Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

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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
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[]

  1. ^ 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.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Conan Tobias (July 8, 2015). "Battershill, Wiebe, Doolittle win inaugural Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill and Quire.
  3. ^ Becky Robertson, "Awards: Kinew, Kovalyova, White win Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Becky Robertson, "Teva Harrison, Lynne Kutsukake, Dee Wilson awarded Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 28, 2017.
  5. ^ Samraweet Yohannes (June 19, 2018). "Omar El Akkad, author of American War, among winners of $10K Kobo Emerging Writer Prizes". CBC News.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "26 Canadian books that won awards in the first half of 2019". CBC News. July 8, 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Sue Carter, "Jesse Thistle, Zalika Reid-Benta, J.R. McConvey win Kobo’s Emerging Writer Prizes". Quill & Quire, June 25, 2020.
  8. ^ 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.
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