2010s Awards Gala

Award winners

Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation


Winner

The Pauper’s Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec (McGill-Queen's University Press) by  Peter Feldstein
Translation of
La liberté de pauvre (VLB éditeur) by  Jean-Marie Fecteau
Solomon Gursky (Éditions du Boréal) by  Lori Saint-Martin et Paul Gagné
Translation of
Solomon Gursky Was Here (Penguin Random House Canada) by  Mordecai Richler
T’es con, point (Stanké) by  Éric Fontaine
Translation of
You Comma Idiot (Goose Lane Editions) by  Doug Harris
Apocalypse for Beginners (Knopf Canada; Vintage Canada) by  Lazer Lederhendler
Translation of
Tarmac (Éditions Alto) by  Nicolas Dickner
The Major Verbs (Véhicule Press) by  Donald Winkler
Translation of
Les Verbes majeurs (Éditions du Noroît) by  Pierre Nepveu
Hôtel Lonely Hearts (Alto) by  Dominique Fortier
Translation of
The Lonely Hearts Hotel (HarperColins) by  Heather O`Neill
Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial (Éditions Sylvain Harvey) by  Paule Champoux
Translation of
Quebec, World Heritage City (Éditions Sylvain Harvey) by  David Mendel
Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide (McGill-Queen's University Press) by  Debbie Blythe
Translation of
La Turquie et le fantôme arménien: sur les traces du genocide (Actes Sud) by  Laure Marchand et Guillaume Perrier
The Faerie Devouring (Book*hug) by  Oana Avasilichioaei
Translation of
La dévoration des fées (Le Quartanier) by  Catherine Lalonde

The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry


Winner

The Certainty Dream (Coach House Books) by  Kate Hall
Asbestos Heights (Coach House Books) by  David McGimpsey
Obits. (Coach House Books) by  Tess Liem
M x T (Coach House Books) by  Sina Queyras
My Ariel (Coach House Books) by  Sina Queyras
The Civic-Mindedness of Trees (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) by  Ken Howe
We, Beasts (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) by  Oana Avasilichioaei
Small Fires (McGill-Queen's University Press) by  Kelly Norah Drukker

The Concordia University First Book Prize


Winner

Small Fires (McGill-Queen's University Press) by  Kelly Norah Drukker
Sweet Affliction (Invisible Publishing) by  Anna Leventhal
nîtisânak (Metonymy Press) by  Jas M. Morgan
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Zolitude (Biblioasis) by  Paige Cooper
The Barista and I (Insomniac Press: Serotonin/Wayside) by  Andrew Szymanski
Uncertain Weights book cover
Uncertain Weights and Measures (Goose Lane Editions) by  Jocelyn Parr
The Empire Within (Mc-Gill Queen's University Press) by  Sean Mills

The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature


Winner

Milo (Simon & Schuster) by  Alan Silberberg
Rough Magic (Second Story Press) by  Caryl Cude Mullin
26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6 (James Lorimer & Co. Ltd.) by  Catherine Austen
Hate Mail (Orca Book Publishers) by  Monique Polak
Subject to Change (Orca Book Publisher) by  Karen Nesbitt
Undercurrent (Doubleday Canada) by  Paul Blackwell

The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction


The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction


Winner

The Measure of Darkness (Bellevue Literary Press) by  Liam Durcan
Illustrado (Penguin Group (Canada)) by  Miguel Syjuco
Niko (Véhicule Press, Esplanade Books) by  Dimitri Nasrallah
Demi-Gods (Hamish Hamilton Canada) by  Eliza Robertson
Carnival (House of Anansi Press) by  Rawi Hage
The Lonely Hearts Hotel (HarperCollins Publishers Ltd) by  Heather O'Neill
Bone and Bread (House of Anansi Press) by  Saleema Nawaz
Us Conductors (Random House Canada) by  Sean Michaels
Boo (Knopf Canada) by  Neil Smith
The Teardown (Véhicule Press) by  David Homel

The QWF Playwriting Prize


Winner

Paradise Lost (Playwrights Canada Press) by  Erin Shields

Judy Mappin Community Award


Winner

Ilona Martonfi for her tireless work promoting writers through The Yellow Door and the Visual Arts Centre reading series.
Steve Luxton for his invaluable contributions as a teacher, mentor, editor, publisher, and writer
Louis Rastelli for his work championing underground publishing and dedicated service to Montreal's independent writing community
Endre Farkas for his work as a producer, editor, and publisher, and for the inclusiveness and power of his vision for Quebec literature
Elizabeth Macdonnell for her longstanding dedication to fostering a love of learning, literacy, and the English language during her work with the Montreal Children's Library
Philip Lanthier for his work with Matrix and the Knowlton Literary Association
Lynn Verge for her work with Atwater Library and Computer Centre
Rana Bose for the unflagging focus, determination, and modesty with which he built and maintained Serai and Montreal Serai
Maya Munro Byers for the invaluable care and advice she has given to book lovers and writers, and for her role in instilling a love of literature in throngs of children

The QWF College Writers Award


Winner

You, Icarus (published in The Antigonish Review) by  Emily Crompton
Artemsia Absinthum (published in Headlight Anthology, Concordia University) by  Nicola Sibthorpe
Head of Heaven (published in Footprints) by  François Provencher

carte blanche Prize


Winner

loss of (her)self (Issue 33) by  Alisha Dukelow
Ferrante In the Cellar: A Vulgar Appreciation (Issue 29) by  Domenica Martinello
Rabbits with Red Eyes (Issue 28) by  Lesley Trites
Self-Serve (Issue 24) by  Deborah Van Slet
“It’s Late, Doctor Schweitzer” by Didier Leclair (Issue 20) Translated by Elaine Kennedy and Sheryl Curtis
Bluefooted (Issue 19) by  Juliet Waters
Aria (Issue 15) by  Heather Davis
Like This Together (Issue 13) by  Gillian Sze
Something Important and Delicate (Issue 11) by  Mark Paterson
The Aquanauts (Issue 35) by  Eliza Robertson

QWC Reader's Choice Prize


Winner

The Drought of Eighty-Seven by  Louisa Sage
The Revolution by  Brandon Silver
Breath by  Josée Lafrenière

Quebec Writing Competition prizes


Winner

Taqralik Partridge
Someone Has to Save Us From This by  Kasper Hartman
Kasia Juno van Schaik
Ride by  Harold Hoefle
Agnosis by  Steven Manners
The Glass Man by  Allegra McKenzie