Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People

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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.

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Vicky Metcalf, a Canadian librarian, [1] established the award "in 1963 to stimulate the writing of literature for Canadian children." [2] [3] Before 2013, the prize was known as the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature. The award is sponsored by the Metcalf Foundation, [3] 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." [2] In 2002, the award was taken over by the Writers' Trust of Canada from the Canadian Authors Association. [2] [3]

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. [2] [3] Winners are selected by a three-person jury [3] and receive $25,000 CAD. [2]

Winners

20th Century

Award winners, 1963–1999 [4]
YearWinnerRef.
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 [3]
1971 Kay Hill
1972 William Toye
1973 Christie Harris
1974 Jean Little [3] [5]
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 [3] [6]
1983 Claire Mackay
1984 Bill Freeman
1985 Edith Fowke
1986 Dennis Lee [3]
1987 Robert Munsch [3]
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 [3]
1998 Kit Pearson
1999 Joan Clark [7]
2000 Sheree Fitch [4]

21st Century

Award winners, 2000–present [8]
YearWinnerSelected worksRef.
2001 Linda Granfield [4]
2002 Julie Johnston [4]
2003 Roslyn Schwartz [4]
2004 Deborah Ellis [4]
2005 Marie-Louise Gay [3] [4]
2006 Kenneth Oppel [3] [4]
2007 Martha Brooks [4]
2008 Michael Kusugak [3] [4]
2009 Marthe Jocelyn [3] [4]
2010 Polly Horvath [4]
2011 Iain Lawrence
  • The Winter Pony
  • Gemini Summer
  • The Convicts
  • The Smugglers
  • The Wreckers
 [4]
2012 Paul Yee
  • Money Boy
  • Dead Man’s Gold and Other Stories
  • Ghost Train
  • Tales from Gold Mountain
  • Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!
 [4]
2013 Barbara Reid
  • The Night Before Christmas
  • Picture a Tree
  • Perfect Snow
  • The Party
  • Sing a Song of Mother Goose
 [4] [9]
2014 Cary Fagan
  • The Show to End All Shows
  • Mr. Zinger’s Hat
  • Jacob Two-Two on the High Seas
  • Thing-Thing
  • The Market Wedding
 [4] [10]
2015 Jan Thornhill
  • Kyle Goes Alone
  • This is My Planet
  • I Found a Dead Bird
  • The Rumor
  • The Wildlife 123
 [11] [12]
2016 Alan Cumyn
  • Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend
  • Tilt
  • Dear Sylvia
  • After Sylvia
  • The Secret Life of Owen Skye
 [13]
2017 Ruby Slipperjack
  • Dear Canada: These Are My Words
  • Dog Tracks
  • Little Voice
  • Silent Words
  • Honour the Sun
 [1] [14] [15]
2018 Christopher Paul Curtis [16] [17]
2019 Susin Nielsen
  • No Fixed Address
  • Optimists Die First
  • We Are All Made of Molecules
  • Word Nerd
 [18]
2020 Marianne Dubuc
  • The Lion and the Bird
  • The Bus Ride Up the Mountain Path
  • Otto and Pio
  • Little Cheetah's Shadow
 [19]
2021 Linda Bailey
  • Stanley's Party Toads on Toasy
  • The Tiny Hero of Ferny Creek Library
  • Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein
  • Princesses Versus Dinosaurs
 [20]
2022 Elise Gravel
  • Le Grand Antonio (2014) / The Great Antonio (2017)
 [21] [22]
2023 Kyo Maclear
  • Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Operatic
  • It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way
 [23]

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