The Blue Metropolis Violet Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented to an established

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writer to honour their body of work."Metropolis Violet : Écrivain(e)s LGBTQ à Metropolis bleu"
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literary festival in

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as part of its LGBTQ-themed Violet Metropolis series, the award was created in 2018 and will alternate between English language and French language writers.Peter Knegt
"Canadian LGBTQ literature is having a moment, and this Montreal festival is showcasing that"

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, April 18, 2018. The award was created as a complement, rather than competition, to the

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, which honours emerging Canadian LGBTQ writers. The award's corporate sponsor is

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Winners

*2018 -

Nicole Brossard Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943) is a leading French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist. Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature. She ...

*2019 -

Dionne Brand Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017COVID-19 pandemic in Canada The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (). It is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). Most cases over the course of the pandemic have been in Ontario, Que ...

; award not presented.'' *2021 - André Roy *2022 -

Tomson Highway Tomson Highway (born 6 December 1951) is an Indigenous Canadian playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is best known for his plays '' The Rez Sisters'' and ''Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing'', both of which won the Dora Mavor Mo ...

Cassandra Drudi
"Eden Robinson and Tomson Highway among winners of 2022 Blue Metropolis prizes"
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References

Awards established in 2018 Canadian literary awards LGBT literary awards LGBT literature in Canada 2018 establishments in Quebec {{Lit-award-stub