Prizes and Honours
- 1993 Co-Winner, Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (for The Only Snow in Havana)
- 1997 Finalist, Governor General’s Award for Fiction (for Small Change)
- 1997 Finalist, Rogers Communication Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for Small Change)
- 1997 Finalist, Trillium Book Award (for Small Change)
- 2000 CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction
- 2000 Finalist, Giller Prize (for A Student of Weather)
- 2000 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (for A Student of Weather)
- 2000 TORGI Award
- 2002 Marian Engel Award (Writers’ Trust of Canada)
- 2003 Finalist, Governor-General’s Award for Fiction (for A Student of Weather)
- 2003 Ottawa Book Award (for Garbo Laughs)
- 2007 Giller Prize (for Late Nights on Air)
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