Leacock Medal for Humour

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The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour is awarded annually for a book of humour published in the previous calendar year, written by a Canadian. For more information, visit the official site.

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2008

  • Terry Fallis – The Best Laid Plans

Also shortlisted:

  • Douglas Coupland – The Gum Thief
  • Will Ferguson – Spanish Fly
  • Scott Gardiner – King John of Canada
  • Ron Wood – And God Created Manyberries

2007

Also shortlisted:

  • Douglas Coupland – JPod
  • Ryan Knighton – Cockeyed
  • Neil McKinnon – Tuckahoe Slidebottle
  • Des Kennedy – The Passionate Gardener

2006

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2005

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2004

Also shortlisted:


2003

  • Dan Needles – With Axe and Flask: A History of Persephone Township from Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present

Also shortlisted:

  • Sondra Gotlieb – Dogs, Houses, Gardens, Food and Other Addictions
  • Ian McGillis – A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry
  • Robert F. Nielsen – Athlete's Foot, or How I failed at Sports
  • Morley Torgov – Stickler and Me

2002

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1997


1996

  • Marsha Boulton – Letters from the Country

1995

  • Josh Freed – Fear of Frying and Other Fax of Life

1994


1993

  • John Levesque – Waiting for Aquarius

1992

  • Roch Carrier – Prayers of a Very Wise Child

1991


1990

  • W.O. Mitchell – According to Jake and the Kid

1989

  • Joseph Kertes – Winter Tulips

1988


1987


1986

  • Joey Slinger – No Axe Too Small to Grind

1985

  • Ted Allen – Love is a Longshot

1984


1983


1982

  • Mervyn J. Huston – Gophers Don't Pay Taxes

1981


1980


1979


1978

  • Ernest Buckler – Whirligig

1977

  • Ray Guy – That Far Greater Bay

1976

  • Harry J. Boyle – The Luck of the Irish

1975


1974


1973

  • Donald Bell – Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory

1972

  • Max Braithwaite – The Night They Stole the Mounties' Car

1971

  • Robert Thomas Allen – Wives, Children & Other Wild Life

1970


1969


1968

  • Max Ferguson – And Now...Here's Max

1967

  • Richard J. Needham – Needham's Inferno

1966

  • George Bain – Nursery Rhymes to be Read Aloud by Young Parents with Old Children

1965

  • Gregory Clark – War Stories

1964

  • Harry J. Boyle – Homebrew and Patches

1963


1962

  • W.O. Mitchell – Jake and the Kid

1961

  • Norman Ward – Mice in the Beer

1960

  • Pierre Berton – Just Add Water and Stir

1958

  • Eric Nicol – Girdle Me A Globe

1957

  • Robert Thomas Allen – The Grass is Never Greener

1956

  • Eric Nicol – Shall We Join The Ladies?

1955


1954


1953


1952

  • Jan Hilliard – The Salt Box

1951

  • Eric Nicol – The Roving I

1950

  • Earle Birney – Turvey

1949

  • Angeline Hango – Truthfully Yours

1948


1947

  • Harry L. Symons – Ojibway Melody