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.



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