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==Awards and honours== [[File:Northrop Frye statue.JPG|thumbnail|Northrop Frye statue outside the entrance of [[Moncton Public Library]] at [[Blue Cross Centre]]]] Frye was elected to the [[Royal Society of Canada]] in 1951 and awarded the Royal Society's [[Lorne Pierce Medal]] (1958) and its [[Pierre Chauveau Medal]] (1970). He was named University Professor by the University of Toronto in 1967. He won the [[Canada Council Molson Prize]] in 1971, and the Royal Bank Award in 1978. In 1987 he received the [[Governor General's Award#Governor General's Literary Awards|Governor General's Literary Award]] and the Toronto Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.<ref name = NFCbio>[http://www.vic.utoronto.ca/academics/Research_Centres/fryecentre/fryebio.htm Northrop Frye] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329120857/http://www.vic.utoronto.ca/academics/Research_Centres/fryecentre/fryebio.htm |date=2019-03-29 }} at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Retrieved on: November 30, 2008.</ref> He was an Honorary Fellow or Member of the following: * [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1969) * [[Merton College, Oxford]] (1974) * [[British Academy]] (1975) * [[American Philosophical Society]] (1976), and * [[American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters]] (1981).<ref name = NFCbio/> Northrop Frye was made a Companion of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1972.<ref>Harry Palmer Gallery. [http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galcompeh/frye.html Northrop Frye] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080927044007/http://www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca/galcompeh/frye.html |date= 2008-09-27 }}. Companions of the Order of Canada Gallery E-H. Retrieved on: November 30, 2008.</ref> In 2000, he was honoured by the government of Canada with his image on a [[List of people on stamps of Canada|postage stamp]]. An international literary festival [[The Frye Festival]], named in Frye's honour, takes place every April in Moncton, New Brunswick. The Northrop Frye Centre, part of Victoria College at the University of Toronto, was named in his honour,<ref>University of Toronto. [http://vicu.utoronto.ca/fryecentre University of Victoria, Northrop Frye Centre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130033655/http://vicu.utoronto.ca/fryecentre/ |date=2010-01-30 }}.</ref> as was the Humanities Stream of the ''Vic One'' Program at Victoria College and the Northrop Frye Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. [[Northrop Frye School]] in Moncton was named in his honour. A statue shows Frye sitting on a park bench outside the entrance to the [[Moncton Public Library]].<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/northrop-frye-statue-unveiled-for-literary-fans-1.1254181 Northrop Frye statue unveiled for literary fans], CBC News Feb. 21, 2012</ref> Another casting of the statue and bench by artists Darren Byers and Fred Harrison sits at Victoria College at the University of Toronto.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bronze-statues-prime-minister-project-nb-1.4006438 |title=N.B. artists chosen to cast bronze statues of prime ministers|publisher= CBC News |date=March 5, 2017 |author=Viola Pruss}}</ref> Frye was named a [[Persons of National Historic Significance|National Historic Person]] in 2018.<ref>[https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2018/03/government-of-canada-announces-12-new-national-historic-designations.html Government of Canada Announces 12 New National Historic Designations], Parks Canada news release, March 27, 2018</ref>
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