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Geoffrey Bilson Award

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The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987.

The Geoffrey Bilson Award is selected by a jury chosen by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Award winners must be Canadian authors, and the winning novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Each year's winner receives a $1000 (C$) prize.

The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.[1]

Winners

References

  1. ^ "Sask., Man. writers win for children's books". cbc.ca, November 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People | Canadian Children's Book Centre". Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2011-03-19.