10 Festivals, over 500 authors, 1 impressive group of award-winning talent.
1 Nobel Prize in Literature winner
4 Man Booker Prize winners (6 wins; 7 finalists
53 Governor General’s Award winners in all literary categories (who have cumulatively written 64 GG award-winning books); 94 GG shortlisted authors including winners
10 Scotiabank Giller Prize winners; 34 shortlisted authors
11 RBC Taylor Prize winners
9 BC Award for non-fiction
2 Pulitzer winners
1 US National Book Award
5 Griffin Poetry Prize winners
19 Trillium Book Award winners
11 Rogers Fiction Prize winners
4 Hilary Weston Non-Fiction Prize winners
2 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly Orange Prize)
2 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
10 Commonwealth Writers Prize winners
4 Canada Reads winners
1 National Business Book Award winner
4 various Quebec prizes; see column X Notes on “Author Awards with Years”
14 Arthur Ellis Awards (Crime Writers) winners
8 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour winners
16 Gerald Lampert Poetry Awards