2008 in Canadian literature
# 2008 in Canadian literature

This is a summary of the year 2008 in Canadian literature.

## Events

* January 8 - A television series based on Douglas Coupland's novel jPod debuts on CBC Television.
* February 29 - Paul Quarrington's 1987 novel King Leary wins the 2008 edition of Canada Reads.
* June 12 - Rawi Hage's 2006 novel De Niro's Game wins the 2008 International Dublin Literary Award.
* July 1 - Writers Maria Campbell, George Elliott Clarke and Audrey Thomas are inducted into the Order of Canada.
* November 11 - Joseph Boyden's novel Through Black Spruce wins the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
* November 18 - 2008 Governor General's Awards.

## Books

### Fiction

* David Adams Richards, The Lost Highway
* André Alexis, Asylum
* David Bergen, The Retreat
* Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce
* Austin Clarke, More
* Anthony De Sa, Barnacle Love
* Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
* Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter
* Marina Endicott, Good to a Fault
* Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
* Bill Gaston, The Order of Good Cheer
* Rawi Hage, Cockroach
* Kenneth J. Harvey, Blackstrap Hawco
* Maggie Helwig, Girls Fall Down
* Mark Anthony Jarman, My White Planet
* Ibi Kaslik, The Angel Riots
* Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog
* Pasha Malla, The Withdrawal Method
* Andrew Pyper, The Killing Circle
* Paul Quarrington, The Ravine
* Nino Ricci, The Origin of Species
* Robert J. Sawyer, Identity Theft and Other Stories
* Mary Swan, The Boys in the Trees
* Miriam Toews, The Flying Troutmans

### Non-fiction

* Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
* Stephen Clarkson, My Life as a Dame: The Personal and the Political in the Writings of Christina McCall
* Charles Foran, Join the Revolution, Comrade
* Mark Frutkin, Erratic North: A Vietnam Draft Resister's Life in the Canadian Bush
* Stephen Henighan, A Report on the Afterlife of Culture
* Val Ross, Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic
* Norman Snider, The Roaring Eighties and Other Good Times
* Drew Hayden Taylor, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality

### Poetry

* R. M. Vaughan, Troubled

## Deaths

* February 17 - Val Ross, writer and journalist
* June 11 - James Reaney, novelist
* July 14 - Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, writer and musician
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