Ottawa Book Award and Prix du livre d'Ottawa is a Canadian literary award presented by the City of Ottawa to the best English and French language books written in the previous year by a living author residing in Ottawa.[1] There are four awards each year: English fiction and non-fiction (the Ottawa Book Awards); French fiction and non-fiction (Prix du livre d'Ottawa). As of 2011 the four prize winners receive $7,500 each and short-listed authors $1,000 each.[1] The award was founded in 1986. In its earlier years it was named the Ottawa-Carleton Book Awards.
From 1986 to 1990, only a single winner was named each year, with the prize alternating between non-fiction in even-numbered years and fiction in odd-numbered years. Beginning in 1991, separate awards were created for English and French literature,[2] although the alternation between non-fiction and fiction titles each year continued until 2004; ever since, four awards have been presented annually for both English and French fiction and non-fiction. Despite being named as "fiction", however, the fiction category is also open to poetry titles.
Each category is presented only if the committee has received five eligible submissions within the appropriate eligibility period. If this benchmark is not reached, then no award is presented in that category; instead, any submissions that were received are forwarded for consideration in the following year, while the prize money is rolled back into the city's annual arts granting program.[3] To date, only the French categories have ever been delayed in this manner, with the French non-fiction category impacted much more frequently than the French fiction category.
Although administered separately, the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry is also typically presented at the same time as the Ottawa Book Awards announcements.
^ ab2011 Guidelines for Authors and Publishers, Ottawa Book Awards website
^ abc"Ottawa writers big winners; Top prize split between English, French authors for the first time in Valley festival". Ottawa Citizen, April 27, 1991.
^ abcBurt Heward, "Sawatsky wins top literary prize; ottawa-Carleton award goes to author who tracked Mulroney's rise to power". Ottawa Citizen, May 2, 1992.
^ abPaul Gessell, "Cumyn captures book prize -- again". Ottawa Citizen, April 27, 2001.
^ abPaul Gessell, "Doyle wins prize for latest novel: Ottawa Literary Awards presented last night". Ottawa Citizen, April 25, 2003.
^ abcdPaul Gessell, "Ice storm of '98 stars in story chosen as best work of fiction". Ottawa Citizen, April 22, 2004.
^ abcd"Ottawa Book Awards honour works by Poile, Horrall, Rochon; Authors receive recognition for poetry, non-fiction, French fiction". Ottawa Citizen, October 30, 2010. Database: ProQuest Newsstand. ProQuest 761372961
^"Old Ottawa South resident awarded for Girl Unwrapped." (2011, November 4). Ottawa This Week West [Ottawa, Ontario], p. 1. Gale Document Number: GALE|A272194183
^ abcdRyan B. Patrick, "Charlotte Gray, John Metcalf and Andrée Christensen win 2017 Ottawa Book Awards". CBC Books, July 13, 2017.
^ abcdLynn Saxberg, "Poet O'Meara scoops two more Ottawa book awards". Ottawa Citizen, October 21, 2022.
^ abcd"Tim Cook and Jean Van Loon among winners of 2023 Ottawa Book Awards". Quill & Quire, October 13, 2023.
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Ottawa Book Award and Prix du livre d Ottawa is a Canadian literary award presented by the City of Ottawa to the best English and French language books written in the previous year by a living author residing in Ottawa 1 There are four awards each year English fiction and non fiction the Ottawa Book Awards French fiction and non fiction Prix du livre d Ottawa As of 2011 the four prize winners receive 7 500 each and short listed authors 1 000 each 1 The award was founded in 1986 In its earlier years it was named the Ottawa Carleton Book Awards From 1986 to 1990 only a single winner was named each year with the prize alternating between non fiction in even numbered years and fiction in odd numbered years Beginning in 1991 separate awards were created for English and French literature 2 although the alternation between non fiction and fiction titles each year continued until 2004 ever since four awards have been presented annually for both English and French fiction and non fiction Despite being named as fiction however the fiction category is also open to poetry titles Each category is presented only if the committee has received five eligible submissions within the appropriate eligibility period If this benchmark is not reached then no award is presented in that category instead any submissions that were received are forwarded for consideration in the following year while the prize money is rolled back into the city s annual arts granting program 3 To date only the French categories have ever been delayed in this manner with the French non fiction category impacted much more frequently than the French fiction category Although administered separately the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry is also typically presented at the same time as the Ottawa Book Awards announcements Contents 1 Winners 1 1 Fiction 1986 1990 1 2 Non fiction 1986 1990 1 3 English fiction 1991 present 1 4 English non fiction 1991 present 1 5 French fiction 1991 present 1 6 French non fiction 1991 present 2 References 3 External linksWinners editFiction 1986 1990 edit 1987 John Metcalf Adult Entertainment 4 1989 Maurice Henrie La Chambre a mourir 5 Non fiction 1986 1990 edit 1986 Joan Finnigan Legacies Legends and Lies and Jean Bruce Back the Attack Canadian Women During the Second World War 6 1988 Patricia Morley Kurelek A Biography 7 1990 Roy MacGregor Chief The Fearless Vision of Billy Diamond 8 English fiction 1991 present edit 1991 Rita Donovan Dark Jewels 2 1993 Rita Donovan Daisy Circus and Nadine McInnis The Litmus Body 9 1995 John Barton Notes Towards a Family Tree and Frances Itani Man Without Face 10 1997 Patrick Kavanagh Gaff Topsails 11 1999 Alan Cumyn Man of Bone 12 2001 Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound 13 2003 Brian Doyle Mary Ann Alice 14 2004 Elizabeth Hay Garbo Laughs 15 2005 Frances Itani Poached Egg on Toast 2006 John James Ford Bonk on the Head and John Geddes The Sundog Season 2007 Janet Lunn A Rebel s Daughter 2008 Elizabeth Hay Late Nights on Air 2009 Andrew Steinmetz Eva s Threepenny Theatre 2010 Craig Poile True Concessions 16 2011 Gabriella Goliger Girl Unwrapped 17 2012 Jamieson Findlay The Summer of Permanent Wants 2013 Missy Marston The Love Monster 2014 David O Meara A Pretty Sight 2015 Scott Randall And to Say Hello 2016 Nadine McInnis Delirium for Solo Harp 2017 John Metcalf The Museum at the End of the World 18 2018 Shane Rhodes Dead White Men 2019 Kagiso Lesego Molope This Book Betrays My Brother 2020 Henry Beissel Footprints of Dark Energy 2021 Conyer Clayton We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite 2022 David O Meara Masses on Radar 19 2023 Jean Van Loon Nuclear Family 20 English non fiction 1991 present edit 1992 John Sawatsky Mulroney The Politics of Ambition 3 1994 Penelope Williams That Other Place A Personal Account of Breast Cancer 1996 Clyde Sanger Malcolm MacDonald Bringing an End to Empire 1998 Isaac Vogelfanger Red Tempest 2000 Roy MacGregor A Life in the Bush Lessons From My Father 2002 Anna Heilman Never Far Away 2004 Madelaine Drohan Making a Killing How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business 15 2005 Valerie Knowles From Telegrapher to Titan The Life of William C Van Horne 2006 Heather Menzies No Time Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life 2007 Charlotte Gray Reluctant Genius The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell 2008 Tim Cook At the Sharp End Canadians Fighting the Great War 1914 1916 2009 Kerry Pither Dark Days The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror 2010 Andrew Horrall Bringing Art to Life a Biography of Alan Jarvis 16 2011 Eric Enno Tamm The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds 2012 Ruth B Phillips Museum Pieces Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums 2013 Michael Petrou Is This Your First War Travels through the Post 9 11 Islamic World 2014 Paul Wells The Longer I m Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Canada 2006 2015 Heather Menzies Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good 2016 Tim Cook Fight to the Finish Canadians in the Second World War 1944 1945 2017 Charlotte Gray The Promise of Canada 150 Years People and Ideas that Have Shaped our Country 18 2018 Roy MacGregor Original Highways Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada 2019 Tim Cook The Secret History of Soldiers How Canadians Survived the Great War 2020 Beverley McLachlin Truth Be Told My Journey Through Life and the Law 2021 Suzanne Evans The Taste of Longing Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook 2022 Fen Osler Hampson and Mike Blanchfield The Two Michaels Innocent Canadian Captives and High Stakes Espionage in the US China Cyber War 19 2023 Tim Cook Lifesavers and Body Snatchers Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War 20 French fiction 1991 present edit 1991 Daniel Poliquin Visions de Jude 2 1993 Maurice Henrie Le Pont sur le temps and Gabrielle Poulin Petites fugues pour une saison seche 9 1995 Andree Christensen Noces d ailleurs 10 1997 Maurice Henrie Le Balcon dans le ciel 11 1999 Pierre Raphael Pelletier Il faut crier l injure 12 2001 Nicole V Champeau Dans les pas de la louve and Michele Matteau Quatuor pour cordes sensibles 13 2003 Jean Mohsen Fahmy Ibn Kaldoun l honneur et la disgrace and Nancy Vickers La Petite Vieille aux poupees 14 2004 Maurice Henrie Memoire Vive 15 2005 Maurice Henrie Les roses et le verglas and Michel Therien L aridite des fleuves 2006 Gilles Lacombe Trafiquante de lumiere 2007 Daniel Poliquin La Kermesse 2008 Andree Christensen Depuis toujours j entendais la mer 2009 Margaret Michele Cook Chronos a sa table de travail 2010 Claire Rochon Fragments de Sifnos 16 2011 not awarded 2012 Estelle Beauchamp Un souffle venu de loin 2013 Marie Josee Martin Un jour ils entendront mes silences 2014 not awarded 2015 Blaise Ndala J irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor 2016 Pierre Luc Landry Les corps extraterrestres 2017 Andree Christensen Epines d encre 18 2018 Alain Bernard Marchand Sept vies dix sept morts 2019 Andree Christensen L Isle aux abeilles noires 2020 Veronique Sylvain Premier quart 2021 Monia Mazigh Farida 2022 Michele Vinet Le Malaimant 19 2023 Nancy Vickers Capharnaum 20 French non fiction 1991 present edit 1992 not awarded 3 1994 Gilberte Paquette Dans le sillage d Elizabeth Bruyere 1996 Elisabeth J Lacelle L incontournable echange Conversations oecumeniques et pluridisciplinaires 1998 Rene Dionne Histoire de la Litterature Franco Ontarienne des origines a nos jours 2000 Patricia Smart Les femmes du Refus Global 2002 Francoise Lepage Histoire de la litterature pour la jeunesse 2004 Mila Younes Ma mere ma fille ma sœur 15 2005 not awarded 2006 Rejean Robidoux D eloge et de critique 2007 not awarded 2008 not awarded 2009 Maurice Henrie Esprit de sel 2010 not awarded 16 2011 Lucie Joubert L envers du landau 2012 not awarded 2013 not awarded 2014 Philippe Bernier Arcand La derive populiste 2015 not awarded 2016 Patricia Smart De Marie de l Incarnation a Nelly Arcan 2017 not awarded 18 2018 not awarded 2019 Yvon Malette Entre le risque et le reve Une breve histoire des Editions David 2020 not awarded 2021 Nicole V Champeau Niagara la voie qui y mene 2022 not awarded 19 2023 Maurice Henrie La tete haute 20 References edit a b 2011 Guidelines for Authors and Publishers Ottawa Book Awards website a b c Ottawa writers big winners Top prize split between English French authors for the first time in Valley festival Ottawa Citizen April 27 1991 a b c Burt Heward Sawatsky wins top literary prize ottawa Carleton award goes to author who tracked Mulroney s rise to power Ottawa Citizen May 2 1992 Burt Heward Ottawa author critic Metcalf wins 2 000 literary award Ottawa Citizen May 2 1987 Burt Heward Festival s top award goes to francophone Ottawa Citizen April 22 1989 Burt Heward Oral historians share Ottawa Carleton book award Ottawa Citizen April 19 1986 Burt Heward Life of Kurelek top winner Ottawa Citizen April 23 1998 Burt Heward MacGregor takes top book prize Ottawa Citizen April 28 1990 a b Burt Heward Authors share ottawa carleton fiction awards Ottawa Citizen May 1 1993 pp 0 F4 Database ProQuest Newsstand ProQuest 239763990 a b Charles Gordon Ottawa man captures two awards for poetry Ottawa Citizen May 6 1995 a b Jenny Jackson Author s first novel captures top prize Ottawa Citizen May 10 1997 a b Jenny Jackson Novelist wins 2000 award Ottawa Citizen April 25 1999 a b Paul Gessell Cumyn captures book prize again Ottawa Citizen April 27 2001 a b Paul Gessell Doyle wins prize for latest novel Ottawa Literary Awards presented last night Ottawa Citizen April 25 2003 a b c d Paul Gessell Ice storm of 98 stars in story chosen as best work of fiction Ottawa Citizen April 22 2004 a b c d Ottawa Book Awards honour works by Poile Horrall Rochon Authors receive recognition for poetry non fiction French fiction Ottawa Citizen October 30 2010 Database ProQuest Newsstand ProQuest 761372961 Old Ottawa South resident awarded for Girl Unwrapped 2011 November 4 Ottawa This Week West Ottawa Ontario p 1 Gale Document Number GALE A272194183 a b c d Ryan B Patrick Charlotte Gray John Metcalf and Andree Christensen win 2017 Ottawa Book Awards CBC Books July 13 2017 a b c d Lynn Saxberg Poet O Meara scoops two more Ottawa book awards Ottawa Citizen October 21 2022 a b c d Tim Cook and Jean Van Loon among winners of 2023 Ottawa Book Awards Quill amp Quire October 13 2023 External links editOttawa Book Awards Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ottawa Book Award amp oldid 1194610052, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
