STEPHEN LEACOCK MEMORIAL MEDAL FOR HUMOUR

The 'Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour' (usually the ''Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour'', or just: The ''Stephen Leacock Award'') is an annual award presented to the best work of humorous literature written in English by a Canadian. The award is a tribute to well-known Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (1869–1944), and is accompanied by a cash prize of $10 000 (CAD). It is presented each year during a banquet ceremony in Leacock’s hometown of Orillia, Ontario.
The ''Leacock Associates'' is the organising body behind the award, and was founded in 1946 by a loose group of Leacock’s friends and supporters. Each year the Associates’ board of directors appoints a panel of suitable judges from around the country, who select from submitted works a short list of five books. It is one of the oldest literary prizes in Canada, and is the only one awarded to a work of humour.
The cash prize began in 1970, as a $2500 award co-sponsored by Manulife Insurance and the Hudson's Bay Company. The following decades saw gradual increases in the amount of the prize under a number of donors, reaching its current value of $10 000 in 2002, sponsored by the TD Bank Financial Group.
In 1969 the Associates established a quarterly newsletter called ''The Newspacket'' to commemorate the bicentennial of the Author’s birth. The publication prints excerpts from nominated books, and is itself a showcase for Canadian humour writing. In 1977 the group established a Student Award for Humour, which honours young writers from secondary and post-secondary levels.

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Winners

★ 1947 - Harry L. Symons, ''Ojibway Melody''

★ 1948 - Paul Hiebert, ''Sarah Binks''

★ 1949 - Angeline Hango, ''Truthfully Yours''

★ 1950 - Earle Birney, ''Turvey''

★ 1951 - Eric Nicol, ''The Roving I''

★ 1952 - Jan Hilliard, ''The Salt Box''

★ 1953 - Lawrence Earl, ''The Battle of Baltinglass''

★ 1954 - Joan Walker, ''Pardon My Parka''

★ 1955 - Robertson Davies, ''Leaven of Malice''

★ 1956 - Eric Nicol, ''Shall We Join The Ladies?''

★ 1957 - Robert Thomas Allen ''The Grass is Never Greener''

★ 1958 - Eric Nicol, ''Girdle Me A Globe''

★ 1959 - ''No Award Given''

★ 1960 - Pierre Berton, ''Just Add Water and Stir''

★ 1961 - Norman Ward, ''Mice in the Beer''

★ 1962 - W. O. Mitchell, ''Jake and the Kid''

★ 1963 - Donald Jack, ''Three Cheers for Me''

★ 1964 - Harry J. Boyle, ''Homebrew and Patches''

★ 1965 - Gregory Clark, ''War Stories''

★ 1966 - George Bain, ''Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children''

★ 1967 - Richard J. Needham, ''Needham's Inferno''

★ 1968 - Max Ferguson, ''And Now...Here's Max''

★ 1969 - Stuart Trueman, ''You're Only as Old as You Act''

★ 1970 - Farley Mowat, ''The Boat Who Wouldn't Float''

★ 1971 - Robert Thomas Allen, ''Wives, Children and Other Wild Life''

★ 1972 - Max Braithwaite, ''The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car''

★ 1973 - Donald Bell, ''Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory''

★ 1974 - Donald Jack, ''That's Me in the Middle''

★ 1975 - Morley Torgov, ''A Good Place to Come From''

★ 1976 - Harry J. Boyle, ''The Luck of the Irish''

★ 1977 - Ray Guy, ''That Far Greater Bay''

★ 1978 - Ernest Buckler, ''Whirligig''

★ 1979 - Sondra Gotlieb, ''True Confessions''

★ 1980 - Donald Jack, ''Me Bandy, You Cissie''

★ 1981 - Gary Lautens, ''Take My Family...Please!''

★ 1982 - Mervyn J. Huston, ''Gophers Don't Pay Taxes''

★ 1983 - Morley Torgov, ''The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick''

★ 1984 - Gary Lautens, ''No Sex Please...We're Married''

★ 1985 - Ted Allan, ''Love is a Long Shot''

★ 1986 - Joey Slinger, ''No Axe too Small to Grind''

★ 1987 - W.P. Kinsella, ''The Fencepost Chronicles''

★ 1988 - Paul Quarrington, ''King Leary''

★ 1989 - Joe Kertes, ''Winter Tulips''

★ 1990 - W.O. Mitchell, ''According to Jake and the Kid''

★ 1991 - Howard White, ''Writing in the Rain''

★ 1992 - Roch Carrier, ''Prayers of a Very Wise Child''

★ 1993 - Joseph Levesque, ''Waiting for Aquarius''

★ 1994 - Bill Richardson, ''Bachelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast''

★ 1995 - Josh Freed, ''Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life''

★ 1996 - Marsha Boulton, ''Letters from the Country''

★ 1997 - Arthur Black, ''Black in the Saddle Again''

★ 1998 - Mordecai Richler, ''Barney's Version''

★ 1999 - Stuart McLean, ''Home from the Vinyl Cafe''

★ 2000 - Arthur Black, ''Black Tie and Tales''

★ 2001 - Stuart McLean, ''Vinyl Cafe Unplugged''

★ 2002 - Will Ferguson, ''Generica''

★ 2003 - Dan Needles, ''With Axe and Flask: A History of Persephone Township From Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present''

★ 2004 - Ian Ferguson, ''Village of the Small House: A Memoir of Sorts''

★ 2005 - Will Ferguson, ''Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw''

★ 2006 - Arthur Black, ''Pitch Black''

★ 2007 - Stuart McLean, ''Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe''

External links

★ Leacock Medal for Humour Website