2017 QWF Awards Finalists and Juries QWF Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Longer Chapter Books, Middle-Grade and Young Adult Literature Sponsored by Janet and John Blachford Kate Lavut Chico Paper Dog Press Karen Nesbitt Subject to Change Orca Book Publisher Lori Weber Lightning Lou DCB Children’s and Young Adult Literature Jury: Catherine Austen, Lisa Doucet, Raziel Reid ***
Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Sponsored by Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore Heather O’Neill The Lonely Hearts Hotel HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Cora Siré Behold Things Beautiful Signature Editions Kathleen Winter Lost in September Penguin Random House Canada Fiction Jury: Peggy Herring, La Florya Gauthier, Vish Khanna ***
Concordia University First Book Prize Ariela Freedman Arabic for Beginners Linda Leith Publishing Jocelyn Parr Uncertain Weights and Measures Goose Lane Editions J. Jacob Potashnik The Golem of Hampstead and Other Stories Penny-a-Page Press First Book Jury: Marilyn Bowering, Adrian Harewood, Alexia Moyer ***
Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction E. A. Heaman Tax, Order and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917 McGill-Queen’s University Press Laila Parsons The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence, 1914–1948 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sandra Perron Out Standing in the Field: A Memoir by Canada’s First Female Infantry Officer Cormorant Books Non-Fiction Jury: Chris Frey, Rod MacLeod, Rebecca Margolis ***
A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry Linda Besner Feel Happier in Nine Seconds Coach House Boooks Rebecca Păpucaru The Panic Room Nightwood Editions Erin Robinsong Rag Cosmology BookThug
Poetry Jury: Geoffrey Cook, George Murray, Jennifer Still ***
Cole Foundation Prize for Translation Peter Feldstein The Pauper’s Freedom: Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec McGill-Queen’s University Press Jean-Marie Fecteau La liberté pauvre VLB éditeur
* Karen Ocana Rooms Guernica Editions Louise Dupré Chambres Les Éditions du remue-ménage
* Claire Holden Rothman Sun of a Distant Land Véhicule Press David Bouchet Soleil Les Éditions Peuplade
* Donald Winkler A Tea in the Tundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat BookLand Press Joséphine Bacon Un thé dans la toundra : Nipishapui Nete Mushuat Mémoire d’encrrier
