| Year |
Title |
Author |
| 2009 |
The Mistress of Nothing |
Kate Pullinger |
| 2008 |
The Origin of Species |
Nino Ricci |
| 2007 |
Divisadero |
Michael Ondaatje |
| 2006 |
Law of Dreams |
Peter Behrens |
| 2005 |
A Perfect Night To Go To China |
David Gilmour |
| 2004 |
A Complicated Kindness |
Miriam Toews |
| 2003 |
Elle |
Douglas Glover |
| 2002 |
A Song For Nettie Johnson |
Gloria Sawai |
| 2001 |
Clara Callan |
Richard B. Wright |
| 2000 |
Anil's Ghost |
Michael Ondaatje |
| 1999 |
Elizabeth and After |
Matt Cohen |
| 1998 |
Forms of Devotion |
Diane Schoemperlen |
| 1997 |
The Underpainter |
Jane Urquhart |
| 1996 |
The Englishman's Boy |
Guy Vanderhaege |
| 1995 |
The Roaring Girl |
Greg Hollingshead |
| 1994 |
A Discovery of Strangers |
Rudy Wiebe |
| 1993 |
The Stone Diaries |
Carol Shields |
| 1992 |
The English Patient |
Michael Ondaatje |
| 1991 |
Such a Long Journey |
Rohinton Mistry |
| 1990 |
Lives of the Saints |
Nino Ricci |
| 1989 |
Whale Music |
Paul Quarrington |
| 1988 |
Nights Below Station Street |
David A. Richards |
| 1987 |
A Dream Like Mine |
M. T. Kelly |
| 1986 |
Progress of Love |
Alice Munro |
| 1985 |
The Handmaid's Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
| 1984 |
The Engineer of Human Souls |
Josef Skvorecky |
| 1983 |
Shakespeare's Dog |
Leon Rooke |
| 1982 |
Man Descending |
Guy Vanderhaeghe |
| 1981 |
Home Truths |
Mavis Gallant |
| 1980 |
Burning Water |
George Bowering |
| 1979 |
Resurrection of Joseph Bourne |
Jack Hodgins |
| 1978 |
Who Do You Think You Are? |
Alice Munro |
| 1977 |
The Wars |
Timothy Findley |
| 1976 |
Bear |
Marian Engel |
| 1975 |
The Great Victorian Collection |
Brian Moore |
| 1974 |
The Diviners |
Margaret Laurence |
| 1973 |
Temptations of Big Bear |
Rudy Wiebe |
| 1972 |
The Manticore |
Robertson Davies |
| 1971 |
St. Urbain's Horseman |
Mordecai Richler |
| 1970 |
The New Ancestors |
Dave Godfrey |
| 1969 |
The Studhorse Man |
Robert Kroetsch |
| 1968 |
Dance of the Happy Shades |
Alice Munro |
| 1967 |
No Award |
| 1966 |
A Jest of God |
Margaret Laurence |
| 1965 |
No Award |
| 1964 |
The Deserter |
Douglas LePan |
| 1963 |
Hugh Garner's Best Stories |
Hugh Garner |
| 1962 |
Running to Paradise |
Kildare Dobbs |
| 1961 |
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven |
Malcolm Lowry |
| 1960 |
The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
Brian Moore |
| 1959 |
The Watch that Ends the Night |
Hugh MacLennan |
| 1958 |
Execution |
Colin McDougall |
| 1957 |
Street of Riches (translation) |
Gabrielle Roy |
| 1956 |
The Sacrifice |
Adele Wiseman |
| 1955 |
The Sixth of June |
Lionel Shapiro |
| 1954 |
The Fall of a Titan |
Igor Gouzenko |
| 1953 |
Digby |
David Walker |
| 1952 |
The Pillar |
David Walker |
| 1951 |
The Loved and the Lost |
Morley Callaghan |
| 1950 |
The Outlander (translation) |
Germaine Guevremont |
| 1949 |
Mr. Ames Against Time |
Philip Child |
| 1948 |
The Precipice |
Hugh MacLennan |
| 1947 |
The Tin Flute (translation) |
Gabrielle Roy |
| 1946 |
Continental Revue |
Winifred Bambrick |
| 1945 |
The Solitudes |
Hugh MacLennan |
| 1944 |
Earth and High Heaven |
Gwethalyn Graham |
| 1943 |
The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek |
Thomas H. Raddall |
| 1942 |
Little Man |
G. Herbert Sallans |
| 1941 |
Three Came to Ville Marie |
Alan Sullivan |
| 1940 |
Thirty Acres (translation) |
Ringuet (pseud.) |
| 1939 |
The Champlain Road |
Franklin D. McDowell |
| 1938 |
Swiss Sonata |
Gwethalyn Graham |
| 1937 |
The Dark Weaver |
Laura G. Salverson |
| 1936 |
Think of the Earth |
Bertram Brooker |
