The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. The prize honours Thomas Head Raddall and is supported by an endowment he willed to it. The award is currently worth $30,000, with additional finalists receiving $500 each.
Winners and nominees
1990s
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! 1991
| style="background:lightyellow" | Wayne Johnston
| style=background:lightyellow| The Divine Ryans
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! 1992
| style="background:lightyellow" | Herb Curtis
| style=background:lightyellow| The Last Tasmanian
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! 1993
| style="background:lightyellow" | John Steffler
| style=background:lightyellow| The Afterlife of George Cartwright
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! 1994
| style="background:lightyellow" | David Adams Richards
| style=background:lightyellow| For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
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! 1995
| style="background:lightyellow" | Bernice Morgan
| style=background:lightyellow| Waiting for Time
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! 1996
| style="background:lightyellow" | M. T. Dohaney
| style=background:lightyellow| A Marriage of Masks
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! 1997
| style="background:lightyellow" | Alfred Silver
| style=background:lightyellow| Acadia
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! rowspan="2" | 1998
| style="background:lightyellow" | Shree Ghatage
| style=background:lightyellow| Awake When All the World Is Asleep
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| Edward Riche
| Rare Birds
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! rowspan="4" | 1999
| style="background:lightyellow" | Wayne Johnston
| style=background:lightyellow| The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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| Lynn Coady
| Strange Heaven
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| Don Hannah
| The Wise and Foolish Virgins
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| David Adams Richards
| The Bay of Love and Sorrows
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2000s
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! rowspan="3" | 2000
| style="background:lightyellow" | Alistair MacLeod
| style=background:lightyellow| No Great Mischief
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| Carmelita McGrath
| Stranger Things Have Happened
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| Donna Morrissey
| Kit's Law
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! rowspan="3" | 2001
| style="background:lightyellow" | Carol Bruneau
| style=background:lightyellow| Purple for Sky
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| Robert Finley
| The Accidental Indies
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| David Adams Richards
| Mercy Among the Children
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! rowspan="3" | 2002
| style="background:lightyellow" | Michael Crummey
| style=background:lightyellow| River Thieves
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| Linda Little
| Strong Hollow
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| Anne Simpson
| Canterbury Beach
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! rowspan="3" | 2003
| style="background:lightyellow" | Donna Morrissey
| style=background:lightyellow| Downhill Chance
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| Christy Ann Conlin
| Heave
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| Susan Goyette
| Lures
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! rowspan="3" | 2004
| style="background:lightyellow" | Kenneth J. Harvey
| style=background:lightyellow| The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
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| Leo McKay Jr.
| Twenty-Six
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| David Adams Richards
| River of the Brokenhearted
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! rowspan="3" | 2005
| style="background:lightyellow" | Edward Riche
| style=background:lightyellow| The Nine Planets
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| Kelly Cooper
| Eyehill
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| Michael Winter
| The Big Why
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! rowspan="3" | 2006
| style="background:lightyellow" | Donna Morrissey
| style=background:lightyellow| Sylvanus Now
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| Lisa Moore
| Alligator
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! rowspan="3" | 2007
| style="background:lightyellow" | Linda Little
| style=background:lightyellow| Scotch River
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| Wayne Johnston
| The Custodian of Paradise
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| Ami McKay
| The Birth House
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! rowspan="3" | 2008
| style="background:lightyellow" | Don Hannah
| style=background:lightyellow| Ragged Islands
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| Bernice Morgan
| Cloud of Bone
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| David Adams Richards
| The Lost Highway
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! rowspan="3" | 2009
| style="background:lightyellow" | Douglas Arthur Brown
| style=background:lightyellow| Quintet
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| Ian Colford
| Evidence
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| Sara Tilley
| Skin Room
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2010s
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! rowspan="3" | 2010
| style="background:lightyellow" | Shandi Mitchell
| style=background:lightyellow| Under This Unbroken Sky
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| Michael Crummey
| Galore
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| Linden MacIntyre
| The Bishop's Man
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! rowspan="3" | 2011
| style="background:lightyellow" | Kathleen Winter
| style=background:lightyellow| Annabel
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| Alexander MacLeod
| Light Lifting
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| Beth Powning
| The Sea Captain's Wife
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! rowspan="3" | 2012
| style="background:lightyellow" | David Adams Richards
| style=background:lightyellow| Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
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| Heather Jessup
| The Lightning Field
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! rowspan="3" | 2013
| style="background:lightyellow" | Russell Wangersky
| style=background:lightyellow| Whirl Away
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| Keir Lowther
| Dirty Bird
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| Donna Morrissey
| The Deception of Livvy Higgs
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! rowspan="3" | 2014
| style="background:lightyellow" | William Kowalski
| style=background:lightyellow| The Hundred Hearts
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| Shashi Bhat
| The Family Took Shape
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| Ed Kavanagh
| Strays
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! rowspan="3" | 2015
| style="background:lightyellow" | Darren Greer
| style=background:lightyellow| Just Beneath My Skin
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| Michael Crummey
| Sweetland
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| David Adams Richards
| Crimes Against My Brother
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! rowspan="3" | 2016
| style="background:lightyellow" | R. W. Gray
| style=background:lightyellow| Entropic
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| Elisabeth de Mariaffi
| The Devil You Know
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| Mark Anthony Jarman
| Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
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! rowspan="3" | 2017
| style="background:lightyellow" | Donna Morrissey
| style=background:lightyellow| The Fortunate Brother
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| Darren Greer
| Advocate
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| Ami McKay
| The Witches of New York
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! rowspan="3" | 2018
| style="background:lightyellow" | Oisin Curran
| style=background:lightyellow| Blood Fable
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| Carol Bruneau
| A Bird on Every Tree
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| Sarah Faber
| All Is Beauty Now
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! rowspan="3" | 2019
| style="background:lightyellow" | Lisa Moore
| style=background:lightyellow| Something for Everyone
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| Sharon Bala
| The Boat People
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| Elisabeth de Mariaffi
| Hysteria
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2020s
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! rowspan="3" | 2020
| style="background:lightyellow" | Michael Crummey
| style=background:lightyellow| The Innocents
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| Jaime Burnet
| Crocuses Hatch from Snow
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| Shandi Mitchell
| The Waiting Hours
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! rowspan="3" | 2021
| style="background:lightyellow" | Anne Simpson
| style=background:lightyellow| Speechless
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| Bridget Canning
| Some People's Children
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| Morgan Murray
| Dirty Birds
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! rowspan="3" | 2022
| style="background:lightyellow" | Michelle Butler Hallett
| style=background:lightyellow| Constant Nobody
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| David Huebert
| Chemical Valley
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| Sharon Robart-Johnson
| Jude and Diana
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! rowspan="3" | 2023
| style="background:lightyellow" | K.R. Byggdin
| style=background:lightyellow| Wonder World
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| Bobbi French
| The Good Women of Safe Harbour
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| Lisa Moore
| This Is How We Love
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! rowspan="5" | 2024
| style="background:lightyellow" | Michelle Porter
| style=background:lightyellow| A Grandmother Begins the Story
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| Violet Browne
| This Is the House That Luke Built
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| Charlene Carr
| Hold My Girl
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| Amanda Peters
| The Berry Pickers
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| William Ping
| Hollow Bamboo
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! rowspan="6" | 2025
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| style="background:lightyellow" | David Huebert
| style="background:lightyellow" | Oil People
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| Mark Blagrave
| Felt
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| Carol Bruneau
| Threshold: Stories
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| Charlene Carr
| We Rip the World Apart
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| Susie Taylor
| Vigil
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References
External links
- Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award