Award for Biography

CAA Birks Family Foundation

Award History | Award Details | Entry Information | Winners

Award History

The CAA Awards for Adult Literature

The CAA administers several awards for full-length English-language literature for adults by authors who are Canadians or landed immigrants “honouring writing that achieves excellence without sacrificing popular appeal.”

For more information about the CAA Awards for Adult Literature, please see the History of the CAA Writing Awards page.

CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography

About the Award

CAA Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography is for a biographical work (may be autobiographical) about a Canadian, written by a Canadian.

Funding History

This award was made possible through the generosity of the Birks Family Foundation from 1998 to 2003, after which funding was withdrawn.

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Entry Information

This Award Requires Funding

This award has been withdrawn. If you would like to sponsor this award, please see the information on our CAA Awards Funding page.

Entry Details

All entries must have been first published in the year prior to the award. Publication may have taken place outside Canada. Winners will receive $2,500 and a silver medal. Previous winners are not eligible for awards they have won, but may be entered in the other categories. Reprints, translations and posthumous entries are not eligible.

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CAA Birks Family Foundation Award Winners

1998 Charlotte Gray | Mrs. King
1999 Leslie Yeo | A Thousand and One First Nights
2000 Roy MacGregor | A Life in the Bush: Lessons from my Father
2001 Anna Porter | The Storyteller
2002 Julian Sher | Until You are Dead: Steven Truscott's Long Ride into History
2003 Janet Lunn | Maud's House of Dreams
2004 This award has been withdrawn.

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Updated: October 16, 2005