Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
then known as The Translation Prizeshortlisted
Translation of
Translation of
Jury
Benoît Léger
Anne Malena
Paul Savoie
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner
shortlisted
Jury
Bert Almon
Lance Blomgren
Judith Scherer Herz
The Concordia University First Book Prize
then known as McAuslan First Book PrizeWinner

shortlisted
Jury
Margaret Slayman Dyment
Harold Heft
Padma Viswanathan
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored by Babar BooksWinner

shortlisted
Jury
Anne Chudobiak
Carey Fagan
Jeanne Ragbir
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner

shortlisted
Jury
Patrick Lejtenyi
Alisa Smith
Dorothy Williams
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner

shortlisted
Jury
Joe Fiorito
Arden Ford
Lee Henderson
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
Gala gallery
Photo credit: Studio Iris

The musical precursor: Julia Kater and her Bon Temps Boys onstage at Le Lion d'Or.

2008 Gala Host Joel Yanofsky with QWF President Marianne Ackerman and QWF board member Sherwin Tjia

2008 Non-fiction juror Dorothy Williams

Rawi Hage accepts the 2008 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.

Neil Smith, Saleema Nawaz, Bob Kotyk, Katia Grubisic, J. R. Carpenter, and Jeffrey Moore.

Founding president of the QWF and current president of ELAN, Guy Rodgers