Lorne Pierce Medal

The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French. The medal was first awarded in 1926.

Recipients

• 1926 - Charles G.D. Roberts
• 1927 - Duncan Campbell Scott
• 1928 - Bliss Carman
• 1929 - Camille Roy, FRSC
• 1930 - Sir Andrew Macphail, FRSC
• 1932 - Archibald MacMechan, FRSC
• 1934 - Frederick Philip Grove
• 1935 - Édouard Montpetit, MSRC
• 1936 - Pelham Edgar, FRSC
• 1937 - Stephen Leacock, FRSC
• 1938 - Mazo de la Roche
• 1939 - Wilfrid Bovey, FRSC
• 1940 - E. J. Pratt, FRSC
• 1941 - Léon Gérin, MSRC
• 1942 - Watson Kirkconnell, FRSC
• 1943 - George H. Clarke, FRSC
• 1944 - Audrey Alexandra Brown
• 1945 - Félix-Antoine Savard, MSRC
• 1946 - Charles N. Cochrane, FRSC
• 1947 - Dorothy Livesay
• 1948 - Gabrielle Roy, MSRC
• 1949 - John Murray Gibbon, FRSC
• 1950 - Marius Barbeau, FRSC
• 1951 - Edward Killoran Brown
• 1952 - Hugh MacLennan, MSRC
• 1953 - Earle Birney, FRSC
• 1954 - Alain Grandbois
• 1955 - William Bruce Hutchison, FRSC
• 1956 - Thomas H. Raddall, FRSC
• 1957 - A. M. Klein
• 1958 - Northrop Frye
• 1959 - Philippe Panneton
• 1960 - Morley Callaghan
• 1961 - Robertson Davies, FRSC
• 1962 - Francis Reginald Scott, FRSC
• 1963 - Léo-Paul Desrosiers, MSRC
• 1964 - Ethel Wilson
• 1966 - Arthur James Marshall Smith
• 1968 - Robert Duer Clayton Finch, FRSC
• 1970 - Roy Daniells, FRSC
• 1972 - W.C. Desmond Pacey
• 1974 - Rina Lasnier, MSRC
• 1976 - Douglas LePan, FRSC
• 1978 - Carl F. Klinck, FRSC
• 1980 - Antonine Maillet, MSRC
• 1982 - Malcolm Ross, FRSC
• 1984 - Sheila Watson
• 1986 - Rudy Wiebe
• 1989 - Maurice Lemire, MSRC
• 1991 - Gilles Marcotte
• 1993 - Alice Munro
• 1996 - Clément Moisan, FRSC
• 1998 - David Staines
• 2000 - Jean-Louis Major, MSRC
• 2002 - Sandra Djwa, FRSC
• 2004 - William H. New, FRSC