The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Rogers Communications Inc.
Winner: $25,000; Finalists: $2,500

Established in 1997, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year's best novel or short-story collection.

2009 Winner

Annabel Lyon
The Golden Mean
Random House Canada

Annabel Lyon's Aristotle is the most fully-realized historical character in contemporary fiction. The Golden Mean engenders in the reader the same helpless sensitivity to the ferocious beauty of the world that is Aristotle’s disease. In this alarmingly confident and transporting debut novel, Lyon offers us that rarest of treats: a book about philosophy, about the power of ideas, that chortles and sings like an earthy romance.

-2009 Jury (Marina Endicott, Miriam Toews
and R.M. Vaughan)

2009 Finalists

Nicole Brossard
Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (translator)
Fences in Breathing
Coach House Books

Douglas Coupland
Generation A
Random House Canada







Alice Munro
Too Much Happiness
McClelland and Stewart: A Douglas Gibson Book






Andrew Steinmetz
Eva’s Threepenny Theatre
Gaspereau Press







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The finalists for the 2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize will be reading during the International Festival of Authors in Toronto on October 28, 2009. Tickets can be ordered online.

The prize will be awarded on November 24 at the Writers' Trust Awards.

Previous Winners

2008 Miriam Toews for The Flying Troutmans
2007 Lawrence Hill for The Book of Negroes
2006 Kenneth J. Harvey for Inside
2005 Joseph Boyden for Three Day Road
2004 Alice Munro for Runaway
2003 Kevin Patterson for Country of Cold
2002 Paulette Jiles for Enemy Women
2001 Margaret Sweatman for When Alice Lay Down With Peter
2000 Helen Humphreys for Afterimage
1999 Peter Oliva for The City of Yes
1998 Greg Hollingshead for The Healer
1997 Austin Clarke for The Origins of Waves

Guidelines (click to download PDF)
Prize history (click to download PDF)