The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation is awarded in even-numbered years to the French translator of a book by an English Quebec author and in odd-numbered years to the English Quebec translator of a book by a French author.
2024 call for submissions
Sponsored by the Cole Foundation
Submissions to the 2024 QWF Awards are now open until June 3, 2024 for the seven book prizes and until July 2, 2024 for the Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize. New this year, all submissions are to be completed via Submittable. Read the call for applications to see eligibility criteria and proceed with your submission.
Read call for submissions2023
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
To See Out the Night
(QC Fiction/Baraka Books)
Translation of
Dormir sans tête
(Éditions Héliotrope)
shortlisted
This is How I Disappear
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Translation of
C’est comme ça que je disparais
(Éditions Pow Pow)
Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism
(Coach House Books)
Translation of
Maquillée
(Éditions Marchand de feuilles)
Rosa’s Very Own Personal Revolution
(QC Fiction/Baraka Books)
Translation of
La Logeuse
(Éditions Marchand de feuilles)
2022
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
Plus aucun enfant autochtone arraché
(Lux Éditeur)
Translation of
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
shortlisted
Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales
(Mémoire d’encrier)
Translation of
The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate
(Mémoire d’encrier)
Fils d’un tout petit héros
(Éditions Boréal)
Translation of
Son of a Smaller Hero
(Penguin Random House Canada)
Jury
Asselin Charles
Marc Charron
Sufia Duez
2021
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
I Am a Damn Savage; What Have You Done to My Country?
(Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Translation of
Je suis une Maudite sauvagesse; Qu’as-tu fait de mon pays?
(Mémoire d’Encrier)
shortlisted
Em
(Random House Canada)
Translation of
Em
(Groupe Librex)
Orwell in Cuba: How 1984 Came to Be Published in Castro’s Twilight
(Talonbooks)
Translation of
Avant l’Après
(La Peuplade Récit)
Jury
David Bradford
Janice Flavien
David Warriner
2020
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
shortlisted
NoirEs sous surveillance. Esclavage, répression et violence d’État au Canada
(Mémoire d'encrier)
Translation of
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
(Fernwood Publishing)
Jury
Charles Bender
Samuel Mercier
Chantal Ringuet
2019
Sponsored by the Cole FoundationWinner
shortlisted
This Woman’s Work
(Drawn & Quarterly)
Translation of
Moi aussi je voulais l'emporter
(Editions Pow Pow)
Jury
Bronwyn Averett
Simon Brown
Sonya Malaborza
2018
Winner
shortlisted
Vague d’effroi
(Linda Leith Editions)
Translation of
The Dead of Winter
(Linda Leith Publishing)
Petits feux
(Le lézard amoureux)
Translation of
Small Fires
(McGill-Queens University Press)
Un Outrage Mortel
(Flammarion Québec)
Translation of
A Great Reckoning
(Minotaur Books)
Jury
Rémy Charest (Québec)
Louise Ladouceur (Galiano Island)
Elisabeth Tutschek (Montreal)
2017
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
2016
Winner
Solomon Gursky
(Éditions du Boréal)
Translation of
Solomon Gursky Was Here
(Penguin Random House Canada)
shortlisted
Petits Théâtres
(Les Éditions du Noroît)
Translation of
Little Theatres
(House of Anansi)
Joshua
(Éditions du Boréal)
Translation of
Joshua Then and Now
(McClelland & Stewart)
Jury
Jean Charbonneau
Louis Patrick Leroux
Stéphanie Roesler
2015
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)
2013
Winner
shortlisted
Judith’s Sister
(Talon Books)
Translation of
La Soeur de Judith
(Les Éditions du Boréal)
Mai at the Predators’ Ball
(House of Anansi Press)
Translation of
Mai au bal des prédateurs
(Les Éditions du Boréal)
