Talk:Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature

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Created in 1987

"An award for juvenile literature existed from 1949 to 1958, and the current award was created in 1987."

Yet we list one winner between 1958 and 1987:

1985: Murdo Scribe, Murdo's Story

The linked page gives some related remarks --not enough, and explanation is needed here.

A good place to begin is with the timespan of "Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes", which the linked article mentions. Evidently that was the name of the award Scribe won in/for 1985.

search: Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes – some 1970s/80s hits

--P64 (talk) 22:11, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The list Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature begins in 1987 when the "Governor General's" moniker was extended to children's book awards. Some of the earlier Canada Council Children's Literature Prize winners were French-language works, if i glean correctly (below).

Here the section 1 "Juvenile fiction" listings, ten from 1949 to 1958, are all English-language titles. --P64 (talk) 18:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Here are five Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes gleaned from the search result linked above.

1975 Bill Freeman, Shantymen of Cache Lake

1979 Gabrielle Roy, Courte-Queue; 1980 En-language ed. Cliptail

1980 Elizabeth Cleaver, Petrouchka

1982 Suzanne Martel, Nos Amis Robots; En-language title Robot Alert

1985 Murdo Scribe, Murdo's Story: A Legend From Northern Manitoba (Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications)

The last is now the only one listed on this page. The first is now the only one ("children's" or "juvenile") listed in the annual Governor General's Awards pages between 1958 and 1987, namely at 1975 Governor General's Awards. --P64 (talk) 17:45, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved thanks to the online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/owgc).

The four Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes were established in 1975 (first awarded variously, 1975 to 1978) and continued under the "Governor General's Awards" rubric from 1987. Canada Council (canadacouncil.ca) administers the GG Awards, so I suggest that we consider the four awards to be continuous from 1975 (inaugurated variously 1975 to 1978).

In each of the four [children's literature --2015-08-22] pages I inserted section /* Canada Council Children's Literature Prize [singular] */ comprising, so far, a brief prose explanation and a complete list of winners, with formal reference to Track0.com/owgc --the first formal reference in each article!

Among the five authors that I listed yesterday, whom we now identify as winners in their biographies, Freeman did win the CCCLP as English-language writer; Cleaver won as En-lang illustrator; Roy and Martel (in 1981) won as Fr-lang writers; and not Scribe but Scribe's collaborator Terry Gallagher won the 1985 CCCLP as En-lang illustrator.

--P64 (talk) 23:46, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Beside what I previously reported as done (underline), I covered the transitions in awards coverage of children's literature at annual GGAwards pages for years 1949, 1959, 1975, 1986 and 1987. --P64 (talk) 20:36, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Literary awards, annual pages

For the following annual GGAwards pages, such as 1949 Governor General's Awards, I rewrote and perhaps greatly expanded the lead section and provided at least one formal reference.

1936–49, 59, 75, 86–87 [ref name=ogwc-GG]
2003–08 [ref name=finalists]

[ref name=ogwc-GG] is a table of literary awards winners, 1936 to 1999 only. [ref name=finalists] is the annual October press release announcing literary awards finalists (about 70) and related upcoming events.

Most annual awards pages for years not listed above give no formal reference. Some may link a dead 2011 pdf, "Cumulative List of Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards". Where present in the annual pages for years listed above, such as 1937 Governor General's Awards, I did not delete it but tagged it {{dead link}}. --P64 (talk) 20:57, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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