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.

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)

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

Fiction: Liam Durcan, The Measure of Darkness
Non-fiction: Daniel J. Levitin, A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Poetry: Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires
First Book: Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires
Translation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)
Children's Literature: Bonnie Farmer, Oscar Lives Next Door
Carte Blanche Prize: Lesley Trites, Rabbits with Red Eyes

External links

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