The winners of the 2017 Saskatchewan Book Awards, recognizing the province’s best writers and publishers, were revealed at a ceremony in Regina on April 29:

Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award

• Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal (Knopf Canada)

Muslims for Peace and Justice Fiction Award

• Dwayne Brenna, New Albion (Coteau Books)

University of Saskatchewan Non-fiction Award

• Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (Fifth House Publishers)

Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award

• Louise Bernice Halfe, Burning in this Midnight Dream (Coteau Books)

O’Reilly Insurance and The Co-operators First Book Award

• Angie Counios and David Gane, Along Comes a Wolfe (Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing)

Saskatchewan Arts Board Poetry Award

• Louise Bernice Halfe, Burning in this Midnight Dream (Coteau)

Young Adult Literature Award

• Beth Goobie, The Pain Eater (Second Story Press)

City of Saskatoon and Public Library Saskatoon Book Award

• Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal (Knopf Canada)

City of Regina Book Award

• Trevor Herriot, Towards a Prairie Atonement (University of Regina Press)

Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award

• Bohdan S. Kordan, No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Prix du livre français

• Madeleine Blais-Dahlem, La voix de mon père (Éditions de la nouvelle plume)

Ministry of Parks, Culture and Sport Publishing Award

• University of Regina Press for Towards a Prairie Atonement by Trevor Herriot

Advancing Education Award for Publishing in Education

• University of Regina Press for Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry presented by the League of Canadian Poets

Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award

• Coteau for Burning in this Midnight Dream by Louise Bernice Halfe