The CAA administers three awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants “honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.”

Winners of the Fiction Award:

1975 Fred Stinson | Lonesome Hero
1976 No award
1977 Carol Shields | Small Ceremonies
1978 Jane Rule | The Young in One Another’s Arms
1979 Marian Engel | The Glassy Sea
1980 No award
1981 Hugh MacLennan | Voices in Time
1982 Joy Kogawa | Obason
1983 W.P. Kinsella | Shoeless Joe
1984 Heather Robertson | Willie: A Romance
1985 Timothy Findley | Not Wanted On The Voyage
1986 Robertson Davies | What’s Bred In The Bones
1987 No award
1988 Brian Moore | The Colour of Blood
1989 Joan Clark | The Victory of Geraldine Gull
1990 James Houston | Running West
1991 David Adams Richards | Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
1992 Alberto Manguel | News From a Foreign Country
1993 Neil Bissoondath | The Innocence of Age
1994 Margaret Atwood | The Robber Bride
1995 Bernice Morgan | Waiting for Time
1996 L.R. Wright | Mother Love
1997 Ann-Marie MacDonald | Fall on Your Knees
1998 Rita Donovan | Landed
1999 Wayne Johnston | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
2000 Alistair MacLeod | No Great Mischief
2001 Elizabeth Hay | A Student of Weather
2002 Will Ferguson | Generica
2003 Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters
2004 Douglas Coupland | Hey Nostradamus
2005 Jeffrey Moore | The Memory Artists
2006 Joseph Boyden | Three Day Road
2007 Richard Wagamese | Dream Wheels
2008 Paulette Jiles | Stormy Weather
2009 Nino Ricci | The Origin of Species
2010 Michael Crummey | Galore
2011 Tom Rachman | The Imperfectionists