The Quebec Writers’ Federation has announced the shortlists for the 2010 QWF Literary Awards. Each of the six awards comes with a $2,000 prize, and the winners will be named at a gala ceremony on Nov. 23. The nominees are:

Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction:

• Doug Harris, YOU Comma Idiot (Goose Lane Editions)
• Jeffrey Moore, The Extinction Club (Hamish Hamilton Canada)
• Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado (Hamish Hamilton Canada)

Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction:

• Avi Friedman, A Place in Mind: The Search for Authenticity (Véhicule Press)
• Frank Mackey, Done with Slavery (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• Cleo Paskal, Global Warring (Key Porter Books)

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry:

• Kate Hall, The Certainty Dream (Coach House Books)
• Michael Harris, Circus (Véhicule Press)
• Erín Moure, O Resplandor (House of Anansi Press)

QWF First Book Prize:

• Larissa Andrusyshyn, Mammoth (DC Books)
• Doug Harris, YOU Comma Idiot (Goose Lane Editions)
• Sean Mills, The Empire Within (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

Cole Foundation Prize for Translation:

• Paule Champoux, Québec, ville du patrimoine mondial (Éditions Sylvain Harvey), a translation of David Mendel’s Quebec, World Heritage City (also Éditions Sylvain Harvey)
• Hélène Rioux, Notre mer nourricière (VLB Éditeur), a translation of Taras Grescoe’s Bottomfeeder (HarperCollins Canada)
• Michelle Tisseyre, Sans limites: la vie exceptionelle des jumelles Rhona et Rhoda Wurtele, olympiennes et pionnières du ski au Canada (La Société d’Histoire et de Généalogie des Pays d’en Haut), a translation of Byron Rempel’s No Limits : The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele “ Canada’s Olympian Skiing Pioneers (Twinski Publications)

QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature:

• Catherine Austen, Walking Backward (Orca Book Publishers)
• Caryl Cude Mullin, Rough Magic (Second Story Press)
• Monique Polak, The Middle of Everywhere (Orca Book Publishers)