Manitoba Books Awards/Les Prix du livre du Manitoba is the premiere annual book awards for Manitoba, Canada. Originating in 1988, an award gala is usually held in April in Winnipeg, Manitoba, celebrating the best of Manitoba writing and publishing from the previous year.
Depending on the year, there are several awards conferred, as some of the awards are only bestowed biannually. The awards are co-produced by the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers and the Manitoba Writers' Guild. Awards include the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the Carol Shields Award for best Winnipeg book, the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and others. Past winners include Miriam Toews, David Bergen, Joan Thomas, W.P. Kinsella, Carol Shields and others.
| 2007 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen | [1] | |
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| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Time out of Mind | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | Early Masters: Inuit Sculpture 1949-1955 | |||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Winnipeg Modern: Architecture 1945 to 1975 | |||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault | Manguiers têtus | |||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | Going Downtown: A History of Portage Avenue | |||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | Beautiful Girl Thumb | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discovery | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger | Raise a Little Stink | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | A Great Restlessness: the Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen | |||
| 2008 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler | ||
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Wolf Tree | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | (design) and Ernest Mayer (photography) | Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort | ||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | A Glowing Dream: A Memoir | |||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | Wolf Tree | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | (design) and Ernest Mayer (photography) | Take Comfort: the Career of Charles Comfort | ||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | The Penance Drummer and Other Stories | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | The North End: Photographs by John Paskievich | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | Sandbag Shuffle | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year | Be Wolf | |||
| 2009 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | Lord Selkirk: A Life | ||
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | this is a small northern town | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | and Frank Reimer | The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture | ||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Carol J. Harvey | Saint-Boniface 1908-2008 : reflets d'une ville | ||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | The Prairie Bridesmaid | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault | L'endroit et l'envers | |||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | and Susan Chafe | Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste | ||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | The Retreat | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | Pauline Boutal, Destin d'artiste | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | My Mother is a French Fry and Further Proof of my Fuzzed-Up Life | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger | and Matrine McLellan | Goose Girl | ||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | The Retreat | |||
| 2010 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | An American by Degrees: The Extraordinary Lives of French Ambassador Jules Jusserand | ||
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Mama Dada | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation | |||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Gerald Friesen | Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History | ||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | Talk | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | Dead on Arrival: Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba Journal 2009 | |||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | an unexpected break in the weather | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | and Barbara Huck | Wild West: Nature Living on the Edge | ||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | Puppet | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger | Timmerman Was Here | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba | |||
| 2011 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 | ||
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Hump | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | and John Toone with James Rewucki | The Imagination Manifesto | ||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | The Matter With Morris | |||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | High Speed Crow | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| Le Prix Littéraire rue-Deschambault | Lointaines | |||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | A Dogs Breakfast: A Chef's Guide to Healthy Home Cooking for Your Favorite Pooch | |||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | The Matter With Morris | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | I Still Don't Even Know You | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | Ortega | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | This Hidden Thing | |||
| 2012 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | King: William Lyon MacKenzie King: A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny | ||
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | Poème Pierre Prière | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | David's Trip to Paraguay: The Land of Amazing Colours | |||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Ravenscraig | |||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | A Large Harmonium | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | Poème Pierre Prière | |||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | The Girl in the Wall | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | Butterfly Winter | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | Tori by Design | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Younger | S is for Scientists: A Discovery Alphabet | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | Not Being on a Boat | |||
| Michael Van Rooy Award for Genre Fiction | The Thirteen | |||
| 2013 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art | ||
| Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry | The Politics of Knives | |||
| Best Illustrated Book of the Year | Imagining Winnipeg: History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote | |||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | The Age of Hope | |||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | Sonar | |||
| John Hirsch Most Promising Writer Award | ||||
| Le Prix Littéraire rue-Deschambault | La Révolution Tranquille | |||
| Lifetime Achievement Award | ||||
| Manuela Dias Award for Book Design | and Brandon Bergem | Warehouse Journal Vol. 21 | ||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | The Age of Hope | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | Thunder Road | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | The House on Sugarbush Road | |||
| 2021 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | Black Water Family, Legacy, and Blood Money | [2] | |
| Book Design | (editor) | Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice | ||
| Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award | Black Water Family, Legacy, and Blood Money | |||
| Chris Johnson Award for Best Play by a Manitoba Playwright | Dragonfly | |||
| Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book | Once Removed | |||
| Graphic Novel | et al. | This Place: 150 Years Retold | ||
| Illustration | I Will See You Again | |||
| Le Prix Littéraire rue-Deschambault | Boussole Franche | |||
| Manitowapow Award | and Lenard Monkman | |||
| Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction | The Lightning of Possible Storms | |||
| Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher | Making Believe: Questions about Mennonites and Art | |||
| McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award - Older | Harvey Comes Home | |||
| McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award | Here the Dark | [3] |