Prizes and Honours
- 1990 Gerald Lampert Award for best first poetry collection (for Stalin’s Carnival)
- 1992 Finalist, The Journey Prize
- 1992 National Magazine Awards gold medal for fiction
- 1993 Finalist, Trillium Award (for Flight Paths of the Emperor)
- 1995 Finalist, Governor General’s Award for Poetry (for The Ecstasy of Skeptics)
- 1997 Finalist, Rogers Communication Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize (for Small Change)
- 2004 National Magazine Awards gold medal for poetry
- 2008 National Magazine Awards gold medal for fiction
- 2010 National Magazine Awards gold medal for fiction
- 2010 K.M. Hunter Award for literature
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