The winners of the Manitoba Book Awards / Les Prix du livre du Manitoba were announced on June 11.

The awards, which recognize excellence in Manitoba writing, book design and illustration, publishing, and stories, are presented annually by the coalition of the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival, the Manitoba Writers’ Guild, and the Winnipeg Public Library.

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

• Malleable Forms: Selected Essays by Meeka Walsh (ARP Books)

 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

• The Theory of Crows by David A. Robertson (HarperCollins Publishers)

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

• The Secret of the Jade Bangle by Linda Trinh and Clayton Nguyen, illus. (Annick Press)
• Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck (Conundrum Press)

Manitowapow Award

• Willian Dumas
• David A. Robertson
• Joshua Whitehead

Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards

Book Design

• Warehouse Journal, Volume 31 edited snd designed by Alieha Pascua, Dave Castillo, and Joanna Babadilla (Warehouse Journal, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba)

Illustration

• Resilience: Honouring the Children of Residential Schools by Jackie Traverse, foreword by Gramma Shingoose, illustration by Jackie Traverse, cover and interior design by Melody Morrissette (Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing)

Graphic Novel

• Version Control by David A. Robertson, illustration by Scott B. Henderson, colouring by Donovan Yaciuk, lettering by Andrew Thomas, cover and interior design by Jennifer Lum (HighWater Press)

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

• The Full Catastrophe by Méira Cook (House of Anansi Press)

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher

• Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds by Elizabeth Yeoman, cover design by David Drummond, interior design by Jess Koroscil (University of Manitoba Press)

McNally Robinson Book for Young People (Older Category)

• Lessons in Fusion by Primrose Madayag Knazan (Yellow Dog/Great Plains Publications)
• The Stone Child: The Misewa Saga, Book Three by David A. Robertson (Puffin Canada)

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

• Shelterbelts by Jonathan Dyck (Conundrum Press)

Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault

• Petites déviations by Lise Gaboury Diallo (Les Éditions du Blé)