Lorne Pierce Medal
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The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...

 to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature
Literature
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 written in either English
English language
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 or French
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. The medal was first awarded in 1926.

The award itself consists of a gold
Gold
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-plated silver
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 medal and is awarded every two years if there is a suitable candidate.

The award bears the name of Lorne Pierce
Lorne Pierce
Lorne Albert Pierce was a Canadian publisher, editor, and literary critic who published and promoted Canadian literature for more than forty years during his tenure as editor of Toronto's Ryerson Press...

, FRSC (1890–1961), who was editor of Ryerson Press for forty years, contributing greatly to the development and appreciation of Canadian literature
Canadian literature
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, and who originally established the award.

Recipients

  • 1926: Charles G.D. Roberts
    Charles G.D. Roberts
    Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, was a Canadian poet and prose writer who is known as the Father of Canadian Poetry. He was "almost the first Canadian author to obtain worldwide reputation and influence; he was also a tireless promoter and encourager of Canadian literature......

  • 1927: Duncan Campbell Scott
    Duncan Campbell Scott
    Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets....

    , FRSC
  • 1928: Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years....

  • 1929: Camille Roy
    Camille Roy (literary critic)
    Camille Roy was a Canadian priest and literary critic.Born in Berthier-en-Bas , Quebec, Roy studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec and the Grand Séminaire de Québec and was ordained a priest in 1896.He was rector of Université Laval for four terms: 1922 to 1924, 1929, 1932 to 1938, and 1940 to...

    , FRSC
  • 1930: Sir Andrew Macphail
    Andrew Macphail
    John Andrew Macphail, Kt, MD, MRCS was a Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine, and soldier. "A prolific and versatile writer, Sir Andrew Macphail was one of the most influential Canadian intellectuals of his time."-Life and Work:Macphail was born in Orwell, Prince Edward Island, on...

    , FRSC
  • 1932: Archibald MacMechan
    Archibald MacMechan
    Archibald McKellar MacMechan FRSC was a Canadian academic at Dalhousie University and writer. His works deal mainly with Nova Scotia and its history. The Halifax Disaster was an official history of the Halifax Explosion.Born in Kitchener, Ontario, he is credited with reviving Hermann Melville's...

    , FRSC
  • 1934: Frederick Philip Grove
    Frederick Philip Grove
    Frederick Philip Grove was born Felix Paul Greve in Radomno, West Prussia, German Empire . He was best known as a prolific translator before he left Berlin for start a new life in North America in late July 1909...

  • 1935: Édouard Montpetit
    Édouard Montpetit
    -Biography:Called to the bar in 1904, Montpetit worked as a lawyer and taught political economy before he obtained a scholarship in 1907, which made him the first holder of such a scholarship to be officially sent by the province of Quebec to Paris. In Paris he studied political and social science,...

    , MSRC
  • 1936: Pelham Edgar, FRSC
  • 1937: Stephen Leacock
    Stephen Leacock
    Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC was an English-born Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist...

    , FRSC
  • 1938: Mazo de la Roche
    Mazo de la Roche
    Mazo de la Roche , born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.-Early life:...

  • 1939: Wilfrid Bovey, FRSC
  • 1940: E. J. Pratt
    E. J. Pratt
    Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC , who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time." He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario...

    , FRSC
  • 1941: Léon Gérin
    Léon Gérin
    Léon Gérin was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and sociologist.Born in Quebec City, Canada East, the son of Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, Gérin studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet before receiving a law degree from Université Laval in 1884. In 1886, he went to Paris for a few months and became...

    , MSRC
  • 1942: Watson Kirkconnell
    Watson Kirkconnell
    Watson Kirkconnell, was a Canadian scholar, university administrator and translator. He is well known in Iceland, Eastern and Central Europe and among Canadians of different origins for his translations of their national poetry, particularly the Hungarians, Ukrainians, Russians, Serbians,...

    , FRSC
  • 1943: George H. Clarke, FRSC
  • 1944: Audrey Alexandra Brown
    Audrey Alexandra Brown
    Audrey Alexandra Brown was a Canadian poet.Brown was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia.In 1944, she was the first female poet awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal. In 1967, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for her contributions to Canadian poetry"...

  • 1945: Félix-Antoine Savard
    Félix-Antoine Savard
    Félix-Antoine Savard, OC was a Canadian priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist.Born in Quebec City, he grew up in Chicoutimi, Quebec...

    , MSRC
  • 1946: Charles N. Cochrane, FRSC
  • 1947: Dorothy Livesay
    Dorothy Livesay
    Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General`s Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.-Life:...

  • 1948: Gabrielle Roy
    Gabrielle Roy
    Gabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC was a French Canadian author.- Biography :Born in Saint Boniface , Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy...

    , MSRC
  • 1949: John Murray Gibbon
    John Murray Gibbon
    John Murray Gibbon was a Scottish Canadian writer and cultural promoter. He was born in Ceylon and educated at Aberdeen, Oxford and Göttingen universities. Gibbon emigrated to Canada in 1913 to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway...

    , FRSC
  • 1950: Marius Barbeau
    Marius Barbeau
    Charles Marius Barbeau, , also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology...

    , FRSC
  • 1951: E. K. Brown
    E. K. Brown
    Edward Killoran Brown , who wrote as E.K. Brown, was a Canadian professor and literary critic. He "influenced Canadian literature primarily through his award-winning book On Canadian Poetry ," which "established the standards of excellence and many of the subsequent directions of Canadian...

  • 1952: Hugh MacLennan
    Hugh MacLennan
    John Hugh MacLennan, CC, CQ was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.-Family and childhood:...

    , MSRC
  • 1953: Earle Birney
    Earle Birney
    Earle Alfred Birney, OC, FRSC was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.-Life:...

    , FRSC
  • 1954: Alain Grandbois
    Alain Grandbois
    Alain Grandbois, was a Canadian Quebecer poet, considered the first great modern one.Traveling around the world in 1918-1939 and sharing the hopes and problems of contemporary man, his work combined the themes of exploring the secrets of the world and studying human destiny, the writing and...

  • 1955: Bruce Hutchison
    Bruce Hutchison
    William Bruce Hutchison, was a Canadian author and journalist.Born in Prescott, Ontario, Hutchison was educated in public schools in Victoria, British Columbia. He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time that he began his journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa...

    , FRSC
  • 1956: Thomas H. Raddall, FRSC
  • 1957: A. M. Klein
    A. M. Klein
    Abraham Moses Klein was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer, and lawyer. He has been called "One of Canada's greatest poets and a leading figure in Jewish-Canadian culture."...

  • 1958: Northrop Frye
    Northrop Frye
    Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....

  • 1959: Philippe Panneton
    Philippe Panneton
    Philippe Panneton was a Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer....

  • 1960: Morley Callaghan
    Morley Callaghan
    Morley Callaghan, was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality.-Biography:...

  • 1961: Robertson Davies
    Robertson Davies
    William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself...

    , FRSC
  • 1962: F. R. Scott, FRSC
  • 1963: Léo-Paul Desrosiers
    Léo-Paul Desrosiers
    Léo-Paul Desrosiers was a Québécois writer and journalist well-known for his historical novels. He was influenced by the nationalism of Henri Bourassa and Lionel-Adolphe Groulx....

    , MSRC
  • 1964: Ethel Wilson
    Ethel Wilson
    Ethel Davis Wilson, OC was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels.Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, she moved to England in 1890 following the death of her mother. In 1898, after the death of her father, she was taken to live with her maternal grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia...

  • 1966: Arthur James Marshall Smith
  • 1968: Robert Duer Clayton Finch, FRSC
  • 1970: Roy Daniells
    Roy Daniells
    Roy Daniells, was a Canadian poetry professor. He helped build the University of British Columbia's creative writing department and fostered the careers of several major Canadian writers.-Education and career:...

    , FRSC
  • 1972: Desmond Pacey
  • 1974: Rina Lasnier
    Rina Lasnier
    Rina Lasnier, was a Canadian, Québécoise poet. Born in St-Grégoire d'Iberville=Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, she attended Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal...

    , MSRC
  • 1976: Douglas LePan
    Douglas LePan
    Douglas Valentine LePan, OC, FRSC was a Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.Born in Toronto, Ontario, LePan was educated at the University of Toronto, at Harvard , and at Merton College, Oxford University...

    , FRSC
  • 1978: Carl F. Klinck, FRSC
  • 1980: Antonine Maillet
    Antonine Maillet
    Antonine Maillet, is an Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. She was born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick and lives in Montreal, Quebec....

    , MSRC
  • 1982: Malcolm M. Ross
    Malcolm Ross (literary critic)
    Malcolm Mackenzie Ross, OC, FRSC, was a notable Canadian literary critic.-Education:Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the son of Cora Elizabeth Hewitson and Charles Duff Ross, Ross attended Fredericton High School before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from the...

    , FRSC
  • 1984: Sheila Watson
  • 1986: Rudy Wiebe
    Rudy Wiebe
    Rudy Henry Wiebe, OC is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992.-Life:...

  • 1989: Maurice Lemire, MSRC
  • 1991: Gilles Marcotte
  • 1993: Alice Munro
    Alice Munro
    Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...

  • 1996: Clément Moisan, FRSC
  • 1998: David Staines
    David Staines
    David McKenzie Staines, is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor.Staines was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at the University of Toronto, where he obtained a BA in 1967, and at Harvard University, where he obtained an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1973.After a...

  • 2000: Jean-Louis Major, MSRC
  • 2002: Sandra Djwa
    Sandra Djwa
    Sandra Djwa, FRSC, is a Canadian writer, critic and cultural biographer.Originally from Newfoundland, she moved to British Columbia where she obtained her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1968. In 1999, she was honored to deliver the Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture in honor of...

    , FRSC
  • 2004: W. H. New
    W. H. New
    William Herbert New, OC, FRSC is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Leeds. He taught English literature at the former from 1965 to 2003...

    , FRSC

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