The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French. The medal was first awarded in 1926. The Royal Society of Canada, The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... Wikisource Every Author - Online books and writers forums A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology (José Ángel García Landa, University of Zaragoza, Spain) Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning T... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The award itself consists of a gold-plated silver medal and is awarded every two years if there is a suitable candidate. General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series Transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Density, Hardness 10490 kg/m3, 2. ...

The award bears the name of Lorne Pierce, FRSC (1890–1961), who was editor of Ryerson Press for forty years, contributing greatly to the development and appreciation of Canadian literature, and who originally established the award. 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... How to describe the literature of a nation is often debatable, and is also in natural flux throughout the nations history, so this beginners guide to Canadian literature will offer links to as many actual Canadian authors as possible so the reader can weigh what is being said...

Recipients

• 1926 - Charles G.D. Roberts
• 1927 - Duncan C. Scott
• 1928 - Bliss Carman
• 1929 - Camille Roy, FRSC
• 1930 - Sir Andrew Macphail, FRSC
• 1932 - Archibald MacMechan, FRSC
• 1934 - Frederick Philip Grove
• 1935 - Édouard Montpetit, MSRC
• 1936 - Pelham Edgar, FRSC
• 1937 - Stephen Leacock, FRSC
• 1938 - Mazo De La Roche
• 1939 - Wilfrid Bovey, FRSC
• 1940 - E. J. Pratt, FRSC
• 1941 - Léon Gérin, MSRC
• 1942 - Watson Kirkconnell, FRSC
• 1943 - George H. Clarke, FRSC
• 1944 - Audrey Alexandra Brown
• 1945 - Félix-Antoine Savard, MSRC
• 1946 - Charles N. Cochrane, FRSC
• 1947 - Dorothy Livesay
• 1948 - Gabrielle Roy, MSRC
• 1949 - John Murray Gibbon, FRSC
• 1950 - Marius Barbeau, FRSC
• 1951 - Edward Killoran Brown
• 1952 - Hugh MacLennan, MSRC
• 1953 - Earle Birney, FRSC
• 1954 - Alain Grandbois
• 1955 - William Bruce Hutchison, FRSC
• 1956 - Thomas H. Raddall, FRSC
• 1957 - A. M. Klein
• 1958 - Northrop Frye
• 1959 - Philippe Panneton
• 1960 - Morley Callaghan
• 1961 - Robertson Davies, FRSC
• 1962 - Francis Reginald Scott, FRSC
• 1963 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, MSRC
• 1964 - Ethel Wilson
• 1966 - Arthur James Marshall Smith
• 1968 - Robert Duer Clayton Finch, FRSC
• 1970 - Roy Daniells, FRSC
• 1972 - W.C. Desmond Pacey
• 1974 - Rina Lasnier, MSRC
• 1976 - Douglas LePan, FRSC
• 1978 - Carl F. Klinck, FRSC
• 1980 - Antonine Maillet, MSRC
• 1982 - Malcolm Ross, FRSC
• 1984 - Sheila Watson
• 1986 - Rudy Wiebe
• 1989 - Maurice Lemire, MSRC
• 1991 - Gilles Marcotte
• 1993 - Alice Munro
• 1996 - Clément Moisan, FRSC
• 1998 - David Staines
• 2000 - Jean-Louis Major, MSRC
• 2002 - Sandra Djwa, FRSC
• 2004 - William H. New, FRSC

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Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay (October 12, 1909 - December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909 - July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... John Hugh MacLennan (March 20, 1907 - November 7, 1990) was a Canadian author and Professor of English at McGill University. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Earle Alfred Birney (May 13, 1904 - September 3, 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and twice winner of the Governor Generals Award for Literature (for David, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic, one of the most distinguished of the 20th century. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Morley Edward Callaghan (February 22, 1903 - August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Robertson Davies in 1984 Robertson Davies (born August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Francis Reginald Scott (Frank Scott, F.R. Scott) (August 1, 1899 - January 30, 1985) was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Douglas LePan, Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature (25 May 1914 Toronto - 27 November 1998). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Antonine Maillet in 1984 Antonine Maillet (born May 10, 1929) is a Canadian Acadian novelist, playwright, and scholar. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sheila Watson (born Sheila Doherty on October 24, 1909, at New Westminster, British Columbia, died on February 1, 1998 at Nanaimo, British Columbia) was a Canadian novelist, critic and teacher. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rudy Henry Wiebe (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus, Department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 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External link

• RSC web site (http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page_id=61&lang_id=1&award_id=20)