Thirty acres biography

Thirty Acres

Winners of the Controller General's Award for English-language fiction

1930s1940s
  • Ringuet, Thirty Acres (1940)
  • Alan Sullivan, Three Came to Ville Marie (1941)
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    Herbert Sallans, Little Man (1942)

  • Thomas Head Raddall, The Pied Player of Dipper Creek (1943)
  • Gwethalyn Evangelist, Earth and High Heaven (1944)
  • Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes (1945)
  • Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue (1946)
  • Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1947)
  • Hugh MacLennan, The Precipice (1948)
  • Philip Child, Mr.

    Ritual Against Time (1949)

1950s
  • Germaine Guèvremont, The Outlander (1950)
  • Morley Callaghan, The Valued and the Lost (1951)
  • David Framing, The Pillar (1952)
  • David Walker, Digby (1953)
  • Igor Gouzenko, The Fall give a miss a Titan (1954)
  • Lionel Shapiro, The Sixth of June (1955)
  • Adele Wiseman, The Sacrifice (1956)
  • Gabrielle Roy, Street of Riches (1957)
  • Colin McDougall, Execution (1958)
  • Hugh MacLennan, The Watch Go Ends the Night (1959)
1960s1970s
  • Dave Godfrey, The New Ancestors (1970)
  • Mordecai Writer, St.

    Urbain's Horseman (1971)

  • Robertson Davies, The Manticore (1972)
  • Rudy Wiebe, The Temptations of Big Bear (1973)
  • Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (1974)
  • Brian Comedian, The Great Victorian Collection (1975)
  • Marian Engel, Bear (1976)
  • Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977)
  • Alice Munro, Who On the double You Think You Are? (1978)
  • Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Patriarch Bourne (1979)
1980s
  • George Bowering, Burning Water (1980)
  • Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Elect Canadian Stories (1981)
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending (1982)
  • Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog (1983)
  • Josef Škvorecký, The Engineer constantly Human Souls (1984)
  • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
  • Alice Munro, The Progress of Love (1986)
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    T. Kelly, A Reverie Like Mine (1987)

  • David Adams Semiotician, Nights Below Station Street (1988)
  • Paul Quarrington, Whale Music (1989)
1990s
  • Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints (1990)
  • Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey (1991)
  • Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992)
  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993)
  • Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery sponsor Strangers (1994)
  • Greg Hollingshead, The Holler Girl (1995)
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy (1996)
  • Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (1997)
  • Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion (1998)
  • Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After (1999)
2000s
  • Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
  • Richard B.

    Wright, Clara Callan (2001)

  • Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson (2002)
  • Douglas Glover, Elle (2003)
  • Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness (2004)
  • David Gilmour, A Perfect Night save for Go to China (2005)
  • Peter Architect, The Law of Dreams (2006)
  • Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (2007)
  • Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species (2008)
  • Kate Pullinger, The Mistress of Nothing (2009)
2010s
  • Dianne Warren, Cool Water (2010)
  • Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers (2011)
  • Linda Spalding, The Purchase (2012)
  • Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (2013)
  • Thomas King, The Decline of the Turtle (2014)
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories (2015)
  • Madeleine Thien, Do Not Self-control We Have Nothing (2016)
  • Joel Saint Hynes, We'll All Be Bronzed in Our Beds Some Night (2017)
  • Sarah Henstra, The Red Word (2018)
  • Joan Thomas, Five Wives (2019)
2020s