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Awards and Honours

  • Don Coles Special Issue Arc 50, Summer 2003
  • 14th annual Trillium Prize / Prix Trillium awarded for the best book published (in any genre) in the province of Ontario in the year 2000 for Kurgan
  • 1996 Glassco Literary Translation Prize for For the Living and the Dead, a collection of poetry by Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer
  • Governor General's Award for Poetry, for Forests of the Medieval World, 1993
  • National Magazine Awards, Gold Medal, for "Dark Fields" in The Canadian Forum 1986
  • Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology, runner-up, for "Driving in the Car with Her." 1993
  • Faculty of Arts Research Fellowship 1985-86
  • CBC Literary Competition (Second Prize) 1981

Don Coles's works copyright © to the author.


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