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Introduced in 1975, the Canadian Authors Association (CAA) Literary Awards, continue the association’s long tradition of honouring Canadian writers who achieve excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.
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Throughout their existence, these CAA Awards for Adult Literature have been designed as objective rewards for excellence. Judging is carried out by panels selected in confidence. No short lists are published. The Journal (CBC) has referred to them as "The major awards given annually by authors to authors."
The Canadian Authors Association has a long history of recognizing the best in Canadian literary talent. The Governor General’s Literary Awards were established in 1936 by the CAA, and in 1960 were transferred to the new government-funded Canada Council for administration. With the transfer there would now be money attached to the winning of the medal, but the number of awards dropped from five to three. Later the medals would be dropped from the Governor General’s Awards.
The Canada Council awards were later seen as appealing to academics rather than the reading public. In 1973 the CAA Awards were established. The intent is clear in the original motion:
Since this Association is comprised largely of writers who hope to communicate with a wide and varied audience, and since the original awards were instituted in the belief that literary excellence and popular appeal are entirely compatible,
Therefore be it resolved that this Association originate a set of prizes to be known as the Canadian Authors Association Awards; these to be medals or any other trophy the Executive may select. Carried.
With the support of Harlequin, the new CAA Awards were launched in 1975.
Recognizing that there is not always a suitable Canadian literary work produced, judges have not awarded prizes on some years. This has been the practice since 1937, maintaining the integrity of these writing awards.
CAA/MOSAID Technologies, Inc. Award for Fiction Book Description Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks; that is, when he's not spending his meager earnings at gambling joints, race tracks, and dance halls. And in every small town in which the windblown family settles, mother Elizabeth does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home. But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm. It is Jeanine, proud and stubborn, who single-mindedly devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet or pay the back taxes they owe on their land. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in Paulette Jiles is a poet and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the bestselling novel Enemy Women. She lives in San Antonio, Texas |
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CAA/Lela Common Award for Canadian History Book Description In this fascinating first-ever portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life three critical days when Canadian politics played on the international stage. Wright describes how, long before he was prime minister, Trudeau had attempted to canoe to Cuba, and how Castro visited Montreal as a young revolutionary, later welcoming FLQ terrorists to his tiny island. In a revealing look at their personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how the two leaders, despite their official positions as allies of rival empires, had determinedly refused to exist merely as handmaidens to the United States. This fact, he asserts, is what brought them to power, and what drew them to each other. Wright draws on extensive insight from political commentators and historians as many interviewees talk candidly for the first time. A book that will tap into our continuing fascination with Pierre Trudeau and our interest in the future political course of Cuba, Three Nights in Havana is an intimate and insightful portrait of two controversial and often misunderstood figures and their place in history. |
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CAA/Carol Bolt Award for Drama The December Man(L’homme de décembre) is a tragedy in which the humanity of the characters gives the play a surprising buoyancy. Heartbreaking yet never sentimental, spare yet complex, with a flawless structure, this is a brave and important play.
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In addition, the CAA administers a special award for Canadian writers under 30. This year’s winner is: CAA/BookTelevision Emerging Writer Award Mark Haroun, Calgary, for an impressive body of recent work. Prize: $500 and a silver medal |
Past Winners: Fiction | Poetry | History
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