Madeleine Thien

The Quebec Writers’ Federation has revealed the shortlists for this year’s QWF Literary Awards‚ recognizing excellent titles by the province’s English-language authors.

Each of the six categories awards a $2,000 purse. Winners will be announced at an event at Montreal’s Corona Theatre on Nov. 22.

Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

• Liam Durcan‚ The Measure of Darkness (Bellevue Literary Press)
• Jack Hannan‚ The Poet is a Radio (Linda Leith Publishing)
• Madeleine Thien‚ Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Knopf Canada)
• Jacob Wren‚ Rich and Poor (BookThug)

Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction

• Taras Grescoe‚ Shanghai Grand (HarperCollins)
• Daniel J. Levitin‚ A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (Allen Lane Canada)
• Chelsea Vowel‚ Indigenous Writes (HighWater Press/Portage & Main Press)

QWF Prize for Children’s/YA Literature: picture books

• Bonnie Farmer; Marie Lafrance, ill.‚ Oscar Lives Next Door
  (Owlkids Books)
• Sara O’Leary; Julie Morstad, ill.‚ This Is Sadie (Tundra Books)
• Mélanie Watt‚ Bug in a Vacuum (Tundra)

A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry

• Sarah Burgoyne‚ Saint Twin (Mansfield Press)
• Kelly Norah Drukker‚ Small Fires (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• Alison Strumberger and Gillian Sze‚ Redrafting Winter (BuschekBooks)

Concordia University First Book Prize

• Kelly Norah Drukker‚ Small Fires (MQUP)
• Sylvain Neuvel‚ Sleeping Giants (Del Rey)
• Chelsea Vowel‚ Indigenous Writes (HighWater)

Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole – anglais-français

• Daniel Canty‚ Petits Théâtres (Les Éditions du Noroît) – from Erin Moure’s Little Theatres (House of Anansi Press)
• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné‚ Joshua (Éditions du Boréal) – from Mordecai Richler’s Joshua Then and Now (McClelland & Stewart)
• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné‚ Solomon Gursky (Éditions du Boréal) – from Mordecai Richler’s Solomon Gursky Was Here (Penguin Random House Canada)