Thomas Head Raddall Award
The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.[1] The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The Award is currently worth $25,000.
Winners[]
- 1991 - Wayne Johnston, The Divine Ryans
- 1992 - Herb Curtis, The Last Tasmanian
- 1993 - John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
- 1994 - David Adams Richards, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
- 1995 - Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time
- 1996 - M. T. Dohaney, Marriage of Masks
- 1997 - Alfred Silver, Acadia
- 1998 - Shree Ghatage, Awake When All the World is Asleep
- 1999 - Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
- 2000 - Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
- 2001 - Carol Bruneau, Purple for Sky
- 2002 - Michael Crummey, River Thieves
- 2003 - Donna Morrissey, Downhill Chance
- 2004 - Kenneth J. Harvey, The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
- 2005 - Edward Riche, The Nine Planets
- 2006 - Donna Morrissey, Sylvanus Now
- 2007 - Linda Little, Scotch River
- 2008 - Don Hannah, Ragged Islands
- 2009 - Douglas Arthur Brown, Quintet
- 2010 - Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky
- 2011 - Kathleen Winter, Annabel
- 2012 - David Adams Richards, Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul[1]
- 2013 - Russell Wangersky, Whirl Away[2]
- 2014 - William Kowalski, The Hundred Hearts[3]
- 2015 - Darren Greer, Just Beneath My Skin[4]
- 2016 - R. W. Gray, Entropic[5]
- 2017 - Donna Morrissey, The Fortunate Brother[6]
- 2018 - Oisin Curran, Blood Fable
- 2019 - Lisa Moore, Something for Everyone[7]
- 2020 - Michael Crummey, The Innocents[8]
References[]
- ^ a b "Adams Richards wins $20,000 Thomas Head Raddall prize". The Chronicle Herald, October 13, 2012.
- ^ "Wangersky wins fiction award for ‘Whirl Away’". The Telegram, September 23, 2013.
- ^ "Kowalski, Kimber, Domanski take home East Coast Literary Awards". Quill & Quire, September 21, 2014.
- ^ "East Coast Literary Awards celebrate authors". Atlantic Books Today, June 8, 2015.
- ^ "2016 East Coast Literary Awards Announced."
- ^ "2017 East Coast Literary Awards Announced."
- ^ Ryan Porter, "Lisa Moore wins $25,000 fiction award at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, June 10, 2019.
- ^ Sue Carter, "Ami McKay, Gemma Hickey double winners at Atlantic Book Awards". Quill & Quire, July 2, 2020.
External links[]
Categories:
- Atlantic Book Awards
- Awards established in 1991
- 1991 establishments in Nova Scotia
- Canadian fiction awards