Prizes, Grants, Awards and Fellowships
2024 - Ontario Arts Council, Recommender Grants for Writers (Recommended by Mawenzi House)
2021 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Insomniac Press)
2019 - Imprensa Nacional/Ferreira de Castro Prize (Prémio Imprensa Nacional/Ferreira de Castro, Portugal), Novel in Portuguese: Uma Casa no Mundo. https://imprensanacional.pt/novidade-editorial-uma-casa-no-mundo-de-irene-marques/
2018 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Insomniac Press)
2018 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Mawenzi House)
2017 - University of Toronto (New College) Academic Staff Travel Award (Conference in Brazil)
2017 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Insomniac Press)
2016 - University of Toronto (New College) Academic Staff Travel Award (Conference in Ghana)
2016 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Insomniac Press)
2016 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Mawenzi House)
2016 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Brick Books)
2015 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Guernica Editions)
2015 - Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve Grant (Recommended by Insomniac Press)
2007-08 - Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa -Topic of Research: “Revisiting Male-female Colonial Encounters: A Comparative Inquiry into Lusophone, Anglophone and Dutch Interracial Relationships”
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