The QWF Literary Awards

Images from the 2005 Gala
CBC's Anna Asimakopulos reads the juror's comments for the McAuslan First Book Prize
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
Fiction finalist Denise Roig and Poetry finalist Mark Abley
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
Community Award winner Guy Rodgers
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
Mary and Elin Soderstrom
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
Jazz-a-licious
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
McAuslan Prize co-winners Marci Denesiuk and Dimitri Nasrallah
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
Maisonneuve publisher and QWF board member Derek Webster
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
Peter McAuslan of McAuslan Brewing, sponsor of the First Book Prize
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
QWF Members enjoying the party
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra
QWF President Ian Ferrier
Photo © 2005, Monique Dykstra

2005 QWF Awards Competition

QWF LITERARY PRIZES AWARDED AT LION D'OR CEREMONY

On November 23, 2005, the Quebec Writers' Federation held its annual Awards Gala at the Lion d'Or in Montreal. This year's event was hosted by Tracey McKee, senior anchor of This Morning Live on Global Television.

Five literary prizes and a Community Award were presented.

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry
Sponsored in memory of Sydney Weisbord
Erín Moure
Little Theatres
House of Anansi Press
Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Neil Bissoondath
The Unyielding Clamour of the Night
Cormorant Books Inc.
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction
Sponsored by Champlain, Dawson, Heritage, John Abbott, and Vanier Colleges
Fred Bruemmer
Survival: A Refugee Life
Key Porter Books
McAuslan First Book Prize
Sponsored by McAuslan Brewing Inc.
Marci Denesiuk
The Far Away Home
NeWest Press
and
Dimitri Nasrallah
Blackbodying
DC Books / New Writers Series
Translation Prize
Sponsored by Pierre Lapointe
Fred A. Reed
Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition
Talonbooks
a translation of
Raconter et mourir
by Thierry Hentsch
Éditions du Boréal
Community Award
Guy Rodgers
Executive Director of the English-Language Arts Network (ELAN)