Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
then known as The Translation PrizeWinner
shortlisted
Les artistes de la mémoire
(XYZ éditeur)
Translation of
The Memory Artists
(Penguin Group (Canada))
Parfum de poussière
(Alto)
Translation of
De Niro’s Game
(House of Anansi Press)
Jury
Benoît Léger
Anne Malena
Paul Savoie
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner
Sympathy for the Couriers
(Véhicule Press)
shortlisted
Radius of Light
(DC Books)
What if red ran out
(Goose Lane Editions)
Jury
Bert Almon
Lance Blomgren
Judith Scherer Herz
The Concordia University First Book Prize
then known as McAuslan First Book PrizeWinner
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
(Doubleday Canada)
shortlisted
Seven Openings of the Head
(Conundrum Books)
Mother Superior
(Freehand Books (imprint of Broadview Press))
Jury
Margaret Slayman Dyment
Harold Heft
Padma Viswanathan
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored by Babar BooksWinner
Orphan Ahwak
(Orca Book Publishers)
shortlisted
Pier 21: Stories from Near and Far
(Lobster Press)
Tuk and the Whale
(Groundwood Books)
Jury
Anne Chudobiak
Carey Fagan
Jeanne Ragbir
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
(HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)
shortlisted
The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession
(Doubleday Canada)
No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers
(Twinski Publications)
Jury
Patrick Lejtenyi
Alisa Smith
Dorothy Williams
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
Cockroach
(House of Anansi Press)
shortlisted
Pardon Our Monsters
(Véhicule Press)
Chef
(Véhicule Press)
Jury
Joe Fiorito
Arden Ford
Lee Henderson
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for her indefatigable service to the writing community as an organizer, writer, and advocate
Gala gallery
Photo credit: Studio Iris
The musical precursor: Julia Kater and her Bon Temps Boys onstage at Le Lion d'Or.
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2008 Gala Host Joel Yanofsky with QWF President Marianne Ackerman and QWF board member Sherwin Tjia
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2008 Non-fiction juror Dorothy Williams
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Rawi Hage accepts the 2008 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
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Neil Smith, Saleema Nawaz, Bob Kotyk, Katia Grubisic, J. R. Carpenter, and Jeffrey Moore.
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Founding president of the QWF and current president of ELAN, Guy Rodgers
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