Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000.
The award has frequently gone to multiple winners. 1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.
Year |
Winner |
Nominated |
1974 |
William Kurelek, O Toronto
Desmond Morton, Mayor Howland
Richard B. Wright, In the Middle of a Life |
|
1975 |
Claude Bissell, Halfway up Parnassus
The Labour History Collective, Women at Work
Loren Lind, The Learning Machine |
|
1976 |
Robert F. Harney and Harold Troper, Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930
Hugh Hood, The Swing in the Garden |
|
1977 |
Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
Margaret Gibson, The Butterfly Ward |
|
1978 |
Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company
Timothy Findley, The Wars |
|
1979 |
Michael Bliss, A Canadian Millionaire
William Dendy, Lost Toronto
John Morgan Gray, Fun Tomorrow |
|
1980 |
Raymond Souster, Hanging In
Stephen A. Speisman, The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937 |
|
1981 |
Timothy Colton, Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
Mary Larratt Smith, Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada
Helen Weinzweig, Basic Black with Pearls |
|
1982 |
Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey
Marian Engel, Lunatic Villas |
|
1983 |
Michael Bliss, The Discovery of Insulin
Lucy Booth Martyn, The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936 |
|
1984 |
Edith G. Firth, Toronto in Art
Gerald Killan, David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist
Eric Wright, The Night the Gods Smiled |
The award's website does not currently provide the shortlist for 1984, listing only the winners.
|
1985 |
Warabe Aska, Who Goes to the Park
J.M.S. Careless, Toronto to 1918
Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls |
|
1986 |
Morley Callaghan, Our Lady of the Snows
Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone |
|
1987 |
William Dendy and William Kilbourn, Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History |
|
1988 |
Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion |
|
1989 |
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye |
|
1990 |
Hilary Russell, Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Homesick |
|
1991 |
Cary Fagan and Robert MacDonald, eds., Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories |
|
1992 |
Katherine Govier, Hearts of Flame |
|
1993 |
Carole Corbeil, Voice-Over
David Donnell, China Blues |
|
1994 |
Timothy Findley, Headhunter |
|
1995 |
Ezra Schabas, Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian |
|
1996 |
Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen |
|
1997 |
Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces |
|
1998 |
Helen Humphreys, Leaving Earth |
|
1999 |
Richard Outram, Benedict Abroad |
|
2000 |
Camilla Gibb, Mouthing the Words |
|
2001 |
A.B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past |
|
2002 |
Sarah Dearing, Courage My Love |
|
2003 |
Joe Fiorito, The Song Beneath the Ice |
|
2004 |
Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Kate Taylor, Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen |
|
2005 |
David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories |
|
2006 |
Dionne Brand, What We All Long For |
|
2007 |
Michael Redhill, Consolation |
|
2008 |
Glen Downie, Loyalty Management |
|
2009 |
Austin Clarke, More |
|
2010 |
Mark Sinnett, The Carnivore |
|
2011 |
Rabindranath Maharaj, The Amazing Absorbing Boy |
|
2012 |
Andrew J. Borkowski, Copernicus Avenue |
|
2013 |
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes[2] |
|
2014 |
Charlotte Gray, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country |
|
2015 |
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven[3] |
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