The Côte-Nord Book Fair is launching the call for applications for the 2025 Myriam-Caron Literary Prize which will be awarded during its 41ste edition in April. This prize will reward an author from the region who has published a work this year.
The call for applications closes on December 16. This Prize helps to honor the memory of the North Coast author who died in 2016 at the age of 41, Myriam Caron. Each year it also highlights an author who resides on the North Shore or is from there.
A $1000 scholarship will be awarded to the recipient. Eligible candidates are writers from the region who have published a work (novel, short story, story, poetry) between 1is January and December 31, 2024.
The 2024 Myriam-Caron Literary Prize was awarded during the 40e North Shore Book Fair to Innu artist Natasha Kanapé Fontaine for her novel Chicken breastpublished by Stanké editions.
A form is made available to authors and publishing houses on the Book Fair website. The realization of this prize is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Cégep de Sept-Îles and the Nord-Côtière Writing Research Group (Grénoc).
Myriam Caron was a screenwriter, director and author. She ran her own company, Productions Libres Underground (PLUG), in Sept-Îles, where she returned to live after studying in Montreal. Leméac Éditeur published his novels Hanged Generation (2011) et Bleu (2014), work for which she won, in 2015, the Prix du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) – Work of the year in Côte-Nord.
