Award winners
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner
Bavarian Shrine and Other Poems
(ECW Press)
Reasons for Winter
(Brick Books)
WSW (West South West)
(Véhicule)
Cold Rubber Feet
(Cormorant)
Configurations at Midnight
(ECW Press)
The Woman Downstairs
(Brick Books)
Flowers in Magnetic Fields
(Guernica)
Glass, Irony and God
(New Direction)
The Floating Garden
(Coach House)
Visions Fugitive
(Véhicule Press)
Autobiography of Red
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Facts
(Véhicule Press)
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Winner
Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam
(McGill Queen’s University Press)
Picking Up Pearls
(Robert Davies Publishing)
Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches From the Information Revolution
(Véhicule Press)
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
(McClelland & Stewart)
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner
Flight from Famine
(McClelland & Stewart)
In the Company of Strangers
(Talonbooks)
Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao’s China
(Véhicule)
In Search of Paradise
(McGill Queen’s University Press)
The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast
(HarperCollins)
A Blue Boy in a Black Dress
(Oberon)
City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 40s and 50s
(McClelland & Stewart)
Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
(Oolichan Books)
Putting Down Roots: Montreal’s Immigrant Writers
(Véhicule Press)
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Winner
Solomon Gursky Was Here
(Viking)
A Private Performance
(Véhicule)
A Night at the Opera
(Porcupine’s Quill)
Missing Fred Astaire
(Véhicule)
Evil Eye
(Véhicule)
The Timekeeper
(HarperCollins)
Friends & Marriages
(Véhicule)
Butterfly Lovers
(HarperCollins)
Barney’s Version
(Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
(McClelland & Stewart)
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for his work promoting local authors as Books editor of the Montreal Gazette
for her role in founding QSPELL and its prizes, her tireless work as a bookseller who promoted local authors, and her visionary role in the creation of a genuine Canadian literature in both the French and English languages
for the commitment and professionalism she displayed in her work for the Electronic Rights Defence Committee
for their work at Véhicule Press
for her work promoting literature and writers at CBC Radio