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Molson Prizes Cumulative list of Winners

N.B. Before 2002, the Prizes were designated by the year of the Council’s financial statements. Starting in 2002, they will be designated by the year in which they are awarded.

2006

  • Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist and essayist
  • Henry Mintzberg, Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies (McGill University)

2005

  • Iain Baxter (aka IAIN BAXTER&), photographer, painter, sculptor, installation and conceptual artist
  • Ramsay Cook, historian, general editor (Dictionary of Canadian Biography)

2004

  • Maria Campbell, author, playwright, filmmaker and professor
  • Richard Tremblay, professor and researcher

2003

  • Walter Boudreau, conductor, composer & musician
  • Janice Stein, International Relations

2001

  • Christopher Newton, theatre director, playwright, actor
  • Margaret Lock, medical anthropologist

2000

  • Jacques Poulin, novellist
  • Ian Hacking, philosopher

1999

  • Kiawak Ashoona, visual artist- sculptor
  • Tom Courchene, economics and public policy

1998

  • Jeanne Lamon, music director
  • Trebilcock, Michael J., law

1997

  • Mary Pratt, visual artist
  • Guy Rocher, sociologist

1996

  • Mavis Gallant, writer
  • Pierre Maranda, anthropologist

1995

  • Gerald Ferguson, painter and teacher
  • Donald Akenson, historian

1994

  • Michel Tremblay, playwright and novelist
  • Martin Friedland, criminal law scholar

1993

  • R. Murray Schafer, composer, writer and educator
  • Juliet McMaster, literary scholar and humanist

1992

  • Douglas Cardinal, architect
  • Fernand Dumont, sociologist

1991

  • Denys Arcand, filmmaker
  • Charles Taylor, philosopher

1990

  • Alice Munro, short-story writer
  • Jean-Jacques Nattiez, musicologist

1989

  • Vera Frenkel, multidisciplinary artist and video producer
  • Fernande Saint-Martin, museologist, writer, researcher and teacher

1988

  • Robertson Davies, journalist, playwright and novelist
  • Terence Michael Penelhum, philosopher, author and editor

1987

  • Yvette Brind'Amour, actress, director, cofounder and artistic director of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert
  • Marc-Adélard Tremblay, anthropologist and scholar

1986

  • J. Mavor Moore, playwright, director, actor and producer
  • William Dray, philosopher and historian

1985

  • Gaston Miron, writer
  • Ronald Melzack, psychologist

1984

  • Marcel Dubé, dramatist
  • James G. Eayrs, teacher, scholar and writer

1983

  • Brian Macdonald, choreographer and director
  • Frances Halpenny, editor and scholar

1982

  • Alan C. Cairns, political scientist
  • Louis-Edmond Hamelin, geographer
  • Jack McClelland, publisher
  • Gilles Vigneault, chansonnier

1980

  • Margaret Atwood, writer
  • Marcel Trudel, historian
  • John Weinzweig, composer

1979

  • Michel Brault, filmmaker
  • Lois Marshall, singer
  • Robert Weaver, editor and radio producer

1978

  • Jean Duceppe, actor
  • Betty Oliphant, principal and director of the National Ballet School
  • Michael Snow, painter

1977

  • Gabrielle Roy, novelist
  • Jack Shadbolt, painter
  • George Story, lexicographer

1976

  • John Hirsch, theatre director
  • Bill Reid, sculptor and carver
  • Jean-Louis Roux, actor and theatre director

1975

  • Orford String Quartet
  • Denise Pelletier, actress
  • Jon Vickers, tenor

1974

  • Alex Colville, painter
  • Pierre Dansereau, ecologist
  • Margaret Laurence, writer

1973

  • W.A.C.H. Dobson, sinologist
  • Celia Franca, dancer, choreographer, and artistic director of the National Ballet
  • Jean-Paul Lemieux, painter

1972

  • John James Deutsch, economist
  • Alfred Pellan, painter
  • George Woodcock, writer

1971

  • Maureen Forrester, contralto
  • Rina Lasnier, poet
  • Norman McLaren, filmmaker

1970

  • Northrop Frye, literary scholar
  • Duncan MacPherson, cartoonist
  • Yves Thériault, writer

1969

  • Jean-Paul Audet, scholar
  • Morley Callaghan, writer
  • Arnold Spohr, artistic director of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet

1968

  • Glenn Gould, pianist
  • Jean Le Moyne, writer

1967

  • Arthur Erickson, architect
  • Anne Hébert, poet
  • Marshall McLuhan, scholar and visionary

1966

  • Georges-Henri Lévesque, social scientist
  • Hugh MacLennan, writer

1965

  • Jean Gascon , actor and theatre irector
  • Frank Scott , lawyer and poet

1964

  • Donald Creighton, historian
  • Alain Grandbois, poet