# Trillium Book Award, English

The following is a list of winners and nominees in English-language categories for the Trillium Book Award, a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for French-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in French-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, French.

## All-genre (1994-2002)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1994 | Donald Akenson | Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien; Volume 1 Narrative | Winner |
| 1994 | Robertson Davies | The Cunning Man | Nominee |
| 1994 | Bronwyn Drainie | My Jerusalem: Secular Adventures in the Holy City | Nominee |
| 1994 | Douglas Fetherling | Travels by Night | Nominee |
| 1994 | Katherine Govier | The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery | Nominee |
| 1994 | Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson | Trudeau and Our Times: Volume 2, The Heroic Delusion | Nominee |
| 1994 | Alice Munro | Open Secrets | Nominee |
| 1994 | Oakland Ross | Guerrilla Beach | Nominee |
| 1994 | Russell Smith | How Insensitive | Nominee |
| 1994 | M. G. Vassanji | The Book of Secrets | Nominee |
| 1995 | Margaret Atwood | Morning in the Burned House | Winner |
| 1995 | Wayson Choy | The Jade Peony | Winner |
| 1995 | George G. Blackburn | The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View | Nominee |
| 1995 | Judith Fitzgerald | River | Nominee |
| 1995 | Cecil Foster | Sleep On, Beloved | Nominee |
| 1995 | Robert Fulford | Accidental City: The Transformation of Toronto | Nominee |
| 1995 | Barbara Gowdy | Mister Sandman | Nominee |
| 1995 | Denis Smith | Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker | Nominee |
| 1995 | Rosemary Sullivan | Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen | Nominee |
| 1995 | Larry Turner and John de Visser | Rideau | Nominee |
| 1996 | Anne Michaels | Fugitive Pieces | Winner |
| 1996 | Dionne Brand | In Another Place, Not Here | Nominee |
| 1996 | Matt Cohen | Last Seen | Nominee |
| 1996 | Katherine Govier | Angel Walk | Nominee |
| 1996 | Janette Turner Hospital | Oyster | Nominee |
| 1996 | Ann Ireland | The Instructor | Nominee |
| 1996 | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Fall on Your Knees | Nominee |
| 1996 | Alice Munro | Selected Stories | Nominee |
| 1997 | Dionne Brand | Land to Light On | Winner |
| 1997 | Phyllis Grosskurth | Byron: The Flawed Angel | Nominee |
| 1997 | Elizabeth Hay | Small Change | Nominee |
| 1997 | Michael Helm | The Projectionist | Nominee |
| 1997 | Mary Jo Leddy | At the Border Called Hope | Nominee |
| 1997 | Paul Quarrington | The Boy on the Back of the Turtle | Nominee |
| 1997 | John Ralston Saul | Reflections of a Siamese Twin | Nominee |
| 1997 | The STORM Coalition | Oak Ridges Moraine | Nominee |
| 1998 | André Alexis | Childhood | Winner |
| 1998 | Alice Munro | The Love of a Good Woman | Winner |
| 1998 | Barry Callaghan | Barrelhouse Kings | Nominee |
| 1998 | Alan Cumyn | Man of Bone | Nominee |
| 1998 | Sandra Gulland | Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe | Nominee |
| 1998 | Michael Ondaatje | Handwriting | Nominee |
| 1998 | Shyam Selvadurai | Cinnamon Gardens | Nominee |
| 1998 | Linda Spalding | The Follow | Nominee |
| 1999 | Alistair MacLeod | No Great Mischief | Winner |
| 1999 | Stephanie Bolster | Two Bowls of Milk | Nominee |
| 1999 | Elyse Friedman | Then Again | Nominee |
| 1999 | Catherine Gildiner | Too Close to the Falls | Nominee |
| 1999 | David Gilmour | Lost Between Houses | Nominee |
| 1999 | David Layton | Motion Sickness | Nominee |
| 1999 | Stuart Ross | Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid | Nominee |
| 2000 | Don Coles | Kurgan | Winner |
| 2000 | Margaret Christakos | Charisma | Nominee |
| 2000 | Deborah Ellis | The Breadwinner | Nominee |
| 2000 | Dennis Lee | Bubblegum Delicious | Nominee |
| 2000 | Nega Mezlekia | Notes from the Hyena's Belly | Nominee |
| 2000 | David Adams Richards | Mercy Among the Children | Nominee |
| 2000 | Darren Wershler-Henry | The Tapeworm Foundry | Nominee |
| 2001 | Richard B. Wright | Clara Callan | Winner |
| 2001 | Joan Barfoot | Critical Injuries | Nominee |
| 2001 | Lee Gowan | Make Believe Love | Nominee |
| 2001 | Robert Hough | The Final Confession of Mabel Stark | Nominee |
| 2001 | Chris Jones | Falling Hard: A Rookie's Year in Boxing | Nominee |
| 2001 | Alice Munro | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | Nominee |
| 2001 | Michael Redhill | Martin Sloane | Nominee |
| 2002 | Austin Clarke | The Polished Hoe | Winner |
| 2002 | Nino Ricci | Testament | Winner |
| 2002 | Katherine Ashenburg | The Mourner's Dance | Nominee |
| 2002 | Dionne Brand | Thirsty | Nominee |
| 2002 | Claudia Dey | The Gwendolyn Poems | Nominee |
| 2002 | Steve McCaffery | Seven Pages Missing: Volume 2 | Nominee |
| 2002 | Michael Ondaatje | The Conversations | Nominee |

## Prose (2003-present)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2003 | Thomas King | The Truth About Stories | Winner |
| 2003 | Di Brandt | Now You Care | Nominee |
| 2003 | Pier Giorgio Di Cicco | The Dark Time of Angels | Nominee |
| 2003 | Barbara Gowdy | The Romantic | Nominee |
| 2003 | Djanet Sears | Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God | Nominee |
| 2003 | M. G. Vassanji | The In-Between World of Vikram Lall | Nominee |
| 2004 | Wayson Choy | All That Matters | Winner |
| 2004 | Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall | Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown | Nominee |
| 2004 | Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | Nominee |
| 2004 | Catherine Bush | Claire's Head | Nominee |
| 2004 | Jane Jacobs | Dark Age Ahead | Nominee |
| 2004 | Alice Munro | Runaway | Nominee |
| 2004 | Michael Winter | The Big Why | Nominee |
| 2005 | Camilla Gibb | Sweetness in the Belly | Winner |
| 2005 | F. T. Flahiff | Always Someone to Kill the Doves | Nominee |
| 2005 | David Gilmour | A Perfect Night to Go to China | Nominee |
| 2005 | Sheila Heti | Ticknor | Nominee |
| 2005 | Stephen Lewis | Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa | Nominee |
| 2005 | Alayna Munce | When I Was Young & In My Prime | Nominee |
| 2006 | Mark Frutkin | Fabrizio's Return | Winner |
| 2006 | Anar Ali | Baby Khaki's Wings | Nominee |
| 2006 | Dionne Brand | Inventory | Nominee |
| 2006 | Bernice Eisenstein | I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors | Nominee |
| 2006 | Charlotte Gray | Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention | Nominee |
| 2006 | Wayne Johnston | The Custodian of Paradise | Nominee |
| 2007 | Barbara Gowdy | Helpless | Winner |
| 2007 | Gil Adamson | The Outlander | Nominee |
| 2007 | Lorna Goodison | From Harvey River | Nominee |
| 2007 | Robert Hough | The Culprits | Nominee |
| 2007 | Dennis Lee | Yesno | Nominee |
| 2007 | Ray Robertson | What Happened Later | Nominee |
| 2008 | Pasha Malla | The Withdrawal Method | Winner |
| 2008 | Kevin Connolly | Revolver | Nominee |
| 2008 | Helen Humphreys | Coventry | Nominee |
| 2008 | Ibi Kaslik | The Angel Riots | Nominee |
| 2008 | Nino Ricci | The Origin of Species | Nominee |
| 2008 | Charles Wilkins | In the Land of the Long Fingernails | Nominee |
| 2009 | Ian Brown | The Boy in the Moon | Winner |
| 2009 | Margaret Atwood | The Year of the Flood | Nominee |
| 2009 | Alexandra Leggat | Animal | Nominee |
| 2009 | Anne Michaels | The Winter Vault | Nominee |
| 2009 | Alice Munro | Too Much Happiness | Nominee |
| 2009 | Emily Schultz | Heaven Is Small | Nominee |
| 2009 | Cordelia Strube | Lemon | Nominee |
| 2010 | Rabindranath Maharaj | The Amazing Absorbing Boy | Winner |
| 2010 | Emma Donoghue | Room | Nominee |
| 2010 | James FitzGerald | What Disturbs Our Blood | Nominee |
| 2010 | Ken Sparling | Book | Nominee |
| 2010 | Paul Vermeesch | The Reinvention of the Human Hand | Nominee |
| 2010 | Michael Winter | The Death of Donna Whalen | Nominee |
| 2011 | Phil Hall | Killdeer | Winner |
| 2011 | Ken Babstock | Methodist Hatchet | Nominee |
| 2011 | David Bezmozgis | The Free World | Nominee |
| 2011 | Tony Burgess | Idaho Winter | Nominee |
| 2011 | Kristen den Hartog | And Me Among Them | Nominee |
| 2011 | David Gilmour | The Perfect Order of Things | Nominee |
| 2012 | Alice Munro | Dear Life | Winner |
| 2012 | Tamara Faith Berger | Maidenhead | Nominee |
| 2012 | Steven Heighton | The Dead Are More Visible | Nominee |
| 2012 | Thomas King | The Inconvenient Indian | Nominee |
| 2012 | Emily Schultz | The Blondes | Nominee |
| 2012 | Linda Spalding | The Purchase | Nominee |
| 2013 | Hannah Moscovitch | This Is War | Winner |
| 2013 | Craig Davidson | Cataract City | Nominee |
| 2013 | Barry Dempster | The Outside World | Nominee |
| 2013 | Lorna Goodison | Supplying Salt and Light | Nominee |
| 2013 | Helen Humphreys | Nocturne | Nominee |
| 2013 | Peter Unwin | Life Without Death and Other Stories | Nominee |
| 2014 | Kate Cayley | How You Were Born | Winner |
| 2014 | Margaret Atwood | Stone Mattress | Nominee |
| 2014 | Dionne Brand | Love Enough | Nominee |
| 2014 | James King | Old Masters | Nominee |
| 2014 | Thomas King | The Back of the Turtle | Nominee |
| 2014 | Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo | Up Ghost River | Nominee |
| 2015 | Kevin Hardcastle | Debris | Winner |
| 2015 | Lynn Crosbie | Where Did You Sleep Last Night | Nominee |
| 2015 | Andrew Forbes | What You Need | Nominee |
| 2015 | Robert Hough | The Man Who Saved Henry Morgan | Nominee |
| 2015 | Janette Platana | A Token of My Affliction | Nominee |
| 2015 | Karen Solie | The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out | Nominee |
| 2016 | Melanie Mah | The Sweetest One | Winner |
| 2016 | André Alexis | The Hidden Keys | Nominee |
| 2016 | Kamal Al-Solaylee | Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone) | Nominee |
| 2016 | Danila Botha | For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known | Nominee |
| 2016 | Leesa Dean | Waiting for the Cyclone | Nominee |
| 2016 | Susan Holbrook | Throaty Wipes | Nominee |
| 2017 | Kyo Maclear | Birds Art Life | Winner |
| 2017 | Cherie Dimaline | The Marrow Thieves | Nominee |
| 2017 | Catherine Hernandez | Scarborough | Nominee |
| 2017 | James Maskalyk | Life on the Ground Floor | Nominee |
| 2017 | Rebecca Rosenblum | So Much Love | Nominee |
| 2017 | Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | This Accident of Being Lost | Nominee |
| 2018 | Dionne Brand | The Blue Clerk | Winner |
| 2018 | Tamara Faith Berger | Queen Solomon | Nominee |
| 2018 | Claudia Dey | Heartbreaker | Nominee |
| 2018 | K. D. Miller | Late Breaking | Nominee |
| 2018 | Miriam Toews | Women Talking | Nominee |
| 2019 | Téa Mutonji | Shut Up You're Pretty | Winner |
| 2019 | Christina Baillie and Martha Baillie | Sister Language | Nominee |
| 2019 | Sara Peters | I Become a Delight to My Enemies | Nominee |
| 2019 | Zalika Reid-Benta | Frying Plantain | Nominee |
| 2019 | Seth | Clyde Fans | Nominee |
| 2020 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | How to Pronounce Knife | Winner |
| 2020 | Craig Davidson | Cascade | Nominee |
| 2020 | Farzana Doctor | Seven | Nominee |
| 2020 | Emma Donoghue | The Pull of the Stars | Nominee |
| 2020 | A. F. Moritz | As Far As You Know | Nominee |
| 2021 | Ann Shin | The Last Exiles | Winner |
| 2021 | Brian Francis | Missed Connections: A Memoir in Letters Never Sent | Nominee |
| 2021 | Catherine Graham | Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric | Nominee |
| 2021 | Sydney Hegele | The Pump | Nominee |
| 2021 | Pamela Korgemagi | The Hunter and the Old Woman | Nominee |
| 2022 | Stuart Ross | The Book of Grief and Hamburgers | Winner |
| 2022 | Charlie Angus | Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower | Nominee |
| 2022 | Cliff Cardinal | Shakespeare's As You Like It: A Radical Retelling | Nominee |
| 2022 | Kathy Friedman | All the Shining People | Nominee |
| 2022 | Emma Healey | Best Young Woman Job Book | Nominee |
| 2023 | Nina Dunic | The Clarion | Winner |
| 2023 | Mike Barnes | Sleep is Now a Foreign Country: Encounters with the Uncanny | Nominee |
| 2023 | D. A. Lockhart | North of Middle Island | Nominee |
| 2023 | Kathryn Mockler | Anecdotes | Nominee |
| 2023 | Zalika Reid-Benta | River Mumma | Nominee |

## Poetry (2003-present)

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2003 | Adam Sol | Crowd of Sounds | Winner |
| 2003 | Adam Getty | Reconciliation | Nominee |
| 2003 | David O'Meara | The Vicinity | Nominee |
| 2004 | Maureen Scott Harris | Drowning Lessons | Winner |
| 2004 | Ray Hsu | Anthropy | Nominee |
| 2004 | Rachel Zolf | Masque | Nominee |
| 2005 | Kevin Connolly | drift | Winner |
| 2005 | Patria Rivera | Puti/White | Nominee |
| 2005 | Karen Solie | Modern and Normal | Nominee |
| 2006 | Ken Babstock | Airstream Land Yacht | Winner |
| 2006 | Adam Dickinson | Kingdom, Phylum | Nominee |
| 2006 | Anita Lahey | Out to Dry in Cape Breton | Nominee |
| 2007 | Rachel Zolf | Human Resources | Winner |
| 2007 | Emily Schultz | Songs for the Dancing Chicken | Nominee |
| 2007 | Rob Winger | Muybridge's Horse | Nominee |
| 2008 | Jeramy Dodds | Crabwise to the Hounds | Winner |
| 2008 | Joanne Page | Watermarks | Nominee |
| 2008 | Adam Sol | Jeremiah | Nominee |
| 2009 | Karen Solie | Pigeon | Winner |
| 2009 | Susan Holbrook | Joy Is So Exhausting | Nominee |
| 2009 | Matthew Tierney | The Hayflick Limit | Nominee |
| 2010 | Jeff Latosik | Tiny, Frantic, Stronger | Winner |
| 2010 | Dani Couture | Sweet | Nominee |
| 2010 | Shane Neilson | Complete Physical | Nominee |
| 2010 | Peter Norman | At the Gates of the Theme Park | Nominee |
| 2011 | Nick Thran | Earworm | Winner |
| 2011 | Helen Guri | Match | Nominee |
| 2011 | Jacob McArthur Mooney | Folk | Nominee |
| 2012 | Matthew Tierney | Probably Inevitable | Winner |
| 2012 | Mathew Henderson | The Lease | Nominee |
| 2012 | Sandy Pool | Undark: An Oratorio | Nominee |
| 2013 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | Light | Winner |
| 2013 | Austin Clarke | Where the Sun Shines Best | Nominee |
| 2013 | Adam Dickinson | The Polymers | Nominee |
| 2014 | Brecken Hancock | Broom Broom | Winner |
| 2014 | Aisha Sasha John | THOU | Nominee |
| 2014 | Deanna Young | House Dreams | Nominee |
| 2015 | Soraya Peerbaye | Tell | Winner |
| 2015 | Madhur Anand | A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes | Nominee |
| 2015 | Damian Rogers | Dear Leader | Nominee |
| 2016 | Meaghan Strimas | Yes or Nope | Winner |
| 2016 | Laurie D. Graham | Settler Education | Nominee |
| 2016 | Dane Swan | A Mingus Lullaby | Nominee |
| 2017 | Pino Coluccio | Class Clown | Winner |
| 2017 | Puneet Dutt | The Better Monsters | Nominee |
| 2017 | Phoebe Wang | Admission Requirements | Nominee |
| 2018 | Robin Richardson | Sit How You Want | Winner |
| 2018 | Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | Nominee |
| 2018 | Stevie Howell | I left nothing inside on purpose | Nominee |
| 2019 | Roxanna Bennett | Unmeaningable | Winner |
| 2019 | Doyali Islam | heft | Nominee |
| 2019 | Matthew Walsh | these are not the potatoes of my youth | Nominee |
| 2020 | Jody Chan | Sick | Winner |
| 2020 | Irfan Ali | Accretion | Nominee |
| 2020 | Canisia Lubrin | The Dyzgraphxst | Nominee |
| 2021 | Bardia Sinaee | Intruder | Winner |
| 2021 | Roxanna Bennett | The Untranslatable I | Nominee |
| 2021 | Liz Howard | Letters in a Bruised Cosmos | Nominee |
| 2022 | Sanna Wani | My Grief, the Sun | Winner |
| 2022 | Madhur Anand | Parasitic Oscillations | Nominee |
| 2022 | Laurie D. Graham | Fast Commute | Nominee |
| 2023 | A. Light Zachary | More Sure | Winner |
| 2023 | Britta Badour | Wires That Sputter | Nominee |
| 2023 | Catriona Wright | Continuity Errors | Nominee |