Geoffrey Bilson Award

The Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People is a Canadian literary award that goes to the best work of historical fiction written for youth each year. The award is named after Geoffrey Bilson, a writer of historical fiction for youth and a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan who died suddenly in 1987.
The Geoffrey Bilson Award is selected by a jury chosen by the Canadian [Children's Book Centre]. Award winners must be Canadian authors, and the winning novel must have been published in the previous calendar year. Each year's winner receives a $1000 prize.
The award is one of several presented by the Canadian Children's Book Centre each year; others include the Marilyn Baillie Picture [Book Award], the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction and the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.