The 2022 Manitoba Book Awards winners were announced on June 9.

The shortlists had been revealed in May.

The winners are:

McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

Out of Mind by David Bergen (Goose Lane Editions)

Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction

Dadibaajim: Returning Home Through Narrative by Helen Olsen Agger (University of Manitoba Press)

Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction

Co-winners:
Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson (Goose Lane Editions)
Prodigies by Bob Armstrong (Five Star/Gale)

Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction

So Many Windings by Catherine Macdonald (At Bay Press)

McNally Robinson Book for Young People (Younger Category)

I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner (Owlkids Books)

Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

The Lost Cafeteria by Joel Robert Ferguson (Signature Editions)

Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher

Did You See Us? Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School by Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School; preface by Theodore Fontaine, edited by Andrew Woolford, design by Vincent Design (University of Manitoba Press)

Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award

Mont-Blanc-Winnipeg Express by Seream (Les Éditions du Blé)

Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book

Co-winners:
Persephone’s Children: A Life in Fragments by Rowan McCandless (Dundurn Press)
We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian Horton (HarperCollins Publishers )

John Hirsch Emerging Manitoba Writer Award

Chimwemwe Undi

Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards – Book Design

Warehouse Journal Volume Thirty, edited & designed by Chelsea Colburn & Teresa Lyons (Warehouse Journal, Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba)

Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Awards – Children’s Illustration

You Came From My Heart by Brenlee Coates and Roberta Landreth, ill. (FriesenPress)