Year |
Winners |
Shortlists |
2016 Jury: Pierre Anctil, Devyani Saltzman, Laurence Siegel |
FICTION
NON-FICTION
- Mark Celinscak, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp
HISTORY
- Beverley Chalmers, Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
- Emil Sher, Young Man with Camera
POETRY
- Daniel Goodwin, Catullus’s Soldiers [4]
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FICTION
NON-FICTION
HISTORY
- Beverley Chalmers, Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices under Nazi Rule
- Andrew Cohen, Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History
- Maria Noriega Rachwal, From Kitchen to Carnegie Hall: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra
- Ira Robinson, A History of Antisemitism in Canada
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
POETRY
- Daniel Goodwin, Catullus's Soldiers
- Seymour Mayne, Cusp Word Sonnets
- Ruth Panofsky, The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
- Rachel Zolf, Janey's Arcadia
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2017 Jury: Bob Bossin, Ami Sands Brodoff, Cary Fagan |
FICTION
NON-FICTION
HISTORY
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
|
FICTION
NON-FICTION
- Sarah Barmak, Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality
- Judy Batalion, White Walls
- David Leach, Chasing Utopia
- Miriam Libicki, Toward a Hot Jew
HISTORY
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
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2018 Jury: Beverley Chalmers, Joseph Kertes, Lee Maracle |
FICTION
NON-FICTION
- Julija Šukys, Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning
HISTORY
- Hugues Théorêt, The Blue Shirts: Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
- Deborah Katz, Rare is Everywhere
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FICTION
NON-FICTION
- Molly Applebaum, Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum Sarah Barmak
- Elaine Dewar, The Handover
- Julija Šukys, Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning
HISTORY
- Roger Frie, Not in My Family: Germany Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust
- Hugues Théorêt, The Blue Shirts: Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada
- Max Wallace, In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
- Melanie Fishbane, Maud
- Kathy Kacer, To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen’s Account of a War Criminal Trial
- Deborah Katz, Rare is Everywhere
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2019 Jury: Ayesha Chatterjee, Melanie J. Fishbane, Eric Beck Rubin |
FICTION
NON-FICTION
POETRY
HISTORY
- Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy
CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
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FICTION
NON-FICTION
- Anne Michaels, Infinite Gradation
- Lezli Rubin-Kunda, At Home: Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice
- Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita
POETRY
- Linda Frank, Divided
- Anne Michaels, All We Saw
- Suzannah Showler, Thing Is
HISTORY
- Benjamin Carter Hett, The Death of Democracy
- Robert Harris, Song of a Nation: The Untold Story of Canada’s National Anthem
- Sarah Wobick-Segev, Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth Century Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg
CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT
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2020 Jury: Judy Batalion, Allan Levine, Shani Mootoo |
FICTION
- Sarah Leavitt, Agnes, Murderess
HISTORY
NON-FICTION
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
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FICTION
HISTORY
- Zelda Abramson & John Lynch, The Montreal Shtetl: Making Home After the Holocaust
- Matti Friedman, Spies of No Country
- Heidi J.S. Tworek, News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
NON-FICTION
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
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2021 Jury: Zelda Abramson, Nathan Adler, Naomi K. Lewis |
FICTION
HISTORY
- Sharon Kirsch, The Smallest Objective
NON-FICTION
- Myriam Steinberg, illustrations by Christache, Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
|
FICTION
HISTORY
- Sharon Kirsch, The Smallest Objective
- Paul Roberts Bentley, Strange Journey: John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health
- Celia Rabinovitch, Duchamp’s Pipe: A Chess Romance--Marcel Duchamp and George Koltanowski
NON-FICTION
- Rick Salutin and Gideon Salutin, illustrated by Dušan Petričić, Gideon’s Bible: A Father and Son Discuss God, the Bible, and Life
- Myriam Steinberg, illustrations by Christache, Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility
- Rachel Matlow, Dead Mom Walking
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- Michelle Barker, My Long List of Impossible Things
- Gordon Korman, War Stories
- Helaine Becker, illustrated by Kari Rust, Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
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2023
Jury: Sidura Ludwig, Syd Zolf, Alain Goldschläger |
FICTION
NON-FICTION
HISTORY
- Jeffrey Veidinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
POETRY
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
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FICTION
NON-FICTION
HISTORY
- Judy Battalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
- Mark Celinscak, Kingdom of Night: Witnesses to the Holocaust
- Jeffrey Veidinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
POETRY
YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- Cary Fagan, Water, Water
- Charlotte Schallié, But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
- Erin Silver, Sitting Shiva
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