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. 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 by year

1988

1989

1990

1991

  • Fiction: Kenneth Radu, A Private Performance
  • Non-fiction: Donald MacKay, Flight from Famine
  • Poetry: Eric Ormsby, Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems

1992

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

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

1999

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

2004

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

2007

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

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

2015

  • Fiction: Neil Smith, Boo
  • Non-fiction: Carlos Fraenkel, Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
  • Poetry: David McGimpsey, Asbestos Heights
  • First Book: Anita Anand, Swing in the House and Other Stories
  • Translation: Debbie Blythe, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide
  • Carte Blanche Prize: Deborah Van Slet, Self-Serve

2016

2017

  • Fiction: Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel
  • Non-fiction: Sandra Perron, Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada's First Female Infantry Officer
  • Poetry: Erin Robinsong, Rag Cosmology
  • First Book: Jocelyn Parr, Uncertain Weights and Measures
  • Translation: Peter Feldstein, The Pauper's Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec (Jean-Marie Fecteau, La liberté pauvre)
  • Children's Literature: Karen Nesbitt, Subject to Change
  • Carte Blanche Prize: Domenico Martinello, Ferrante in the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation
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