Authors and their books published by Dundurn Press have been awarded and nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (and its previous iteration, the Giller Prize), the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, the Arthur Ellis Awards/Crime Writers of Canada Awards, the Speaker’s Book Awards from the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, the Heritage Toronto Awards, the Ontario Historical Society Awards, the cities of Ottawa, Victoria, Hamilton, and Toronto Book Awards, the Manitoba Book Awards, the Saskatchewan Book Awards, the Forest of Reading Awards, the Chocolate Lily Book Awards, the High Plains Book Awards, the BMo Winterset Awards, the Ethel Wilson Award, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award, the Danuta Gleed Award, the Foreword Indies, the Donner Prize, the National Business Book Award, the Lambda Literary Awards, the First Nations Communities Read awards, and the Writers’ Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award.
Our recent bestsellers include The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Seven by Farzana Doctor, Yume by Sifton Tracey Anipare, Mudflowers by Aley Waterman, The Great Canadian Bucket List by Robin Esrock, Wine Witch On Fire by Natalie MacLean, Ghost Towns of Ontario’s Cottage Country by Andrew Hind, Canada Alone by Kim Richard Nossal, and Leafs 365 by Mike Commito.