The following is a list of winners and nominees in French-language categories for the Trillium Book Award, a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for English-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in English-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, English.
From 1994 to 2002, a single annual award was presented for French-language books regardless of genre; in 2002, an award for best first book of poetry was introduced for francophone poets, but was only presented once, and established poets were still considered for the main all-genre award.
In 2003, the award was fully split into separate categories for prose and poetry; however, in the second year of the poetry categories, the program failed to receive a sufficient number of submissions to present a French-language poetry award. The prize money that had been earmarked for the French poetry category was instead used that year to create an academic scholarship for French-language creative writing students in Ontario, and the category was further adjusted so that it now encompasses a two-year eligibility period instead of one, and alternates with a two-year category for French-language children's literature.
In 2024, for the first time since the two-year alternation for poetry and children's literature was introduced, the two-year eligibility period still did not produce enough French poetry titles to present an award in that category.
All-genre (1994-2002)
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Andrée Lacelle | Tant de vie s'égare | |
| Michel Ouellette | French Town | ||
| Pierre Pelletier | Petites incarnations de la pensee delinquante | ||
| Daniel Poliquin | L'Écureuil noir | ||
| Gabrielle Poulin | Le Livre de déraison | ||
| Danièle Vallée | La Caisse | ||
| 1995 | Maurice Henrie | Le Balcon dans le ciel | |
| Estelle Beauchamp | Les Memoires de Christine Marshall | ||
| Andrée Lacelle | La Voyageuse | ||
| Alain Bernard Marchand | L'Homme qui pleure | ||
| Jean-Louis Trudel | Le prisonnier de Serendib | ||
| Les rescapés de Serendib | |||
| 1996 | Nancy Vickers | Le Pied de Sappho | |
| Alain Bernard Marchand | Tintin au pays de la ferveur | ||
| Hélène Brodeur | L'Ermitage | ||
| Nicole V. Champeau | O Sirènes, libérez-moi | ||
| Robert Marinier | L'Insomnie | ||
| 1997 | Roger Levac | Petite Crapaude! | |
| Michel Dallaire | Ponts brûlés et appartenances | ||
| Robbert Fortin | Jour buvard d'encre | ||
| Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | La voie de Laum | ||
| Stefan Psenak | Le fantasme d'immortalité | ||
| 1998 | Daniel Poliquin | L'homme de paille | |
| Stefan Psenak | Du chaos et de l'ordre des choses | ||
| Marguerite Andersen | Les Crus de l'Esplanade | ||
| Jean Mohsen Fahmy | Amina et le mamelouk blanc | ||
| Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | Il faut crier l'injure | ||
| Stefan Psenak | Les corps en sursis | ||
| 1999 | Andrée Christensen, Jacques Flamand | Lithochronos ou le premier vol de la pierre | |
| Hédi Bouraoui | Ainsi parle la Tour CN | ||
| Claude Guilmain | L'Égoiste | ||
| Michel Ouellette | La dernière fugue | ||
| Claire Rochon | La Ville bleue | ||
| 2000 | Didier Leclair | Toronto, je t'aime | |
| Marguerite Andersen | Bleu sur blanc | ||
| Michel A. Therien | Corps sauvage | ||
| Arash Mohtashami-Maali | Deuils d'automne | ||
| Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | La Donne | ||
| 2001 | Michèle Matteau | Cognac et Porto | |
| Esther Beauchemin | Maïta | ||
| Antonio D'Alfonso | Comment ça se passe | ||
| Richard J. Léger | Faust: chroniques de la démesure | ||
| Melchior Mbonimpa | Le Totem des Baranda | ||
| 2002 | Michel Ouellette | Le testament du couturier | |
| Danièle Vallée | Debout sur la tete d'un chat | ||
| Michel A. Therien | Eaux d'Ève | ||
| Robert Dickson | Humains paysages en temps de paix relative | ||
| Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | Meme les fougeres ont des cancers de peau |
Prose (2003-present)
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Serge Denis | Social-démocratie et mouvements ouvriers | |
| François Paré | La distance habitée | ||
| Franco Catanzariti | Sahel | ||
| Michèle Cook | En un tour de main | ||
| Gabrielle Poulin | Ombres et lueurs | ||
| 2004 | Antonio D'Alfonso | Un vendredi du mois d'aout | |
| Marguerite Andersen | Parallèles | ||
| Jacques Flamand | Quand eclate la pierre (1986-2004) | ||
| Maurice Henrie | Les Roses et le verglas | ||
| Nathalie Stephens | L'Injure | ||
| 2005 | Jean Mohsen Fahmy | L'Agonie des dieux | |
| Gilles Dubois | L'homme aux yeux de loup | ||
| Robert Marinier | Épinal | ||
| Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | Pour ce qui reste de la beauté du monde | ||
| Colette St-Denis | Un temps pour se souvenir | ||
| 2006 | Paul Savoie | Crac | |
| Daniel Castillo Durante | La Passion des nomades | ||
| Marguerite Andersen | Doucement le bonheur | ||
| Claude Forand | Ainsi parle le Saigneur | ||
| Daniel Poliquin | La Kermesse | ||
| 2007 | Pierre Raphaël Pelletier | L'Oeil de la lumière | |
| Andrée Christensen | Depuis toujours, j'entendais la mer | ||
| Michel Dallaire | l'anarchie des innocences | ||
| Gilles Lacombe | La Jouissance des nuages de la pensee | ||
| Richard Poulin | Enfances devastees, tome 1 : L'Enfer de la prostitution | ||
| Michèle Vinet | Parce que chanter c'est trop dur | ||
| 2008 | Marguerite Andersen | Le Figuier sur le toit | |
| Hédi Bouraoui | Cap Nord | ||
| Daniel Marchildon | L'Eau de vie | ||
| Melchior Mbonimpa | La terre sans mal | ||
| Nancy Vickers | Aeterna: Le jardin des immortelles | ||
| 2009 | Ryad Assani-Razaki | Deux Cercles | |
| Nicole V. Champeau | Pointe Maligne: L'infiniment oubliee | ||
| Jean Mohsen Fahmy | Frères ennemis | ||
| Daniel Poliquin | René Lévesque | ||
| Daniel Soha | La Maison: une parabole | ||
| 2010 | Estelle Beauchamp | Un souffle venu de loin | |
| Murielle Beaulieu | Laisse-moi te dire | ||
| Andrée Christensen | La mémoire de l'aile | ||
| Michel Dallaire | pendant que l'Autre en moi t'ecoute | ||
| Didier Leclair | Le soixantieme parallèle | ||
| 2011 | Michèle Vinet | Jeudi Novembre | |
| Yann Garvoz | Plantation Massa-Lanmaux | ||
| Maurice Henrie | L'enfant Cement | ||
| Monia Mazigh | Miroirs et mirages | ||
| Joëlle Roy | Xman est back en Huronie | ||
| 2012 | Paul Savoie | Bleu bemol | |
| Claude Guilmain | Comment on dit ça, -- t'es mort --, en anglais? | ||
| Marie-Josée Martin | Un jour, ils entendront mes silences | ||
| Michèle Matteau | Avant que ne tombe la nuit | ||
| Daniel Soha | Le manuscrit | ||
| 2013 | Marguerite Andersen | La mauvaise mère | |
| Andrée Christensen | Racines de neige | ||
| Véronique-Marie Kaye | Afghanistan | ||
| Philippe Porée-Kurrer | Les Gardiens de l'Onirisphere : La revelation de Stockholm | ||
| Danièle Vallée | Sous la jupe | ||
| 2014 | Michel Dallaire | Violoncelle pour lune d'automne | |
| Martine Batanian | Clinique | ||
| Blaise Ndala | J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor | ||
| Daniel Poliquin | Le vol de l'ange | ||
| Patricia Smart | De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan | ||
| 2015 | Véronique-Marie Kaye | Marjorie Chalifoux | |
| Alain Doom | Un neurinome sur une balancoire | ||
| Caroline Durand | Nourrir la machine humaine | ||
| Didier Leclair | Pour l'amour de Dimitri | ||
| Carlos Taveira | Mots et marees, tome 2 : Les maux de Marie-Josephe-Angelique | ||
| 2016 | Jean Boisjoli | La Mésure du temps | |
| Louis L'Allier | Nikolaos, le copiste | ||
| Éric Mathieu | Les suicides d'Eau-Claire | ||
| Paul-Francois Sylvestre | Cinquante ans de 'p'tits bonheurs' au Theatre francais de Toronto | ||
| Michèle Vinet | L'enfant-feu | ||
| 2017 | Aurélie Resch | Sous le soleil de midi | |
| Maurice Henrie | Le poids du temps | ||
| Didier Leclair | Le bonheur est un parfum sans nom | ||
| Alain Bernard Marchand | Sept vies, dix-sept morts | ||
| Blaise Ndala | Sans capote ni kalachnikov | ||
| 2018 | Lisa L'Heureux | Et si un soir | |
| Alain Doom | Un quai entre deux mondes | ||
| Gilles Latour | À la merci de l’étoile | ||
| Yvon Malette | Entre le risque et le rêve | ||
| David Ménard | Poupée de rouille | ||
| 2019 | Paul Ruban | Crevaison en corbillard | |
| Jean Boisjoli | Moi, Sam, Elle, Janis | ||
| Claude Guilmain | AmericanDream.ca | ||
| Aristote Kavungu | Mon père, Boudarel et moi | ||
| 2020 | Danièle Vallée | Sept nuits dans la vie de Chérie | |
| Nicole V. Champeau | Niagara... la voie qui y mène | ||
| Daniel Castillo Durante | Tango | ||
| Charles-Étienne Ferland | Métamorphoses | ||
| Melchior Mbonimpa | Au sommet du Nanzerwé il s'est assis et il a pleuré | ||
| 2021 | Robert Marinier | Un conte de l’apocalypse | |
| Soufiane Chakkouche | Zahra | ||
| Marie-Hélène Larochelle | Je suis le courant la vase | ||
| Michèle Vinet | Le malaimant | ||
| Marie-Thé Morin | Errances | ||
| 2022 | Gilles Lacombe | Circé des hirondelles | |
| Andrée Lacelle | Dire | ||
| Gilles Latour | Feux du naufrage | ||
| Marie-Thé Morin | Frontières libres | ||
| Nancy Vickers | Capharnaum | ||
| 2023 | Nicolas Weinberg | Vivre ou presque | |
| Martin Bélanger | La fin de nos programmes | ||
| Andrée Christensen | Plonge, Freya, vole ! | ||
| David Ménard | L'aurore martyrise l'enfant | ||
| Paul Ruban | Le parfum de la baleine |
Poetry or children's (2002-present)
| Year | Author | Title | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Éric Charlebois | Faux-fuyants | |
| Tina Charlebois | Tatouages et testaments | ||
| 2003 | Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo | Avec tes mots | |
| Marc LeMyre | Gaga pour ton zoom | ||
| 2004 | No award presented | ||
| 2005 | Éric Charlebois | Centrifuge | |
| Joël Beddows | des planches à la palette | ||
| 2006 | Françoise Lepage | Poupeska | |
| Mireille Desjarlais-Heynneman | La nuit ou le Soleil est parti | ||
| Céline Forcier | Un canard majuscule | ||
| 2007 | Tina Charlebois | Poils lisses | |
| Christian Milat | Douleureuse aurore | ||
| 2008 | Paul Prud'homme | Les Rebuts: Hockey 2 | |
| Michèle Laframboise | La quête de Chaaas tome 1 | ||
| Françoise Lepage | Les chercheurs d'etoiles | ||
| 2009 | Michèle Matteau | Passerelles | |
| Jacqueline Borowick | Le chant du coucou | ||
| 2010 | Daniel Marchildon | La première guerre de Toronto | |
| Gilles Dubois | La piste sanglante | ||
| Sylvie Frigon | Ariane et son secret | ||
| Jean-Claude Larocque, Denis Sauvé | Etienne Brule: Le fils de Champlain | ||
| Aurélie Resch | Les Voleurs de couleurs | ||
| 2011 | Sonia Lamontagne | À tire d’ailes | |
| Francois Baril Pelletier | Apocryphes du coeur | ||
| Aurélie Resch | Cendres de lune | ||
| 2012 | Claude Forand | Un moine trop bavard | |
| Michèle Laframboise | Mica, fille de Transyl | ||
| Daniel Marchildon | Les guerriers de l'eau | ||
| 2013 | Daniel Groleau Landry | Rêver au réel | |
| Michèle Matteau | Le fol aujourd'hui | ||
| 2014 | Micheline Marchand | Mauvaise mine | |
| Diya Lim | Les enfants du ciel | ||
| Larouspiol | |||
| 2015 | David Ménard | Neuvaines | |
| Sonia Lamontagne | Comptine a rebours | ||
| Gilles Latour | Mots qu'elle a faits terre | ||
| 2016 | Pierre-Luc Belanger | Ski, Blanche et avalanche | |
| Gilles Dubois | Nanuktalva | ||
| Daniel Marchildon | Zazette, la chatte des Ouendats | ||
| 2017 | Sylvie Bérard | Oubliez | |
| Chloé LaDuchesse | Furies | ||
| Christian Milat | Si je connaissais… | ||
| 2018 | Diya Lim | La marchande, la sorcière, la lune et moi | |
| Pierre-Luc Bélanger | L’Odyssée des neiges | ||
| Daniel Marchildon | Otages de la nature | ||
| 2019 | Véronique Sylvain | Premier quart | |
| Daniel Groleau Landry | Fragments de ciels | ||
| 2020 | Éric Mathieu | Capitaine Boudu et les enfants de la Cédille | |
| Marise Gasque | La Neva pour se retrouver | ||
| Micheline Marchand | Perdue au bord de la baie d'Hudson | ||
| 2021 | Chloé LaDuchesse | Exosquelette | |
| Sylvie Bérard | À croire que j’aime les failles | ||
| Sonia-Sophie Courdeau | Ce qui reste sans contour | ||
| 2022 | Michèle Laframboise | Le secret de Paloma | |
| Pierre-Luc Bélanger | Dany à la dérive | ||
| Hélène Koscielniak | Mégane et Mathis | ||
| 2023 | No award presented | ||
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