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PREVIOUS NOMINATIONS
2022
Carol Bruneau
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
2020
Sayaka Murata
Convenience Store Woman
2020
Aja Gabel
The Ensemble
2020
Claire Fuller
Bitter Orange
2019
Kathleen Winter
Lost in September
2018
Annie Proulx
Barkskins
2018
Han Kang
Human Acts
2018
Elizabeth Brundage
All Things Cease to Appear
2017
Sigal Samuel
The Mystics of Mile End
2017
Andrew O’Hagan
The Illuminations
2017
Michael Christie
If I Fall, If I Die
2016
Martha Woodroof
Small Blessings
2016
Natalie S. Harnett
The Hollow Ground
2015
Rachel Joyce
Perfect
2014
Hilma Wolitzer
An Available Man
2014
Ian Rankin
Standing in Another Man’s Grave
2014
D.R. Mac Donald
Anna From Away
2013
Alice Hoffman
The Dovekeepers
2012
Jaimy Gordon
Lord of Misrule
2011
Norman Lebrecht
The Game of Opposites
2011
Marie-Claire Blais
Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom
2011
Diana Fitzgerald Bryden
No Place Strange
2010
Fred Stenson
The Great Karoo
2010
David Park
The Truth Commissioner
2010
Marilynne Robinson
Home
2009
Michael Ondaatje
Divisadero
2009
Liam Durcan
Garcia’s Heart
2009
Mohsin Hamid
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008
Alan Cumyn
The Famished Lover
2008
Howard Bahr
The Judas Field
2008
Peter Behrens
The Law of Dreams
2007
Willian T. Vollmann
Europe Central
2007
Frank Macdonald
A Forest For Calum
2007
Sandra Birdsell
Children of the Day
2006
Dan Sleigh
Islands
2006
Joel Hynes
Down to the Dirt
2006
Jakob Ejersbo
Nordkraft
2005
Janette Turner Hospital
Due Preparations for the Plague
2005
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake
2005
Thomas Berger
Best Friends
2004
Annie Proulx
That Old Ace in the Hole
2004
William Trevor
The Story of Lucy Gault *
2004
Wayne Johnston
The Navigator of New York
2003
James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand
2003
Amy Tan
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
2003
Richard B. Wright
Clara Callan
2002
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
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