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The National
Business Book Award

The National Business Book Award is an award presented to Canadian business authors.

The award, presented every year since 1985, recognizes outstanding talent in Canadian business writing.

The $30,000 award is determined by a panel of prominent individuals from the business and academic sectors.

This year marks the 41th year of curating the conversation in Canadian business.

Past Winners

McClelland & Stewart

2019

By Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik

Allen Lane, imprint of Penguin Random House

Allen Lane, imprint of Penguin Random House

HarperCollins Publishers

Doubleday Canada, imprint of Penguin Random House

2014

By Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish

Signal, imprint of McLelland & Stewart

McGill-Queen's University Press

2005

By Jacquie McNish and Sinclair Stewart

Overlook Hardcover

McArthur & Company Publishing

McClelland & Stewart

McClelland & Stewart

Macfarlane Walter & Ross

1992

By G. Bruce Doern and Brian W. Tomlin

Stoddart

1991

By Ann Gibbon and Peter Hadekel

Macmillan of Canada

1986

By Ann Shortell and Patricia Best

Penguin Books

Contact the National Business Book Award

For more information, please contact:

Mary Ann Freedman
Freedman & Associates Inc.

maf@freedmanandassociates.com

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