On November 21, 2017, the Quebec Writers’ Federation held its annual Awards Gala at the Lion d’Or in Montreal. The event was hosted by CBC’s Nantali Indongo.
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)
Translation of
La liberté de pauvre
(VLB éditeur)
shortlisted
Rooms
(Guernica Éditions)
Translation of
Chambres
(Les Éditions du remue-menage)
Sun of a Distant Land
(Véhicule Press)
Translation of
Soleil
(Les Éditions la Peuplade)
A Tea in the Tundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
(Bookland Press)
Translation of
Un the dans la toundra: Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
(Mémoire d'encrier)
Jury
Renée Desjardins
Jeffrey Moore
Greg Robinson
The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Winner
Rag Cosmology
(BookThug)
shortlisted
Feel Happier in Nine Seconds
(Coach House Books)
The Panic Room
(Nightwood Editions)
Jury
Geoffrey Cook
George Murray
Jennifer Still
The Concordia University First Book Prize
Sponsored by Concordia UniversityWinner
Uncertain Weights and Measures
(Goose Lane Editions)
shortlisted
Arabic for Beginners
(Linda Leith Publishing)
The Golem of Hampstead and Other Stories
(Penny-a-Page Press)
Jury
Marilyn Bowering
Adrian Harewood
Alexia Moyer
The Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature
Sponsored by Janet and John BlachfordWinner
Subject to Change
(Orca Book Publisher)
shortlisted
Chico
(Paper Dog Press)
Lightning Lou
(DCB)
Jury
Catherine Austen
Lisa Doucet
Raziel Reid
The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner
shortlisted
Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867 – 1917
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914 – 1948
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jury
Chris Frey
Rod MacLeod
Rebecca Margolis
The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe BookstoreWinner
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
(HarperCollins Publishers Ltd)
shortlisted
Behold Things Beautiful
(Signature Editions)
Lost In September
(Penguin Random House Canada)
Jury
Peggy Herring
La Florya Gauthier
Vish Khanna
Judy Mappin Community Award
Winner
for his work with Matrix and the Knowlton Literary Association
The QWF College Writers Award
then known as The QWF Prize for Young WritersWinner
Artemsia Absinthum
(published in Headlight Anthology, Concordia University)
Jury
Sarah Burgoyne
Heather Jessup
Garry Thomas Morse
carte blanche Prize
Winner
shortlisted
2nd place
The House On Carbonate
(Issue 30)
3rd place
Self-Trolling
(Issue 29)
Jury
Liz Howard
Gala gallery
Photo credit: John Fredericks
Nantali Indongo
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Sarah Burgoyne
3 / 7
Dimitri Nasrallah
4 / 7
Heather O'Neill
5 / 7
Josh Levy announced as the CBC/QWF Writer in Residence for 2018
6 / 7
Nicola Sibthorpe
7 / 7
