moran, "Douglas Arthur Brown". The Canadian Encyclopedia, November 3, 2011.
  31. ^ "N.S. novelist wins Atlantic book prize". CBC News Nova Scotia, April 15, 2010.
  32. ^ "Winter wins Atlantic Book Award". CBC News Newfoundland and Labrador, May 20, 2011.
  33. ^ Jeanne Whitehead, "Powning nominated for Atlantic Fiction Award". Kings County Record, April 5, 2011.
  34. ^ "Atlantic Fiction Prize shortlist announced". Telegraph-Journal, June 16, 2012.
  35. ^ "Wangersky wins fiction award for ‘Whirl Away’". The Telegram, September 23, 2013.
  36. ^ Maria Siassina, "WFNS Literary Awards shortlists revealed". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2013.
  37. ^ "Kowalski, Kimber, Domanski take home East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, September 21, 2014.
  38. ^ "Nova Scotia writers sweep East Coast Literary Awards". Halifax Chronicle-Herald, September 23, 2014.
  39. ^ "East Coast Literary Awards celebrate authors". Atlantic Books Today, June 8, 2015.
  40. ^ "Richards earns nomination for East Coast Literary Award". Miramichi Leader, May 6, 2015.
  41. ^ Becky Robertson, "Awards: R.W. Gray, Sue Goyette, Gary L. Saunders win 2016 East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, June 8, 2016.
  42. ^ Sue Carter, "Dean Jobb, Sue Goyette, Elisabeth de Mariaffi among East Coast Literary Award nominees". Quill & Quire, May 4, 2016.
  43. ^ "Donna Morrissey, Jennifer Houle, and Erin Wunker win 2017 East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, June 1, 2017.
  44. ^ Becky Robertson, "Darren Greer, Ami McKay, Erin Wunker among East Coast Literary Awards nominees". Quill & Quire, April 20, 2017.
  45. ^ Tara Thorne, "Your 2018 Atlantic Book Award winners". The Coast, May 11, 2018.
  46. ^ Norma Jean MacPhee, "Cape Breton couple to duke it out for same Atlantic Book Award". CBC News Nova Scotia, March 29, 2018.
  47. ^ Ryan Porter, "Lisa Moore wins $25,000 fiction award at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
  48. ^ Jane van Koeverden, "Lisa Moore, Elisabeth de Mariaffi & Sharon Bala shortlisted for $25K prize for Atlantic Canadian fiction". CBC Arts, May 2, 2019.
  49. ^ Sue Carter, "Ami McKay, Gemma Hickey double winners at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, July 2, 2020.
  50. ^ Samraweet Yohannes, "Sheree Fitch among finalists for 2020 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, June 2, 2020.
  51. ^ Alex Cook, "Atlantic Book Awards Announce 2021 Winners". The East Magazine, May 14, 2021.
  52. ^ Stephen Cooke, "Family history of Acadian Expulsion top nominee for 2021 Atlantic Book Awards". SaltWire Network, April 16, 2021.
  53. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "2022 Atlantic Book Awards winners announced". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2022.
  54. ^ "Halifax poet and author David Huebert among finalists for 2022 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, April 26, 2022.
  55. ^ Morgan Mullin (June 8, 2023). "The speech that stole the show at this year's Atlantic Book Awards". The Coast.
  56. ^ "Bridget Canning, Lisa Moore and Annick MacAskill among finalists for 2023 Atlantic Book Awards". CBC Books, April 25, 2023.

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