Thomas Head Raddall Award
- Thomas Head Raddall Award
The Thomas Head Raddall Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada and the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, to the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honors Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it.
The prize has a value of $10,000.
Winners
*1991 - Wayne Johnston, "The Divine Ryans"
*1992 - Herb Curtis, "The Last Tasmanian"
*1993 - John Steffler, "The Afterlife of George Cartwright"
*1994 - David Adams Richards, "For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down"
*1995 - Bernice Morgan, "Waiting for Time"
*1996 - Jean Dohaney, "Marriage of Masks"
*1997 - Alfred Silver, "Acadia"
*1998 - Shree Ghatage, "Awake When All the World is Asleep"
*1999 - Wayne Johnston, "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams"
*2000 - Alistair MacLeod, "No Great Mischief"
*2001 - Carol Bruneau, "Purple for Sky"
*2002 - Michael Crummey, "River Thieves"
*2003 - Donna Morrissey, "Downhill Chance"
*2004 - Kenneth J. Harvey, "The Town That Forgot How to Breathe"
*2005 - Edward Riche, "The Nine Planets"
*2006 - Donna Morrissey, "Sylvanus Now"
*2007 - Linda Little, "Scotch River"
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