Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec.
Categories
They are currently presented in seven literary categories:
- Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction,
- Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
- A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
- Concordia University First Book Prize
- QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (French and English, with target language alternating each year)
- 3Macs Carte Blanche Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal Carte Blanche.
An annual community award is also presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community.
The awards have been presented annually since 1988.
Winners by year
1988
- Fiction: Hugh Hood, The Motor Boys in Ottawa
- Non-fiction: Witold Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of an Idea
- Poetry: David Solway, Modern Marriage
1989
- Fiction: Kenneth Radu, Distant Relations
- Non-fiction: Witold Rybczynski, The Most Beautiful House in the World
- Poetry: D. G. Jones, Balthazar and Other Poems
1990
- Fiction: Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here
- Non-fiction: David Solway, Education Lost: Reflections on Contemporary Pedogogical Practice
- Poetry: Erin Mouré, WSW (West South West) and Bruce Taylor, Cold Rubber Feet
1991
- Fiction: Kenneth Radu, A Private Performance
- Non-fiction: Donald MacKay, Flight from Famine
- Poetry: Eric Ormsby, Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems
1992
- Fiction: Ray Smith, A Night at the Opera
- Non-fiction: Mary Meigs, In the Company of Strangers
- Poetry: Naomi Guttman, Reasons for Winter
1993
- Fiction: P. Scott Lawrence, Missing Fred Astaire
- Non-fiction: Zhimei Zhang, Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao's China
- Poetry: Ralph Gustafson, Configurations at Midnight
1994
- Fiction: Ann Diamond, Evil Eye
- Non-fiction: Laura S. Groening, E.K. Brown: A Study in Conflict
- Poetry: Julie Bruck, The Woman Downstairs and Raymond Filip, Flowers in Magnetic Fields
1995
- Fiction: George Szanto, Friends & Marriages
- Non-fiction: Charles Foran, The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast
- Poetry: D. G. Jones, The Floating Garden
- Community: Judith Mappin
1996
- Fiction: Trevor Ferguson, The Time Keeper
- Non-fiction: T. F. Rigelhof, A Blue Boy in a Black Dress: A Memoir
- Poetry: Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
- First Book: Blema Steinberg, Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam
- Community: Bryan Demchinsky
1997
- Fiction: Charles Foran, Butterfly Lovers
- Non-fiction: William Weintraub, City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 40s and 50s
- Poetry: Ralph Gustafson, Visions Fugitive
- First Book: Irene Burstyn, Picking Up Pearls
- Community: Shelley Pomerance
1998
- Fiction: Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version
- Non-fiction: David Manicom, Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
- Poetry: Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
- First Book: Matthew Friedman, Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution
- Translation: Hélène Rioux, Self (Yann Martel)
- Community: Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli
1999
- Fiction: Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?
- Non-fiction: Elaine Kalman Naves, Putting Down Roots
- Poetry: Bruce Taylor, Facts
- First Book: Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?
- Translation: Sheila Fischman, These Festive Nights (Marie-Claire Blais)
- Community: Mireille Goulet
2000
- Fiction: Julie Keith, The Devil Out There
- Non-fiction: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
- Poetry: Rachel Rose, Giving My Body to Science
- First Book: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
- Translation: Claire Dé, Montréal barbare (Robert Majzels)
- Community: Patricia Pleszcynska
2001
- Fiction: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- Non-fiction: Jack Todd, A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story
- Poetry: Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband
- First Book: Jack Todd, A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story
- Translation: Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century (Gilles Havard)
- Community: Germain Lefebvre
2002
- Fiction: Neil Bissoondath, Doing the Heart Good
- Non-fiction: Henry T. Aubin, The Rescue of Jerusalem
- Poetry: Norm Sibum, Girls and Handsome Dogs
- First Book: Nalini Warriar, Blues from the Malabar Coast
- Translation: Pan Bouyoucas, Dans l'ombre de Maggie (Sheila Arnopoulos)
- Community: Linda Shohet
2003
- Fiction: David Homel, The Speaking Cure
- Non-fiction: Elaine Kalman Naves, Shoshanna's Story
- Poetry: Susan Gillis, Volta
- First Book: Neale McDevitt, One Day Even Trevi Will Crumble
- Translation: Fred A. Reed and David Homel, The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle (Monique Proulx)
- Community: Linda Leith
2004
- Fiction: Edeet Ravel, Look for Me
- Non-fiction: Joel Yanofsky, Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind
- Poetry: Carmine Starnino, With English Subtitles
- First Book: Jaspreet Singh, Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir
- Translation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Un baume pour le cœur (Neil Bissoondath)
- Community: Margaret Goldik and Ian McGillis
2005
- Fiction: Neil Bissoondath, The Unyielding Clamour of the Night
- Non-fiction: Fred Bruemmer, Survival: A Refugee Life
- Poetry: Erin Mouré, Little Theatres
- First Book: Marci Denesiuk, The Far Away Home and Dimitri Nasrallah, Blackbodying
- Translation: Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (Thierry Hentsch)
- Community: Guy Rodgers
2006
- Fiction: Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
- Non-fiction: Sherry Simon, Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City
- Poetry: Susan Elmslie, I, Nadja and Other Poems
- First Book: Rawi Hage, De Niro's Game
- Translation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, La Clameur des ténèbres (Neil Bissoondath)
- Community: Julie Keith
2007
- Fiction: Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
- Non-fiction: Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau, The Story of French
- Poetry: David Solway, Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin
- First Book: Neil Smith, Bang Crunch
- Translation: Lazer Lederhendler, The Immaculate Conception (Gaétan Soucy)
- Community: André Vanasse
2008
- Fiction: Rawi Hage, Cockroach
- Non-fiction: Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
- Poetry: Peter Richardson, Sympathy for the Couriers
- First Book: Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
- Translation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Big Bang (Neil Smith)
- Children's Literature: Raquel Rivera, Orphan Ahwak
- Community: Mary Soderstrom
- Carte Blanche Prize: J. R. Carpenter, "Wyoming is Haunted"
2009
- Fiction: Colin McAdam, Fall
- Non-fiction: Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites
- Poetry: Carmine Starnino, This Way Out
- First Book: Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites
- Translation: Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (Nicolas Dickner)
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Monique Polak, What World is Left
- Community: Luci and Adrian King-Edwards
- Carte Blanche Prize: Julie Mahfood, Changing Winter Tires
2010
- Fiction: Miguel Syjuco, Illustrado
- Non-fiction: Cleo Paskal, Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
- Poetry: Kate Hall, The Certainty Dream
- First Book: Sean Mills, The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal
- Translation: Paule Champoux, Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial (David Mendel, Quebec, World Heritage City)
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Caryl Cude Mullin, Rough Magic
- Community: Ilona Martonfi
- Carte Blanche Prize: Mark Paterson, Something Important and Delicate
2011
- Fiction: Dimitri Nasrallah, Niko
- Non-fiction: Joel Yanofsky, Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism
- Poetry: Gabe Foreman, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
- First Book: Ann Scowcroft, The Truth of Houses
- Translation: Lazer Lederhendler, Apocalypse for Beginners (Nicolas Dickner, Tarmac)
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Alan Silberberg, Milo
- Community: Endre Farkas
- Carte Blanche Prize: Gillian Sze, Like This Together
2012
- Fiction: Rawi Hage, Carnival
- Non-fiction: Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
- Poetry: Oana Avasilichioaei, We, Beasts
- First Book: Alice Petersen, All The Voices Cry
- Translation: Éric Fontaine, T'es con, point (Doug Harris, YOU Comma Idiot)
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Catherine Austen, 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6
- Community: Steve Luxton
- Carte Blanche Prize: Heather Davis, Aria
2013
- Fiction: Saleema Nawaz, Bone and Bread
- Non-fiction: Adam Leith Gollner, The Book of Immortality
- Poetry: Ken Howe, The Civic-Mindedness of Trees
- First Book: Andrew Szymanski, The Barista and I
- Translation: Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Paul Blackwell, Undercurrent
- Carte Blanche Prize: Juliet Waters, Bluefooted
2014
- Fiction: Sean Michaels, Us Conductors
- Non-fiction: Chantal Hébert, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
- Poetry: Sina Queyras, MxT
- First Book: Anna Leventhal, Sweet Affliction
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Monique Polak, Hate Mail
- Carte Blanche Prize: Elaine Kennedy and Sheryl Curtis, It’s Late, Doctor Schweitzer (Didier Leclair)