Related Research Articles
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual Canadian literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. The award was established in 1980 to honour poet Pat Lowther, who was murdered by her husband in 1975. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.
The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert. Each winner receives an honorarium of $1000.
Mary di Michele is an Italian-Canadian poet and author. She is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec where she teaches in creative writing.
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant,, née Young, was a Canadian writer who spent much of her life and career in France. Best known as a short story writer, she also published novels, plays and essays.
Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children's writer and illustrator. She has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple Governor General's Awards, and multiple Janet Savage Blachford Prizes, among others.
Neil Smith is a Canadian writer and translator from Montreal, Quebec. His novel Boo, published in 2015, won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. Boo was also nominated for a Sunburst Award and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, and was longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec.
The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards.
Kaie Kellough is a Canadian poet and novelist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, raised in Calgary, Alberta, and in 1998 moved to Montreal, Quebec, where he lives.
Taras Grescoe is a Canadian non-fiction writer. His debut book, Sacré Blues, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and McAuslan First Book Prize.
Mary Soderstrom is a novelist, short story and nonfiction writer.
Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Taras Grescoe, first published in 2000 by Macfarlane Walter & Ross. In the book, the author narrates his candid recollections of moving to Quebec in 1996. In describing "the rituals, eccentricities and customs of his new home", Kathryn Wardropper, award administrator for the Edna Staebler Award said, "It may infuriate some, but it is a landmark book that portrays the challenges and opportunities for modern Quebec."
Liam Durcan is a Canadian neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Hospital and an Assistant Professor at McGill University. He has published two novels and a collection of short stories: A Short Journey by Car, Garcia's Heart, and The Measure of Darkness. Born in Winnipeg, Durcan lived in Detroit briefly as a child, and has been at the Montreal Neurological Institute since 1994.
Monique Polak is a writer from Montreal, Quebec. She has won the Janet Savage Blachford Prize, formally known as the Quebec Writer's Foundation Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature, three times: What World is Left (2009), Hate Mail (2014), and Room for One More (2020).
Guillaume Morissette is a Canadian fiction writer and poet based in Montreal, Quebec. His work has frequently been associated with the Alt Lit movement, with Dazed & Confused magazine describing him as "Canada's Alt Lit poster boy." He has published stories, poems and essays online and in print, in venues such as Maisonneuve, Little Brother, Broken Pencil, Shabby Doll House and Thought Catalog, and was listed as one of CBC Books' "Writers to Watch" for 2014.
Emma Richler is a British/Canadian writer.
Chantal Ringuet is a Canadian scholar, award-winning author and translator.
Eric Siblin is a Canadian writer.
Endre Farkas is a Montreal-based poet, editor and playwright born in Hajdúnánás Hungary in 1948. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to Canada with his parents, who were Holocaust survivors. When he first arrived, his given name Endre was Quebecized to André. During his undergraduate degree at Concordia University he participated in the Sir George Williams affair as an occupant. He then took a few years off to live at an artist commune called Meatball Creek Farm in the Quebec Eastern Townships.
David Homel is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, winning the award at the 1995 Governor General's Awards for Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?, his translation of Dany Laferrière's Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?, and alongside Fred A. Reed at the 2001 Governor General's Awards for Fairy Ring, their translation of Martine Desjardins' Le Cercle de Clara.
Dimitri Nasrallah is a Lebanese Canadian writer and academic. He is most noted for his 2022 novel Hotline, which was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize.
References
- ↑ McGillis, Ian (2015-10-09). "The Book of Faith by Elaine Kalman Naves: Jewish Montreal, from a woman's perspective". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ "Biography". Elaine Kalman Naves. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- 1 2 "Lecturing and Teaching". Elaine Kalman Naves. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- 1 2 "Shoshanna's Story". Elaine Kalman Naves. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- 1 2 "The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction". Quebec Writers' Federation . Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- ↑ "Journey to Vaja". Elaine Kalman Naves. Archived from the original on 2021-06-15. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
- ↑ Demchinsky, Bryan (1999-11-30). "Book-end prizes for Bye Bye: Doubting author Gasco scores double honours". Montreal Gazette .
- ↑ Donnelly, Pat (2003-11-27). "Homel's novel wins at writers' gala". Montreal Gazette .
- ↑ Porter, Ryan (2019-11-07). "David Homel, Lindsay Nixon, Tess Liem among winners of Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards". Quill and Quire . Archived from the original on 2019-11-17. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
