Bressani Award


The Francesco Giuseppe Bressani Literary Prize is a biennial award created by the Italian Cultural Centre Society of Vancouver in 1986. It was created to promote and honour Canadian writers of Italian descent. There are $1000 prizes for poetry, fiction and short fiction. A fourth "special category" prize has been given out since 2006.
Works are eligible if published from January 1 of one year to March 31 of the next year. Submissions must be from Canadian citizens or permanent residents of 16 or older who have at least one parent or grandparent born in Italy, and can be in Italian, English or French. The Prize is named after the Italian Jesuit missionary Francesco Giuseppe Bressani.
The Prize was discontinued in 1995, but the Italian Cultural Centre appointed a new F.G. Bressani Committee in 2000 when it was reinstated.

Winners

1986
  • From the Frontier to the Little Italies: The Italians in Canada 1800-1941 by Robert F. Harney'
1988
1990
1992
1994
1996, 1998 Hiatus
2000
2002
2004
  • Ariadne's Thread by Carmelo Militano
  • Italian Shoes by Frank G. Paci
2006
2008
  • You Speak to Me in Trees by Elana Wolff
  • Magnifico by Victoria Miles
  • Making Olives by Darlene Madott
  • The Clothesline by Donna Caruso
2010
2012
2014
2016