The 17th QWF Awards Gala took place on Wednesday, November 18 at the Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre in Montreal. The gala was hosted by author Adam Leith Gollner and the first annual CBC/QWF Writer-in-Residence was named.
Thank you to everyone who attended! We hope you had a wonderful time.
Award winners
Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation
Winner
Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the Genocide
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
Translation of
La Turquie et le fantôme arménien: sur les traces du genocide
(Actes Sud)
shortlisted
As Always
(Talonbooks)
Translation of
Depuis Toujours
(Les Éditions du Boréal)
Mãn
(Penguin Random House Canada)
Translation of
Mãn
(Libre Expression)
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sponsored by Richard Pound, in memory of his brother RobertWinner
Asbestos Heights
(Coach House Books)
shortlisted
Hyena Subpoena
(Wired on Words/Popolo Press)
Kapusta
(House of Anansi Press)
Jury
Darren Bifford
Christian Bok
Sonnet L’Abbé
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Winner
Swing in the House and Other Stories
(Véhicule Press)
shortlisted
Giving Up
(BookThug)
The View North from Liberal Cemetery
(Wapiti Press)
Jury
Jane Eaton Hamilton
Ross Leckie
Lesley Trites
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner
Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
(Princeton University Press)
shortlisted
The Permanent Nature of Everything: A Memoir
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
Boundless
(House of Anansi Press)
Jury
Joan McGilvray
Bruce Symaka
Peter McFarlane
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
Boo
(Knopf Canada)
shortlisted
Daydreams of Angels
(HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.)
No Safeguards
(Guernica Editions Inc.)
Jury
Amy Jones
Louis Rastelli
Paul Seesequasis
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
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
carte blanche Prize
Winner
Self-Serve
(Issue 24)
shortlisted
2nd place
Old Shit I Still Feel Guilty About
(Issue 23)
3rd place
Holy Treasures
(Issue 23)
Jury
Kathleen Winter
