The Margaret McWilliams Awards are an annual literary award in

Manitoba Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population o ...

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presented by the

Manitoba Historical Society The Manitoba Historical Society is a historical society in the province of Manitoba, Canada. It was created in 1879 by an act of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, and describes itself as "the oldest organization in western Canada devoted to the ...

. The society awards prizes in the categories of Scholarly History Book, Popular History Book, and Local History Book. Inaugurated in 1955, the award is among the oldest literary prizes in Canada and named after historian and author

Margaret Stovel McWilliams Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875–1952) was a Canadian historian. McWilliams was born in Toronto in 1875 where in 1898 she attended the University of Toronto. Later on she became a journalist in Detroit and emigrated to Winnipeg by 1910 where ...

. Past winners include

Sarah Klassen Sarah Klassen (born 1932) is an award-winning Canadian writer living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Klassen's first volume of poetry, ''Journey to Yalta'', was awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1989. Klassen is the recipient of Canadian Author ...

James Urry James Urry (born 25 March 1949 in London, England) is a New Zealand anthropologist, historian, author and professor at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. Urry is considered an ...

Royden Loewen Royden Loewen (born 26 October 1954 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired Canadian History Professor and Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg. As a prominent historian in the field of Mennonite history, his book about the ...

Maurice Mierau Maurice Mierau (born January 22, 1962) is an American-Canadian writer of non-fiction and poetry. Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Mierau grew up in Nigeria, Manitoba, Jamaica, Kansas and Saskatchewan and has a Mennonite background. Mierau currently l ...

Roland Penner Roland Penner (July 30, 1924 – May 31, 2018) was a political activist and lawyer who became a cabinet minister in the Manitoba provincial government and dean of law at the University of Manitoba. Education and early career Penner was born i ...

Carol Matas Carol Matas is a Canadian writer. Carol Matas has had more than forty-five books for young people published over several decades, including science fiction, fantasy, historical and contemporary. Her novels often reflect a Jewish perspective, and ...

and many others.

References

Manitoba awards Awards established in 1955 1955 establishments in Manitoba Canadian non-fiction literary awards Canadian fiction awards Culture of Winnipeg {{Lit-award-stub