Award for Fiction

MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction

Award History - Award Details - Entry Information - Winners

History

The CAA Awards for Adult Literature

The CAA administers several awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants "honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal."

For more information about these awards, please see the History of the CAA Writing Awards page.

CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction

About the Award

CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction is for a full-length novel.

Award Sponsor

This award is made possible through the generosity of MOSAID Technologies Inc.

Funding History

The CAA Award for Fiction was funded by Harlequin Enterprises of Toronto from 1975 through 1997, for 1998 by Chapters and, beginning in 2000, by MOSAID Technologies Inc.

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Entry Information

The nominations deadline is December 15th each year. Entries should be postmarked by that date, except for works published after December 1st, in which case they must be postmarked no later than January 15th in the following year.

The Writing Awards Guidelines contains specific entry information, or you may contact Alec McEachern at the CAA National Office.

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CAA Award for Fiction Winners

1975 Fred Stinson - Lonesome Hero
1976 No award
1977 Carol Shields - Small Ceremonies
1978 Jane Rule - The Young in One Another's Arms
1979 Marian Engel - The Glassy Sea
1980 No award
1981 Hugh MacLennan - Voices in Time
1982 Joy Kogawa - Obason
1983 W.P. Kinsella - Shoeless Joe
1984 Heather Robertson - Willie: A Romance
1985 Timothy Findley - Not Wanted On The Voyage
1986 Robertson Davies - What's Bred In The Bones
1987 No award
1988 Brian Moore - The Colour of Blood
1989 Joan Clark - The Victory of Geraldine Gull
1990 James Houston - Running West
1991 David Adams Richards - Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
1992 Alberto Manguel - News From a Foreign Country
1993 Neil Bissoondath - The Innocence of Age
1994 Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride
1995 Bernice Morgan - Waiting for Time
1996 L.R. Wright - Mother Love
1997 Ann-Marie MacDonald - Fall on Your Knees
1998 Rita Donovan - Landed
1999 Wayne Johnston - The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
2000 Alistair MacLeod - No Great Mischief
2001 Elizabeth Hay - A Student of Weather
2002 Will Ferguson - Generica
2003 Rohinton Mistry - Family Matters
2004 Douglas Coupland - Hey Nostradamus
2005 Jeffrey Moore - The Memory Artists
2006 Joseph Boyden - Three Day Road
2007 Richard Wagamese - Dream Wheels

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Updated: April 30, 2007