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The Quebec Writers' Federation (QWF) holds an annual juried competition for published books by Quebec authors in six categories:
- Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
- Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
- A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
- McAuslan First Book Prize
- QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
- QWF Translation Prize (French and English, with target language alternating each
2010 QWF Award Winners
Prix de Traduction Fondation Cole ($2000) Translated to French from English
Sponsored by The Cole Foundation
Paule Champoux , Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial
Éditions Sylvain Harvey translation of
Quebec, World Heritage City by David Mendel, Éditions Sylvain Harvey
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction ($2000)
Sponsored by Champlain, Dawson, Heritage, John Abbott, and Vanier Colleges
Cleo Paskal , Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map Key Porter Books
QWF First Book Prize ($2000)
Sean Mills , The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal
McGill-Queen's University Press
A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry ($2000)
Sponsored by Jacques Nolin
Kate Hall The Certainty Dream
Coach House Books
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2000)
Sponsored by Paragraphe Bookstore
Miguel Syjuco, Illustrado
Penguin Group (Canada)
QWF Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature ($2000)
Caryl Cude Mullin , Rough Magic, Second Story Press
Community Award
Ilona Martonfi, 3 Macs carte blanche Prize ($300)
Sponsored by Mark Gallop, of MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier Inc.
Mark Paterson
"Something Important and Delicate"
Quebec Writing Competition Prize ($1000)
Taqralik Partridge - First Prize Michelle Ann Jenkins - Second Prize Joshua Levy - Second Prize
2010 QWF AWARDS SHORTLIST
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2000)
Sponsored by Paragraphe Bookstore
Doug Harris
YOU Comma Idiot
Goose Lane Editions
Jeffrey Moore
The Extinction Club
Penguin Group (Canada)
Miguel Syjuco
Ilustrado
Penguin Group (Canada)
Larissa Andrusyshyn
Mammoth
DC Books
Doug Harris
YOU Comma Idiot
Goose Lane Editions
Sean Mills
The Empire Within
McGill-Queen’s University Press
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry ($2000)
Sponsored by Jacques Nolin
Kate Hall
The Certainty Dream
Coach House Books
Michael Harris
Circus
Véhicule Press / A Signal Edition
Erín Moure
O Resplandor
House of Anansi Press
Sponsored by Champlain, Dawson, Heritage, John Abbott, and Vanier Colleges
Avi Friedman
A Place in Mind: The Search for Authenticity
Véhicule Press
Frank Mackey
Done with Slavery
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Cleo Paskal
Global Warring
Key Porter Books
Paule Champoux
Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial
Éditions Sylvain Harvey
a translation of
Quebec, World Heritage City
by David Mendel
Éditions Sylvain Harvey
Hélène Rioux
Notre Mer Nourricière
VLB Éditeur
a translation of
Bottomfeeder
by Taras Grescoe
Harper Perennial
Michelle Tisseyre
Sans limites : la vie exceptionelle des jumelles Rhona et Rhoda Wurtele, olympiennes et pionnières du ski au Canada
La Société d’Histoire et de Généalogie des Pays d’en Haut
a translation of
No Limits : The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele – Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers
by Byron Rempel
Twinski Publications
Catherine Austen
Walking Backward
Orca Book Publishers
Caryl Cude Mullin
Rough Magic
Second Story Press
Monique Polak
The Middle of Everywhere
Orca Book Publishers
Winners 2009 QWF Literary Awards
The same day he was passed over for a Governor General's award, Eric Siblin (right) won two Quebec Writers' Federation prizes for his non-fiction Bach book, The Cello Suites.He won the McAuslan First Book Prize and the Mavis Ga
llant Prize for non-fiction, and the jury said The Cello Suites was "an almost pitch-perfect story of the making of one of the great pieces of music in Western civilization." Each QWF Literary Award is worth $2,000.
In his book, Siblin intersects the life of Johann Sebastian Bach with the story of 20th century cellist Pablo Casals and his love of Bach's Cello Suites. Siblin's own quest to discover the music, and perhaps even the missing manuscript for the original composition, is woven into those narratives.
Siblin's book was also nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award, but the non-fiction prize went to Toronto novelist M.G. Vassanji for A Place Within: Rediscovering India.
Other QWF Literary Award winners:
- Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction: Colin McAdam, Fall.
- A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry: Carmine Starnino,This Way Out.
- Translation Prize, French to English: Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski.
- Children's and Young Adult Literature: Monique Polak, What World Is Left.
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2000)
2009 Jurors: Noah Richler, Struan Sinclair, Aparna Sanyal
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2000)
2009 Jurors: Noah Richler, Struan Sinclair, Aparna Sanyal
Jon Paul Fiorentino, Stripmalling, ECW Press
Harold Hoefle, The Mountain Clinic, Oberon Press
Colin McAdam, Fall , Hamish Hamilton Canada (Penguin Group Canada) - Winner
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction ($2000)
2009 Jurors: David Leahy, Susan Olding, Makeda Silvera
Yves Engler, The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy, Fernwood Publishing
Patrick McDonagh, Idiocy: A Cultural History, Liverpool University Press
Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites, House of Anansi Press
A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry ($2000)
2009 Jurors: Jeramy Dodds, Yedda Morrison, Fraser Sutherland
Norm Sibum, The Pangborn Defence, Biblioasis
Mike Spry, Jack, Snare Books
Carmine Starnino, This Way Out, Gaspereau Press
McAuslan First Book Prize ($2,000)
2009 Jurors: Wayne Johnston, Stan Persky, Fred Wah
Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites, House of Anansi Press
Gillian Sze, Fish Bones, DC Books
Alice Zorn, Ruins and Relics, NeWest Press
QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
2009 Jurors: Lis Clemens, Robert Heidbreder, Itah Sadu
Jane Barclay, Proud as a Peacock, Brave as a Lion, Tundra Books
Marie-Louise Gay, When Stella Was Very, Very Small, Groundwood Books
Monique Polak, What World is Left, Orca Book Publishers
Translation Prize ($2000), sponsored by Pierre Lapointe
2009 Jurors: Debbie Blythe, Katia Grubisic, Jo-Anne Elder
Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Fences in Breathing Coach House Books
a translation of La Capture du sombre by Nicole Brossard
Leméac Éditeur , David Homel and Fred A. Reed , Wildlives, Douglas & McIntyre
a translation of Champagne by Monique Proulx, Les Éditions du Boréal
Lazer Lederhendler , Nikolski, Knopf Canada , a translation of
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, Éditions Alto
- Peter Richardson, Sympathy for the Couriers (Véhicule Press)- more
2008 Quebec Writers' Federation Literary AwardWinners
Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Rawi Hage, Cockroach (House of Anansi Press)- more
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Taras Grescoe (left), Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (HarperCollins Canada)-more
A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
McAuslan First Book Prize
Adam Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Doubleday Canada)- more
QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
Raquel Rivera, Orphan Ahwak (Orca Book Publishers)- more
QWF Translation Prize (French and English, with target language alternating each
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Big Bang (Les Allusifs), a translation of Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch (Knopf Canada)- more
Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards 2008 shortlisted titles
A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry ($2,000):
- Joshua Auerbach, Radius of Light (DC Books)
- Katia Grubisic, What if Red Ran Out (Goose Lane Editions)
- Peter Richardson, Sympathy for the Couriers (Véhicule Press) - Winner
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction ($2,000):
- Adam Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Doubleday Canada)
- Taras Grescoe (left), Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (HarperCollins Canada)- Winner
- Byron Rempel, No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers (Twinski Publications)
McAuslan First Book Prize ($2,000):- Adam Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Doubleday Canada)- Winner
- Liane Keightley, Seven Openings of the Head (Conundrum Press)
- Saleema Nawaz, Mother Superior (Freehand Books)
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2,000):
- Rawi Hage, Cockroach (House of Anansi Press)- Winner
- Andrew Hood, Pardon Our Monsters (Véhicule Press)
- Jaspreet Singh (right), Chef (Véhicule Press)
Translation Prize, English to French ($2,000):
- Hélène Rioux (left), Les artistes de la mémoire (XXY éditeur), a translation of Jeffrey Moore’s The Memory Artists (Penguin Canada)
- Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Big Bang (Les Allusifs), a translation of Neil Smith’s Bang Crunch (Knopf Canada)- Winner
- Sophie Voillot, Parfum de poussière (Alto), a translation of Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game (House of Anansi Press)
QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature ($2,000):
- Anne Renaud, Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far (Lobster Press)
- Raquel Rivera, Orphan Ahwak (Orca Book Publishers)
- Raquel Rivera, Tuk and the Whale (Groundwood Books)
The QWF will present another new award this year, the Carte Blanche Prize (worth $250), to the year's best submission to the QWF’s online literary magazine, carte blanche, as determined by the publication’s editorial board.
Translation Prize ($2000)- Sponsored by Pierre Lapointe
Lazer Lederhendler, The Immaculate Conception, House of Anansi Press
a translation of L'Immaculée conception BY de Gaétan Soucy, Les Éditions du Boréal
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction ($2000) Sponsored by Champlain, Dawson, Heritage, John Abbott, and Vanier Colleges
Julie Barlow & Jean-Benoît Nadeau, The Story of French, Knopf Canada
McAuslan First Book Prize ($2,000), Sponsored by McAuslan Brewing Inc
Neil Smith, Bang Crunch, Knopf Canada
A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry ($2000), Sponsored in memory of Sydney Weisbord
David Solway, Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin, Véhiclue Press
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction ($2000) Sponsored by Paragraphe Bookstore
Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals, HarperCollins Publishers
Community Award
André Vanasse
