This year, for the first time, the judges will select a longlist of up to 20 titles, which will be announced on Feb. 17. A six-book shortlist will be announced on April 7.
Souvankham Thammavongsa wins 2025 Giller Prize
Thammavongsa was named the winner of the $100,000 prize at a ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 17 for her debut novel Pick a Colour.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maria Reva, Roza Nozari among Writers’ Trust award winners
Bren Simmers, Sheree Fitch, Julie Flett, and Kim Thúy were named the winners of four awards celebrating writers for their body of work at a ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 13.
Madeleine Thien, Cassandra Calin, Gillian Sze among winners of 2025 QWF Literary Awards
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker Prize
2025 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction shortlist announced
The two finalists for this year’s $10,000 prize are both titles from indie Canadian publishers.
Susan Musgrave, A.F. Moritz, Sid Marty to judge 2026 Purdy Poetry Prize
Last year’s prize winner, A.F. Moritz, and the inaugural winner, Sid Marty, will be joined by poet and writer Susan Musgrave on the three-person jury.
Kyle Edwards, Claire Cameron, Karen Solie among Governor General’s award winners
Winning writers, illustrators, and translators receive $25,000, while publishers receive $3,000 to promote the winning titles. Finalists each receive $1,000.
Lyndal Roper wins 2025 Cundill History Prize
The University of Oxford professor was named the winner for Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War.
Winners of the 2025 CCBC Book Awards revealed
Presented for the first time by the CCBC, the Sharon Fitzhenry Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction went to Meet Jim Egan by Elizabeth MacLeod and Mike Deas, ill.
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