Dartmouth Book Award
(Fiction)
The Dartmouth Book Award (Fiction) is awarded annually for an outstanding fiction book by a Nova Scotia author published in the preceding year. Fiction titles and nonfiction titles were considered for the original Dartmouth Book Award given in 1989, and this fiction-only prize was first awarded in 1990.
Past Winners
2023
2013
Winner
D. R. MacDonald
Anna from Away
(HarperCollins)
Finalist
Denise Cormier
The Rest is Silence
(Goose Lane Editions)
Finalist
Donna Morrissey
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
(Viking Canada)
2012
Winner
Mary Rose Donnelly
Great Village
(Cormorant Books)
Finalist
Bruce Graham
Diligent River Daughter
(Pottersfield Press)
Finalist
Frank Macdonald
A Possible Madness
(Cape Breton University Press)
2011
Winner
Anne Emery
Children in the Morning
(ECW Press)
Finalist
Lesley Choyce
Raising Orion
(Thistledown Press)
Finalist
Sheldon Currie
Two More Solitudes
(Key Porter Books)
2010
Winner
Linden MacIntyre
The Bishop’s Man
(Random House Canada)
Finalist
George Elliott Clarke
I & I
(Goose Lane Editions)
Finalist
Anna Quon
Migration Songs
(Invisible Publishing)
2009
Winner
Anne Simpson
Falling
(Emblem Editions)
2008
Winner
Beatrice MacNeil
Where White Horses Gallop
(Breakwater Books)
2007
Winner
Linda Little
Scotch River
(Penguin Books Canada)
2006
Winner
George Elliott Clarke
George & Rue
(Harper Perennial)
2005
Winner
Jonathan Campbell
Tarcadia
(Gaspereau Press)
2004
Winner
Leo McKay, Jr.
Twenty-Six
(Emblem Editions)
2003
Winner
Beatrice MacNeil
Butterflies Dance in the Dark
(Key Porter Books)
2002
Winner
David Doucette
Strong at the Broken Places
(Nimbus Publishing)
2001
Winner
Carol Bruneau
Purple for Sky
(Cormorant Books)
2000
Winner
Alistair MacLeod
No Great Mischief
(McClelland & Stewart)
1999
Winner
Lynn Coady
Strange Heaven
(Goose Lane Editions)
1998
Winner
Betty Boudreau Vaughan
I'll Buy You an Ox
(Nimbus Publishing)
1997
Winner
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Fall on Your Knees
(Vintage Canada)
1996
Winner
Leo McKay, Jr.
Like This
(House of Anansi)
1995
Winner
Lesley Choyce
The Republic of Nothing
(Goose Lane Editions)
1994
Winner
Beatrice MacNeil
The Moonlight Skater
(Breton Books)
1993
Winner
Robert MacNeil
Burden of Desire
(Doubleday)
1992
Co-Winners
Kim Atwood
Two of Me
(Fernwood Publishing)
Donna Smyth
Loyalist Runway
(Formac Publishing)
1991
Winner
Budge Wilson
The Leaving
(Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
1990
Winner
Lesley Choyce
The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson
(Thistledown Press)
1989
Winner
of the Dartmouth Book Award
Harry Bruce
Down Home
(Key Porter Books)
Both fiction and nonfiction titles were eligible for the original Dartmouth Book Award.