Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award

The Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award is a literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian book of young adult fiction. The book must be written in English and published in Canada during the preceding year (and nominated by the end of November). The writer must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada.[1]

The Young Adult Book Award is administered and presented by the Canadian Library Association. It was established by the Saskewatchan Library Association in 1980[1] and inaugurated by an award to Kevin Major of Newfoundland for Far from Shore, published by Clarke, Irwin & Company of Toronto.[2]

The companion CLA Book of the Year for Children Award was inaugurated in 1947 and has been presented annually without exception from 1963.[3] As of 2015, two of its criteria are "appeal to children up to and including age 12" and "creative (i.e., original) writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, narrative, non-fiction, retelling of traditional literature)".[3] Corresponding criteria for the YA Book Award are "[appeal] to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18" and "fiction (novel, collection of short stories, or graphic novel)".[1]

Winners

During its first 35 years to 2015, the award recognized one book each year.[2] With few exceptions, if any, the books were first published during the year preceding the award, in Canada and perhaps elsewhere.

Repeat winners

Martha Brooks is a three-time winner of the Young Adult Book Award from 1998 to 2008, William Bell a two-time winner.

Winners of multiple awards

Two books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the CLA Book of the Year for Children Award: Shadow in Hawthorn Bay by Janet Lunn in 1987 and Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel in 2011.

Six books won both the Young Adult Book Award and the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature, or Canada Council Children's Literature Prize before 1987. The writers and CLA award dates were Hughes 1983, Lunn 1987, (now under the present name) Wieler 1990, Johnston 1995, Wynne-Jones 1996, and Brooks 2003.[4][5]

Thus Shadow in Hawthorn Bay (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1986) by Janet Lunn won three major Canadian awards, the CLA awards for both children's and young-adult literature and the Governor General's Award in its last year as the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize.[4]

Two winners of the CLA Young Adult Book Award were also recognized by major annual book awards in the United States. Polly Horvath won the 2003 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Canning Season. This One Summer, a graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, was one of the 2015 Honour Books, or finalists, for both the American Library Association (ALA) Michael L. Printz Award as the year's best new work for young adults judged "by literary merit alone" (recognizing Mariko Tamaki) and the ALA Caldecott Medal, or children's picture book illustration award (recognizing Jillian Tamaki).

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "CLA Young Adult Book Award". Book Awards. Canadian Library Association (cla.org). Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  2. 1 2 "Young Adult Book Award" [winners]. Book Awards. CLA. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  3. 1 2 "Book of the Year for Children Award" [top]. Book Awards. CLA. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  4. 1 2 "Canada Council Children's Literature Awards" [English-language books].
      "Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards".
    online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  5. ↑ "Governor General's Literary Awards" [winners]. online guide to writing in canada. Retrieved 2015-08-22.

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