2021 Ottawa Book Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2021 Ottawa Book Awards take the reader on a journey through deeply personal poetry, poignant narrative and immersive biography to rethink progress, reconstruct history and rediscover familiar worlds anew. The awards recognize the top English and French books published in the past year by 19 local authors – exemplifying Ottawa’s rich literary talent.
Why Birds Sing
A Novel
We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite
Heart Sister
The Fight for History
75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada's Second World War
The Taste of Longing
Ethel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook
Last Goldfish, The
A True Tale of Friendship
One Good Reason
A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love
The Age of Fentanyl
Ending the Opioid Epidemic