Awards
There are a number of notable Canadian awards for literature:
- The Atlantic Writers Competition highlights talent across the Atlantic Provinces.
- Books in Canada First Novel Award for the best first novel of the year
- Canadian Authors Association Awards for Adult Literature | Honouring works by Canadian writers that achieve excellence without sacrificing popular appeal since 1975.
- CBC Literary Awards
- Canada Council Molson Prize for distinguished contributions to Canada's cultural and intellectual heritage
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for an emerging writer in the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender communities
- Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Awards for best Canadian play staged by a Canadian theatre company
- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for best work of nonfiction
- Marian Engel Award for female writers in mid-career
- Matt Cohen Award to honour a Canadian writer for a lifetime of distinguished achievement
- Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing
- Gerald Lampert Award for the best new poet
- Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Literary Arts
- Giller Prize for the best Canadian novel or book of short stories in English
- Governor General's Awards for the best Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, children's literature (text), children's literature (illustration) and translation, in both English and French
- Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry, one award each for a Canadian poet and an international poet
- Milton Acorn Poetry Awards for an outstanding "people's poet"
- National Business Book Award
- Pat Lowther Award for poetry written by a woman
- Prix Aurora Awards for Canadian science fiction and fantasy, in English and French
- Prix Athanase-David for a Quebec writer
- Prix Gilles-Corbeil for a Quebec writer in honour of his or her lifetime body of work (presented every three years)
- Prix Trillium for the best work by a Franco-Ontarian writer
- Quebec Writers' Federation Awards for the best fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children's & young adult literature, & first book by English Quebec writers, and the best translation (English & French alternate years)
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for the best work of fiction
- Stephen Leacock Award For Humour
- Trillium Book Award for the best work by an Ontario writer
- W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize for a writer who has made a distinguished lifetime contribution both to Canadian literature and to mentoring new writers
- Room of One's Own Annual Award for poetry and literature
- 3-Day Novel Contest annual literary marathon, born in Canada
- Danuta Gleed Literary Award for a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for the best novel or collection of short stories by a resident of British Columbia
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia
- The Doug Wright Awards for graphic literature and novels
- Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award for a distinguished writer in mid-career
- Writers’ Trust / McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
Awards For Children and Young Adult Literature:
- Young Adult Novel Prize of the Atlantic Writers Competition
- R.Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature
- Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction
- Ann Connor Brimer Award
- Governor-General's Awards for Children's Literature
- Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children
- CLA Young Adult Canadian Book Award
- Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
- Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award for Theatre for Young Adults
- Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
- Information Book of the Year
- I0DE Book Award
- Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award
- Max and Greta Ebel Memorial Award for Children's Writing
- Norma Fleck Award for children's non-fiction
- Governor General's Awards for the best Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, children's literature (text), children's literature (illustration) and translation, in both English and French
- QWF Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
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