The Amazon Canada First Novel Award, formerly the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the Books in Canada First Novel Award, is a Canadian literary award, co-presented...
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Ontario, whose debut novel Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead was a shortlisted finalist for the 2022 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Born and raised...
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Amanda Peters (category 21st-century First Nations writers)
Fiction Prize, the 2024 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the 2024 Thomas Head Raddall Award, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award for Fiction. Her debut...
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Janika Oza (section Awards and honours)
Prize for Fiction, and the 2024 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her short story "Fish Stories" won the 2022 O. Henry Award. In a piece for Toronto Star discussing...
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Francesca Ekwuyasi (section Awards)
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the 2021 ReLit Award for Novel, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the 2020 Governor General's Award for English...
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The novel also won a range of awards including the 2007 Adam Award in Creative Writing, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the 2009 Betty Trask Award, and...
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Mona Awad (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
debut novel, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and received the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her second novel, Bunny...
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Omar El Akkad (section Awards)
debut". The novel was named a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and for the 2018 amazon.ca First Novel Award, and won...
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publishing her debut novel Spelling Mississippi in 2002. Spelling Mississippi was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2003. Woodrow was...
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David Bezmozgis (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
Literary Award for English-language fiction, the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and for the Governor General's Awards. Bezmozgis' second novel, The Betrayers...
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Anne Michaels (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
Literary Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the City of Toronto Book Award, the Heritage Toronto Award of Merit...
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Pik-Shuen Fung (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ghost Forest was the winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2022. Born in Hong Kong and raised in...
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Nova Scotia, whose debut novel Going Dutch was a shortlisted finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2020. The novel, about a gay graduate student...
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Alicia Elliott (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
her debut novel, And Then She Fell. The book was the winner of the 2024 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Gold prize at the National Magazine Awards for "A Mind...
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alarmingly real". The novel was shortlisted for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. It also was a finalist...
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Eleanor Catton (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
Rehearsal wins Amazon.ca First Novel Award". National Post. Retrieved 23 February 2021. "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries"...
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Jessica Johns (category 21st-century First Nations writers)
in 2023 by HarperCollins Canada. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Bad Cree was selected for the 2024 edition...
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award win. Basran is a graduate of the creative writing program at Simon Fraser University. In 2016, she served on the jury for the amazon.ca First Novel...
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Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, was published in 2015, and was a shortlisted finalist for the amazon.ca First Novel Award. Our Homesick...
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Alix Hawley (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, All True Not a Lie In It (Knopf 2015), won the amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2015. Hawley was born in Vancouver...
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Split Tooth (category 2018 Canadian novels)
Voices Award for English Prose in 2019. The novel was also longlisted for the 2018 Giller Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon.ca First Novel Award...
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marked by firsts". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-08-02. Vicky Qiao, "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books...
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Michelle Good (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
marked by firsts". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-08-02. Vicky Qiao, "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books...
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for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2023 Governor General's Awards and the 2024...
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Jasmine Sealy (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
Vancouver, British Columbia. Her debut novel, The Island of Forgetting, won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award in 2023. Sealy was born in the UK and grew...
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for the 2021 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and the 2021 Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. Batshit Seven, his second novel, was published...
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Joan Thomas (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
well as the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Her second novel, Curiosity, was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction...
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and Labrador, whose debut novel We, Jane was longlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize and the 2022 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. We, Jane was translated by...
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Stéphane Larue (category Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners)
August 6, 2019 by Biblioasis. The translated edition won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2020. The Dishwasher, a film adaptation by Francis Leclerc...
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Rachel Manley (category Governor General's Award–winning non-fiction writers)
She published her first novel, The Black Peacock, in 2017. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. A Light Left On...
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