The Writers’ Trust Notable Author Award
Winner: $25,000

Established in 2008, the Writers’ Trust Notable Author Award was created by merging two previously existing prizes: the Marian Engel Award for a female writer in mid-career (1986-2007) and the Timothy Findley Award for a male writer in mid-career (2002 – 2007). Writers are judged on their body of work – judged to be no less than three works of literary merit which are predominantly fiction – rather than a single book. All Canadian writers will be considered and no age restrictions will apply. The winner, selected by a three-member, independent judging panel, is announced annually at the Writers’ Trust Awards event.

2009 Recipient
David Bergen is the author of five highly acclaimed novels: A Year of Lesser, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award; See the Child; The Case of Lena S., winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction; The Time in Between, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize; and, most recently, The Retreat. He is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Sitting Opposite My Brother, which was a finalist for the Manitoba Book of the Year Award. David Bergen lives in Winnipeg. His next novel, The Matter with Morris, will be published by HaperCollins Canada in the fall of 2010.

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Previous Recipients

2009 David Bergen
2008 Michael Winter

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