Blue Metropolis

Anita Desai of New York City won the 2017 Blue Metropolis International Literary Grand Prize. Desai, whose most recent work is The Artist of Disappearance: Three Novellas (Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), received $10,000 CAD (approximately $7,800) and travel expenses to participate in the 2017 Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. Marie-Célie Agnant, Robert Lévesque, Sean Michaels, Elaine Kalman Naves, and Stephen Powell judged. The annual award honors the lifetime literary achievement of a poet, a fiction writer, or a creative nonfiction writer. There is no application process.

PREMIO METROPOLIS AZUL LITERARY PRIZE

Francisco Goldman of Mexico City and New York City won the fourth annual Premio Metropolis Azul Literary Prize for his memoir The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle (Grove, 2015). He received $5,000 CAD (approximately $3,900) and travel expenses to participate in the 2017 Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. Ingrid Bejerman, Gregory McCormick, Ruth Shine, and Ginny Stikeman judged. The annual award is given for a work of fiction or nonfiction written in English, French, or Spanish that explores some aspect of Hispanophone culture or history. There is no application process.

WORDS TO CHANGE PRIZE

Imbolo Mbue of New York City won the third annual Words to Change Prize for her novel, Behold the Dreamers (Random House, 2016). She received $5,000

CAD (approximately $3,900) and travel expenses to participate in the 2017 Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. The annual award is given for one or more works of fiction or nonfiction that promote the values of multiculturalism and linguistic, ethnic, or religious diversity. There is no application process.

FIRST PEOPLES LITERARY PRIZE

David Treuer of Los Angeles won the third annual First Peoples Literary Prize for his novel Prudence (Thorndike Press, 2015). He received $5,000 CAD (approximately $3,900) and travel expenses to participate in the 2017 Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. The annual award is given for a book by a writer who is First Nations, Métis, or Inuit of Canada. There is no application process.

LITERARY DIVERSITY PRIZE FOR A FIRST PUBLICATION

Xue Yiwei of Montreal won the second annual Literary Diversity Prize for a First Publication for his novel, Shenzheners (Linda Leith Editions, 2016). He received $3,000 CAD (approximately $2,340). Ghayas Hachem, Marie-Andrée Lamontagne, and Rodney Saint-Éloi judged. The annual award, cosponsored by the Conseil des arts de Montréal, is given for a first book in any genre written in English or French by a Montrealbased writer who is a first- or secondgeneration migrant from a multicultural community. There is no application process.