Trade Fiction Book of the Year and
Trade Non-Fiction Book of the Year

Previous Award Recipients

• 2009
  Trade Fiction
  The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
  The Office Tower Tales by Alice Major
  Trade Non-Fiction
  AU Press (Edmonton)
  Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains by Jack W. Brink
• 2008
  Trade Fiction
  NeWest Press (Edmonton)
  Wonderfull by William Neil Scott
  Trade Non-Fiction
  The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
  Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada by Arthur Kroeger
• 2007
  Trade Fiction
  Frontenac House (Calgary)
  Pearl by Nancy Jo Cullen
  Trade Non-Fiction
  Red Deer Press (Calgary)
  The Unmentionable History of the West by Nancy Millar
  
• 2006
  Trade Fiction
  Brindle & Glass Publishing (Edmonton):
  The Madonna List by Max Foran
  Trade Non-Fiction
  The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton):
  Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies 1902-1930
  by I.S. McLaren with Eric Higgs and Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux
  
• 2005
  Trade Fiction
  NeWest Press (Edmonton):
  Displaced Persons by Margie Taylor
  Trade Non-Fiction
  The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton):
  Edmonton In Our Own Words
  by Linda Goyette and Carolina Jakeway Roemmich
• 2004
  Trade Fiction:
  The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton): An Ark of Koans
  by E.D. Blodgett, illustrations by Jasques Brault
  Trade Non-Fiction:
  Hole's (St. Albert): Lois Hole's Favorite Bulbs: Better Choices, Better Gardens, edited by Jim Hole and Valerie Hole
• 2003
  Trade Fiction:
  The Books Collective (Edmonton): The Memory Dress Trilogy
  by Ronnie Burkett
  Trade Non-Fiction:
  The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton):
  The Canadian Dictionary of ESL, edited by Carol Sue Bailey
  and Kathy Dolby

In 2003, the Trade Book category was split into two separate awards, Trade Fiction and Trade Non-Fiction, in order to better reflect the difference in skills and understanding of the different markets for these two genres.

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Alberta Trade Book of the Year

This award is presented annually to the Alberta-based publisher producing the best book of non-fiction published primarily for the trade or bookstore market.

Previous Winners of the Trade Book of the Year Award

• 2002
  Johnson Gorman Publishers (Calgary): Fly Fishing Canada From Coast to Coast to Coast by Outdoor Writers of Canada, Edited by Robert H. Jones
• 2001
  Rocky Mountain Books: Pushing the Limits: The Story of Canadian Mountaineering by Chic Scott
• 2000
  A Fine Daughter, by Catherine Simmons Niven
  Red Deer Press
• 1999
  But it's a Dry Cold: Weathering the Canadian Prairies,
  by Elaine Wheaton Fifth House Publishers
• 1998
  Shredding the Public Interest, by Kevin Taft
  The University of Alberta Press
• 1997
  A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies, by Lisa Christensen
  Glenbow Press
• 1996
  The Klein Revolution, by Mark Lisac
  NeWest Press
• 1995
  Lois Hole's Northern Flower Gardening: Bedding Plants, by Lois Hole
  Lone Pine Publishing
• 1994
  Boundless Alberta, by Aretha Van Herk
  NeWest Press
• 1993
  Buffalo, by J. Foster, D. Harrison, and I.S. MacLaren, eds.
  The University of Alberta Press