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Nine books named CLA Book of the Year for Children have also won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or the preceding Canada Council Children's Literature Prize, or earlier Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction (in all, conferred for English-language books from 1949 to 1958 and 1975 to present).
poet, children's literature, short stories, essays Hugh MacDonald: 1945 This is a Love Song: Jake MacDonald: 1949 2020 The Lake: An Illustrated History of Manitobans' Cottage Country: Janice MacDonald: 1959 novelist, children's literature, short stories Condemned to Repeat, Hang Down Your Head, The Ghouls' Night Out: Maggie MacDonald: 1979 ...
It was the rise of Quebec patriotism and the 1837 Lower Canada Rebellion, in addition to a modern system of primary school education, which led to the rise of French-Canadian fiction. L'influence d'un livre by Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé is widely regarded as the first French-Canadian novel. The genres which first became popular ...
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922), poet, children's literature, short story writer and essayist; Hugh MacDonald (born 1945), poet, children's writer and editor; Wilson MacDonald (1880–1967) Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), novelist and poet; Walter Scott MacFarlane (1896–1979), poet and soldier; Tom MacInnes (1867–1951), poet and ...
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Alistair MacLeod, OC FRSC (July 20, 1936 – April 20, 2014) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic. His powerful and moving stories vividly evoke the beauty of Cape Breton Island's rugged landscape and the resilient character of many of its inhabitants, the descendants of Scottish immigrants, who are haunted by ancestral memories and who struggle to reconcile the past and ...
The Canadian Authors Awards, originally known as Canadian Authors Association or CAA Awards and now occasionally called Literary Awards, were created in 1975 to fill in for the Governor General’s medals, as these were overtaken by the Canada Council for the Arts, and were presented in multiple categories to authors who are Canadian born or permanent residents. [1]
Valued at $30,000, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award is Canada's biggest literary prize for children's literature. Nicola I. Campbell's Shi-Shi-Etko was a finalist in 2006, but the book's sequel Shi-Chi's Canoe won the grand prize in 2009. [ 26 ]