Matt Cohen Award
The Matt Cohen Award is an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a Canadian writer, in honour of a distinguished lifetime contribution to Canadian literature. First presented in 2000, it was established in memory of Matt Cohen, a Canadian writer who died in 1999.
Winners
- 2000 - Mavis Gallant
- 2001 - Norman Levine
- 2002 - Fred Bodsworth
- 2003 - Audrey Thomas
- 2004 - Howard Engel
- 2005 - Janet Lunn
- 2006 - Marie-Claire Blais
- 2007 - David Helwig
- 2008 - Sylvia Fraser
- 2009 - Paul Quarrington[1]
- 2010 - Myrna Kostash
- 2011 - David Adams Richards[2]
- 2012 - Jean Little
- 2013 - Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014 - Susan Musgrave[3]
- 2015 - Richard Wagamese[4]
- 2016 - Brian Brett[5]
- 2017 - Diane Schoemperlen[6]
- 2018 - David Bergen[7]
- 2019 - Olive Senior[8]
gollark: As I said, we control one probe (maybe KAL would let us manage the one fork too), collaboratively.
gollark: No, we all control one probe.
gollark: Also, before repowering the reactor, make sure to make/update a backup of the AI which the other probe (the asteroid mining one) can read.
gollark: We should probably look at shielding against debris better.
gollark: I guess just have an automatic repair system fix those, assuming that's possible.
References
- "Quarrington wins $20,000 Matt Cohen Award". cbc.ca, October 19, 2009.
- "Patrick deWitt’s 'The Sisters Brothers' wins Writers’ Trust Prize". The Globe and Mail, November 1, 2011.
- "Miriam Toews wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". Toronto Star, November 4, 2014.
- "André Alexis wins Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize". The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2015.
- "Rogers Writers’ Trust: Celebrating the 2016 winners". Maclean's, November 3, 2016.
- "David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards". Quill & Quire, November 14, 2017.
- "Books inspired by the authors’ parents win the top Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 7, 2018.
- Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
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