# Evelyn Richardson Award

The Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival, to the best work of adult non-fiction published in the previous year by a writer from Atlantic Canada. It is the oldest literary award in the region and is considered the most prestigious for a work of non-fiction. The award was named to honour Evelyn M. Richardson.

## Winners

* 1978 - Harry Bruce, Lifeline: the Story of the Atlantic Ferries and Coastal Boats
* 1979 - Alden Nowlan, Double Exposure
* 1980 - Joan Payzant and L.J. Payzant, Like a Weaver's Shuttle: a history of the Halifax-Dartmouth ferries
* 1981 - Kay Hill, Joe Howe: the Man who was Nova Scotia
* 1982 - Bruce Armstrong, Sable Island
* 1983 - J. Murray Beck, Joseph Howe: Volume 1, Conservative Reformer, 1804-1848
* 1984 - Brian C. Cuthbertson, The Loyalist Governor: Biography of Sir John Wentworth
* 1985 - Lilias M. Toward, Mabel Bell: Alexander's Silent Partner
* 1986 - P. B. Waite, The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister
* 1987 - Tony Foster, Meeting of Generals
* 1988 - Harold Horwood, Dancing on the Shore: a Celebration of Life at Annapolis Basin
* 1989 - Dean Jobb, Shades of Justice: Seven Nova Scotia Murder Cases
* 1990 - Judith Fingard, Dark Side of Life in Victorian Halifax
* 1991 - Harry Thurston, Tidal Life: a natural history of the Bay of Fundy
* 1992 - Robert Pope, Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
* 1993 - Sally Ross and Alphonse Deveau, The Acadians of Nova Scotia: Past and Present
* 1994 - Peter Brock, Variations on a Planet
* 1995 - Elizabeth Pacey, Landmarks: Historic Buildings of Nova Scotia
* 1996 - Simone Poirier-Bures, That Shining Place
* 1997 - Harry Thurston, The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands
* 1998 - Harry Bruce, An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia
* 1999 - Silver Donald Cameron, The Living Beach
* 2000 - Robin Metcalfe, Studio Rally
* 2001 - Joan Baxter, A Serious Pair of Shoes: An African Journal
* 2002 - Kent Thompson, Getting Out of Town by Book and Bike
* 2003 - Stephen Kimber, Sailors, Slackers and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War
* 2004 - Harry Thurston, Island of the Blessed: the Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis
* 2005 - Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, A Dune Adrift
* 2006 - Linda Johns, Birds of a Feather: Tales of a Wild Bird Haven
* 2007 - Linden MacIntyre, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence
* 2008 - Marq de Villiers, The Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose
* 2009 - William B. Naftel, Halifax at War: Searchlights, Squadrons, and Submarines 1939-1945
* 2010 - John DeMont, Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled
* 2011 - Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right
* 2012 - Harry Thurston, The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History
* 2013 - Steven Laffoley, Shadowboxing: The Rise and Fall of George Dixon
* 2014 - Stephen Kimber, What Lies Across the Water
* 2015 - Kaleigh Trace, Hot, Wet, & Shaking: How I Learned to Talk About Sex
* 2016 - Gary Saunders, My Life With Trees
* 2017 - Erin Wunker, Notes from A Feminist Killjoy
* 2018 - John DeMont, The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia
* 2019 - Kate Inglis, Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief
* 2020 - Ami McKay, Daughter of Family G: A Memoir of Cancer Genes, Love and Fate
* 2021 - Tyler LeBlanc, Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion
* 2022 - Stephen Kimber, Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics
* 2023 - El Jones, Abolitionist Intimacies
* 2024 - Karen Pinchin, Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas