The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec.
They are currently presented in seven literary categories:
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction,Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionA. M. Klein Prize for PoetryConcordia University First Book PrizeQWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult LiteratureCole Foundation Prize for Translation (French and English, with target language alternating each year)3Macs Carte Blanche Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal Carte Blanche.A Community Award is also frequently presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community.
The awards have been presented annually since 1988.
Fiction: Hugh Hood, The Motor Boys in OttawaNon-fiction: Witold Rybczynski, Home: A Short History of an IdeaPoetry: David Solway, Modern MarriageFiction: Kenneth Radu, Distant RelationsNon-fiction: Witold Rybczynski, The Most Beautiful House in the WorldPoetry: D. G. Jones, Balthazar and Other PoemsFiction: Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was HereNon-fiction: David Solway, Education Lost: Reflections on Contemporary Pedogogical PracticePoetry: Erin Mouré, WSW (West South West) and Bruce Taylor, Cold Rubber FeetFiction: Kenneth Radu, A Private PerformanceNon-fiction: Donald MacKay, Flight from FaminePoetry: Eric Ormsby, Bavarian Shrine and Other PoemsFiction: Ray Smith, A Night at the OperaNon-fiction: Mary Meigs, In the Company of StrangersPoetry: Naomi Guttman, Reasons for WinterFiction: P. Scott Lawrence, Missing Fred AstaireNon-fiction: Zhimei Zhang, Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao's ChinaPoetry: Ralph Gustafson, Configurations at MidnightFiction: Ann Diamond, Evil EyeNon-fiction: Laura S. Groening, E.K. Brown: A Study in ConflictPoetry: Julie Bruck, The Woman Downstairs and Raymond Filip, Flowers in Magnetic FieldsFiction: George Szanto, Friends & MarriagesNon-fiction: Charles Foran, The Last House of Ulster: A Family in BelfastPoetry: D. G. Jones, The Floating GardenCommunity: Judith MappinFiction: Trevor Ferguson, The Time KeeperNon-fiction: T. F. Rigelhof, A Blue Boy in a Black Dress: A MemoirPoetry: Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and GodFirst Book: Blema Steinberg, Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on VietnamCommunity: Bryan DemchinskyFiction: Charles Foran, Butterfly LoversNon-fiction: William Weintraub, City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 40s and 50sPoetry: Ralph Gustafson, Visions FugitiveFirst Book: Irene Burstyn, Picking Up PearlsCommunity: Shelley PomeranceFiction: Mordecai Richler, Barney's VersionNon-fiction: David Manicom, Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old EmpirePoetry: Anne Carson, Autobiography of RedFirst Book: Matthew Friedman, Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information RevolutionTranslation: Hélène Rioux, Self (Yann Martel)Community: Simon Dardick and Nancy MarrelliFiction: Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?Non-fiction: Elaine Kalman Naves, Putting Down RootsPoetry: Bruce Taylor, FactsFirst Book: Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye-Bye, Baby?Translation: Sheila Fischman, These Festive Nights (Marie-Claire Blais)Community: Mireille GouletFiction: Julie Keith, The Devil Out ThereNon-fiction: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through QuebecPoetry: Rachel Rose, Giving My Body to ScienceFirst Book: Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through QuebecTranslation: Claire Dé, Montréal barbare (Robert Majzels)Community: Patricia PleszcynskaFiction: Yann Martel, Life of PiNon-fiction: Jack Todd, A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's StoryPoetry: Anne Carson, The Beauty of the HusbandFirst Book: Jack Todd, A Taste of Metal: A Deserter's StoryTranslation: Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701: French-Native Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century (Gilles Havard)Community: Germain LefebvreFiction: Neil Bissoondath, Doing the Heart GoodNon-fiction: Henry T. Aubin, The Rescue of JerusalemPoetry: Norm Sibum, Girls and Handsome DogsFirst Book: Nalini Warriar, Blues from the Malabar CoastTranslation: Pan Bouyoucas, Dans l'ombre de Maggie (Sheila Arnopoulos)Community: Linda ShohetFiction: David Homel, The Speaking CureNon-fiction: Elaine Kalman Naves, Shoshanna's StoryPoetry: Susan Gillis, VoltaFirst Book: Neale McDevitt, One Day Even Trevi Will CrumbleTranslation: Fred A. Reed and David Homel, The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle (Monique Proulx)Community: Linda LeithFiction: Edeet Ravel, Look for MeNon-fiction: Joel Yanofsky, Mordecai and Me: An Appreciation of a KindPoetry: Carmine Starnino, With English SubtitlesFirst Book: Jaspreet Singh, Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from KashmirTranslation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Un baume pour le cœur (Neil Bissoondath)Community: Margaret Goldik and Ian McGillisFiction: Neil Bissoondath, The Unyielding Clamour of the NightNon-fiction: Fred Bruemmer, Survival: A Refugee LifePoetry: Erin Mouré, Little TheatresFirst Book: Marci Denesiuk, The Far Away Home and Dimitri Nasrallah, BlackbodyingTranslation: Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (Thierry Hentsch)Community: Guy RodgersFiction: Rawi Hage, De Niro's GameNon-fiction: Sherry Simon, Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided CityPoetry: Susan Elmslie, I, Nadja and Other PoemsFirst Book: Rawi Hage, De Niro's GameTranslation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, La Clameur des ténèbres (Neil Bissoondath)Community: Julie KeithFiction: Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little CriminalsNon-fiction: Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau, The Story of FrenchPoetry: David Solway, Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys SavarinFirst Book: Neil Smith, Bang CrunchTranslation: Lazer Lederhendler, The Immaculate Conception (Gaétan Soucy)Community: André VanasseFiction: Rawi Hage, CockroachNon-fiction: Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing SeafoodPoetry: Peter Richardson, Sympathy for the CouriersFirst Book: Adam Leith Gollner, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and ObsessionTranslation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Big Bang (Neil Smith)Children's Literature: Raquel Rivera, Orphan AhwakCommunity: Mary SoderstromCarte Blanche Prize: J. R. Carpenter, "Wyoming is Haunted"Fiction: Colin McAdam, FallNon-fiction: Eric Siblin, The Cello SuitesPoetry: Carmine Starnino, This Way OutFirst Book: Eric Siblin, The Cello SuitesTranslation: Lazer Lederhendler, Nikolski (Nicolas Dickner)Children's and Young Adult Literature: Monique Polak, What World is LeftCommunity: Luci and Adrian King-EdwardsCarte Blanche Prize: Julie Mahfood, Changing Winter TiresFiction: Miguel Syjuco, IllustradoNon-fiction: Cleo Paskal, Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World MapPoetry: Kate Hall, The Certainty DreamFirst Book: Sean Mills, The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties MontrealTranslation: Paule Champoux, Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial (David Mendel, Quebec, World Heritage City)Children's and Young Adult Literature: Caryl Cude Mullin, Rough MagicCommunity: Ilona MartonfiCarte Blanche Prize: Mark Paterson, Something Important and DelicateFiction: Dimitri Nasrallah, NikoNon-fiction: Joel Yanofsky, Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in AutismPoetry: Gabe Foreman, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of PeopleFirst Book: Ann Scowcroft, The Truth of HousesTranslation: Lazer Lederhendler, Apocalypse for Beginners (Nicolas Dickner, Tarmac)Children's and Young Adult Literature: Alan Silberberg, MiloCommunity: Endre FarkasCarte Blanche Prize: Gillian Sze, Like This TogetherFiction: Rawi Hage, CarnivalNon-fiction: Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the AutomobilePoetry: Oana Avasilichioaei, We, BeastsFirst Book: Alice Petersen, All The Voices CryTranslation: Éric Fontaine, T'es con, point (Doug Harris, YOU Comma Idiot)Children's and Young Adult Literature: Catherine Austen, 26 Tips for Surviving Grade 6Community: Steve LuxtonCarte Blanche Prize: Heather Davis, AriaFiction: Saleema Nawaz, Bone and BreadNon-fiction: Adam Leith Gollner, The Book of ImmortalityPoetry: Ken Howe, The Civic-Mindedness of TreesFirst Book: Andrew Szymanski, The Barista and ITranslation: Donald Winkler, The Major VerbsChildren's and Young Adult Literature: Paul Blackwell, UndercurrentCarte Blanche Prize: Juliet Waters, BluefootedFiction: Sean Michaels, Us ConductorsNon-fiction: Chantal Hébert, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost WasPoetry: Sina Queyras, MxTFirst Book: Anna Leventhal, Sweet AfflictionChildren's and Young Adult Literature: Monique Polak, Hate MailCarte Blanche Prize: Elaine Kennedy and Sheryl Curtis, It’s Late, Doctor Schweitzer (Didier Leclair)Fiction: Neil Smith, BooNon-fiction: Carlos Fraenkel, Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided WorldPoetry: David McGimpsey, Asbestos HeightsFirst Book: Anita Anand, Swing in the House and Other StoriesTranslation: Debbie Blythe, Turkey and the Armenian Ghost: On the Trail of the GenocideCarte Blanche Prize: Deborah Van Slet, Self-ServeFiction: Liam Durcan, The Measure of DarknessNon-fiction: Daniel J. Levitin, A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information AgePoetry: Kelly Norah Drukker, Small FiresFirst Book: Kelly Norah Drukker, Small FiresTranslation: Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)Children's Literature: Bonnie Farmer, Oscar Lives Next DoorCarte Blanche Prize: Lesley Trites, Rabbits with Red Eyes