Barbara Gowdy received the prestigious Marian Engel Award in 1996, recognizing her contribution to Canadian literature.
We So Seldom Look on Love
Mister Sandman
- Finalist for the Trillium Award
- Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
- Finalist for the Giller Prize
- Named a Times Literary Supplement “Book of the Year”
The White Bone
- Finalist for the Trillium Award
- Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
- Finalist for the Giller Prize
- Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
The Romantic
- Nominated for the Man Booker Prize
- Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book
- Finalist for the Trillium Award
