The prizes were launched earlier this year by the League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario Arts Council.
Brett Popplewell wins 2024 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
The annual $10,000 prize recognizes Canadian writers for a first or second work of creative nonfiction.
Heidi LM Jacobs wins 2024 Ontario Speaker’s Book Award
Yilin Wang wins 2024 John Glassco Translation Prize
Wang was named the winner of this year’s prize for The Lantern and the Night Moths, her translations of selected works of five Chinese poets.
Kathleen DuVal wins 2024 Cundill History Prize
DuVal was named the winner of the $75,000 (U.S.) prize for her book Native Nations: A Millenium in North America.
Christopher DiRaddo wins 2024 QWF Judy Mappin Community Award
Henry Tsang wins City of Vancouver Book Award, Elee Kraljii Gardiner named Vancouver’s poet laureate
CCBC adds new nonfiction prize to 2025 awards program
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre announced the establishment of a new award – the Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction.
Winners of the 2024 CCBC Book Awards revealed
The $50,000 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, the largest cash prize in Canadian children’s literature, was awarded to Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol and illustrated by Todd Stewart.