Molson Prize
The Molson Prize is an award. It is awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts to people who have contributed to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada with their work .
History of the award
The Molson Prize was established in 1964 by the Molson Family Foundation , a foundation of the Canadian Molson family , who had become wealthy as brewers , and endowed with a foundation capital of 1 million Canadian dollars . The prizes are awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada . The prize money of 50,000 Canadian dollars will each go to an artist (Molson Prize for the Arts) and a prize winner from the fields of science and humanities (Molson Prize in the Social Sciences and Humanities).
Award requirements
Applicants for the Molson Prize must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada. Further prerequisites are that the special achievements of the candidates are already widely known and that the candidates are still very active and productive . The award is therefore not intended to refer to the candidate's life's work, but to further promote the future path. Organizations and companies are not permitted as candidates, and the award is not awarded posthumously .
Recipient of the award
- 1964 Donald Creighton and Alain Grandbois
- 1965 Jean Gascon and Frank Scott
- 1966 Hugh MacLennan and Georges-Henri Lévesque
- 1967 Arthur Erickson , Anne Hébert and Marshall McLuhan
- 1968 Glenn Gould and Jean Le Moyne
- 1969 Jean-Paul Audet , Morley Callaghan and Arnold Spohr
- 1970 Northrop Frye , Duncan Macpherson and Yves Thériault
- 1971 Norman McLaren , Maureen Forrester and Rina Lasnier
- 1972 John James Deutsch , Alfred Pellan and George Woodcock
- 1973 WACH Dobson , Celia Franca and Jean-Paul Lemieux
- 1974 Alex Colville , Pierre Dansereau and Margaret Laurence
- 1975 Orford String Quartet , Denise Pelletier and Jon Vickers
- 1976 John Hirsch , Bill Reid and Jean-Louis Roux
- 1977 Gabrielle Roy , Jack Shadboldt and George Morley Story
- 1978 Jean Duceppe , Betty Oliphant and Michael Snow
- 1979 Michel Brault , Lois Catherine Marshall and Robert Weaver
- 1980 Margaret Atwood , Marcel Trudel and John Weinzweig
- 1981 not awarded
- 1982 Alan C. Cairns , Louis-Edmond Hamelin , Jack McClelland and Gilles Vigneault
- 1983 Brian Macdonald and Francess Halpenny
- 1984 Marcel Dubé and James G. Eayrs
- 1985 Gaston Miron and Ronald Melzack
- 1986 J. Mavor Moore and William Dray
- 1987 Yvette Brind'Amour and Marc-Adélard Tremblay
- 1988 Robertson Davies and Terence Michael Penelhum
- 1989 Vera Frenkel and Fernande Saint-Martin
- 1990 Alice Munro and Jean-Jacques Nattiez
- 1991 Denys Arcand and Charles Taylor
- 1992 Douglas Cardinal and Fernand Dumont
- 1993 R. Murray Schafer and Juliet McMaster
- 1994 Michel Tremblay and Martin Friedland
- 1995 Gerald Ferguson and Donald Akenson
- 1996 Mavis Gallant and Pierre Maranda
- 1997 Mary Pratt and Guy Rocher
- 1998 Jeanne Lamon and Michael J. Trebilcock
- 1999 Kiawak Ashoona and Tom Courchene
- 2000 Jacques Poulin and Ian Hacking
- 2001 not awarded
- 2002 Christopher Newton, a director, and Margaret Lock
- 2003 Walter Boudreau and Janice Gross Stein
- 2004 Maria Campbell and Richard E. Tremblay
- 2005 Iain Baxter and Ramsay Cook
- 2006 Nicole Brossard and Henry Mintzberg
- 2007 Alex Pauk and Paul Thagard
- 2008 Sheila Fischman and Angus McLaren, a historian
- 2009 Ian Wallace and Wayne Sumner
- 2010 Édouard Lock and Linda Hutcheon
- 2011 Herménégilde Chiasson and Peter Victor
- 2012 Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and Keren Rice
- 2013 Richard Wagamese and Ann Dale
- 2014 Jean Grondin and John Arcand
- 2015 MG Vassanji and Constance Backhouse
- 2016 Marie-Claire Blais and John McGarry
- 2017 Lawrence Hill and the sociologist Kent Roach
- 2018 Diane Schoemperlen and Lynne Viola
- 2019 Alexina Louie and John Borrows
See also
- Molson , Canadian brewery
Web links
- Encyclopedia entry (with list of winners): Molson Prize ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ^ Christopher Moore: Molson Prize ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
- ↑ a b Molson Prizes , on: canadacouncil.ca, accessed on August 20, 2015 (English, French )