Five books have been named recipients of the $4,000 Canada Prizes for scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences, with French titles accounting for the majority of the titles.

The annual awards, administered by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, relaunched with a new format last year after taking a hiatus prompted by a controversial winner in 2020. The awards now honour five books each year instead of one, with two by first-time authors and one in French.

This year’s winning titles are:

• Population Control: Theorizing Institutional Violence by Jen Rinaldi and Kate Rossiter (McGill Queen’s University Press)
• Vieillissement et crise du logement : gentrification, précarité et résistance by Julien Simard (Les presses de l’Université de Montréal)
• Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women’s Experiences in Canadian University Administration by Dr. Candace Brunette-Debassige (University of Regina Press)
• Mille après mille: Célébrité et migrations dans le Nord-Est américain by Pierre Lavoie (Éditions du Boréal)
• D’Arthur Buies à Gabrielle Roy: Une histoire littéraire du reportage au Québec (1870-1945) by Charlotte Biron ((Les presses de l’Université de Montréal)