Awards

Gabrielle Roy was recognized, throughout her celebrated literary career, with many awards and honors, both in Canada and abroad. Among many literary distinctions, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award three times for her fiction.

Governor-General’s Annual Literary Award Medal for Fiction, 1947
Presented to Gabrielle Roy for The Tin Flute (translation of Bonheur d’occasion).
From the Gabrielle Roy Fonds, National Library of Canada.

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Medal reproduced courtesy of François Ricard, Fonds Gabrielle Roy.

Governor-General’s Annual Literary Award Medal for Fiction - 1957
Presented Gabrielle Roy for Street of Riches (translation of Rue Deschambault).
From the Gabrielle Roy Fonds, National Library of Canada.

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Medal reproduced courtesy of François Ricard, Fonds Gabrielle Roy.

	A letter from then Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, congratulating Gabrielle Roy for winning the Governor-General’s Annual Literary Award for Fiction in 1978 for Ces enfants de ma vie (translated into English as Children of My Heart). From the Gabrielle Roy Fonds, National Library of Canada.
Letter reproduced courtesy of François Ricard, Fonds Gabrielle Roy.
	Gabrielle Roy’s draft response to a letter of congratulations from then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1978. From the Gabrielle Roy Fonds, National Library of Canada.
Letter reproduced courtesy of François Ricard, Fonds Gabrielle Roy.