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
- QWF 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"
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