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The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987.

The Geoffrey Bilson Award is selected by a jury chosen by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Award winners must be Canadian authors, and the winning novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Each year's winner receives a $1000 (C$) prize.

The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.[1]

Winners

Geoffrey Bilson Award winners[2]
Year Author Title Ref.
1988 Carol Matas Lisa [3]
1989 Martyn Godfrey Mystery in the Frozen Lands [4]
Dorothy Perkyns Rachel's Revolution [5]
1990 Kit Pearson The Sky is Falling [6]
1991 Marianne Brandis The Sign of the Scales [7]
1992 No award
1993 Celia Barker Lottridge Ticket to Curlew
1994 Kit Pearson The Lights Go On Again
1995 Joan Clark The Dream Carvers
1996 Marianne Brandis Rebellion: A Novel of Upper Canada
1997 Janet McNaughton To Dance at the Palais Royale
1998 Irene N. Watts Good-Bye Marianne
1999 Iain Lawrence The Wreckers
2000 Deferred to the following year
2001 Sharon E. McKay Charlie Wilcox
2002 Virginia Frances Schwartz If I Just Had Two Wings
2003 Joan Clark The Word for Home
2004 Brian Doyle Boy O'Boy
2005 Michel Noël Good for Nothing
2006 Pamela Porter The Crazy Man
2007 Eva Wiseman Kanada
2008 Christopher Paul Curtis Elijah of Buxton
2009 John Ibbitson The Landing [8]
2010 Shane Peacock Vanishing Girl [9][10]
2011 Valerie Sherrard The Glory Wind [11]
2012 Kate Cayley The Hangman in the Mirror [12][13]
2013 Elizabeth Stewart The Lynching of Louie Sam [14]
2014 Karen Bass Graffiti Knight
2015 Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Dance of the Banished [15]
2016 Karen Bass Uncertain Soldier
2017 Kevin Sands The Mark of the Plague
2018 Kevin Sands The Assassin's Curse
2019 Christopher Paul Curtis The Journey of Little Charlie
2020 Tina Athaide Orange for the Sunsets
2021 Jordyn Taylor The Paper Girl of Paris
2022 Harriet Zaidman Second Chances
2023 Kim Spencer Weird Rules to Follow [16]

References

  1. ^ "Sask., Man. writers win for children's books" Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. CBC, November 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  3. ^ "1988 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Carol Matas". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2023-01-28. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  4. ^ "1989 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Martyn Godfrey". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-09-25. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  5. ^ "1989 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Dorothy Perkyns". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2023-02-06. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  6. ^ "1990 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Kit Pearson". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  7. ^ "1991 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Marianne Brandis". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  8. ^ "2009 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: John Ibbitson". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-10-03. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  9. ^ "Awards: Canadian Children's Literature Awards". Shelf Awareness. 2010-11-12. Archived from the original on 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  10. ^ "2010 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Shane Peacock". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-09-29. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  11. ^ Carter, Sue (2011-10-05). "Erin Bow's Plain Kate wins TD Canadian Children's Literature Award". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-05. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  12. ^ "2012 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Kate Cayley". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2022-09-30. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  13. ^ "Awards: Canadian Children's Literature". Shelf Awareness. 2012-11-26. Archived from the original on 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  14. ^ "2013 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Elizabeth Stewart". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  15. ^ "2015 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People Recipient: Marsha Skrypuch". Canadian Children's Book Centre. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
  16. ^ "Kim Spencer takes home three CCBC Awards - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. 2023-10-24. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
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