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.
Year | Nominee | Album | Ref |
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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 |
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