University of Manitoba Press consistently publishes highly regarded titles each year. Our books have won more than 60 awards since 2013 and earned many more honourable mentions and nominations.
Award-Winning Books
2024 Award Winners
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Western Voices in Canadian Art
Winner
AUPresses Book, Jacket & Journal Show (Scholarly Illustrated) (2024)
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The Art of Ectoplasm
Winner
Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives (2024)
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Stored in the Bones
Winner
Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society (2023)
Recent Canadian Historical Association Award Winners
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Mennonite Farmers
Winner
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2022)
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Dammed
Winner
Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2021)
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Dadibaajim
Winner
Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize (2022)
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Structures of Indifference
Winner
Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2019)
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The Clay We Are Made Of
Winner
Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2018)
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Managing Madness
Winner
CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association (2018)
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Imperial Plots
Winner
Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2017)
Recent Manitoba Book Award Winners
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Exactly What I Said
Winner
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (2023)
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Did You See Us?
Winner
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (2022)
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Dadibaajim
Winner
Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize (2022)
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Making Believe
Winner
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (2021)
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Structures of Indifference
Winner
Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2019)
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From the Tundra to the Trenches
Winner
Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (2018)
Recent Ontario Historical Society Award Winners
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Undressed Toronto
Winner
J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society (2022)
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Dadibaajim
Winner
Canadian Historical Association Indigenous History Book Prize (2022)
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Sounding Thunder
Winner
Fred Landon Award, Ontario Historical Society (2018)
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A Two-Spirit Journey
Winner
Alison Prentice Award, Ontario Historical Society (2018)
All Awards
- 2024 Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives: The Art of Ectoplasm
- 2024 Selection, Scholarly Illustrated, AUPresses Book, Jacket & Journal Show: Western Voices in Canadian Art
- 2023 Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Stored in the Bones
- 2023 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: Exactly What I Said
- 2023 1st Place, Best in the World, Food & Indigenous Peoples Category, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Recipes and Reciprocity
- 2023 2nd Place, Best in the World, University Press Category, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Recipes and Reciprocity
- 2023 Best University Press Book, Canada, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Recipes and Reciprocity
- 2023 Environmental Community’s Organizer ‘ECO’ Award, Environmental Studies Association of Canada: Joan Scottie (author of I Will Live for Both of Us)
- 2022 Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Medicare's Histories
- 2022 Indigenous History Award, Ontario Historical Society: Dadibaajim
- 2022 J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society: Undressed Toronto
- 2022 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: Did You See Us?
- 2022 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards: Dadibaajim
- 2022 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association: Mennonite Farmers
- 2022 NiCHE Prize for Best Book in Canadian Environmental History, Canadian Historical Association: Dammed
- 2022 Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association: Dadibaajim
- 2022 CLIO History Prize (Ontario), Canadian Historical Association: Dadibaajim
- 2022 Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives: Mennonite Farmers
- 2022 Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives: Returning to Ceremony
- 2021 Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Authorized Heritage
- 2021 Recipient of the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research: Brittany Luby (author of Dammed)
- 2021 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Honourable Mention: Dadibaajim
- 2021 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: Making Believe
- 2021 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association: Dammed
- 2021 CLIO History Prize (Ontario), Canadian Historical Association: Dammed
- 2021 The Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association: Dammed
- 2020 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Honourable Mention: Dammed
- 2020 Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Civilian Internment in Canada
- 2020 Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Ontario History, The Champlain Society: Dammed
- 2020 François-Xavier Garneau Medal shortlist, Canadian Historical Association: The Clay We Are Made Of
- 2020 Works in an Indigenous Language Award, Indigenous Voices Awards: Injichaag
- 2020 Ann Saddlemyer Award, The Canadian Association for Theatre Research: Unbecoming Nationalism
- 2020 KOBZAR Literary Award shortlist, The Shevchenko Foundation: The North End Revisited
- 2019 Indigenous History Prize, Canadian Historical Association: Structures of Indifference
- 2019 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards: Structures of Indifference
- 2019 Selection, Scholarly Typographic, AUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show: Structures of Indifference
- 2018 Fred Landon Award, Ontario Historical Society: Sounding Thunder
- 2018 Alison Prentice Award, Ontario Historical Society: A Two-Spirit Journey
- 2018 Best First Book, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: The Clay We Are Made Of
- 2018 Aboriginal History Group Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association: The Clay We Are Made Of
- 2018 CLIO History Prize (Ontario), Canadian Historical Association: The Clay We Are Made Of
- 2018 CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association: Managing Madness
- 2018 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: From the Tundra to the Trenches
- 2018 Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives: No Man’s Land
- 2017 Oral History Association Book Award: A Two Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibway-Cree Elder
- 2017 Sir John A MacDonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association: Imperial Plots
- 2017 CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association: Imperial Plots
- 2017 Gita Chaudhuri Prize, Western Association of Women Historians: Imperial Plots
- 2017 Manitoba Day Award, Association of Manitoba Archives: Thrashing Seasons
- 2017 Selection, Jackets & Covers, 2017 AUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show: Thrashing Seasons
- 2016 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: This Benevolent Experiment
- 2016 Marsid Foundation Prize, Western Canada Jewish Book Awards: Holocaust Survivors in Canada
- 2016 Manitoba Day Awards, Association of Manitoba Archives: The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause
- 2016 Manitoba Day Awards, Association of Manitoba Archives: Indigenous Women, Work, and History
- 2016 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer, Manitoba Book Awards: Chantal Fiola
- 2016 Beatrice Mosionier Award for Aboriginal Writer of the Year Award, Manitoba Book Awards: Chantal Fiola
- 2016 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: Life Among the Qallunaat
- 2015 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: Transnational Radicals
- 2015 Luther College and University of Regina Arts Award for Scholarly Writing, Saskatchwan Book Awards: Forest Prairie Edge
- 2015 Manitoba Day Award, Association for Manitoba Archives: The Patriotic Consensus
- 2015 Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award, Manitoba Book Awards: Devil in Deerskins
- 2015 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: Sanaaq
- 2014 Selection, Jackets & Covers, 2014 AUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show: Sanaaq
- 2013 Manuela Dias Book Design and Illustration Award, Manitoba Book Awards: Imagining Winnipeg
- 2013 Manitoba Day Award, Association for Manitoba Archives: Imagining Winnipeg
- 2012 Gabrielle Roy Prize, ACQL: Stories in a New Skin
- 2011 First Peoples’ Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards: Seeing Red
- 2011 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards: Seeing Red
- 2011 Regina Book Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards: Seeing Red
- 2011 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards: When the Other Is Me
- 2011 Margaret McWilliams Award for Local History, Manitoba Historical Society: Winnipeg Beach
- 2011 Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Community and Frontier
- 2010 Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History, Manitoba Historical Society: Winnipeg’s Great War
- 2010 First Peoples’ Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards: Taking Back Our Spirits
- 2009 John W. Dafoe Book Prize: Lord Selkirk
- 2009 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: Restoring the Balance
- 2009 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, Manitoba Book Awards: Prairie Metropolis
- 2009 Manuela Dias Illustrated Book Award, Manitoba Book Awards: All Our Changes
- 2009 Municipal Heritage Award (Education): For All We Have and Are
- 2009 Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards: Taking Back Our Spirits
- 2009 Melva J. Dwyer Award, ARLIS/NA: Winnipeg Modern
- 2008 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards: Lord Selkirk
- 2008 CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History: Lord Selkirk
- 2008 Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Lord Selkirk
- 2008 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: Magic Weapons
- 2007 Robert S. Kenny Prize in Marxist & Labour/Left Studies: A Great Restlessness
- 2007 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: The North End
- 2006 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, Manitoba Book Awards: Winnipeg Modern
- 2006 Margaret McWilliams Award for Organizational History, Manitoba Historical Society: St. John’s College
- 2006 McNally Robinson Book of the Year, Manitoba Book Awards: A Great Restlessness
- 2006 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Manitoba Book Awards: A Great Restlessness
- 2006 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: A Great Restlessness
- 2006 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards: A Great Restlessness
- 2005 Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books: A National Crime
- 2005 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards: Like the Sound of a Drum
- 2004 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba
- 2004 Manuela Dias Illustrated Book Award, Manitoba Book Awards: Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba
- 2002 Margaret McWilliams Award for Popular History: 1000 Miles of Prairie
- 2002 Jason A. Hannah Medal: A Very Remarkable Sickness
- 2001 CASE Silver Medal: The University of Manitoba
- 2001 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Manitoba Book Awards: The University of Manitoba
- 2006 Margaret McWilliams Award for Organizational History, Manitoba Historical Society: The University of Manitoba
- 2001 CLIO Award (Northern History), Canadian Historical Association: In Order to Live Untroubled
- 1999 Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: A National Crime
- 1995 CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: The Ojibwa of Western Canada
- 1995 Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly History (honourable mention), Manitoba Historical Society: The Ojibwa of Western Canada
- 1995 Margaret McWilliams Award for Scholarly History, Manitoba Historical Society: Severing the Ties that Bind