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Author record · 2018 to 2025

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Awards and Best-of Lists

Billy-Ray Belcourt has won 1 award, the Griffin Poetry Prize (2018) for This Wound Is a World, with 4 shortlist or finalist places, 2 longlist or nominee places, and 5 year-end list picks in our archive.

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2025The Idea of an Entire LifeTIME Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · 100 Must-Read
2024A Minor ChorusDublin Literary Award source (opens in a new tab)Longlist · Fiction
2022A Minor ChorusScotiabank Giller Prize source (opens in a new tab)Longlist · Fiction
2022A Minor ChorusThe Globe and Mail Globe 100 source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Fiction
2021A History of My Brief BodyLambda Literary Awards source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · Gay Memoir/Biography
2020NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the FieldLambda Literary Awards source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · Gay Poetry
2020A History of My Brief BodyGovernor General's Literary Awards source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · Non-fiction
2020A History of My Brief BodyThe Globe and Mail Globe 100 source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Non-Fiction
2020A History of My Brief BodyKirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction
2019NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the FieldLibrary Journal Best Books source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Poetry
2018This Wound Is a WorldGriffin Poetry Prize source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Canadian
2018This Wound is a WorldGovernor General's Literary Awards source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · Poetry

Books

  1. A History of My Brief Body4 sources · 2020 to 2021
  2. A Minor Chorus3 sources · 2022 to 2024
  3. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field2 sources · 2019 to 2020
  4. This Wound Is a World2 sources · 2018
  5. The Idea of an Entire Life1 source · 2025