Seven Canadian academics were awarded the Canada Book Prize for five books during the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Big Thinking Summit 2026: Inflection Point in Edmonton on June 10.
The prizes recognize authors and works “that provoke and inform national conversations on important topics and draw attention to the contribution of scholarship to Canadian society.“
Awarded to both French and English language works, the prizes are supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and are juried by the Scholarly Book Awards Academic Council. Each prize comes with a $4,000 award.
The winners are:
- Langue(s) en portage: Résurgence littéraire et langagière dans les écritures autochtones féminines by Marie-Ève Bradette (Les presses de l’Université de Montréal)
- Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion by Éléna Choquette (UBC Press)
- Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the River of Life by Daniel Coleman, Ki’en Debicki and Bonnie M. Freeman (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
- Anthologie du pamphlet et de la polémique au Québec de 1800 à 2000 by Dominique Garand
- (Les presses de l’Université de Montréal)
- Les femmes cobra: La danse comme espace de transgression des normes de genre au Rajasthan by Marianne-Sarah Saulnier (Les presses de l’Université de Montréal)
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