We are excited to announce that ACQL has just released the finalists for the 2014 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English). This year’s shortlist includes former poetry editor Larissa Lai and other frequent Canadian Literature contributors:
- Drouin, Jennifer. Shakespeare in Quebec: Nation, Gender, Adaptation. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2014. Print.
- Lai, Larissa. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014. Print.
- McLeod, Neal, ed. Indigenous Poetics in Canada. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014. Print.
- Morra, Linda M. Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Authorship. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2014. Print.
Starting from our very first issue, Canadian Literature has published numerous articles on and reviews of the eminent author and her works, including a special issue. In her honour, the Gabrielle Roy Prize recognizes the best work of Canadian literary criticism in English and French every year. In 1988, Canadian Literature became the first and only journal to win the Gabrielle Roy Prize for best English book-length studies in Canadian and Québec literary criticism.
The shortlist was chosen by a jury composed of Paul Martin (MacEwan University), Erin Wunker (Dalhousie University) and Tanis MacDonald (Wilfrid Laurier University). Past winners include:
- Martin, Paul. Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of Literatures in Canada. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2013. Print. (Reviewed here.)
- Andrès, Bernard. Histoires littéraires des Canadiens au XVIIIe siècle. Quebec City: PUL, 2012. Print. (Reviewed here.)
- Martin, Keavy. Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature. Winnipeg: U of Manitoba P, 2012. Print. (Reviewed here.)
- Cellard, Karine. Leçons de littérature: Un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec.Montreal: PU Montreal, 2011. Print. (Reviewed here.)
- Wyile, Herb. Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature.Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2011. Print. (Reviewed here.)
- Leclerc, Catherine. Des langues en partage? : Cohabitation du français et de l’anglais en littérature contemporaine. Montreal: XYZ, 2010. Print. (Reviewed here.)
- Gerson, Carole. Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010. Print. (Reviewed here.)
The winner will be announced on May 30th, 2015, at the Gabrielle Roy Prize reception at the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures annual conference, which takes place in Ottawa, Ontario, this year. Since spaces at the banquet are limited, please contact Sara Jamieson if you would like to attend (sara_jamieson@carleton.ca).
Date: May 30, 2015
When: 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Vittoria Trattoria
35 William Street, Byward Market Area
Ottawa, ON