Canadian Folk Music Award for French Songwriter of the Year

The Canadian Folk Music Award for French Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best French-language songwriting. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for English Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Songwriter of the Year.

2000s

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2005 1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
	No award presented
2006 2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
2007 3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Hugo Fleury (Polémil Bazar)	Avale ta montre	[1]
	Guillaume Arsenault	Le rang des Îles	[2]
	Sylvie Jean	Déjouer le vent
	Michel Marchildon	Fragments d'Identité
	3 Gars su'l sofa (Guillaume Monette, Guillaume Meloche-Charlebois, Nicola Morel)	Des Cobras, des Tarentules
2008 4th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Tomas Jensen	Quelqu'un d'autre	[3]
	Yves Desrosiers	Chansons indociles	[4]
	Anique Granger	Pépins
	David Jalbert	Des Histoires
	Swing	Tradarnac
2009 5th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Catherine Durand	Coeurs migratoires	[5]
	Caracol	L'Abre aux Parfums	[6]
	Paul Cargnello	Bras coupé
	Maryse Letarte	Des pas dans la neige
	3 Gars su'l sofa (Guillaume Monette, Guillaume Meloche-Charlebois, Nicola Morel)	Cerf-volant

2010s

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2010 6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Francis d'Octobre	Ma bête fragile	[7]
	Fredric Gary Comeau	Effeuiller les vertiges
	Lennie Gallant	If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
	David Jalbert	Le Journal
	Geneviève Toupin	Geneviève Toupin
2011 7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Alexandre Poulin	Une lumière allumée
	Claude Cormier	Acoustique	[8]
	Jean-François Lessard	Jean-François Lessard
	Les Surveillantes	La racine carrée du coeur
2012 8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Mes Aïeux	À l'aube du printemps	[9]
	Caracol	Blanc Mercredi
	Anique Granger	Les outils qu'on a
	Lisa LeBlanc	Lisa LeBlanc
	André Dédé Vander	French toast et peines perdues
2013 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Dany Placard	Démon vert	[10]
	Chantal Archambault	Les Élans	[11]
	Louis-Jean Cormier	Le treizième étage
	Catherine Durand	Les murs blancs du Nord
	Alexis Normand	Mirador
2014 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Les Hay Babies	Mon Homesick Heart	[12]
	Antoine Corriveau	Les ombres longues	[13]
	Laurence Hélie	À présent le passé
	Klô Pelgag	L'Alchimie des monstres
	Alexandre Poulin	Le mouvement des marées
2015 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Louis-Jean Cormier	Les grandes artères	[14]
	Jocelyne Baribeau	Entre toi et moi	[15]
	Benoit Pinette (Tire le coyote)	Panorama
	Dany Placard	Santa Maria
	Geneviève Toupin	Willows
2016 12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Les soeurs Boulay	4488 de l'Amour	[16]
	Philippe Brach	Portraits de famine	[17]
	Safia Nolin	Limoilou
	Richard Séguin	Les horizons nouveaux
	Mara Tremblay, Michel Rivard, Luc De Larochellière, Éric Goulet, Gilles Bélanger, Ariane Ouellet, Carl Prévost	Sept jours en mai
2017 13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Luc de Larochellière	Autre monde	[18]
	Philippe B	La grande nuit vidéo	[19]
	Catherine Durand	La pluie entre nous
	Patrice Michaud	Almanach
	Vivianne Roy, Katrine Noël, Julie Aubé (Les Hay Babies)	La 4ième dimension (version longue)
2018 14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Anik Bérubé, Natalie Byrns, Christian Bernard, Frédéric Joyal (Ancolie)	Le soleil en bulle	[20]
	Danny Boudreau	Mon été	[21]
	Étienne Fletcher	Face A
	Benoit Pinette (Tire le coyote)	Désherbage
	Kristine St-Pierre	La promesse

2020s

Year	Nominee	Album	Ref
2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Bernard Adamus	C’qui nous reste du Texas	[22]
	Jordane Labrie, Clement Desjardins	12 jours	[23]
	Jean Leloup	L’étrange pays
	Safia Nolin	Dans le noir
	Caroline Savoie	Pourchasser l’aube
2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Marie-Ève Lapierre-Lemoyne	Onze	[24]
	Guillaume Arsenault	La partie de moi qui tremble	[25]
	Raphaël Delahaye	Le sens de la dérive
	Flavie Léger-Roy	Ce chapeau est trop grand pour moi
	Alexandre Poulin	Nature humaine
2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Reney Ray	À l'ouest du réel	[26]
	Guillaume Beaulac	Guillaume Beaulac	[27]
	Anne-Sophie Doré-Coulombe	Nos maisons
	Émilie Landry	Arroser les fleurs
	Flavie Léger-Roy	Les trous dans les coeurs
2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Geneviève Roberge-Bouchard, Alain Barbeau	J’attends encore
	Anik Bérubé, Natalie Byrns	Les ébranlements	[28]
	Sébastien Lacombe	Le chemin des possibles
	Héra Ménard, Guylaine Saint-Pierre	Fleurs
	Matt Stern	Rien qu'un animal
2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Aleksi Campagne, Michelle Campagne	For the Giving / Sans rien donner	[29]
	Éric Dion, André Lavergne	La nouvelle saison	[30]
	Catherine Durand	La maison orpheline
	Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle, Léandre Joly-Pelletier	Là-bas-Veranda
	Marie-Ève Laure	Reviens
2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards
	Alexandre Poulin	La somme des êtres aimés	[31]
	Sara Dufour, Dany Placard	On va-tu prendre une marche?	[32]
	Lennie Gallant, Patricia Richard (Sirène et Matelot)	Un monde de dissonances
	Reney Ray	L'Album temporaire
	Michel Robichaud	Rallumer l'effort

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