Former Canadian Museum of History historic furniture and decorative arts curator Jean-François Blanchette* has received the 2015 Non-fiction Prix Champlain for his book about the museum’s Quebec folk art collections, Du coq à l’âme : L’art populaire au Québec (University of Ottawa Press).

The annual award aims to support the development of Canadian francophone literature by recognizing excellent works of fiction or non-fiction published by Franco-Canadians residing outside Quebec.

Blanchette was awarded the $1,500 prize at a ceremony during the Salon international de livre de Quebec, where prize jury president Yves Laberge said the author “shows the relevance of folk art in the 21^st century.”

*Correction April 14: An earlier version of this story mistook the prizewinner for the Université de Montréal and UBC educated UCLA professor of the same name.