QWF awards: Heather O'Neill takes fiction prize

Heather O’Neill won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction at the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) Literary Awards, Tuesday night, for her latest novel The Lonely Hearts Hotel.
Her tale of two orphans growing up in Depression-era Montreal edged out Cora Siré’s Behold Things Beautiful and Kathleen Winter’s Lost in September. O’Neill’s previous work includes the acclaimed novels Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006) and the Girl Who Was Saturday