The Prix Anne-Hébert is a Canadian literary award, presented annually to the best first work of fiction in

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by a writer from

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

. The award was created by Robert Desbiens in 2000 to honour writer

Anne Hébert Anne Hébert (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry. Early life Hébe ...

following her death. The award has a monetary value of $7,500. It is sponsored by the Centre culturel canadien à Paris and

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Winners

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

- Maryse Barbance, ''Toxiques'' *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

Denis Thériault Denis Thériault (born August 24, 1959) is a Canadian author, playwright, and screenwriter of French Canadians, French-Canadian descent. He graduated in psychology from the University of Ottawa (1981). Thériault is the author of several plays ...

, ''L'Iguane'' *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

Marie-Hélène Poitras Marie-Hélène Poitras (born 1975) is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She received a master's degree in literary studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Poitras is a journalist reporti ...

, ''Soudain le Minotaure'' *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

Hélène Dorion Hélène Dorion, (born 21 April 1958) is a Canadian poet, and writer. Life Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dorion taught literature before heading Publisher Noroît from 1991 until 2000. She also conducted a series of audio recordings of poetry and ...

, ''Jours de sable'' *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

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, ''La Route des petits matins''"Le prix Anne-Hébert à Gilles Jobidon"
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'', March 15, 2005. *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

Nicolas Dickner Nicolas Dickner (born 1972 in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 2005 novel ''Nikolski'', which has won numerous literary awards in Canada both in its original French and translated E ...

, ''

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2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

- Mélanie Vincelette, ''Crimes horticoles'' *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

- Anne Rose Gorroz '' L'homme Ligote; '' Michèle Plomer'', Jardin sablier ''(mention spéciale du jury'')

References

French-language literature in Canada Quebec literary awards Awards established in 2000 2000 establishments in Canada Canadian fiction awards French-language literary awards {{lit-award-stub