Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
Canadian literary 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 . They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards .
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 .
A Community Award is also frequently 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
Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize, established in 2008, is presented annually for children's and young adult books. Picture books with text and books intended for beginner readers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas books intended for middle grade or young adult readers are eligible in odd-numbered years.[ 1] The award was established in 2008, was sponsored by sponsored by Janet and John Blachford beginning in 2014, and has been sponsored in the memory of Janet Savage Blachford since 2018.[ 1]
carte blanche Prize
The carte blanche Prize, established in 2008, is awarded annual "in recognition of an outstanding submission to QWF's online literary journal, carte blanch e, by a Quebec writer, artist, or translator. Winners receive a cash prize and a unique trophy—'The Lori'—created by Montreal artist Glen LeMesurier."[ 19]
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation, also known as Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole and established in 1998, is awarded annually to books written by an English-language Quebec writer or an English-language Quebec translator of a book by a French author.[ 22] English-language Quebec writers are eligible in even-numbered years, whereas English-language Quebec translators are eligible in odd-numbered years.[ 22]
The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation winners[ 22]
Year
Translator
Author
Title
Ref.
1998
Hélène Rioux
Yann Martel
Self
Winner
[ 23]
1999
Sheila Fischman
Marie-Claire Blais
These Festive Nights
Winner
[ 24]
Patricia Claxton
François Girard
Gabrielle Roy: A Life / Gabrielle Roy: Une Vie
Shortlist
Donald Winkler
Pierre Nepveu
Romans-fleuves
Shortlist
2000
Claire Dé
Robert Majzels
Montréal barbare / City of Forgetting
Winner
[ 25]
Marie Évangeline Arsenault
Carolyn Marie Souaid
Fille au bord de l'eau / Swimming Into the Light
Shortlist
Ivan Steenhout
Trevor Ferguson
Le Kinkajou /The Kinkajou
Shortlist
2001
Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
Gilles Havard
The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century / La Grand Paix de Montréal de 1701: les voies de la diplomatie franco-amérindienne
Winner
Linda Leith
Louis Gauthier
Travels with an Umbrella: An Irish Journey / Voyage en Irelande avec un parapluie
Shortlist
Fred A. Reed
Aki Shimazaki
Tsubaki
Shortlist
2002
Pan Bouyoucas
Sheila Arnopoulos
Dans l'ombre de Maggie / Jackrabbit Moon
Winner
Michel Saint-Germain
Mary Soderstrom
L'autre ennemi / Finding the Enemy
Shortlist
Ivan Steenhout
Elyse Gasco
Bye-Bye, bébé / Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
Shortlist
2003
Fred A. Reed and David Homel
Monique Proulx
The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle / Le Coeur est un muscle involuntaire
Winner
[ 26] [ 27]
Robert Majzels
France Daigle
A Fine Passage / Un fin passage
Shortlist
Gail Scott
Michael Delisle
Helen with a Secret / Helen avec un secret
Shortlist
2004
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Neil Bissoondath
Un baume pour le cœur / Doing the Heart Good
Winner
Nicole and Émile Martel
Yann Martel
L'histoire de Pi / Life of Pi
Shortlist
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
David Homel
L'analyste / The Speaking Cure
Shortlist
2005
Fred A. Reed
Thierry Hentsch
Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition / Raconter et mourir
Winner
[ 28]
Fred A. Reed and David Homel
Martine Desjardins
ll That Glitters / L'élu du hazard
Shortlist
Daniel Sloate
Hélène Dorion
No End to the World / Sans bord, sans bout du monde
Shortlist
2006
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Neil Bissoondath
La Clameur des ténèbres / The Unyielding Clamour of the Night
Winner
Paule Champoux
Louisa Blair
Les Anglos: La face cachée de Québec, Tome 1, 1608–1850 / The Anglos: The Hidden Face of Quebec City (Volume 1)
Shortlist
Dominique Fortier
Mark Abley
Parlez-vous Boro? /Spoken Here
Shortlist
2007
Lazer Lederhendler
Gaétan Soucy
The Immaculate Conception / L'immaculée conception
Winner
Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
Madeleine Gagnon
My Name Is Bosnia / Je m'appelle Bosnia
Shortlist
Robert Majzels and Erín Moure
Nicole Brossard
Notebook of Roses and Civilization / Cahier de roses & de civilisation
Shortlist
2008
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Neil Smith
Big Bang / Bang Crunch
Winner
Hélène Rioux
Jeffrey Moore
Les artistes de la mémoire / The Memory Artists
Shortlist
Sophie Voillot
Rawi Hage
Parfum de poussière / De Niro's Game
Shortlist
2009
Lazer Lederhendler
Nicolas Dickner
Nikolski
Winner
Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
Nicole Brossard
Fences in Breathing / La Capture du sombre
Shortlist
David Homel and Fred A. Reed
Monique Proulx
Wildlives / Champagne
Shortlist
2010
Paule Champoux
David Mendel
Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial / Quebec, World Heritage City
Winner
[ 2]
Hélène Rioux
Taras Grescoe
Notre Mer Nourricière / Bottomfeeder
Shortlist
Michelle Tisseyre
Byron Rempel
Sans limites: la vie exceptionelle des jumelles Rhona et Rhoda Wurtele, olympiennes et pionnières du ski au Canada / No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele–Canada's Olympian Skiing Pioneers
Shortlist
2011
Lazer Lederhendler
Nicolas Dickner
Apocalypse for Beginners / Tarmac
Winner
Judith Cowan
Paul Bélanger
Meridian Line / Origine des méridiens
Shortlist
Donald Winkler
Georges Leroux
Partita for Glenn Gould / Partita pour Glenn Gould
Shortlist
2012
Éric Fontaine
Doug Harris
T'es con, point /YOU Comma Idiot
Winner
[ 3]
Marie Frankland
David Solway
Passage de Franklin / Franklin's Passage
Shortlist
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Colin McAdam
Fall
Shortlist
2013
Donald Winkler
Pierre Nepveu
The Major Verbs / Les Verbes majeurs
Winner
Linda Gaboriau
Lise Tremblay
Judith's Sister / La Soeur de Judith
Shortlist
Nigel Spencer
Marie-Claire Blais
Mai at the Predators' Ball / Mai au bal des prédateurs
Shortlist
2014
No award was presented in 2014
2015
Debbie Blythe
Laure Marchand and Guillaume Perrier
Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide / La Turquie et le fantôme arménien: sur les traces du genocide
Winner
[ 21]
Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
Madeleine Gagnon
As Always / Depuis Toujours
Shortlist
[ 29] [ 30] [ 31]
Sheila Fischman
Kim Thúy
Mãn
Shortlist
[ 30]
2016
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Mordecai Richler
Solomon Gursky / Solomon Gursky Was Here
Winner
Daniel Canty
Erín Moure
Petits Théâtres / Little Theatres
Shortlist
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Mordecai Richler
Joshua / Joshua Then and Now
Shortlist
2017
Peter Feldstein
Jean-Marie Fecteau
The Pauper's Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec / La liberté pauvre
Winner
Karen Ocana
Louise Dupre
Rooms / Chambres
Shortlist
[ 5]
Claire Holden Rothman
David Bouchet
Sun of a Distant Land / Soleil
Shortlist
[ 5]
Donald Winkler
Josephine Bacon
A Tea in the Tundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat / Un the dans la toundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
Shortlist
[ 5]
2018
Dominique Fortier
Heather O'Neill
Hôtel Lonely Hearts / The Hotel Lonely Hearts
Winner
Rachel Martinez
Peter Kirby
Vague d'effroi / The Dead of Winter
Shortlist
[ 7]
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Kelly Norah Drukker
Petits feux / Small Fires
Shortlist
[ 7]
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Louise Penny
Un Outrage Mortel / A Great Reckoning
Shortlist
[ 7]
2019
Oana Avasilichioaei
Catherine Lalonde
The Faerie Devouring / La dévoration des fées
Winner
[ 8]
Helge Dascher and Aleshia Jensen
Julie Delporte
This Woman's Work / Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter
Shortlist
Aleshia Jensen
Mathieu Poulin
Explosions / Des explosions
Shortlist
2020
Benoît Laflamme
Melissa Bull
Éclipse électrique / The Knockoff Eclipse
Winner
[ 9] [ 10]
Catherine Ego
Robyn Maynard
NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d'État au Canada / Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Shortlist
[ 11]
Catherine Ego
Paige Cooper
Zolitude
Shortlist
[ 11]
2021
Sarah Henzi
An Antane-Kapesh
I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country? / Je suis une maudite sauvagesse/Eukuan nin matshimanitu innu-iskueu and Tante nana etutamin mitassi? / Qu'as-tu fait de mon pays?)
Winner
[ 12] [ 13]
Sheila Fischman
Kim Thúy
Em
Shortlist
Donald Winkler
Frédérick Lavoie
Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight / Avant l'Après
Shortlist
2022
Nicolas Calvé
Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché / Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
Winner
[ 32]
Jonathan Lamy
Rachel McCrum
Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales / The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné
Mordecai Richler
Fils d'un tout petit héros / Son of a Smaller Hero
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
2023
Katia Grubisic
David Clerson
To See Out the Night (Dormir sans tête)
Winner
[ 17]
Aleshia Jensen , Bronwyn Haslam
Mirion Malle
This Is How I Disappear (C'est comme ça que je disparais)
Shortlist
Alex Manley
Daphné B.
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism (Maquillée)
Peter McCambridge
Éric Dupont
Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (La Logueuse)
2024
Stéphane Martelly
Kaie Kellough
Équateur magnétique (Magnetic Equator)
Winner
[ 18]
Paul Gagné
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Fayne: L'histoire fantastique de C. Bell (Fayne)
Shortlist
Émilie Laramée
Su J. Sokol
Les lignes invisibles (Cycling to Asylum)
Luba Markovskaia
Gillian Sze
Peler les ramboutans (Peeling Rambutan)
Sophie Voillot
Sean Michaels
Te souviens-tu de ta naissance? (Do You Remember Being Born?)
Concordia University First Book Prize
The Concordia University First Book Prize, established in 1996 and sponsored by Concordia University , is awarded annually to the first book of an English-language Quebec writer.[ 33] The award has been known as the First Book Award (1996–1998), McAuslan First Book Prize (1999–2009), the QWF First Book Prize (2010), and the Concordia University First Book Prize (2011–present).[ 33]
Concordia University First Book Prize winners[ 33]
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
1996
Blema Steinberg
Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam
Winner
1997
Irene Burstyn
Picking Up Pearls
Winner
[ 34]
Ashok Chandwani
Buntys and Pinkies: Chronicles of a New Canadian
Shortlist
Maurice Podbrey and R. Bruce Henry
Half Man, Half Beast: Making a Life in Canadian Theatre
Shortlist
1998
Matthew Friedman
Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution
Winner
[ 23]
Judith Cowan
More Than Life Itself
Shortlist
Tess Fragoulis
Stories to Hide From Your Mother
Shortlist
1999
Elyse Gasco
Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?
Winner
[ 24]
Jeffrey Moore
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain
Shortlist
Jori Smith
Charlevoix County, 1930
Shortlist
2000
Taras Grescoe
Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
Winner
[ 25]
Andrew Steinmetz
Wardlife, the Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk
Shortlist
Janine Stingel
Social Discredit, Anti-Semitism, Social Credit and the Jewish Response
Shortlist
2001
Jack Todd
A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story
Winner
Michael Blair
If Looks Could Kill
Shortlist
Monika Kin Gagnon
Other Conundrums: Race, Culture and Canadian Art
Shortlist
2002
Nalini Warriar
Blues from the Malabar Coast
Winner
Derek Grout
Empress of Ireland: The Story of an Edwardian Liner
Shortlist
Morton Weinfeld
Like Everyone Else…But Different: The Paradoxical Success of Canadian Jews
Shortlist
2003
Neale McDevitt
One Day Even Trevi Will Crumble
Winner
[ 26] [ 27]
Ian McGillis
A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry
Shortlist
Corey Frost
My Own Devices
Shortlist
2004
Jaspreet Singh
Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir
Winner
Clayton Bailey
The Expedition
Shortlist
Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire
Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Shortlist
2005
Marci Denesiuk
The Far Away Home
Winner
[ 28]
Dimitri Nasrallah
Blackbodying
Winner
[ 28]
Matthew Fox
Cities of Weather
Shortlist
2006
Rawi Hage
De Niro's Game
Winner
Susan Elmslie
I, Nadja, and Other Poems
Shortlist
Melissa A. Thompson
Dreadful Paris
Shortlist
2007
Neil Smith
Bang Crunch
Winner
Angela Carr
Ropewalk
Shortlist
Nairne Holtz
The Skin Beneath
Shortlist
2008
Adam Leith Gollner
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
Winner
Liane Keightley
Seven Openings of the Head
Shortlist
Saleema Nawaz
Mother Superior
Shortlist
2009
Eric Siblin
The Cello Suites
Winner
Gillian Sze
Fish Bones
Shortlist
Alice Zorn
Ruins and Relics
Shortlist
2010
Sean Mills
The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal
Winner
[ 2] [ 35]
Larissa Andrusyshyn
Mammoth
Shortlist
Doug Harris
YOU Comma Idiot
Shortlist
2011
Ann Scowcroft
The Truth of Houses
Winner
Gabe Foreman
A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
Shortlist
Ed Macdonald
Spat the Dummy
Shortlist
2012
Alice Petersen
All The Voices Cry
Winner
[ 3]
Tom Abray
Pollen
Shortlist
Michael Lithgow
Waking in the Tree House
Shortlist
2013
Andrew Szymanski
The Barista and I
Winner
[ 20]
Connie Guzzo-McParland
The Girls of Piazza d'Amore
Shortlist
Shelagh Plunkett
The Water Here is Never Blue
Shortlist
2014
Anna Leventhal
Sweet Affliction
Winner
[ 4]
Sean Michaels
Us Conductors
Shortlist
Caroline Vu
Palawan Story
Shortlist
2015
Anita Anand
Swing in the House and Other Stories
Winner
[ 21]
Mike Steeves
Giving Up
Shortlist
[ 29] [ 30] [ 31]
Joel Wapnick
The View North from Liberal Cemetery
Shortlist
[ 30]
2016
Kelly Norah Drukker
Small Fires
Winner
[ 36]
Sylvain Neuvel
Sleeping Giants
Shortlist
Chelsea Vowel
Indigenous Writes
Shortlist
2017
Jocelyn Parr
Uncertain Weights and Measures
Winner
Ariela Freedman
Arabic for Beginners
Shortlist
[ 5]
J. Jacob Potashnik
The Golem of Hampstead and Other Stories
Shortlist
[ 5]
2018
Paige Cooper
Zolitude
Winner
Robyn Maynard
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Shortlist
[ 7]
John Emil Vincent
Excitement Tax
Shortlist
[ 7]
2019
Lindsay Nixon
nîtisânak
Winner
[ 8]
Ann Lambert
The Birds That Stay
Shortlist
Rita Pomade
Seeker: A Sea Odyssey
Shortlist
Ken Victor
We Were Like Everyone Else
Shortlist
2020
Madelaine Caritas Longman
The Danger Model
Winner
[ 9] [ 10]
Kama La Mackerel
ZOM-FAM
Shortlist
[ 11]
Yusuf Saadi
Pluviophile
Shortlist
[ 11]
2021
Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Fighting for a Hand to Hold
Winner
[ 12] [ 13] [ 37]
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Knot Body
Shortlist
Balfour M. Mount
Ten Thousand Crossroads: The Path As I Remember It
Shortlist
Aimee Wall
We, Jane
Shortlist
2022
Trynne Delaney
the half-drowned
Winner
Baharan Baniahmadi
Prophetess
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
D. M. Bradford
Dream of No One But Myself
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
Kasia Van Schaik
We Have Never Lived on Earth
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
2023
Andrew Stobo Sniderman , Douglas Sanderson
Valley of the Birdtail
Winner
[ 17]
Sheima Benembarek
Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
Shortlist
Tanya Standish McIntyre
The House You Were Born In
Michelle Syba
End Times
2024
Sabrina Reeves
Little Crosses
Winner
[ 18]
Marjorie Silverman
(Un)spoken
Shortlist
Sivan Slapak
Here Is Still Here
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, established in 1988, is awarded annually to an English-language non-fiction book written by a Quebec author. The award was original named the Non-fiction Prize, though it changed in 1999.
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction winners[ 38]
Year
Author
Title
Result
Ref.
1988
Witold Rybczynski
Home: A Short History of an Idea
Winner
[ 39]
1989
Witold Rybczynski
The Most Beautiful House in the World
Winner
[ 40]
Louise Abbott
The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence
Shortlist
Dominique Clift
The Secret Kingdom: Interpretations of the Canadian Character
Shortlist
1990
David Solway
Education Lost: Reflections on Contemporary Pedogogical Practice
Winner
[ 41]
Marc Raboy
Missed Opportunities: The Story of Canada's Broadcasting Policy
Shortlist
Charles Taylor
Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity
Shortlist
1991
Donald MacKay
Flight from Famine
Winner
[ 42]
Reid Scowen
A Different Vision: The English in Quebec in the 90s
Shortlist
Margaret Westley
Remembrance of Grandeur: The Anglo-Protestant Elite of Montreal
Shortlist
1992
Mary Meigs
In the Company of Strangers
Winner
[ 43]
Charles Foran
Sketches in Winter
Shortlist
Charles Taylor
The Malaise of Modernity
Shortlist
1993
Zhimei Zhang
Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao's China
Winner
[ 44]
John Laffey
Civilization and its Discontented
Shortlist
Ruth Wisse
If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews
Shortlist
1994
Laura S. Groening
E.K. Brown: A Study in Conflict
Winner
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth and Rhoda Cohen
Insights, Discoveries, Surprises
Shortlist
Laura Smith Groening
E. K. Brown: A Study in Conflict
Shortlist
1995
Charles Foran
The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast
Winner
[ 45]
Sharon Batt
Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer
Shortlist
Michael Malus
Before the End of the Day: Stories from a Doctor's Journal
Shortlist
1996
T. F. Rigelhof
A Blue Boy in a Black Dress: A Memoir
Winner
Ann Charney
Defiance in Their Eyes
Shortlist
André Picard
The Gift of Death
Shortlist
1997
William Weintraub
City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 40s and 50s
Winner
[ 34]
Joe Fiorito
Tango on the Main
Shortlist
Elaine Kalman Naves
Journey to Vaja
Shortlist
1998
David Manicom
Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
Winner
[ 23]
Alan Hustak
Saint Patrick's of Montreal: The Biography of a Basilica
Shortlist
W. Gillies Ross
This Distant and Unsurveyed Country
Shortlist
1999
Elaine Kalman Naves
Putting Down Roots
Winner
[ 24]
Robert Hill
Voice of the Vanishing Minority
Shortlist
Jori Smith
Charlevoix County, 1930
Shortlist
2000
Taras Grescoe
Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
Winner
[ 25]
Nicholas Regush
The Virus Within, A Coming Epidemic
Shortlist
Andrew Steinmetz
Wardlife, the Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk
Shortlist
2001
Jack Todd
A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story
Winner
Phil Jenkins
River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence
Shortlist
William Weintraub
Getting Started: A Memoir of the 1950s
Shortlist
2002
Henry T. Aubin
The Rescue of Jerusalem
Winner
Tod Hoffman
LeCarré's Landscape
Shortlist
Margaret Lock
Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Re-invention of Death
Shortlist
2003
Elaine Kalman Naves
Shoshanna's Story
Winner
[ 26] [ 27]
Tod Adams
A Love of Reading: The Second Collection
Shortlist
Taras Grescoe
The End of Elsewhere
Shortlist
2004
Joel Yanofsky
Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a Kind
Winner
Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire
Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Shortlist
Julian Sher and William Marsden
The Road to Hell: How the Biker Gangs Are Conquering Canada
Shortlist
2005
Fred Bruemmer
Survival: A Refugee Life
Winner
[ 28]
Alan Hustak
Sir William Hingston (1829–1907): Montreal Mayor, Surgeon and Banker
Shortlist
Carmine Starnino
A Lover's Quarrel
Shortlist
2006
Sherry Simon
Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City
Winner
William Marsden and Julian Sher
Angels of Death
Shortlist
Byron Rempel
Truth Is Naked, All Others Pay Cash
Shortlist
2007
Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau
The Story of French
Winner
Margaret Somerville
The Ethical Imagination
Shortlist
Vikki Stark
My Sister, My Self: Understanding the Relationship That Shapes Our Lives, Our Loves, and Ourselves
Shortlist
2008
Taras Grescoe
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Winner
Adam Gollner
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
Shortlist
Byron Rempel
No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada's Olympian Skiing Pioneers
Shortlist
2009
Eric Siblin
The Cello Suites
Winner
Yves Engler
The Black Book of Canadian
Shortlist
Patrick McDonagh
Idiocy: A Cultural History
Shortlist
2010
Cleo Paskal
Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map
Winner
[ 2] [ 35]
Avi Friedman
A Place in Mind: the Search for Authenticity
Shortlist
Frank Mackey
Done with Slavery
Shortlist
2011
Joel Yanofsky
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism
Winner
Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire
They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
Shortlist
Merrily Weisbord
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
Shortlist
2012
Taras Grescoe
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Winner
[ 3]
William Marsden
Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
Shortlist
Julija Šukys
Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė
Shortlist
2013
Adam Leith Gollner
The Book of Immortality
Winner
[ 20]
Maximilian Forte
Slouching Towards Sirte
Shortlist
Shelagh Plunkett
The Water Here is Never Blue
Shortlist
2014
Chantal Hébert
The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was
Winner
[ 4]
Issa J. Boullata
The Bells of Memory
Shortlist
Margaret Lock
The Alzheimer Conundrum: Entanglements of Dementia and Aging
Shortlist
2015
Carlos Fraenkel
Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
Winner
[ 21]
Judith Cowan
The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir
Shortlist
[ 30]
Kathleen Winter
Boundless
Shortlist
[ 30]
2016
Daniel J. Levitin
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Winner
Taras Grescoe
Shanghai Grand
Shortlist
Chelsea Vowel
Indigenous Writes
Shortlist
2017
Sandra Perron
Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada's First Female Infantry Officer
Winner
E. A. Heaman
Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917
Shortlist
[ 5] [ 46]
Laila Parsons
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914–1948
Shortlist
[ 5] [ 46]
2018
Judi Rever
In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Winner
Robyn Maynard
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Shortlist
[ 7]
Erín Moure
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by 'Toots'
Shortlist
[ 7]
2019
Susan Doherty
The Ghost Garden
Winner
[ 8]
Mark Abley
The Organist
Shortlist
Jas M. Morgan
nîtisânak
Shortlist
2020
Taras Grescoe
Possess the Air: Love, Heroism, and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini's Rome
Winner
[ 9] [ 10]
Danielle Bobker
The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy
Shortlist
[ 11]
M. Max Hamon
The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875
Shortlist
[ 11] [ 47]
2021
Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Fighting for a Hand to Hold
Winner
[ 12] [ 13] [ 37]
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
Peacekeeper's Daughter: A Middle-East Memoir
Shortlist
Karen Messing
Bent Out of Shape
Shortlist
André Picard
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic
Shortlist
Robyn Sarah
Music, Late and Soon
Shortlist
2022
Taras Raboy
Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel
Winner
Nora Loreto
Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
Christopher Neal
The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin America
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
Sina Queyras
Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf
Shortlist
[ 15] [ 16]
2023
Andrew Stobo Sniderman , Douglas Sanderson
Valley of the Birdtail
Winner
[ 17]
Alex Manley
The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood
Shortlist
Julian Sher
The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln
Debra Thompson
The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging
2024
Gail Scott
Furniture Music
Winner
[ 18]
Judith Adamson
Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography
Shortlist
Taras Grescoe
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Tastes of the Past
Don Weekes
Picturing the Game: An Illustrated Story of Hockey
The Judy Mappin Community Award, established in 1995 and first awarded to Judith Mappin , is awarded annually "to a member of the extended literary community who has made a significant and longstanding contribution to the development and/or dissemination of English-language literature in Quebec."[ 48]
Judy Mappin Community Award winners[ 48]
Year
Author
Description
Ref.
1995
Judith Mappin
Her role in founding QSPELL and its prizes, her tireless work as a bookseller who promoted local authors, and her visionary role in the creation of a genuine Canadian literature in both the French and English languages
[ 45]
1996
Bryan Demchinsky
His work promoting local authors as Books editor of the Montreal Gazette
1997
Shelley Pomerance
Her work promoting literature and writers at CBC Radio
[ 34]
1998
Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli
Their work at Véhicule Press
[ 23]
1999
Mireille Goulet
The commitment and professionalism she displayed in her work for the Electronic Rights Defence Committee
[ 24]
2000
Patricia Pleszcynska
Her work at CBC Radio
[ 25]
2001
Germain Lefebvre
His work as Cultural Advisor of CACUM: Conseil des Arts de la CUM
2002
Linda Shohet
Her work as the Director of The Centre of Literacy of Quebec
2003
Linda Leith
Her work as the Founder and Artistic Director of the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival and as a teacher, author, literary translator, editor, and community activist
[ 26] [ 27]
2004
Margaret Goldik and Ian McGillis
The professionalism and judgment they brought to their work as co-editors of the Montreal Review of Books
2005
Guy Rodgers
His role in the founding and flourishing of many major arts organizations, including the Federation of English-language Writers of Quebec, the Quebec Drama Federation, the Quebec Writers' Federation , and the English-Language Arts Network
[ 28]
2006
Julie Keith
Her good judgment, graciousness, and unwavering commitment to advancing the cause of English-language literature in Quebec
2007
André Vanasse
The inclusiveness and power of his vision of Quebec literature
2008
Mary Soderstrom
Her indefatigable service to the writing community as an organizer, writer, and advocate
2009
Luci and Adrian King-Edwards
Their work at The Word bookstore, Montreal
2010
Ilona Martonfi
Her tireless work promoting writers through The Yellow Door and the Visual Arts Centre reading series
[ 2]
2011
Endre Farkas
His work as a producer, editor, and publisher, and for the inclusiveness and power of his vision for Quebec literature
2012
Steve Luxton
His invaluable contributions as a teacher, mentor, editor, publisher, and writer
[ 3]
2013
No award was presented in 2013
2014
Elizabeth Macdonnell
Her longstanding dedication to fostering a love of learning, literacy, and the English language during her work with the Montreal Children's Library
[ 4]
2015
Maya Munro Byers
The invaluable care and advice she has given to book lovers and writers, and for her role in instilling a love of literature in throngs of children
[ 49]
2016
Rana Bose
The unflagging focus, determination, and modesty with which he built and maintained Serai and Montreal Serai
2017
Philip Lanthier
His work with Matrix and the Knowlton Literary Association
2018
Lynn Verge
Her work with Atwater Library and Computer Centre
2019
Louis Rastelli
His work championing underground publishing and dedicated service to Montreal's independent writing community
2020
Jan Jorgensen
Her hard work, leadership, and longstanding personal commitment to community in all its forms
[ 9] [ 10]
2021
H. Nigel Thomas
Offering advice and opportunity to scores of students and writers, always with generosity, humility, and good humour
[ 12]
Richard King
Dedicating almost 50 years of his life to serving readers, promoting books, and supporting the English-language writing community
[ 12]
2022
Ian Ferrier
His lifelong commitment to leading, supporting, and inspiring writers and artists in Montreal and beyond.
2023
Elise Moser
Contribution and dedication to literary arts in Quebec
[ 17]
2024
Christopher DiRaddo
[ 18]
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry, established in 1988, is awarded annually to a book of English-language poetry written by a Quebec poet. The prize was known as the Poetry Prize from 1988 to 1922.[ 50] From 2011 to 2015, the prize was sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother Robert, and in 2022, it was sponsored by Byron Rempel .[ 50]
Max Margles Fiction Prize
The Max Margles Fiction Prize, established in 2022, is presented to a new English-language Quebec writer "to allow a writer to work uninterruptedly on a manuscript for four months."[ 51] It is "the largest such prize to be awarded by any Canadian provincial writers' organization."[ 51]
Max Margles Fiction Prize winners[ 51]
Year
Author
2022
June Park
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, established in 1988, is presented annually to an English-language Quebec writer of fiction.
QWF Playwriting Prize
The QWF Playwriting Prize, established in 2018, is award every other year in even-numbered years. Typically, plays published "published or produced during the two previous years" are eligible.[ 53] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on theatre, plays have been eligible for the award if they have been published or produced since 2018, "provided that the play was not already submitted for the 2020 prize."[ 53]
The QWF Playwriting Prize winner received a $3,000 prize, as well as "a reading as part of Infinithéâtre's Pipeline Reading Series."[ 53]
Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
The Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize , established in 2022 as the QWF Spoken Word Prize and renamed in 2023 in honor of Ian Ferrier , "is open to Quebec-based spoken word artists, storytelling artists, and literary performance artists working primarily in English in any form of performative writing."[ 14] [ 54]
Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize[ 14]
Year
Author
Title
Ref
2022
Lucia De Luca
"Not in the Bike Commercial"
Roen Higgins
“Free Your Mind"
Erín Moure
"Odiama"
2023
Deb Vanslet
"Laughter in the Rain"
[ 17]
Caitlin Murphy
"All the Screams"
BeWyrd
"Survival Mechanisms"
2024
Moe Clark
“committing a dream / pâwakan Palestine"
[ 18]
Lucia De Luca
“Congratulations"
Mac van den Hoeven
“Memory Justice"
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