Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
The Kobo Emerging Writer Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented since 2015 by online ebook and audiobook retailer and eReader manufacturer Rakuten Kobo.[1]
Awardees receive a $10,000 prize, and are provided with support in marketing their books.[1] Three prizes are awarded each year, for literary fiction, non-fiction, and genre fiction. Each year a different genre is honoured in the genre fiction category.
Winners[]
Year | Author | Title | Genre | Reference |
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2015 | Claire Battershill | Circus | Literary fiction | [2] |
Last of the Independents: Vancouver Noi | Mystery | |||
Robyn Doolittle | Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story | Nonfiction | ||
2016 | Specimen | Literary fiction | [3] | |
Fury’s Kiss | Romance | |||
Wab Kinew | The Reason You Walk | Nonfiction | ||
2017 | The Translation of Love | Literary fiction | [4] | |
A Keeper's Truth | Speculative fiction | |||
Teva Harrison | In-Between Days | Nonfiction | ||
2018 | Omar El Akkad | American War | Literary fiction | [5] |
Sheena Kamal | The Lost Ones | Mystery | ||
Maria Qamar | Trust No Aunty | Nonfiction | ||
2019 | Nora Decter | How Far We Go and How Fast | Fiction | [6] |
Julie Evelyn Joyce | Steeped in Love | Romance | ||
Kate Harris | Lands of Lost Borders | Nonfiction | ||
2020 | Zalika Reid-Benta | Frying Plantain | Fiction | [7] |
Different Beasts | Speculative fiction | |||
Jesse Thistle | From the Ashes | Nonfiction | ||
2021 | Michelle Good | Five Little Indians | Fiction | [8] |
The Woman in the Attic | Mystery | |||
Eternity Martis | They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life and Growing Up | Nonfiction |
References[]
- ^ a b Ryan Porter (May 2, 2019). "Tanya Tagaq, Kate Harris, and Uzma Jalaluddin among shortlisted authors for Kobo Emerging Writer Prize". Quill and Quire.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Conan Tobias (July 8, 2015). "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire.
- ^ Becky Robertson, "Awards: Kinew, Kovalyova, White win Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 22, 2016.
- ^ Becky Robertson, "Teva Harrison, Lynne Kutsukake, Dee Wilson awarded Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 28, 2017.
- ^ Samraweet Yohannes (June 19, 2018). "Omar El Akkad, author of American War, among winners of $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC News.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. July 8, 2019.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Sue Carter, "Jesse Thistle, Zalika Reid-Benta, J.R. McConvey win Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 25, 2020.
- ^ Deborah Dundas, "Michelle Good wins Kobo Emerging Writer fiction prize — making it three wins for the three noms she got on that big day in May". Toronto Star, June 22, 2021.
Categories:
- Canadian literary awards
- Awards established in 2015