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