The winners of the 2024 Nova Scotia Book Awards have been announced.

Winners were named at an event in Dartmouth on June 3. The winners of the Atlantic Book Awards will be announced at an event in Halifax on June 5. Both awards presentations occur during the annual Atlantic Book Festival.

Nonfiction author Karen Pinchin was named the winner in two categories: nonfiction and debut nonfiction. Debut author Amanda Peters was named the winner of the Dartmouth Book Award, adding to the honours for her novel The Berry Pickers, which won a Carnegie Medal earlier this year and was shortlisted for the Amazon First Novel Award, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence.

The winners of the Nova Scotia Book Awards were chosen from shortlists announced in April.

Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction

• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins)

Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award

• Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of our Seas by Karen Pinchin (Knopf Canada)

George Borden Writing for Change

• Making a Home: Assisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People by Jen Powley (Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing)

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Fiction

• Birth Road by Michelle Wambolt (Nimbus Publishing)

Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, Non-Fiction

• Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of our Seas by Karen Pinchin (Knopf Canada)