Dafoe Book Prize Longlist 2024
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, we are pleased to announce that this year, there will be a longlist and a shortlist before the winner is announced.
Our thanks to jurors Dale Barbour, Catherine Cook, and Gregory Mason.
2024 Longlist
- Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth. Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines.
- Leo Baskatawang. Reclaiming Anishnaabe Law: Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
- Jason Bell. Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada’s Greatest Spy. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers.
- Ed Broadbent with Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage. Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality. Toronto: ECW Press Ltd.
- Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay. Plundering the North: A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
- Michelle Good. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada. Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers.
- Ken McGoogan. Searching for Franklin: New Answers to the Great Arctic Mystery. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre.
- Benjamin Perrin. Indictment: The Criminal Justice System on Trial. Toronto: UTP.
- Julian Sher. The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
- John Vaillant. Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
Over the coming weeks, we will be highlighting each of these longlisted titles.
We will be announcing the 5 shortlisted books on May 9.
The winner of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, now valued at $12,000, will be named June 10.
The prize memorializes John Wesley Dafoe, one of the most significant Canadian editors of the 20th century. It is one of the richest book awards for exceptional non-fiction about Canada, Canadians and the nation in international affairs. In his tenure at the Manitoba Free Press, later renamed the Winnipeg Free Press, from 1901-1944, Dafoe was known for his advocacy of western development, free trade and national independence.
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