The Matt Cohen Award is an award given annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

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 Albert Norman Levine (October 22, 1923 – June 14, 2005) was a Canadian short story writer, novelist and poet. He is perhaps best remembered for his terse prose. Though he was part of the St. Ives artistic community in Cornwall, and friends with ...

* 2002 -

Fred Bodsworth Charles Frederick (Fred) Bodsworth (October 11, 1918 – September 15, 2012) was a Canadian writer, journalist and amateur naturalist. Born in Port Burwell, Ontario, Bodsworth worked as a journalist for the '' St. Thomas Times-Journal'', ''The ...

* 2003 -

Audrey Thomas Audrey Grace Thomas, OC (née Callahan; born 17 November 1935) Reingard M. Nischik. The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations'. Camden House; 2007. , p. 247–. is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Col ...

* 2004 - Howard Engel * 2005 -

Janet Lunn Janet Louise Lunn, ('' née'' Swoboda; December 28, 1928 – June 26, 2017) was a Canadian children's writer. Early life and education Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas; she moved with her family to Vermont when she was an infant. In 1938, she ...

* 2006 -

Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...

* 2007 -

David Helwig David Helwig (April 5, 1938 – October 16, 2018) was a Canadian editor, essayist, memoirist, novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. Life and career Helwig was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he spent his early childhood years. When h ...

* 2008 -

Sylvia Fraser Sylvia Fraser (born Sylvia Lois Meyers; 8 March 1935 – 25 October 2022) was a Canadian novelist, journalist and travel writer. Fraser was educated at the University of Western Ontario. In her long year career as a journalist, she has written hu ...

* 2009 -

Paul Quarrington Paul Lewis Quarrington (July 22, 1953 – January 21, 2010) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator. Background Born in Toronto as the middle of three sons in the family of four of Bruce Quarrington,

* 2010 -

Myrna Kostash Myrna Kostash (born September 2, 1944) is a Canadian writer and journalist. She has published several non-fiction books and written for many Canadian magazines including ''Chatelaine''. Of Ukrainian descent, she was born in Edmonton, Alberta and e ...

* 2011 -

David Adams Richards David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.

* 2012 - Jean Little * 2013 -

Andrew Nikiforuk Andrew Nikiforuk (born 1955) is a Canadian journalist and author. His writing has appeared in many outlets, including '' Saturday Night'', ''Maclean's'', ''Alberta Views'', ''Alternatives Journal'', and national newspapers. He has won multiple Nati ...

* 2014 - Susan Musgrave * 2015 -

Richard Wagamese Richard Wagamese (October 14, 1955 – March 10, 2017) was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario."Indian Horse is a dark ride". '' Calgary Herald'', February 28, 2012. He was be ...

* 2016 -

Brian Brett Brian Brett (born 28 April 1950) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and novelist.Brian Brett< ...

* 2017 -

Diane Schoemperlen Diane Mavis Schoemperlen (born July 9, 1954) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Early life and education Schoemperlen was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and educated at Lakehead University. Career Schoemperlen's first novel, ''In the ...

* 2018 -

David Bergen David Bergen (born January 14, 1957) is a Canadian novelist. He has published nine novels and two collections of short stories since 1993 and is currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His 2005 novel ''The Time in Between'' won the Scotiab ...

* 2019 -

Olive Senior Olive Marjorie Senior (born 23 December 1941) is a Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was awarded the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 by the Institute of Jamaica for her contributions ...

* 2020 - Dennis Lee * 2021 -

Frances Itani Frances Susan Itani, née Hill (born August 25, 1942) is a Canadian fiction writer, poetry, poet and essayist. She is a Member of the Order of Canada. Biography Itani was born in Belleville, Ontario, Belleville, Ontario,

* 2022 -

Candace Savage Candace Sherk Savage (born December 2, 1949) is a Canadian non-fiction writer. Early life Candace Sherk was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada on December 2, 1949. Both of her grandmothers were born in the United States and married Canadia ...

Deborah Dundas
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References

External links

Matt Cohen Award
{{Writers' Trust of Canada awards Writers' Trust of Canada awards Awards established in 2000 2000 establishments in Canada Canadian fiction awards