Quebec Writers' Federation Awards

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
• 3Macs Carte Blanche Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal Carte Blanche.

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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Children's and Young Adult Literature: Alan Silberberg,
• 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
• 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

  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,
• Poetry: Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires
• First Book: Kelly Norah Drukker, Small Fires
• Translation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky
• Children's Literature: Bonnie Farmer, Oscar Lives Next Door
• Carte Blanche Prize: Lesley Trites, Rabbits with Red Eyes

  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
• Children's Literature: Karen Nesbitt, Subject to Change
• Carte Blanche Prize: Domenico Martinello, Ferrante in the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation

  2018

• Fiction: Eliza Robertson, Demi-Gods
• Non-fiction: Judi Rever, In Praise of Blood
• Poetry: Sina Queyras, My Ariel
• First Book: Paige Cooper, Zolitude
• Translation: Dominique Fortier, Hotel Lonely Hearts
• Children's Literature: Anne Renaud, Mr Crum's Potato Predicament
• Carte Blanche Prize:
• Playwriting: Erin Shields, Paradise Lost

  2019

• First Book: Lindsay Nixon, nîtisânak
• Children's Literature: Raquel Rivera, Yipee's Gold Mountain
• Carte Blanche Prize: Eliza Robertson, Aquanauts
• Translation: Oana Avasilichioaei, The Faerie Devouring
• Poetry: Tess Liem, Obits
• Fiction: David Homel, The Teardown
• Non-Fiction: Susan Doherty, The Ghost Garden''