McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

The McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award is associated with the Manitoba Book Awards and was established in 1988. It is presented to the Manitoba writer whose adult English language book is judged the best written. The author receives a cash award of $5,000, donated by McNally Robinson Booksellers.

Winners

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McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award winners
Year Author Title
1988 Jan Horner Recent Mistakes
1989 Kristjana Gunnars The Prowler
1990 Di Brandt Agnes in the sky
1991 Margaret Sweatman Fox
1992 Sandra Birdsell The Chrome Suite
1993 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
1994 Patrick Friesen Blasphemer's Wheel
1995 Victoria Jason Kabloona in the Yellow Kayak
1996 David Bergen A Year of Lesser
1997 Catherine Hunter Latent Heat
1998 Miriam Toews A Boy of Good Breeding
1999 Gordon Sinclair Jr. Cowboys and Indians
2000 Miriam Toews Swing Low: A Life
2001 Margaret Sweatman When Alice Lay Down With Peter
2002 Jake MacDonald Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
2003 Armin Wiebe Tatsea
2004 Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness
2005 David Bergen The Time in Between
2006 Faith Johnston A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen
2008 Wayne Tefs Be Wolf: A True Account of the Survival of Reinhold Kaletsch
2009 David Bergen The Retreat
2010 Allan Levine Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba
2011 Dora Dueck This Hidden Thing
2012 Esme Claire Keither Not Being on a Boat
2013 Meira Cook The House on Sugarbush Road
2014 Barbara Huck Kisiskatchewan
2015 Joan Thomas The Opening Sky
2016 Wab Kinew The Reason You Walk
2017 Katherena Vermette The Break
2018 Michael Kaan The Water Beetles
2019 Gordon Goldsborough More Abandoned Manitoba: Rivers, Rails, and Ruins
2020 Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm et al. This Place: 150 Year Retold
2021 David Bergen Here the Dark
2022 David Bergen Out of Mind
2023 Jonathan Dyck Shelterbelts
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