- 1936 - Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth
- 1937 - Laura G. Salverson, The Dark Weaver
- 1938 - Gwethalyn Graham, Swiss Sonata
- 1939 - Franklin D. McDowell, The Champlain Road
- 1940 - Ringuet, Thirty Acres
- 1941 - Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie
- 1942 - G. Herbert Sallans, Little Man
- 1943 - Thomas H. Raddall, The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek
- 1944 - Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven
- 1945 - Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes
- 1946 - Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue
- 1947 - Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute [read in French: Bonheur d'occasion]
- 1948 - Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice
- 1949 - Philip Child, Mr. Ames Against Time
- 1950 - Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander
- 1951 - Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost
- 1952 - David Walker, The Pillar
- 1953 - David Walker, Digby
- 1954 - Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan
- 1955 - Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June
- 1956 - Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice
- 1957 - Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches
- 1958 - Colin McDougall, Execution
- 1959 - Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night
- 1960 - Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey
- 1961 - Malcolm Lowry, Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place
- 1962 - Kildare Dobbs, Running to Paradise
- 1963 - Hugh Garner, Hugh Garner's Best Stories
- 1964 - Douglas LePan, The Deserter
- 1965 - (none)
- 1966 - Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God
- 1967 - (none)
- 1968 - Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades
- 1969 - Robert Kroetsch, The Studhorse Man
- 1970 - Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors
- 1971 - Mordecai Richler, St. Urbain's Horseman
- 1972 - Robertson Davies, The Manticore
- 1973 - Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear
- 1974 - Margaret Laurence, The Diviners
- 1975 - Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection
- 1976 - Marian Engel, Bear
- 1977 - Timothy Findley, The Wars
- 1978 - Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?
- 1979 - Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
- 1980 - George Bowering, Burning Water
- 1981 - Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories
- 1982 - Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending
- 1983 - Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog
- 1984 - Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls
- 1985 - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- 1986 - Alice Munro, The Progress of Love
- 1987 - M.T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine
- 1988 - David Adams Richards, Nights Below Station Street
- 1989 - Paul Quarrington, Whale Music
- 1990 - Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
- 1991 - Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
- 1992 - Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
- 1993 - Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
- 1994 - Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers
- 1995 - Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl
- 1996 - Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
- 1997 - Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter
- 1998 - Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion
- 1999 - Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
- 2000 - Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
- 2001 - Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan
- 2002 - Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson
- 2003 - Douglas Glover, Elle
- 2004 - Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
- 2005 - David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China
- 2006 - Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
- 2007 - Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
- 2008 - Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species
jun 11 2009 ∞
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