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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.









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





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





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
When Paupers Dance
Szloma Renglich
Translated by Zigmund Jampel





Fear of Frying & Other Fax of Life
Josh Freed





Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei
Edited by Keibo Oiwa, Foreword by Joy Kogawa





Fortress of Chairs
Elisabeth Harvor






White Desert
Jean Ethier-Blais










2005 -- EJ Pratt Poetry Award
Merrybegot
Mary Dalton

2003
Helix: New & Selected Poems
John Steffler





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.