Casually, the beautiful season advances in small steps and as if to accelerate time and make us see life under better auspices, literary life activates and reveals its most beautiful attires.
The Trois-Rivières Book Fair which, by its literary awards, promotes illustrators and illustrators, has awarded its adult bd prize to Catherin, for Mommpublished by Pow Pow and its youth bd prize in Jocelyn Boisvert and Enzo for The book-aspiratorpublished by Éditions Michel Quintin. Finally, the price of the illustrated album was awarded to Jacques Goldstyn for Crypublished by La Pastèque and the Prix du Petit novel illustrated was awarded to Enzo for Sowingwritten by Pierrette Dubé and published at the short scale.
The Association for the Promotion of School Documentary Services (APSDS), which oversees the mischievous price, supports and promotes free expression within children’s literature and ignores all political considerations. The mischievous price welcomes audacity and originality and offers two literary prizes, for a book intended for children from 5 to 11 years old and another, for a book for young people aged 12 to 17. The two prices are accompanied by a scholarship of $ 1000 given to the author or the author as well as another of the same amount intended for the illustrator or the illustrator.
This year, the jury rewarded In the night, you reveal yourselfby Isabelle Jameson and Sylvain Cabot, published with 400 shots. This album gently tackles the affirmation of Alex genre and testifies to its journey. When they cameby Andrée Poulin and Sophie Casson, published by Isatis, won category 12 to 17 years old. This book seeks to arouse reflection on indifference and lack of empathy in the face of racist and discriminatory behavior, a sadly topical subject.
Finally, the youth prize of parallel universes, which underlines the quality of a fantastic genre book, fantasy or science fiction, was awarded to Sylvie Payette, for her novel Alizée (t. 1): endless summerpublished by Quebec America. The price is accompanied by a scholarship of $ 2,000.
