Stephen Leacock Award

The Stephen Leacock Award for Humour is an annual award presented to the best work of humourous literature written in English by a Canadian. It is named for Stephen Leacock a famour Canadian humour writer.

2003: Dan Needles, With Axe and Flask - A History of Persephone Township From Pre-Cambrian Times to the Present
2002: Will Ferguson, Generica
2001: Stuart McLean, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
2000: Arthur Black, Black Tie and Tales
1999: Stuart McLean, Home from the Vinyl Cafe
1998: Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
1997: Arthur Black, Black in the Saddle Again
1996: Marsha Boulton, Letters from the Country
1995: Josh Freed, Fear of Frying and other Fax of Life
1994: Bill Richardson, Bachelor Brother's Bed and Breakfast
1993: Joseph Levesque, Waiting for Aquarius
1992: Roch Carrier, Prayers of a Very Wise Child
1991: Howard White, Waiting in the Rain
1990: W.O. Mitchell, According to Jake and the Kid
1989: John Kertes, Winter Tulips
1988: Paul Quarrington, King Leary
1987: W.P. Kinsella, The Fencepost Chronicles
1986: Joey Slinger, No Axe too Small to Grind
1985: Ted Allan, Love is a Long Shot
1984 Gary Lautens, No Sex Please...We're Married
1983 Morley Torgov, The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
1982 Mervyn J. Huston, Gophers Don't Pay Taxes Tree
1981 Gary Lautens, Take My Family...Please! John
1980 Donald Jack, Me Brandy, You Cissie
1979 Sondra Gotlieb, True Confessions
1978 Ernest Buckler, Whirligig
1977 Ray Guy, That Far Greater Bay
1976 Harry J. Boyle, The Luck of the Irish
1975 Morley Torgov, A Good Place to Come From
1974 Donald Jack, That's Me in the Middle
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 Farley Mowat, The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
1969 Stuart Trueman, You're Only as Old as You Act
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 Clarke Irwin
1963 Donald Jack, Three Cheers for Me
1962 W. O. Mitchell, Jake and the Kid
1961 Norman Ward, Mice in the Beer
1960 Pierre Berton, Just Add Water and Stir
1959 -- No Award Given --
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 Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice
1954 Joan Walker, Pardon My Parka
1953 Lawrence Earl, The Battle Of Baltinglass
1952 Jan Hilliard, The Salt Box
1951 Eric Nicol, The Roving I
1950 Earle Binney, Turvey
1949 Angeline Hango, Truthfully Yours
1948 Paul Hiebert, Sarah Binks
1947 Harry L. Symons, Ojibway Melody