Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
This award was established by the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and the Writers’ Development Trust in 1990 to honour the achievement of Thomas H. Raddall and to recognize the best Atlantic Canadian adult fiction. Thomas Head Raddall is probably best known for His Majesty’s Yankees (1942), The Governor’s Lady (1960), The Nymph and the Lamp (1950) and Halifax, Warden of the North (1948).
The winners:
1991 Wayne Johnston, The Divine Ryans
1992 Herb Curtis, The Last Tasmanian
1993 John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
1994 David Adams Richards, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
1995 Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time
1996 M. T. Dohaney, A Marriage of Masks
1997 Alfred Silver, Acadia
1998 Shree Ghatage, Awake When All the World is Asleep
1999 Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
2000 Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief
2001 Carol Bruneau, Purple for Sky (Published in the USA as A Purple Thread for Sky)
2002 Michael Crummey, River Thieves
2003 Donna Morrissey, Downhill Chance, Toronto
2004 Kenneth J. Harvey, The Town that Forgot How to Breathe
2005 Edward Riche, The Nine Planets
2006 Donna Morrissey, Sylvanus Now
2007 Linda Little, Scotch River
2008 Don Hannah, Ragged Islands.
2009 Douglas Arthur Brown, Quintet
2010 Shandi Mitchell, Under This Unbroken Sky
2011 Kathleen Winter, Annabe
