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 and . It has been presented since 1963. Before 2013, the prize was known as the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature.
In 2002, the award was taken over by the
Writers' Trust of Canada
The Writers' Trust of Canada (french: La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada) is a registered charity which provides financial support to Canadian writers.
Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laure ...
from the
Canadian Authors Association
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.
Award winners
*1963 -
Kerry Wood
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Roderick Haig-Brown
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Early life
Haig-Brown was born in Lancing, Sussex, England. His father, Alan Haig-Brown, was a teacher and a prolific writer ...
*1966 - Fred Savage
*1967 - John Patrick Gillese
*1968 - Lorraine McLaughlin
*1969 - Audrey McKim
*1970 -
Farley Mowat
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Christie Harris
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Biography
Harris was born in Newark, New Jer ...
*1974 -
Jean Little
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James Archibald Houston
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Monica Hughes
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*1982 -
Janet Lunn
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Early life and education
Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas; she moved with her family to Vermont when she was an infant. In 1938, she ...
Edith Fowke
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Robert Munsch
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Personal life and career
Robert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 11, 1945. He grew up in a family of 9 children. He graduated from Fordha ...
*1988 -
Barbara Smucker
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Kevin Major
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Major was born a ...
*1993 -
Phoebe Gilman
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*1994 -
Welwyn Wilton Katz
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Works
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Margaret Buffie
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Buffie was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She attended Sparling Elementary School, Sargeant Park Junior High, and Daniel McIntyre High School. Buffie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Uni ...
*1997 -
Tim Wynne-Jones
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*1998 -
Kit Pearson
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*1999 -
Joan Clark
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Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama progr ...
*2000 -
Sheree Fitch
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Biography
Sheree Fitch was born on 3 December 1956 in Ottawa, Ontar ...
*2001 - Linda Granfield
*2002 -
Julie Johnston
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*2003 -
Roslyn Schwartz
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Born in Montreal, Quebec, she was raised in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Schwartz is the author of ''The Mole Sisters'' series, ''The Smoker's Addiction ...
*2004 -
Deborah Ellis
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Early life
Born in Cochrane Ontario, Ellis and her family moved several ...
*2005 -
Marie-Louise Gay
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*2006 -
Kenneth Oppel
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Biography
Oppel was born in Port Alberni, and spent his childhood in Victoria, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia. He also lived in Newfoundland and Labrador, England, ...
*2007 -
Martha Brooks
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Polly Horvath
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*2011 -
Iain Lawrence
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Biography
Lawrence was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontar ...
*2012 -
Paul Yee
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*2013 -
Barbara Reid
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She was born in Toronto, Ontario and studied at the Ontario College of Art. She began her ...
*2014 -
Cary Fagan
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*2015 -
Jan Thornhill
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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