Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People facts for kids
The Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, colloquially called the Vicky, is given annually at the Writers' Trust Awards to a writer or illustrator whose body of work has been "inspirational to Canadian youth". It is a top honour for Canadian children's writers and Canadian children's book illustrators.
Vicky Metcalf, a Canadian librarian, established the award "in 1963 to stimulate the writing of literature for Canadian children." Before 2013, the prize was known as the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. The award is sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation, whose objective "is to enhance the effectiveness of people and organizations working together to help Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy and creative society." In 2002, the award was taken over by the Writers' Trust of Canada from the Canadian Authors Association.
To be eligible for the award, recipients must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents, have published a minimum of four English-language children's book, and have published at least one first-edition book in the previous three years. Winners are selected by a three-person jury and receive $25,000 CAD.
Winners
20th Century
Year | Winner | Ref. |
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1963 | Kerry Wood | |
1964 | John F. Hayes | |
1965 | Roderick Haig-Brown | |
1966 | Fred Swayze | |
1967 | John Patrick Gillese | |
1968 | Lorrie McLaughlin | |
1969 | Audrey McKim | |
1970 | Farley Mowat | |
1971 | Kay Hill | |
1972 | William Toye | |
1973 | Christie Harris | |
1974 | Jean Little | |
1975 | Lyn Harrington | |
1976 | Suzanne Martel | |
1977 | James Archibald Houston | |
1978 | Lyn Cook | |
1979 | Cliff Faulknor | |
1980 | John Craig | |
1981 | Monica Hughes | |
1982 | Janet Lunn | |
1983 | Claire Mackay | |
1984 | Bill Freeman | |
1985 | Edith Fowke | |
1986 | Dennis Lee | |
1987 | Robert Munsch | |
1988 | Barbara Smucker | |
1989 | Stéphane Poulin | |
1990 | Bernice Thurman Hunter | |
1991 | Brian Doyle | |
1992 | Kevin Major | |
1993 | Phoebe Gilman | |
1994 | Welwyn Wilton Katz | |
1995 | Sarah Ellis | |
1996 | Margaret Buffie | |
1997 | Tim Wynne-Jones | |
1998 | Kit Pearson | |
1999 | Joan Clark | |
2000 | Sheree Fitch |
21st Century
Year | Winner | Selected works | Ref. |
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2001 | Linda Granfield | ||
2002 | Julie Johnston | ||
2003 | Roslyn Schwartz | ||
2004 | Deborah Ellis | ||
2005 | Marie-Louise Gay | ||
2006 | Kenneth Oppel | ||
2007 | Martha Brooks | ||
2008 | Michael Kusugak | ||
2009 | Marthe Jocelyn | ||
2010 | Polly Horvath | ||
2011 | Iain Lawrence |
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2012 | Paul Yee |
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2013 | Barbara Reid |
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2014 | Cary Fagan |
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2015 | Jan Thornhill |
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2016 | Alan Cumyn |
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2017 | Ruby Slipperjack |
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2018 | Christopher Paul Curtis |
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2019 | Susin Nielsen |
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2020 | Marianne Dubuc |
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2021 | Linda Bailey |
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2022 | Elise Gravel |
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2023 | Kyo Maclear |
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