Author record · 2010 to 2025
Steven Heighton: Awards and Best-of Lists
Steven Heighton has won 1 award, the Governor General's Literary Awards (2016) for The Waking Comes Late, with 1 shortlist or finalist place and 5 year-end list picks in our archive.
Every recognition
| Year | Book | Source | Result | Translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sacred Rage | The Globe and Mail Globe 100 source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Fiction | |
| 2023 | Instructions for the Drowning | The New Yorker Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Also Recommended | |
| 2023 | Instructions for the Drowning | The Globe and Mail Globe 100 source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Fiction | |
| 2020 | Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos | Writers' Trust of Canada Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Finalist · Nonfiction | |
| 2020 | Reaching Mithymna | The Globe and Mail Globe 100 source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Non-Fiction | |
| 2016 | The Waking Comes Late | Governor General's Literary Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Poetry | |
| 2010 | Every Lost Country | The Globe and Mail Globe 100 source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Fiction |
Books
- Instructions for the Drowning2 sources · 2023
- Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos2 sources · 2020
- Every Lost Country1 source · 2010
- Sacred Rage1 source · 2025
- The Waking Comes Late1 source · 2016