 In 1988, "Canadian Literature" became the only journal to win the Gabrielle Roy Prize for best English book-length studies in Canadian and Québec literary criticism.The US-based Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) presented Eva-Marie Kröller with a Distinguished Editor award in 2004 in recognition of her work with "Canadian Literature".In 2004, William H. New was awarded the Governor General's International Award for Canadian Studies.