Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life

The Matt Cohen Prize ( engl. Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life ) is doped with $ 20,000 Canadian literary prize since 2000 annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada in memory of the Canadian writer Matt Cohen ( 1942-1999) is awarded for lifetime achievement by a Canadian writer. The winning work can be written in French or English, and both poetry as prose - including non-fiction - include.

Award 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
  • 2010: Myrna Kostash
  • 2011: David Adams Richards
  • 2012: Jean Little
  • 2013: Andrew Nikiforuk
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