Esplanade Fiction
Prize Winners
Véhicule Press has been extremely fortunate--our authors and translators have won many prizes over the years. The selected list that follows confirms our policy of publishing books of lasting cultural value in the areas of literature and social history.
| Governor General's Literary Awards 2004 TRANSLATION Mirabel Pierre Nepveu Translated by Judith Cowan 2003 TRANSLATION Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian's Life Marcel Trudel Translated by Jane Brierley 1998 POETRY White Stone: The Alice Poems Stephanie Bolster 1990 TRANSLATION Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé Translated by Jane Brierley |
| QSPELL Awards - The Québec Writers Federation 2004 McAUSLAN FIRST BOOK AWARD Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir Jaspreet Singh 1999 MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Putting Down Roots: Montreal's Immigrant Writers Elaine Kalman Naves 1999 A.M. KLEIN PRIZE FOR POETRY Facts Bruce Taylor 1998 BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution Matthew Friedman 1998 McAUSLAN BREWERY COMMUNITY AWARD Simon Dardick and Nancy Marrelli 1995 HUGH MacLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION Friends & Marriages George Szanto 1994 HUGH MacLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION Evil Eye Ann Diamond 1993 HUGH MacLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION Missing Fred Astaire P. Scott Lawrence 1993 PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION Foxspirit: A Woman in Mao's China Zhimei Zhang 1991 PRIZE FOR FICTION A Private Performance Kenneth Radu 1990 PRIZE FOR POETRY WSW (West South West) Erin Mouré |
| Jewish Book Awards 2004 J.I. SEGAL TRANSLATION AWARD Between the Wars: Canadian Jews in Transition by Israel Medres, translated by Vivian Felsen 2001 IZZY AND BETTY KIRSHENBAUM FOUNDATION PRIZE FOR YIDDISH TRANSLATION Montreal of Yesterday: Jewish Life in Montreal 1900-1920 by Israel Medres, translated by Vivian Felsen 2000 HENRY FUERSTENBERG - BETTY MORRIS AARON PRIZE A Rich Garland: Poems for A.M. Klein Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin, eds. 1997 LOUIS L. LOCKSHIN MEMORIAL AWARD FOR CREATIVE WRITING IN POETRY Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry edited by Seymour Mayne and B. Glen Rotchin 1997 JOSEPH AND FAY TANNENBAUM PRIZE FOR CANADIAN JEWISH HISTORY Open Your Hearts: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada Fraidie Martz 1994 JEWISH BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION In the Heart of Warsaw Szloma Renglich (Translated from the Yiddish by Zigmund Jampel) 1989 JEWISH BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION |
| Stephen Leacock Prize for Humour Fear of Frying & Other Fax of Life Josh Freed |
| Canada - Japan Book Award Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei Edited by Keibo Oiwa, Foreword by Joy Kogawa |
| Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry The League of Canadian Poets Fortress of Chairs Elisabeth Harvor |
| Félix Antoine-Savard Prize for Translation, Columbia University White Desert Jean Ethier-Blais |
| Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry 2005 -- EJ Pratt Poetry Award Merrybegot Mary Dalton 2003 Helix: New & Selected Poems John Steffler |
| Janice E. Handford Small Press Award The Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario (OBPO) awarded Simon Dardick, co-publisher of Véhicule Press, the fifth annual Janice E. Handford Small Press Award at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in September 2001. The award was set up to be given to an individual who has advanced the cause of small and literary Canadian publishing. |