The Saskatchewan Book Awards have announced the 2021 winners. There are 14 categories in all, celebrating Saskatchewan’s authors and publishers.

The winners include:

Ann and Roger Phillips Foundation Prix du livre français

• Junk City, David Baudemont (la nouvelle plume)

City of Saskatoon / Saskatoon Public Library Saskatoon Award

• Small Reckonings, Karin Melberg Schwier (Burton House Books)

City of Regina Regina Award

• The Diamond House, Dianne Warren (Harper Collins)

Creative Saskatchewan Publishing Award

• University of Regina Press, Genocidal Love: A Life After Residential School by Bevann Fox

Fiction Award

• If Sylvie Had Nine Lives, Leona Theis (Freehand Books)

G. Murray and Edna Forbes Foundation Young Adult Award

• Qaqavii, Miriam Körner (Red Deer Press)

Ministry of Culture, Recreation, and Sport First Book Award

• The Burden of Gravity, Shannon McConnell (Caitlin Press)

Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award

• The Narrows of Fear, Carol Rose GoldenEagle (Inanna)

Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland

• Field Notes for the Self, Randy Lundy (University of Regina Press)

Saskatoon Public Library Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award

• University of Regina Press, Cry Wolf: Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator by Harold Johnson

SaskBooks Publishing in Education Award

• University of Regina Press, Nakón-i’a wo!: Beginning Nakoda edited by Vincent Collette with Wilma Kennedy and Armand McArthur

SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski

• Field Notes for the Self, Randy Lundy (University of Regina Press)

University of Regina Faculty of Arts / University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award

• The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux, Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, and edited by Daniel M. Beveridge (University of Nebraska Press)

University of Saskatchewan, Non-Fiction Award

• A Radiant Life: The Honourable Sylvia Fedoruk, Merle Massie (University of Regina Press)