Thomas Head Raddall Award
Canadian literary award
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The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces.[1] The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $30,000, with additional finalists receiving $500 each.[2]
Winners and nominees
1990s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Wayne Johnston | The Divine Ryans | [3] |
| 1992 | Herb Curtis | The Last Tasmanian | [4] |
| 1993 | John Steffler | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | [5] |
| 1994 | David Adams Richards | For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down | [6] |
| 1995 | Bernice Morgan | Waiting for Time | [7] |
| 1996 | M. T. Dohaney | A Marriage of Masks | [8] |
| 1997 | Alfred Silver | Acadia | [9] |
| 1998 | Shree Ghatage | Awake When All the World Is Asleep | [10] |
| Edward Riche | Rare Birds | [11] | |
| 1999 | Wayne Johnston | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | [12] |
| Lynn Coady | Strange Heaven | [13] | |
| Don Hannah | The Wise and Foolish Virgins | ||
| David Adams Richards | The Bay of Love and Sorrows |
2000s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Alistair MacLeod | No Great Mischief | [14] |
| Carmelita McGrath | Stranger Things Have Happened | [15] | |
| Donna Morrissey | Kit's Law | ||
| 2001 | Carol Bruneau | Purple for Sky | [16] |
| Robert Finley | The Accidental Indies | [17] | |
| David Adams Richards | Mercy Among the Children | ||
| 2002 | Michael Crummey | River Thieves | [18] |
| Linda Little | Strong Hollow | [19] | |
| Anne Simpson | Canterbury Beach | ||
| 2003 | Donna Morrissey | Downhill Chance | [20] |
| Christy Ann Conlin | Heave | [21] | |
| Susan Goyette | Lures | ||
| 2004 | Kenneth J. Harvey | The Town That Forgot How to Breathe | [22] |
| Leo McKay Jr. | Twenty-Six | [23] | |
| David Adams Richards | River of the Brokenhearted | ||
| 2005 | Edward Riche | The Nine Planets | [24] |
| Kelly Cooper | Eyehill | [25] | |
| Michael Winter | The Big Why | ||
| 2006 | Donna Morrissey | Sylvanus Now | [20] |
| George Elliott Clarke | George & Rue | [26] | |
| Lisa Moore | Alligator | ||
| 2007 | Linda Little | Scotch River | [27] |
| Wayne Johnston | The Custodian of Paradise | [28] | |
| Ami McKay | The Birth House | ||
| 2008 | Don Hannah | Ragged Islands | [29] |
| Bernice Morgan | Cloud of Bone | [30] | |
| David Adams Richards | The Lost Highway | ||
| 2009 | Douglas Arthur Brown | Quintet | [31] |
| Ian Colford | Evidence | ||
| Sara Tilley | Skin Room |
2010s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Shandi Mitchell | Under This Unbroken Sky | [32] |
| Michael Crummey | Galore | ||
| Linden MacIntyre | The Bishop's Man | ||
| 2011 | Kathleen Winter | Annabel | [33] |
| Alexander MacLeod | Light Lifting | [34] | |
| Beth Powning | The Sea Captain's Wife | ||
| 2012 | David Adams Richards | Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul | [1] |
| Valerie Compton | The Road | [35] | |
| Heather Jessup | The Lightning Field | ||
| 2013 | Russell Wangersky | Whirl Away | [36] |
| Keir Lowther | Dirty Bird | [37] | |
| Donna Morrissey | The Deception of Livvy Higgs | ||
| 2014 | William Kowalski | The Hundred Hearts | [38] |
| Shashi Bhat | The Family Took Shape | [39] | |
| Ed Kavanagh | Strays | ||
| 2015 | Darren Greer | Just Beneath My Skin | [40] |
| Michael Crummey | Sweetland | [41] | |
| David Adams Richards | Crimes Against My Brother | ||
| 2016 | R. W. Gray | Entropic | [42] |
| Elisabeth de Mariaffi | The Devil You Know | [43] | |
| Mark Anthony Jarman | Knife Party at the Hotel Europa | ||
| 2017 | Donna Morrissey | The Fortunate Brother | [44] |
| Darren Greer | Advocate | [45] | |
| Ami McKay | The Witches of New York | ||
| 2018 | Oisin Curran | Blood Fable | [46] |
| Carol Bruneau | A Bird on Every Tree | [47] | |
| Sarah Faber | All Is Beauty Now | ||
| 2019 | Lisa Moore | Something for Everyone | [48] |
| Sharon Bala | The Boat People | [49] | |
| Elisabeth de Mariaffi | Hysteria |
2020s
| Year | Writer | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Michael Crummey | The Innocents | [50] |
| Jaime Burnet | Crocuses Hatch from Snow | [51] | |
| Shandi Mitchell | The Waiting Hours | ||
| 2021 | Anne Simpson | Speechless | [52] |
| Bridget Canning | Some People's Children | [53] | |
| Morgan Murray | Dirty Birds | ||
| 2022 | Michelle Butler Hallett | Constant Nobody | [54] |
| David Huebert | Chemical Valley | [55] | |
| Sharon Robart-Johnson | Jude and Diana | ||
| 2023 | K.R. Byggdin | Wonder World | [56] |
| Bobbi French | The Good Women of Safe Harbour | [57] | |
| Lisa Moore | This Is How We Love | ||
| 2024 | Michelle Porter | A Grandmother Begins the Story | [58] |
| Violet Browne | This Is the House That Luke Built | [59] | |
| Charlene Carr | Hold My Girl | ||
| Amanda Peters | The Berry Pickers | ||
| William Ping | Hollow Bamboo | ||
| 2025 | |||
| David Huebert | Oil People | [60] | |
| Mark Blagrave | Felt | [61] | |
| Carol Bruneau | Threshold: Stories | ||
| Charlene Carr | We Rip the World Apart | ||
| Susie Taylor | Vigil |