- City of Toronto Book Award
The City of Toronto Book Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books about or involving Toronto.
Each author shortlisted for the award receives $1,000, and the winner or winners receive the balance of $15,000.
The award has frequently gone to multiple winners.
1987 was the first time in the history of the award that only a single winner was named.Winners
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1974 - "multiple winners"
::William Kurelek , "O Toronto"::Desmond Morton, "Mayor Howland"::Richard B. Wright , "In the Middle of a Life"
*1975 - "multiple winners"
::Claude Bissell , "Halfway up Parnassus"::The Labour History Collective , "Women at Work"::Loren Lind , "The Learning Machine"
*1976 - "multiple winners"
::Robert F. Harney andHarold Troper , "Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience 1890-1930"::Hugh Hood , "The Swing in the Garden"
*1977 - "multiple winners"
::Margaret Atwood , "Lady Oracle "::Margaret Gibson , "The Butterfly Ward"
*1978 - "multiple winners"
::Christopher Armstrong andH.V. Nelles , "The Revenge of the Methodist Bicycle Company"::Timothy Findley , "The Wars "
*1979 - "multiple winners"
::Michael Bliss , "A Canadian Millionaire"::William Dendy , "Lost Toronto"::John Morgan Gray , "Fun Tomorrow"
*1980 - "multiple winners"
::Raymond Souster , "Hanging In"::Stephen A. Speisman , "The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937"
*1981 - "multiple winners"
::Timothy Colton , "Big Daddy: Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto"::Mary Larratt Smith , "Young Mr. Smith in Upper Canada"::Helen Weinzweig , "Basic Black with Pearls"
*1982 - "multiple winners"
::Claude Bissell , "The Young Vincent Massey"::Marian Engel , "Lunatic Villas"
*1983 - "multiple winners"
::Michael Bliss , "The Discovery of Insulin"::Lucy Booth Martyn , "The Face of Early Toronto: An Archival Record 1803-1936"
*1984 - "multiple winners"
::Edith G. Firth , "Toronto in Art"::Gerald Killan , "David Boyle: From Artisan to Archaeologist"::Eric Wright, "The Night the Gods Smiled"
*1985 - "multiple winners"
::Warabe Aska , "Who Goes to the Park"::J.M.S. Careless , "Toronto to 1918"::Josef Skvorecky , "The Engineer of Human Souls"
*1986 - "multiple winners"
::Morley Callaghan , "Our Lady of the Snows"::Robertson Davies , "What's Bred in the Bone "
*1987 -William Dendy andWilliam Kilbourn , "Toronto Observed: Its Architecture, Patrons and History"
*1988 -Michael Ondaatje , "In the Skin of a Lion "
*1989 -Margaret Atwood , "Cat's Eye"
*1990 - "multiple winners"
::Hilary Russell , "Double Take: The Story of the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres"::Guy Vanderhaeghe , "Homesick"
*1991 -Cary Fagan andRobert MacDonald , eds., "Streets of Attitude: Toronto Stories"
*1992 -Katherine Govier , "Hearts of Flame"
*1993 - "multiple winners"
::Carole Corbeil , "Voice-Over"::David Donnell , "China Blues"
*1994 -Timothy Findley , "Headhunter"
*1995 -Ezra Schabas , "Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian"
*1996 -Rosemary Sullivan , "Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen"
*1997 -Anne Michaels , "Fugitive Pieces "
*1998 -Helen Humphreys , "Leaving Earth"
*1999 -Richard Outram , "Benedict Abroad"
*2000 -Camilla Gibb , "Mouthing the Words"
*2001 -A.B. McKillop , "The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past"
*2002 -Sarah Dearing , "Courage My Love"
*2003 -Joe Fiorito , "The Song Beneath the Ice"
*2004 - "multiple winners"
::Kevin Bazzana , "Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould"::Kate Taylor, "Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen"
*2005 -David Bezmozgis , "Natasha and Other Stories "
*2006 -Dionne Brand , "What We All Long For"
*2007 -Michael Redhill , "Consolation"External links
* [http://www.toronto.ca/book_awards/index.htm City of Toronto Book Award Web site]
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