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Awarded for the first time in 1991, the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction has recognized compelling books ranging from memoirs to biographies to a personal account of Canadians at War. Many of the recipients have gone on to be highly renowned and well-recognized members of Canada's impressive literary scene.
2020 to Present
- 2024: Brett Popplewell, Outsider
- 2023: Hilary Peach, Thick Skin
- 2022: Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine
- 2021: Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics
- 2020: Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation
2010 to 2019
- 2019: Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders
- 2018: Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
- 2017: Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo
- 2016: Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club
- 2015: Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Memoir
- 2014: Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea
- 2013: Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss
- 2012: Joshua Knelman, Hot Art
- 2011: Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost
- 2010: John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life
2000 to 2009
- 2009: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House
- 2008: Bruce Serafin, Stardust
- 2007: Linden MacIntyre, Causeway
- 2006: Francis Chalifour, After
- 2005: Anne Coleman, I'll Tell you a Secret
- 2004: Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue
- 2003: Alison Watt, The Last Island
- 2002: Tom Allen, Rolling Home
- 2001: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues
- 2000: Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows
1990 to 1999
- 1999: Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane
- 1998: Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King
- 1997: Anne Mullens, Timely Death
- 1996: George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy
- 1995: Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
- 1994: Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life
- 1993: Liza Potvin, White Lies (For my Mother)
- 1993: Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana
- 1992: Marie Wadden, Nitassinan
- 1991: Susan Mayse, Ginger
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