The Aurora Awards are granted annually by the Canadian SF and Fantasy Association and SFSF Boreal Inc. The Award for Best Novel was first awarded in 1982 as the Award for Best Outstanding Work, and there are two awards, one granted to an English-language work and one to a French-language work. Until 1989, it was dedicated to any works, including non-novel-length works. It became a dedicated category in 1989 as the Award for Best Long Form (French: Meilleur Livre). It won the Award for Best Novel (French: Meilleur Roman) in 2011 when the Prix Aurora and Prix Boreal combined. No winner was awarded in 1983 and 1986, but shortlists were created.
Robert J. Sawyer has won the English-language award the most times (eight times), and Élisabeth Vonarburg has won the French-language award the most times (seven times).
English-language Award
Winners and nominees
* Winners and joint winners
Best of the Decade
A special award was handed out in 2017 for the best novel or series of the 2000s. If continued, this award will be given out once every 10 years.
* Winners and joint winners
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Robert J. Sawyer* | The Neanderthal Parallax | Tor | |
| Robert Charles Wilson | Blind Lake | Tor | ||
| William Gibson | Blue Ant | Berkley | ||
| Steven Erikson | Malazan Book of the Fallen | Tor | ||
| Charles de Lint | The Onion Girl | Tor | ||
| Guy Gavriel Kay | Under Heaven | Viking |
French-language Award
Winners and nominees
* Winners and joint winners
| Year | Author(s) | Work | Publisher/Publication | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Charles Montpetit | Temps mort (Time Out) | Paulines | |
| 1990 | Jacques Brossard | Les Années d'apprentissage (Years of Learning) | Leméac | |
| 1991 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Histoire de la princesse et du dragon (Story of the Princess and the Dragon) | Québec/Amérique | |
| 1992 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Ailleurs et au Japon (Elsewhere and in Japan) | Québec/Amérique | |
| 1993 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Chroniques du Pays des Mères (The Maerlande Chronicles) | Québec/Amérique | |
| 1994 | Daniel Sernine | Chronoreg | Québec/Amérique | |
| 1995 | Joël Champetier | La Mémoire du lac (Memory of the Lake) | Québec/Amérique | |
| 1996 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Les Voyageurs malgré eux (Travellers, Despite Themselves) | Québec/Amérique | |
| 1997 | Yves Meynard | La rose du desert (The Desert Rose) | Unknown | |
| 1998 | Jean-Pierre Guillet | L'odyssée du Penelope (The Odyssey of the Penelope) | Éditions Héritage | |
| 1999 | Alain Bergeron | Corps-machines et rêves d'anges (Body-Machines and the Dreams of Angels) | Vent D'Ouest | |
| 2000 | Francine Pelletier | Samiva de Frée | Alire | |
| 2001 | Jean-Louis Trudel | Demain, les étoiles (Tomorrow, the Stars) | Pierre Tisseyre | |
| 2002 | Jean-Louis Trudel | Les Transfigurés du Centaure (The Transfigured Centaurs) | Médiaspaul | |
| 2003 | Jean-Louis Trudel | Le Revenant de Fomalhaut (The Return of Fomalhaut) | Médiaspaul | |
| 2004 | Alain Bergeron | Phaos | Alire | |
| 2005 | Michèle Laframboise | Les Mémoires de l'arc (Memories of the Arc) | Médiaspaul | |
| 2006 | Dominic Bellavance | Alégracia et le serpent d'argent (Alégracia and the Silver Snake) | Les Six Brumes | |
| 2007 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | La Princesse de vengeance (The Vengeance Princess) | Alire | |
| 2008 | Diane Boudreau | Cimetière du musée (Museum Cemetery) | Unknown | |
| 2009 | Michèle Laframboise | Les Vents de Tammerlan (The Winds of Tammerlan) | Médiaspaul | |
| 2010 | Laurent McAllister | Suprématie (Supremacy) | Bragelonne | |
| 2011 | Héloïse Côté | La Tueuse de dragons (The Dragon Slayer) | Alire | |
| 2012 | Éric Gauthier | Montréel | Alire | |
| 2013 | Ariane Gélinas | Transtaïga | Unknown | |
| 2014 | Sébastien Chartrand | L'Ensorceleuse de Pointe-Lévy (The Enchantress of Pointe-Lévy) | Alire | |
| Ariane Gélinas | L'île aux naufrages (The Island of Shipwrecks) | Marchand de Feuilles | ||
| Patrick Senécal | Ce qui se passe dans la cave reste dans la cave (What Happens in the Cave Remains in the Cave) | Alire | ||
| 2015 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Hôtel Olympia (Hotel Olympia) | Alire | |
| Marilou Addison | Anita | Mortagne | ||
| Ariane Gélinas | Escalana | Marchand de Feuilles | ||
| Frédéric Raymond | Jardin de chair (Garden of Flesh) | Les Six Brumes | ||
| Patrick Senécal | Grande liquidation (Grand Liquidation) | Alire | ||
| Daniel Sernine | Les Îles du ciel (Islands of the Sky) | Soulières | ||
| 2016 | Philippe-Aubert Côté | Le Jeu du Démiurge (The Demiurge Game) | Alire | |
| Frédérick Durand | Au rendez-vous des courtisans glacés (A Rendezvous of Icy Courtesans) | Les Six Brumes | ||
| Frédérick Durand | Quand s'éteindra la dernière chandelle (When the Last Candle is Exhausted) | Black Coat | ||
| Éric Gauthier | Le Grande mort de mononc' Morbide (The Grand Death of Mononc Morbid) | Alire | ||
| Yves Meynard | Les Marches de la lune morte (Steps on the Dead Moon) | Alire | ||
| 2017 | Ariane Gélinas* | Les Cendres de Sedna (The Ashes of Cedna) | Alire | |
| Sébastien Chartrand | Le sorcier de l’Île d’Orléans (The Sorcerer of Orléans Island) | Alire | ||
| Héloïse Côté | Les monstres intérieurs (Indoor Monsters) | Alire | ||
| Martine Desjardins | La chambre verte (Green Room) | Alto | ||
| Frédéric Raymond | L’arbre maléfique(The Evil Tree) | Éditions du Phoenix | ||
| 2018 | Karoline Georges* | De synthèse (Of Synthesis) | Alto | |
| David Calvo | Toxoplasma | La Volte | ||
| Yvan Godbout | Hansel et Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) | AdA | ||
| Michèle Laframboise | La ruche (The Hive) | Les Six Brumes | ||
| Matthieu Villeneuve | Borealium tremens | La Peuplade | ||
| 2019 | Élisabeth Vonarburg | Les Pierres et les Roses. Tome 1, 2 et 3 | Alire | |
| Yves Meynard | Chrysanthe t.1 La princess perdue | Alire | ||
| Simon Rousseau | La Reine des Neiges | ADA | ||
| Stéphanie Sylvain | Le roi des ombres | Numeriklivres | ||
| Christiane Vadnais | Faunes | ALTO | ||
| 2020 | Patrick Senécal | Ceux de là-bas | Alire | |
| 2021 | Jonathan Reynolds | Abîmes | Alire | |
| 2022 | Bernard Gilbert | Les Singes bariolés | Québec Amérique |
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