Nominated for Writers Trust Award in the category of Non-Fiction

Finalist for the 2008 Ottawa Book Awards

Suzanne Jacob awarded Quebec's most prestigious prize, The Prix Athanase-David for her entire body of work

The Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction
The Evelyn Richardson Memorial Prize for Non-Fiction

Winner of the 2007 Governor Generals Literary Award (English Non-Fiction)
Over 10,000 Copies in Print!

Finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Longlisted for the Fourth Annual British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
Over 13,000 Copies in Print!

Shortlisted for the Pierre Berton Award
Over 15,000 Copies in Print!

Over 20,000 Copies in Print!

Over 12,000 Copies in Print!

Over 22,000 Copies in Print!

Winner of the 2006 Marian Engel Award
Longlisted for the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Winner of the Creative Arts Award, Polish American Historical Association

Winner of the Emery Reves Award, 2006

Winner of the 2006 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner of the 2006 Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Shortlisted for the 2005 Governor Generals Literary Award (English Fiction)

Winner of the 2005 Governor Generals Literary Award (English Fiction)
Shortlisted for the 19th Annual Trillium Book Award
Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Over 29,000 Copies in Print!