Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize - Winners and Nominees

Winners and Nominees

• 1985 Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life
  • Mary Ellen Collura, Winners
  • Charles Lillard, A Coastal Range

• 1986 Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs
  • Brian Fawcett, The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
  • George Ryga, In the Shadow of the Vulture
  • L. R. Wright, The Suspect

• 1987 Leona Gom, Housebroken
  • Paulette Jiles, Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
  • Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories

• 1988 George McWhirter, Cage
  • Jane Rule, Memory Board
  • Robin Skelton, The Parrot Who Could

• 1989 Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa
  • William Goede, Love In Beijing
  • Robert Harlow, Saxophone Winter

• 1990 Keith Maillard, Motet
  • Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances A Lady
  • Jane Rule, After The Fire

• 1991 Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder
  • Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
  • Caroline Woodward, Disturbing The Peace

• 1992 Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
  • M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon
  • Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory

• 1993 W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face
  • J.A. Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories
  • Linda Svendsen, Marine Life

• 1994 Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
  • Keith Maillard, Light In The Company Of Women
  • Carol Windley, Visible Light

• 1995 Gayla Reid, To Be There With You
  • Grant Buday, Under Glass
  • Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans

• 1996 Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa
  • Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends
  • Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon

• 1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
  • Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife
  • Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night

• 1998 Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
  • Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose
  • Holley Rubinsky, At First I Hope for Rescue

• 1999 Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground
  • Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden
  • Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories

• 2000 Michael Turner, The Pornographer's Poem
  • Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting
  • Zsuzsi Gartner, All the Anxious Girls on Earth
  • Keith Harrison, Furry Creek
  • Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood

• 2001 Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
  • Anita Rau Badami, The Hero's Walk
  • Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus
  • Peter Trower, The Judas Hills
  • Jack Whyte, Uther

• 2002 Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
  • Rebecca Godfrey, The Torn Skirt
  • Andrew Gray, Small Accidents
  • Gayla Reid, All the Seas of the World
  • Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park

• 2003 Carol Shields, Unless
  • Kevin Armstrong, Nightwatch
  • Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
  • Nancy Lee, Dead Girls
  • Gayla Reid, Closer Apart

• 2004 Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice
  • Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means
  • Steven Galloway, Ascension
  • Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold
  • Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys

• 2005 Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
  • Bill Gaston, Sointula
  • Theresa Kishkan, A Man in a Distant Field
  • Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing for You
  • Patrick Taylor, The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty

• 2006 Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
  • Clint Burnham, Smoke Show
  • Lydia Kwa, The Walking Boy
  • John Lent, So It Won't Go Away
  • Audrey Thomas, Tattycoram

• 2007 Carol Windley, Home Schooling
  • Marilyn Bowering, What It Takes to Be Human
  • Bill Gaston, Gargoyles
  • Anosh Irani, The Song of Kahunsha
  • Adam Lewis Schroeder, Empress of Asia

• 2008 Mary Novik, Conceit
  • Heather Burt, Adam's Peak
  • David Chariandy, Soucouyant
  • Shaena Lambert, Radiance
  • Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim

• 2009 Lee Henderson, The Man Game
  • Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
  • Paul Headrick, That Tune Clutches My Heart
  • Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog
  • Andreas Schroeder, Renovating Heaven

• 2010 Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
  • Michael Turner, 8 x 10
  • Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder
  • Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
  • Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories

• 2011 Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye
  • Rifet Bahtijaragic, Chernovs’ Toil and Peace
  • Jack Whyte, The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
  • Jack Hodgins, The Master of Happy Endings
  • Meredith Quartermain, Recipes from the Red Planet

• 2012 Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
  • Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
  • Steven Price, Into The Darkness
  • D.W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle
  • Frances Greenslade, Shelter