Pierre Savard (1936–1998), well-known historian, Professor and Canadianist, contributed greatly to the development of Canadian Studies. He was ICCS President from 1983 to 1985.
The Pierre Savard Awards are designed to recognize and promote outstanding scholarly monographs on a Canadian topic. The awards form part of a strategy that is aimed at promoting, especially throughout the Canadian academic community, works that have been written by members of the Canadian Studies international network. The awards are intended to designate exceptional books that contribute to excellent scholarship in Canadian Studies and will be awarded only once to the same person, as author or co-author.
There are three categories:
1) Book written in English
2) Book written in French
3) Book written in a language other than French or English
Application Guidelines | For books written in English or French
- Every Member Association or Associate Member Association of the ICCS can submit the title of one book that has been published within the preceding two calendar years (resubmissions are possible as long as the two-year limit is respected).
- The book must be a scholarly monograph dealing mainly with a Canadian topic and written either in English or French, by one or more authors;
- The Awards and Grants Committee appointed by the International Council for Canadian Studies will act as the jury and reserves the right to have any books submitted to be reviewed by external examiners.
- The Pierre Savard Awards comprise a certificate signed by the ICCS President. The Awards include a limited allowance toward travel and lodging expenses in order for the recipient(s) to travel to Toronto to receive the Award at the ICCS’ Annual General Meeting.
- The publisher will be allowed to mention the Pierre Savard Award in any publicity relating to the winning publication.
Application Guidelines | For books written in a language other than English or French
- Every Member Association or Associate Member Association of the ICCS can submit the title of one book that has been published within the preceding two calendar years (resubmissions are possible as long as the two-year limit is respected);
- The book must be a scholarly monograph dealing mainly with a Canadian topic and written in a language other than French or English, by one or more authors;
- The Awards and Grants Committee appointed by the International Council for Canadian Studies will act as the jury and reserves the right to have any books submitted to be reviewed by external examiners;
- The Pierre Savard Awards comprise a certificate signed by the President of the ICCS. The Awards include a limited allowance toward travel and lodging expenses, in order for the recipients to travel to Toronto to officially receive the Pierre Savard Award at the Annual General Meeting of the ICCS;
- The publisher will be allowed to mention the Pierre Savard Award in any publicity relating to the winning publication.
Eligibility Requirements | For books written in English or French
- Monographs dealing mainly with Canada are eligible. Comparative works will be considered as well as works written by more than one author.
- Collections of poetry, novels, plays, proceedings of symposia, reference works, edited works, anthologies, bibliographies, translations etc. are not eligible. The same applies to works comprising essentially previously published texts, such as articles or excerpts from books.
- Works must be written in English or French.
- The author must be a member in good standing of a Member Association or of an Associate Member Association of the ICCS.
- The application must be introduced by the President of a Member Association or of an Associate Member Association.
- An application must include: one physical copy of the book being submitted and a pdf file or equivalent electronic version of said publication; a 2-page abstract written in French or in English; a curriculum vitae of the author(s) indicating the nature of his/her/their academic affiliation; a letter from the President of the Member Association or Associate Member Association nominating the applicant.
Eligibility Requirements | For books written in a language other than English or French
- Only monographs dealing mainly with Canada written in a language other than French or English are eligible. Comparative works will be considered as well as works written by more than one author.
- Collections of poetry, novels, plays, proceedings of symposia, reference works, edited works, anthologies, bibliographies, translations etc. will not be eligible. The same applies to works comprising essentially previously published texts, such as articles or excerpts from books.
- The author must be a member in good standing of a Member Association or of an Associate Member Association of the ICCS.
- The application must be submitted by the President of a Member Association or of an Associate Member Association.
- An application must contain the following: one physical copy of the book being submitted and a pdf file or equivalent electronic version of the book being submitted; a ten-page summary in French or English (table of contents, summary, research idea and arguments, theoretical and methodological approach, outline of research corpus, research findings); a curriculum vitae of the author(s) indicating the nature of his/her/their academic affiliation; a list of five specialists, including address, university affiliation, e-mail, etc., able to provide in French or English a detailed assessment of the work submitted; a letter from the President of the Member Association or Associate Member Association nominating the application.
Deadline
The deadline for submitting applications to the ICCS is November 24. Decisions will be announced by March 01 of the following year.
Submission Information
Requests for further information or submissions may be addressed to:
International Council for Canadian Studies
c/o Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University
723 Kaneff Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
Email: iccsciec[at]yorku.ca
PIERRE SAVARD AWARD 2024
Maria Löschnigg, The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story. Routledge, 2023
PIERRE SAVARD AWARDS 2023
English and French winner: Marc Chalier, Les normes de prononciation du français : une étude perceptive panfrancophone, De Gruyter, 2021.
Other languages winner: Dagmara Drewniak, Figura domu. Szkice o najnowszej anglojęzycnej literaturze emigrantów z ziem polskich i ich potomków w Kanadzie, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2022, in Polish.
PIERRE SAVARD AWARDS 2022
English and French winner: Jane Griffith, Words have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of indian Boarding Schools. University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Other languages winner: No award handed out this year.
PIERRE SAVARD AWARDS 2021
English and French winner: Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019.
Other languages winner: Masumi Izumi, The Japanese Canadian Movement: The Little-Known Trans-Pacific History of Japanese Migration and Activism, Tokyo: Takanashi Shobo, 2020, In Japanese.
PIERRE SAVARD AWARDS 2020
English and French winner: Raymond B. Blake and Melvin Baker, Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road towards Conferederation. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2019.
Other languages winner: Elena Grigorieva, Government Management of Agricultural Production in Canada, Moscow: All-Russian Institute for Agrarian Problems and Informatics named after Nikonov (VIAPI), 2018, in Russian.