The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the
Atlantic Book Awards & Festival The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is an annual event celebrating Atlantic Canadian writing and book illustration. Free events take place across the four Atlantic provinces (Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Sc ...
for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the
Atlantic provinces
Atlantic Canada, also called the Atlantic provinces (french: provinces de l'Atlantique), is the region of Eastern Canada comprising the provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec. The four provinces are New Brunswick, Newfoundlan ...
The Chronicle Herald
''The Chronicle Herald'' is a broadsheet newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada owned by SaltWire Network of Halifax.
The paper's newsroom staff were locked out of work from January 2016 until August 2017. ''Herald'' management cont ...
'', October 13, 2012. The prize honours
Thomas Head Raddall
Thomas Head Raddall (13 November 1903 – 1 April 1994) was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction.Wayne Johnston, ''
The Divine Ryans
''The Divine Ryans'' is a 1999 Canadian film directed by Stephen Reynolds, written by Wayne Johnston as an adaptation of his novel, and starring Robert Joy and Pete Postlethwaite.Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003 ...
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*1992 -
Herb Curtis
Herb Curtis (born 1949) is a Canadian novelist and humorist who writes about and has long lived in New Brunswick. He is best known for writing the Brennen Siding Trilogy, three connected novels set in the fictional community of Brennen Siding, New ...
, ''The Last Tasmanian''
*1993 -
John Steffler
John Steffler (born November 13, 1947) is a Canadian poet and novelist. He served as Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate from 2006 to 2008.
Biography
John Steffler was born in Toronto, Ontario, on November 13, 1947, and grew up in a rural area n ...
, ''The Afterlife of George Cartwright''
*1994 -
David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
''For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down'' is a novel by David Adams Richards, published in 1993."Malice on the Miramichi". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 2, 1993. It was the final volume in his Miramichi trilogy, which also included the novels '' Nig ...
''
*1995 -
Bernice Morgan
Bernice Morgan (born 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Much of her work portrays the history and daily life of Newfoundland. She is best known for her novel "Random Passage" which became a television mini-series on CBC.Danielle F ...
, ''Waiting for Time''
*1996 - M. T. Dohaney, ''Marriage of Masks''
*1997 - Alfred Silver, ''Acadia''
*1998 -
Shree Ghatage
Shree Ghatage (born 1957) is a Canadian writer. She was born in Bombay, India and moved to Canada in 1983, settling in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She has won three awards in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition.
...
, ''Awake When All the World is Asleep''
*1999 - Wayne Johnston, ''
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
''The Colony of Unrequited Dreams'' is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston's breakthrough work, the novel was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Gov ...
''
*2000 -
Alistair MacLeod
Alistair MacLeod, (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of m ...
, ''
No Great Mischief
''No Great Mischief'' is a 1999 novel by Alistair MacLeod.
Plot synopsis
The novel opens in the present day, with successful orthodontist Alexander MacDonald visiting his elderly older brother Calum in Toronto, Ontario. The novel explores the ...
''
*2001 - Carol Bruneau, ''Purple for Sky''
*2002 -
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Early life and education
Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundl ...
, ''River Thieves''
*2003 -
Donna Morrissey
Donna Morrissey (born in The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.
At age 16, Morrissey left her birthplace of The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places in Canada before returning to St. J ...
, ''Downhill Chance''
*2004 - Kenneth J. Harvey, ''The Town That Forgot How to Breathe''
*2005 -
Edward Riche
Edward Riche (born October 24, 1961) is a Canadian writer. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Background
Riche was born in Botwood, Newfoundland. For three years he attended Memorial University, and then transferred to Concordia U ...
, ''The Nine Planets''
*2006 -
Donna Morrissey
Donna Morrissey (born in The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.
At age 16, Morrissey left her birthplace of The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places in Canada before returning to St. J ...
, ''Sylvanus Now''
*2007 -
Linda Little
Linda Little (born 1959) is an author from Nova Scotia, Canada. Her third work of fiction has been praised as a "darkly beautiful novel".
Writings
Her first novel, ''Strong Hollow'' published in 2001, is a coming-of-age story set in the Maritimes ...
, ''Scotch River''
*2008 -
Don Hannah
Don Hannah (born in Shediac, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright and novelist. He won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his first play, ''The Wedding Script''.
He has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, the Canadian S ...
, ''Ragged Islands''
*2009 - Douglas Arthur Brown, ''Quintet''
*2010 -
Shandi Mitchell
Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other awards. She graduated from Dalhousie University.
Her newest novel, ''The Waiting Hours'', is slate ...
, ''Under This Unbroken Sky''
*2011 -
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Annabel''
*2012 -
David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.Russell Wangersky
Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and award-winning writer of creative non-fiction. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, and raised in Canada since the age of three, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University. He has been page editor of ''Th ...
, ''
Whirl Away
''Whirl Away'' is a book written by award winning Canadian writer Russell Wangersky, first published in March 2012, by Thomas Allen Publishers. In the book, the author compiles a collection of short stories that examine "what happens when people ...
The Telegram
''The Telegram'' is a daily newspaper published weekdays and Saturdays (as ''The Weekend Telegram'') in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
History
''The Evening Telegram'' was first published on April 3, 1879 by William James Herde ...
'', September 23, 2013.
*2014 -
William Kowalski
William John Kowalski III (born August 3, 1970 in Parma, Ohio) is an American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of ''Eddie's Bastard'' (1999), ''Somewhere South of Here'' (2001),Judd, ElizabethReview ''The New York Times'', 2 ...
Quill & Quire
''Quill & Quire'' is a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry. The magazine was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000. ''Quill & Quire'' reviews ...
'', September 21, 2014.
*2015 -
Darren Greer
Darren Shawn Greer (born January 1, 1968) is a Canadian writer.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Greer lived in several small towns, including Greenfield, Queens County, Nova Scotia and Liverpool, Nova Scotia before moving to Ontario in 1990. H ...
, ''Just Beneath My Skin''
*2016 - R. W. Gray, ''Entropic''
*2017 -
Donna Morrissey
Donna Morrissey (born in The Beaches, Newfoundland) is a Canadian author.
At age 16, Morrissey left her birthplace of The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places in Canada before returning to St. J ...
, ''The Fortunate Brother''
*2018 - Oisin Curran, ''Blood Fable''
*2019 - Lisa Moore, ''Something for Everyone''
*2020 -
Michael Crummey
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Early life and education
Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundl ...
Quill & Quire
''Quill & Quire'' is a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry. The magazine was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000. ''Quill & Quire'' reviews ...
'', July 2, 2020.
*2021 -
Anne Simpson
Anne Simpson is a Canadian poet, novelist, artist and essayist. She was a recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Biography
Simpson received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queen's University, and graduated in Fine Arts from OCAD University (form ...