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

Previous Award Recipients

2011 Trade Fiction
The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe

Trade Non-Fiction
Freehand Books( imprint of Broadview Press) (Calgary)
Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness by Clem Martini and Olivier Martini
2010 Trade Fiction
NeWest Press (Edmonton)
Seal Intestine Raincoat by Rosie Chard

Trade Non-Fiction
Glenbow Museum (Calgary)
Vistas: Artists on the Canadian Pacific Railway by Roger G. Boulet
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.

Click here for winners prior to 2003.