Esplanade Fiction
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Nominated and prize-winning books.
Winner, 2019 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Sit How You Want Robin Richardson
Finalist, 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Prize for Poetry
East and West Laura Ritland
Finalist, 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors
Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids: Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland Zebedee Nungak
Second Place, 2018 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry
Table Manners Catriona Wright
Finalist, 2017 QWF Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Sun of a Distant Land David Bouchet
Translated by Claire Holden Rothman
Finalist, 2016 Governor General's Literary Awards for Translation
The Goddess of Fireflies Geneviève Petterson
Translated by Neil Smith
Finalist, 2016 Lambda Literary Awards for Fiction
Shortlist, 2017 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors
Breathing Lessons Andy Sinclair
Finalist, Canada Reads 2016
Niko Dimitri Nasrallah
Winner, 2015 QWF Concordia University First Book Award
Nominee, 2015 Blue Metropolis/Conseil des arts du Montréal Literary Diversity Prize for a First Publication
Swing in the House and Other Stories Anita Anand
Finalist, 2015 Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Finalist, 2014 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
New Tab Guillaume Morissette
Shortlist, 2014 East Coast Literary Awards
Hooking Mary Dalton
Winner, 2013 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction
The Love Monster Missy Marston
Winner, 2013 Governor General’s Award for Translation
Winner, 2013 QWF Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
The Major Verbs Pierre Nepveu
Translated by Donald Winkler
Finalist, 2013 Governor General’s Award for Translation
Canada’s Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage Marcel Trudel
Translated by George Tombs
Winner, 2013 Heritage and History Book Award for Poetry
Gift Horse Mark Callanan
Longlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Award
Niko Dimitri Nasrallah
Winner, 2011 QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Niko Dimitri Nasrallah
Finalist, 2011 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Skullduggery Asa Boxer
Finalist, 2011 Governor General’s Award for Translation
Finalist, 2011 QWF Translation Prize
Meridian Line Paul Bélanger
Translated by Judith Cown
Winner, 2010 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Boxing the Compass Richard Greene
Finalist, 2010 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Circus Michael Harris
Finalist, 2010 QWF A.M. Klein for Poetry
Circus Michael Harris
Finalist, 2010 QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction
A Place in Mind: The Search for Authenticity Avi Friedman
Winner, 2008 QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sympathy for the Courier Peter Richardson
Winner, 2008 CAA Award for Poetry
The Mechanical Bird Asa Boxer
Finalist, 2008 Governor General’s Award for Translation
Orfeo Hans-Jurgen Grief, translated by Fred A. Reed
Finalist, 2008 QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Chef Jaspreet Singh
Finalist, 2008 QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Pardon Our Monsters Andrew Hood
Winner, 2007 Danuta Gleed Prize for Best Short Fiction Collection
Pardon Our Monsters Andrew Hood
Finalist, 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Finalist, 2007 Ottawa Book Award
Out to Dry in Cape Breton Anita Lahey
Finalist, 2007 Atlantic Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2007 E.J. Pratt Award
Red Ledger Mary Dalton
Finalist, 2006 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award
Finalist, 2006 Expozine Alternative Press Awards
Garbage Head Christopher Willard
Finalist, 2005 amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award
The Rent Collector B. Glen Rotchin
Finalist, 2005 American Literary Translators Association Prize
Winner, 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation
Mirabel Pierre Nepveu
Translated from the French by Judith Cowan