The Canadian Authors Association is Canada's oldest association for writers and authors. The organization has published several periodicals, organized local chapters and events for Canadian writers, and sponsors writing awards, including the

Governor General's Awards The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

History

The Canadian Authors Association was founded in 1921. The founding organizers included

John Murray Gibbon John Murray Gibbon (12 April 1875 – 2 July 1952) was a Scottish-Canadian writer and cultural promoter. He was born in Ceylon on 12 April 1875 the second son of William Duff Gibbon a tea planter and Katherine née Murray. Gibbon was educated ...

, Bernard Keble Sandwell,

Stephen Leacock Stephen Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world. Early life S ...

, and Pelham Edgar. By the end of its first year the organization had more than 700 members. In its early years the association was known for its conservative views on literature and its support of traditional writing genres, including colourful idealized stories in quaint local settings. Local chapters of the CAA organized activities to encourage and develop the skills of Canadian writers, including study groups, readings, and workshops. In 1919, the CAA founded a magazine, ''Canadian Bookman''. In 1936, the association founded ''Canadian Poetry'', edited by E. J. Pratt. The Canadian Authors Association discussed the idea of awards with Governor General

Lord Tweedsmuir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, British Army officer, and Unionist Party (Scotland), Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the List of governo ...

(1935-1940) who approved the use of the name of his office in the establishment of the Governor General's Awards in 1936, the first ones being awarded in 1937. They remain Canada's highest literary award, as well as the Canadian Authors Association Awards.

Notable presidents

Will R. Bird William Richard Bird (May 11, 1891 – 1984) was a Canadian writer. He authored fifteen novels, two memoirs, six history books and three travel books. Early and personal life He was born on May 11, 1891, in East Mapleton, to Augusta Bird, an ed ...

(c. 1949–1950), writer, author, recipient of Ryerson Fiction Award *

W. G. Hardy William George Hardy (February 3, 1895 – August 28, 1979) was a Canadian professor, writer, and ice hockey administrator. He lectured on the Classics at the University of Alberta from 1922 to 1964, and served as president of the Canadian Aut ...

(1950–1952), Professor of Classics at University of Alberta, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Member of the Order of Canada

Awards

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 The Canada Council for the Arts (), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It is Canada's public arts funder, with a mandate to foster and promote the study a ...

, and were presented in multiple categories to authors who are Canadian born or permanent residents. The following is an incomplete list of winners of the award, originally given out in three categories (fiction, poetry and drama), before the category Canadian History and the Emerging Writer Award were added in 1997 and 2006. After 2017 all categories were discontinued and replaced by the Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Award, which had already been accoladed the first time in 2016. ;CAA Award for Fiction (1975–2017) * 1975 Fred Stenson for ''Lonesome Hero'' * 1976 ''none'' * 1977

Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel ''The Stone Diaries'', which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as t ...

for ''Small Ceremonies'' * 1978

Jane Rule Jane Vance Rule (28 March 1931 – 27 November 2007) was a Canadian-American writer of lesbian-themed works. Her first novel, '' Desert of the Heart'', appeared in 1964, when gay activity was still a criminal offence. It turned Rule into a r ...

for ''The Young in One Another's Arms'' * 1979

Marian Engel Marian Ruth Engel (née Passmore; May 24, 1933 – February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous and controversial novel was ''Bear'' (1976), a tale of erotic love between an ar ...

for ''The Glassy Sea'' * 1980 ''none'' * 1981

Hugh MacLennan John Hugh MacLennan (March 20, 1907 – November 9, 1990) was a Canadian writer and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award. Family and childhood MacLennan was born in Glace B ...

for ''Voices in Time'' * 1982

Joy Kogawa Joy Nozomi Kogawa (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent. Life Kogawa was born Joy Nozomi Nakayama on June 6, 1935, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to first-generation Japanese Canadians Lois Yao Nakayama a ...

for ''Obasan'' * 1983 W.P. Kinsella for ''Shoeless Joe'' * 1984 Heather Robertson for ''Willie: A Romance: Volume 1 of the King Years'' * 1985

Timothy Findley Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, (October 30, 1930 – June 20, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright.

for ''Not Wanted on the Voyage'' * 1986

Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

for ''What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)'' * 1987 ''none'' * 1988 Brian Moore for ''The Colour of Blood'' * 1989

Joan Clark Joan Clark ( MacDonald; 12 October 1934 – 11 April 2023) was a Canadian fiction author. Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduati ...

for ''The Victory Of Geraldine Gull'' * 1990 James Houston for ''Running West'' * 1991

David Adams Richards David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Senate of Canada, Canadian Senate.Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Canadian, Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglo ...

for ''News From A Foreign Country Came'' * 1993

Neil Bissoondath Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born 19 April 1955, in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago) is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who lives in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He is a noted writer of fiction. He is an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multicultura ...

for ''Innocence Of Age'' * 1994

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

for ''The Robber Bride'' * 1995

Bernice Morgan Bernice Morgan (born 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Much of her work portrays the history and daily life of Newfoundland. She is best known for her novel "Random Passage" which became a television mini-series on CBC.Danielle ...

for ''Waiting for Time (Random Passage, #2)'' * 1996

L. R. Wright Laurali Rose "Bunny" Wright (née Appleby) (5 June 1939 – 25 February 2001) was a Canadian writer of mainstream fiction and mystery novels. Many of her stories are set on the coast of British Columbia. Early life and education Wright was born ...

for ''Mother Love (Karl Alberg #7)'' * 1997

Ann-Marie MacDonald Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Life and career MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force ...

for ''Fall on Your Knees'' * 1998

Rita Donovan Rita may refer to: People * Rita (given name) * Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984) * Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962) * Rita (Japanese singer) * Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Rita Places * Djarrit, also known as Rita, ...

for ''Landed'' * 1999 Wayne Johnston for ''The Colony of Unrequited Dreams'' * 2000

Alistair MacLeod Alistair MacLeod (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 ma ...

for ''No Great Mischief'' * 2001 Elizabeth Hay for ''A Student of Weather'' * 2002

Will Ferguson William Stener Ferguson (born October 12, 1964) is a Canadian travel writer and novelist who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel '' 419'' (2012). Biography Ferguson was born fourth of six children in the former fur trading post of ...

for ''Happiness'' * 2003

Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His ...

for ''Family Matters'' * 2004

Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian novelist, designer and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller '' Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'', popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He ...

for ''Hey Nostradamus!'' * 2005

Jeffrey Moore Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Moore was born in Montreal, and educated at the University of Toronto, BA, the University of Paris (post-1970), Sorbonne and the ...

for ''The Memory Artists'' * 2006

Joseph Boyden Joseph Boyden (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for writing about First Nations culture. '' Three Day Road'', a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War ...

for ''Three Day Road'' * 2007

Richard Wagamese Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario. He was best known for his novel '' Indian Horse'' (2012), which won the Burt Aw ...

for ''Dream Wheels'' * 2008

Paulette Jiles Paulette Kay Jiles (aka Paulette K. Jiles, Paulette Jiles-Johnson) (born April 4, 1943) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. Personal life Paulette Kay Jiles was born in 1943 in Salem, Missouri. She attended college at the Universit ...

for ''Stormy Weather'' * 2009

Nino Ricci Nino Pio Ricci (born 1959) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.Nino Ricci's
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for ''The Origin of Species'' * 2010

Michael Crummey Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador. He won the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award. Life and educ ...

for ''Galore'' * 2011

Tom Rachman Tom Rachman (born September 1974) is an English-Canadian author. His debut novel was ''The Imperfectionists'' (2010), about a group of journalists working in Rome during the collapse of the traditional news media. The book became a global bestsel ...

for ''The Imperfectionists'' * 2012

Patrick deWitt Patrick deWitt (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Born on Vancouver Island, deWitt lives in Portland, Oregon, and has acquired American citizenship. As of 2023, he has written five novels: ''Ablutions'' (2009), ''The Sisters Bro ...

for ''The Sisters Brothers'' * 2013 Christopher Meades for ''The Last Hiccup'' * 2014

for ''The Orenda'' * 2015

Miriam Toews Miriam Toews (; born 1964) is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including '' A Complicated Kindness'' (2004), '' All My Puny Sorrows'' (2014), and '' Women Talking'' (2018). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Governo ...

for ''All My Puny Sorrows'' * 2016

Nino Ricci Nino Pio Ricci (born 1959) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Toronto, Ontario.Nino Ricci's
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for ''Sleep'' * 2017 Alissa York for ''The Naturalist'' ;CAA Award for Poetry (1975–2017) * 1975

Tom Wayman Thomas Ethan Wayman (born 13 August 1945) is a Canadian author. Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia. He studied at the University of British Columbia (BA 1966), and the University of California, ...

for ''For and Against the Moon'' * 1976 Jim Green for ''North Book'' * 1977 Sid Stephen for ''Beothuck Poems'' * 1978

Alden Nowlan Alden Albert Nowlan (; January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright. History Alden Nowlan was born into rural poverty in Stanley, Nova Scotia, adjacent to Mosherville, and close to the small town of Windso ...

for''Smoked Glass'' * 1979 Andrew Suknaski for ''The Ghosts You Call Poor'' * 1980

Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist. Ondaatje's literary career began with his poetry in 1967, publishing ''The Dainty Monsters'', and then in 1970 the critically a ...

for ''There's a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do: Poems, 1963–1978'' * 1981 Leona Gom for ''Land of The Peace'' * 1982 Gary Geddes for ''the acid test'' * 1983 George Amabile for ''the presence of fire'' * 1984 Don McKay for ''Birding or Desire'' * 1985

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, soc ...

for ''Book of Mercy'' * 1986

P. K. Page Patricia Kathleen Page, (23 November 1916 – 14 January 2010) was a Canadian poet,Peter ScowenP.K. Page dies at age 93 ''The Globe and Mail'', 14 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010. though the citation as she was inducted as a Fellow of th ...

for ''The Glass Air'' * 1987

Al Purdy Alfred Wellington Purdy (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four ...

for ''The Collected Poems 1956–1986'' * 1988 Pat Lane for ''Selected Poems'' * 1989 Bruce Rice for ''Daniel'' * 1990 Don Bailey for ''Homeless Heart'' * 1991 Richard Lemm for ''Prelude to the Bacchanal'' * 1992

Anne Michaels Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, ...

for ''Miner's Pond'' * 1993

Lorna Crozier Lorna Crozier, (born 24 May 1948) is a Canadian poet, author, and former chair of the Writing Department at the University of Victoria. She is the author of twenty-five books and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 as one of Ca ...

for ''Inventing the Hawk'' * 1994

George Bowering George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He was the first Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. Life and career Bowering was born in Penticton, British Columbia, and rai ...

for ''George Bowering Selected Poems'' * 1995

Tim Lilburn Tim Lilburn (born 27 June 1950) is a Canadian poet and essayist. Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Regina, a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, and his PhD from McMaster Univ ...

for ''Moosehead Sandhills'' * 1996

Di Brandt Di Brandt (''née'' Janzen; 31 January 1952) often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018. Life and career Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming ...

for ''Jerusalem, beloved'' * 1997 E.D. Blodgett for ''Apostrophes: woman at a piano'' * 1998

Anne Szumigalski Anne Szumigalski, SOM (b. 3 January 1922 in London, England, d. 22 April 1999) was a Canadian poet. Life She was born Anne Howard Davis in London, England, and grew up mostly in a Hampshire village. She served with the Red Cross as a medical ...

for ''On Glassy Wings'' * 1999 Janice Kulyk Keefer for ''Marrying the Sea'' * 2000 Helen Humphreys for ''Anthem'' * 2001

Carmine Starnino Carmine Starnino is a Canadians, Canadian poet, essayist, educator and editing, editor. Biography He was born in 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian people, Italian heritage. His first poetry collection ''The New World'' (1997) was nomina ...

for ''Credo'' * 2002

Tim Bowling Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2 ...

for ''Darkness and Silence'' * 2003

Margaret Avison Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...

for ''Concrete and Wild Carrot'' * 2004 Chris Banks for ''Bonfires'' * 2005 Peter Trower for ''Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys'' * 2006 Barry Dempster for ''The Burning Alphabet'' * 2007

Sarah Klassen Sarah Klassen (born 6 October 1932) is a Canadian writer and retired educator living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Klassen's first volume of poetry, ''Journey to Yalta'', was awarded the Gerald Lampert Award, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klass ...

for ''A Curious Beatitude'' * 2008 Asa Boxer for ''The Mechanical Bird'' * 2009 Elise Partridge for ''Chameleon Hours'' * 2010

Tom Dawe Tom Dawe, (born October 24, 1940) is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador. Background Born in Long Pond, Newfoundland, Tom Dawe has written poetry and children's literature for many years. He is also a visual artist. His work often ...

for ''Where Genesis Begins'' * 2011

Julia McCarthy Julia McCarthy (1964-2021) was a Canadian poet.

for ''Return from Erebus'' * 2012 Goran Simić for ''Sunrise in the Eyes of the Snowman'' * 2013 Don McKay for ''Paradoxides'' * 2014

Renée Sarojini Saklikar Renée Sarojini Saklikar is an Indian-born Canadian lawyer, poet and author. Raised in New Westminster in Greater Vancouver,Smith, Charlie.Renee Sarojini Saklikar draws large crowd to SFU Woodward's for launch of new book of poemsArchive. ''The G ...

for ''children of air india'' * 2015

for ''Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief'' * 2016 Joe Denham for ''Regeneration Machine'' * 2017

Johanna Skibsrud Johanna Shively Skibsrud (born 1980) is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel '' The Sentimentalists'' won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Career Skibsrud has published two books of poetry, ''Late Nights with Wild Cowboys'' in 2008 and ''I Do No ...

for ''The Description of the World'' ;CAA Award for Canadian History (1997–2017) *1997

Phil Jenkins Phil may refer to: * Phil (given name), a shortened version of masculine and feminine names * Phill, a given name also spelled "Phil" * Phil, Kentucky, United States * ''Phil'' (film), a 2019 film * -phil-, a lexical fragment, used as a root ter ...

for ''An Acre of Time'' *1998

Dorothy Harley Eber Dorothy Margaret Eber, Dorothy Harley Eber, C.M.
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for ''Images of Justice'' *1999 Rod McQueen for ''The Eatons'' *2000 D’Arcy Jenish for ''Indian Fall (The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy)'' *2001

for ''Canadian History for Dummies'' *2002

Ken McGoogan Kenneth McGoogan (born 1947). is the Canadian author of fifteen books, including ''Flight of the Highlanders'', ''Dead Reckoning'', ''50 Canadians Who Changed the World'', ''How the Scots Invented Canada'', and four biographical narratives focusing ...

for ''Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin'' *2003 Derek Hayes for ''Historical Atlas of Canada'' *2004 Ishmael Alunik, Eddie D. Kolausok and

David Morrison Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison (born 24 May 1956) is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as Chief of Army from June 2011 until his retirement in May 2015. He was named Australian of the Year for 2016. Early ...

for ''Across Time and Tundra: The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic'' *2005 Charlotte Gray for ''The Museum Called Canada'' *2006 J.L. Granatstein for'' The Last Good War'' *2007

Mark Zuehlke Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currenc ...

for ''For Honour's Sake: the War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace'' *2008 Robert Wright for ''Three Nights in Havana'' *2009 J.M. Bumsted for ''Lord Selkirk: A Life'' *2010 Jonathan F. Vance for ''A History of Canadian Culture'' * 2011 Shelagh D. Grant for ''Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America'' * 2012

Richard Gwyn Richard Gwyn (ca. 1537 – 15 October 1584), also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language. A Roman C ...

for ''Nation Maker: Sir John A. MacDonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867–1891'' * 2013 Michael S. Cross for ''A Biography of Robert Baldwin: The Morning-Star of Memory'' * 2014 Charlotte Gray for ''The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Nation'' * 2015 Robert Wright for ''The Night Canada Stood Still'' * 2016

Debra Komer Debra is a feminine given name. Debra may refer to: People * Debra Adelaide (born 1958), Australian writer * Debra Allbery (born 1957), American poet * Debra R. Anderson (1949-2022), American politician * Debra Austin (dancer), Debra Austin (born ...

for ''The Bastard of Fort Stikine: The

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and the Murder of John McLoughlin Jr.'' * 2017 Charlotte Gray for ''The Promise of Canada'' ;CAA Emerging Writer Award (2006–2017) * 2011 Titilope Sonuga for ''Down to Earth'' * 2012 Ryan Flavelle for ''The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan'' * 2013 Tie: Claire Battershill for several fiction, poetry and review works and Jay Bahadur for journalistic work and ''The Pirates of Somalia'' * 2014 Grace O'Connell for ''Magnified World'' * 2015 Kim Fu for ''For Today I Am a Boy'' * 2016 Kayla Czaga for ''For Your Safety Please Hold On'' * 2017 Eva Crocker for several anthology stories ;CAA Award for Drama (1975–prior 2017) * 1985

Ken Mitchell Ken Mitchell (born December 13, 1940) is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. Mitchell was raised on a rural farm outside the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Mitchell began his post-secondary education as a journalism student at Ryerson I ...

for ''Gone The Burning Sun'' * 1992

Drew Hayden Taylor Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1 July 1962) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, author and journalist. Life and career Born in Curve Lake, Ontario, Taylor is of both Ojibwe and white ancestry. About his background Taylor says: "I plan to start my ...

for ''The Bootlegger Blues: A Play'' * 1993

Guy Vanderhaeghe Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, '' The Englishman's Boy'', '' The Last Crossing'', and ''A Good Man'' set in the 19th-century American and Ca ...

for ''I Had A Job I Liked. Once: A Play'' ;Canadian Authors Fred Kerner Award * 2016

Caroline Vu Caroline Vu is a Canadian novelist of Vietnamese heritage. Early life and education Vu was born in 1959 in Dalat, Vietnam (South Vietnam) and grew up in Saigon. At the age of eleven, she immigrated with her mother and brother to Connecticut. Th ...

for ''Palawan Story'' * 2017 Margo Wheaton for ''The Unlit Path Behind the House'' * 2018 Ahmad Danny Ramadan for ''The Clothesline Swing'' * 2019

Maureen Medved Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

for ''Black Star'' * 2020 Adrienne Drobnies for ''Salt and Ashes'' * 2021 Joanna Lilley for ''Endlings'' * 2022 Catherine Graham for ''Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric'' * 2023 Sophie Jai for ''Wild Fires'' * 2024 Lucian Childs for ''Dreaming Home''

References

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