literary award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...
, presented annually by the
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
to a work judged to be the best book, regardless of genre, published by a writer from
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
Richard Gwyn
Richard Gwyn (ca. 1537 – 15 October 1584), also known by his anglicised name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a Bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language. A Ro ...
in memory of his wife Sandra following her death in 2000. Winterset was the name of Sandra Gwyn's childhood home in St. John's.
CBC News
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Newfoundland and Labrador, March 7, 2008.
* 2001 -
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 ...
, ''The River Thieves''
* 2002 -
Joan Clark
Joan Clark BA, D.Litt. (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.
Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama progr ...
, ''The Word for Home''
* 2003 -
Robert Mellin
Israel Melnikoff (September 22, 1902 – July 10, 1994), known professionally as Robert Mellin, was a Russian Empire-born American composer and lyricist and music publisher. Born in Kyiv and raised in Chicago, where his first job was music plugg ...
, ''Tilting''
* 2004 -
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''
* 2005 -
Joan Clark
Joan Clark BA, D.Litt. (hon.) (née MacDonald) (born 12 October 1934) is a Canadian fiction author.
Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama progr ...
, ''An Audience of Chairs''
* 2006 - Kenneth J. Harvey, ''Inside''
* 2007 -
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter (born 1960) is an English-Canadian short story writer and novelist. Randall Maggs, ''Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems''
* 2009 -
Jessica Grant
Jessica Grant (born May 31, 1972 in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel ''Come, Thou Tortoise'' won the 2009 Winterset AwardRussell 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 ...
, ''The Glass Harmonica''
* 2011 - Don McKay,'' The Shell of the Tortoise''
* 2012 - Andy Jones, ''Jack & Mary in the Land of Thieves''
* 2013 - Paul Bowdring, ''The Strangers' Gallery''
* 2014 - Megan Gail Coles, ''Eating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome''
* 2015 -
Sara Tilley
Sara Tilley is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador, most noted for winning the Winterset Award in 2016 for her novel ''Duke''. The novel was also named to the initial longlist for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, but was ...
, ''Duke''
* 2016 - Paul Rowe, ''The Last Half of the Year''
* 2017 -
Joel Thomas Hynes
Joel Thomas Hynes (born September 29, 1976) is a Canadian writer, actor and director known for his irreverent, oftentimes dark and uproarious characters and a raw, unflinching vision of modern underground Canada.
Career
His 2017 novel ''We'll A ...
, ''
We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night
''We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night'' is a novel by Canadian writer Joel Thomas Hynes, published in 2017 by Harper Perennial.Megan Gail Coles, ''Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club''
*2020 - Eva Crocker, ''All I Ask''
*2021 - Carmella Gray-Cosgrove, ''Nowadays and Lonelier''