Toronto Book Awards

The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the City of Toronto government to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto".[1] The award is presented in the fall of each year, with its advance promotional efforts including a series of readings by the nominated authors at each year's The Word on the Street festival.

Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000.

The award has frequently gone to multiple winners. 1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.

Winners and nominees

Year Winner Nominated
1974 William Kurelek, O Toronto
Desmond Morton, Mayor Howland
Richard B. Wright, In the Middle of a Life
  • Sandra Budden and Joseph Ernst, The Movable Airport
  • Austin Clarke, Storm of Fortune
  • Michael Filey, Richard Howard and Helmut Weyerstrahs, Passengers Must Not Ride on Fender
  • Hugh Hood, The Governor's Bridge Is Closed
  • George Jonas, Cities
1975 Claude Bissell, Halfway up Parnassus
The Labour History Collective, Women at Work
Loren Lind, The Learning Machine
  • Max Braithwaite, Sick Kids
  • Juan Butler, Canadian Healing Oil
  • Jon Caulfield, The Tiny Perfect Mayor
  • Dennis Lee, Alligator Pie - Nicholas Knock
  • Harold Town, Albert Franck: His Life, Times and Work
1976 Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper, Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930
Hugh Hood, The Swing in the Garden
1977 Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
Margaret Gibson, The Butterfly Ward
1978 Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company
Timothy Findley, The Wars
1979 Michael Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire
William Dendy, Lost Toronto
John Morgan Gray, Fun Tomorrow
  • Morley Callaghan, No Man's Meat and The Enchanted Pimp
  • Paul Duval, The Tangled Garden
  • Marian Engel, The Glassy Sea
  • James Lorimer, The Developers
  • Peter Mellen, Landmarks of Canadian Art
  • David Lewis Stein, City Boys
1980 Raymond Souster, Hanging In
Stephen A. Speisman, The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937
1981 Timothy Colton, Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
Mary Larratt Smith, Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada
Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls
  • Gregory S. Kealey, Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892
  • John Lownsbrough, The Privileged Few: The Grange & Its People in Nineteenth Century Toronto
  • Austin Seton Thompson, Jarvis Street: A Story of Triumph and Tragedy
  • Richard B. Wright, Final Things
1982 Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey
Marian Engel, Lunatic Villas
1983 Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin
Lucy Booth Martyn, The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936
1984[2] Edith G. Firth, Toronto in Art
Gerald Killan, David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist
Eric Wright, The Night the Gods Smiled
  • Rod McQueen, The Money-Spinners
  • Marion Royce, Eunice Dyke: Health Care Pioneer
  • Bill Ivy, A Little Wilderness: The Natural History of Toronto
1985 Warabe Aska, Who Goes to the Park
J.M.S. Careless, Toronto to 1918
Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls
  • Patrick Brode, Sir John Beverley Robinson
  • Margaret and Merlyn McKelvey, Toronto: Carved in Stone
  • David G. Pitt, E.J. Pratt: The Truant Years 1882-1927
  • Victor L. Russell, Forging a Consensus
1986 Morley Callaghan, Our Lady of the Snows
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
  • Neil Bissoondath, Digging Up the Mountains
  • Rosemary Donegan, Spadina Avenue
  • James Lemon, Toronto Since 1918: An Illustrated History
  • Patricia McHugh, Toronto Architecture: A City Guide
1987 William Dendy and William Kilbourn, Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History
  • John Coldwell Adams, Sir Charles God Damn: The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
  • June Callwood, Twelve Weeks in Spring
  • Lovat Dickson, The Museum Makers: The Story of the Royal Ontario Museum
  • Michael Filey, Not a One-Horse Town: 125 Years of Toronto and Its Streetcars
  • Martin O'Malley, Hospital: Life and Death in a Major Medical Centre
1988 Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
  • Joan Hollobon, The Lion's Tale: A History of the Wellesley Hospital, 1912-1978
  • Cyril H. Levitt and William Shaffir, The Riot at Christie Pits
  • Tom MacDonnell, Never Let Go: The Tragedy of Kristy McFarlane
  • Anna Porter, Mortal Sins
1989 Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
1990 Hilary Russell, Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Homesick
1991 Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald, eds., Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories
  • Cary Fagan, City Hall and Mrs. God
  • Mary Jo Leddy, Say to the Darkness, We Beg to Differ
  • Claire MacKay and Johnny Wales, The Toronto Story
  • Jocko Thomas, From Police Headquarters
  • Morley Torgov, St. Farb's Day
  • Dan Yashinsky, Tales for an Unknown City
1992 Katherine Govier, Hearts of Flame
1993 Carole Corbeil, Voice-Over
David Donnell, China Blues
1994 Timothy Findley, Headhunter
1995 Ezra Schabas, Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian
  • Jack Batten, The Leafs: An Anecdotal History of the Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Cary Fagan, The Animals' Waltz
  • Eric Wright, Moodie's Tale
1996 Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
1997 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
1998 Helen Humphreys, Leaving Earth
1999 Richard Outram, Benedict Abroad
2000 Camilla Gibb, Mouthing the Words
  • Jennifer Duncan, Sanctuary and Other Stories
  • Greg Gatenby, Toronto - A Literary Guide
  • Conrad E. Heidenreich, Betty Ida Roots and Donald A. Chant, Special Places: The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
  • Russell Smith, Young Men
2001 A.B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
2002 Sarah Dearing, Courage My Love
  • Douglas Bell, Run Over: A Boy, His Mother and An Accident
  • Jane Lind, Joyce Wieland: Artist on Fire
  • Erin Mouré, Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person
  • Michael Redhill, Martin Sloane
  • Elizabeth Ruth, Ten Good Seconds of Silence
2003 Joe Fiorito, The Song Beneath the Ice
2004 Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Kate Taylor, Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
2005 David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories
2006 Dionne Brand, What We All Long For
  • Howard Akler, The City Man
  • Stephen Marche, Raymond and Hannah
  • Jason McBride and Alana Wilcox, eds., uTOpia: Towards a New Toronto
  • M.G. Vassanji, When She Was Queen
2007 Michael Redhill, Consolation
2008 Glen Downie, Loyalty Management
2009 Austin Clarke, More
2010 Mark Sinnett, The Carnivore
2011 Rabindranath Maharaj, The Amazing Absorbing Boy
2012 Andrew J. Borkowski, Copernicus Avenue
2013 Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes[3]
  • Patrick Cummins and Shawn Micallef, Full Frontal T.O.
  • Kevin Irie, Viewing Tom Thomson, A Minority Report
  • Aga Maksimowska, Giant
  • Katrina Onstad, Everybody Has Everything
2014 Charlotte Gray, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country
2015 Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven[4]
2016 Cordelia Strube, On the Shores of Darkness, There Is Light
  • Howard Akler, Men of Action
  • Ann Y. K. Choi, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety
  • John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg and Tatum Taylor, The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood
  • Marnie Woodrow, Heyday
2017 B. Denham Jolly, In the Black: My Life[5]
  • Jen Agg, I Hear She's a Real Bitch
  • John Lorinc, Jane Farrow, Stephanie Chambers, Maureen FitzGerald, Tim McCaskell, Rebecka Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer and Ed Jackson, Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer
  • Catherine Hernandez, Scarborough
  • James Maskalyk, Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
2018 David Chariandy, Brother[6]
2019 Dionne Brand, Theory[7]

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