Categories
They are currently presented in seven literary categories:
- Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction,
- Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction
- A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry
- QWF First Book Prize
- QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature
- Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (French and English, with target language alternating each year)
- 3Macs Carte Blanche Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal Carte Blanche.
An annual community award is also presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community.
The awards have been presented annually since 1988.
Read more about this topic: Quebec Writers' Federation Awards
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“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
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—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)