Time and Name of Award Winning Works 1968 Canadian Governor's Office Literature Award "Dancing with Joy" 197 1 Canadian Booksellers Association International Reading Year Award "The Life of Girls and Women" 1977 Canada-Australia Literature Award 1978 Canadian Governor's Office Literature Award. Who do you think you are? Booker Prize for Literature 1980 1986 Canadian Governor-General's Prize for Literature "The Process of Love" 1986 Marianne Engel Prize 1990 Moore Mori Susumu, Canadian Art Association, praised his outstanding contribution to Canadian academic and cultural life. 95 Irish Times International Fiction Award Open Secret WH Smith Prize for Literature 1998 Giles Prize for Literature "Love of a Kind Woman" 2004 Giles Prize for Literature "Escape" 2005 Commonwealth Writer Award 2007 Commonwealth Writer Award James Taterbrak Memorial Award 2007 Booker International Literature Award (1st) nominated Booker "20 13 Ontario Trillium Books" in 2009.