Harbourfront Festival Prize
About the Prize
From 1984—2019 the Harbourfront Festival Prize (C$10,000) was presented annually in recognition of an author’s contribution to the Canadian literature community, based on the merits of their own published work and/or the time they have invested cultivating the next generation of voices. The recipients were selected by a jury process and presented with the Prize during the Toronto International Festival of Authors in October.
Past Winners
- 2019 / Stuart Ross
- 2018 / Lee Maracle
- 2017 / Joseph Kertes
- 2016 / Miriam Toews
- 2015 / Avie Bennett
- 2014 / Margaret MacMillan
- 2013 / Alice Munro
- 2012 / Austin Clarke
- 2011 / Seth
- 2010 / Peter Robinson
- 2009 / Helen Humphreys
- 2008 / Wayson Choy
- 2007 / Christopher Dewdney
- 2006 / Dionne Brand
- 2005 / Guy Vanderhaeghe
- 2004 / Jane Urquhart
- 2003 / Linda Spalding
- 2002 / Paul Quarrington
- 2001 / Daniel David Moses
- 2000 / Victor Coleman
- 1999 / Matt Cohen
- 1998 / Marty Gervais
- 1997 / Ken Gass
- 1996 / Timothy Findley
- 1995 / Douglas George Fetherling
- 1994 / M.G. Vassanji
- 1993 / Graeme Gibson
- 1992 / Alberto Manguel
- 1991 / Nicole Brossard
- 1990 / Howard Engel
- 1989 / Tomson Highway
- 1988 / Michael Ondaatje
- 1987 / Barry Callaghan
- 1986 / Margaret Atwood
- 1985 / John Robert Colombo
- 1984 / Dennis Lee