Multiple award winners at the 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards

The 2024 Saskatchewan Book Awards were handed out on May 3 at a gala event in Regina.

The prizes honour excellence in writing and publishing, and include the City of Regina Book Award and the City of Saskatoon Book Award. The winners in 13 categories were chosen from a shortlist of 36 titles that were announced at the end of February.

First Book Award
Grandview Drive by Tim Blackett (Nightwood Editions)

City of Regina Book Award
kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân ᑳ ᐲ ᐃᓯ ᑭᐢᑭᓯᔮᐣ The Way I Remember by Solomon Ratt (University of Regina)

City of Saskatoon Book Award
The Observer by Marina Endicott (Knopf Canada/PRHC)

Non-Fiction Book Award
Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinânihk by John Brady McDonald (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)

Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award
Revival and Change: The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Years by John Courtney (UBC Press)

Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski
Among the Untamed by dee Hobsbawn-Smith (Frontenac House)

Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award
Carrying It Forward: Essays from Kistahpinânihk by John Brady McDonald (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers)

Children’s Literature Award
Fox and Bear by Miriam Körner (Red Deer Press/Fitzhenry and Whiteside)

Fiction Book Award
Grandview Drive by Tim Blackett (Nightwood Editions)

Publishing Award
University of Regina Press for kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân ᑳ ᐲ ᐃᓯ ᑭᐢᑭᓯᔮᐣ The Way I Remember by Solomon Ratt

Publishing in Education Award
Gabriel Dumont Institute Press for kôhkominawak ocihcîwâwa: Our Grandmother’s Hands: Repatriating Métis Material Art by Gregory Scofield

Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing
Gabriel Dumont Institute Press for kôhkominawak ocihcîwâwa: Our Grandmother’s Hands: Repatriating Métis Material Art by Gregory Scofield