from The Center for Fiction accessed 6/27/13
In 2005 the Center for Fiction established the Maxwell E. Perkins Award to honor the work of an editor, publisher, or agent who over the course of his or her career has discovered, nurtured and championed writers of fiction in the United States. This award is dedicated to Maxwell Perkins in celebration of his legacy as one of the country’s most import editors.
2013
Robin Desser has worked at the Knopf Publishing Group since 1998 and this year was named Vice President, Editorial Director of Alfred A. Knopf.
Among the critically acclaimed and bestselling books and authors with whom she has worked, first at Vintage, where she served for eight years, and then at Knopf, are many notable debuts: Lorraine Adams’s Harbor; Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street; Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory; Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior; Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha; Amy Greene’s Bloodroot; David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars; Nam Le’s The Boat; Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner; and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican.
Other celebrated works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry she has edited include: Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah; A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book; Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband and Red Doc>; Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (forthcoming); Rita Dove’s Selected Poems and the novel Through the Ivory Gate; Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds; Jonathan Galassi’s Left-handed; The Journals of Spalding Gray, edited by Nell Casey; Manuela Hoelterhoff’s Cinderella & Company; Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child; Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted; Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland (forthcoming); Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies; Barry Lopez’s About this Life; Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Elusive Embrace and his translation of Cavafy’s Complete Poems; Francesca Marciano’s Rules of the Wild and The Other Language (forthcoming); Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s graphic memoir Cancer Vixen; Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs; Steven Millhauser’s We Others: New and Selected Stories; James Salter’s Last Night and All That Is; Kyung-sook Shin’s Please Look After Mom; Tracy K. Smith’s Ordinary Light (forthcoming); Jane Smiley’s Horse Heaven and subsequent novels; Jan Swafford’s Brahms: A Biography; Cheryl Strayed’s Wild; and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone.
2012
Deborah Treisman became Fiction Editor of The New Yorker in 2003, after serving for five years as the magazine’s Deputy Fiction Editor. At The New Yorker, she has edited work by, among others, Julian Barnes, T. C. Boyle, Edwidge Danticat, E. L. Doctorow, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Gaitskill, Ian McEwan, Thomas McGuane, Steven Millhauser, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, George Saunders, David Foster Wallace, and Tobias Wolff, as well as introducing to the magazine such writers as Daniel Alarcón, Jonathan Safran Foer, Tessa Hadley, Aleksandar Hemon, Nicole Krauss, Colum McCann, C. E. Morgan, and Colm Tóibín.
Previously, she was the managing editor of Grand Street, and has been a member of the editorial staffs of The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Threepenny Review. Her translations of Francophone writers, including Patrick Chamoiseau, Marguerite Duras, and Tahar Ben Jelloun, have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Grand Street. She is the host of the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the editor of the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (Farrar, Straus, 2010), and a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Ms. Treisman was born in Oxford, England, and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New York City.
2011
Nan Graham received her B.A. in English from Yale University in 1977 and an honorary doctorate from Marymount Manhattan College in 1997. She has worked in publishing since 1980—for five years at Pantheon Books and for ten years at Viking Penguin where she was the Executive Editor. Since 1994, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of Scribner.
Nan has edited writers of fiction, memoir, sociology, history and psychology – and many of their books have won National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and other major awards. She has worked on many memoirs, including Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, Alexandra Styron’s Reading My Father, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History. Other non-fiction includes Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award winner, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression and Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize winner, The Emperor of All Maladies: a Biography of Cancer.
She has published Don Delillo for over twenty years, and brought him to Scribner with his 1997 novel Underworld. She has developed long-time relationships with acclaimed authors such as Annie Proulx, Amy Hempel, Ann Beattie, Kate Walbert and Colm Toibin, and introduced new writers such as Monica Ali, Dana Spiotta, Anthony Doerr, Rachel Kushner, Belinda McKeon, and Miranda July. She has worked with Stephen King for fifteen years.
Nan is on the board of the International Freedom to Publish Committee, where she served as Chair from 1998 through 2004, and is on the board of the New School Writing Program. She and the novelist Mark Costello have two children.
2010
Amanda Urban joined ICM as a literary agent in 1980, and was named Co-Director of the Literary Department in 1988. She simultaneously served as Managing Director of ICM Books in London from 2002 to 2008, and is currently an ICM Executive Vice President. Prior to joining ICM, she was General Manager of New York Magazine and The Village Voice, and Editorial Manager of Esquire Magazine. She represents Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors such as Dexter Filkins, Richard Ford, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Cormac McCarthy, Jon Meacham, Steven Millhauser, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen, and James B. Stewart, in addition to numerous bestselling authors, such as Eric Anderson, Marie Brenner, Dominique Browning, Peter Carey, Ellen Chesler, Jonathan Dee, E. L. Doctorow, Bruce Duffy, Nora Ephron, Nell Freudenberger, Tad Friend, Alan Furst, Francisco Goldman, Jane Hamilton, Kathryn Harrison, Zoe Heller, Michael Idov, Walter Isaacson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Joseph Kanon, Mary Karr, Chip Kidd, Christopher Krovatin, Chang-rae Lee, Mark Leyner, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jay McInerney, Haruki Murakami, Marisha Pessl, Michael Pollan, James Salter, Orville Schell, John Burnham Schwartz, Mona Simpson, Michael Specter, Donna Tartt, Steven Weisman, Edmund White, Tobias Wolff and Koren Zailckas. A number of her books have spawned movies, including the recent Oscar-winning films No Country for Old Men and Crazy Heart, as well as plays such as The Elephant Vanishes and “Sunset Limited, and musicals such as Ragtime.
2009
Gerry Howard, Vice President, Executive Editor, Doubleday. Gerry has been with Doubleday since 1998. In his tenure at Doubleday, he has worked with Kate Christensen, Walter Kirn, Chuck Palahniuk, Bill Bryson, and Gore Vidal. In his long career, Howard has also edited such eminent authors as David Foster Wallace, Gordon Lish, Larry Heinemann, Irvine Welsh, Don Delillo, Rafi Zabor, James Welch, Leon Forest, Ana Castillo, William S. Burroughs, A.R. Ammons, Walter Mosley and William Kennedy. In 2001, Gerry received the PEN/Roger Klein Award for Editing.
2008
Jonathan Galassi became an editor in the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Company in 1973. He was a senior editor at Random House from 1981 to 1986, when he joined Farrar, Straus and Giroux as vice-president and executive editor. He was named editor-in-chief of FSG in 1988, executive vice-president in 1993, publisher in 1999, and president of the firm in January 2002.
Among the authors Mr. Galassi has worked with at FSG are: Michael Cunningham, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Thomas L. Friedman, Nadine Gordimer, David Grossman, Shirley Hazzard, Seamus Heaney, Jamaica Kincaid, William Langeweische, Alice McDermott, John McPhee, Louis Menand, Marilynne Robinson, George Packer, Robert Pinsky, Susan Sontag, Calvin Trillin, Mario Vargas Llosa, Scott Turow, Derek Walcott, C. K. Williams, Tom Wolfe, and Charles Wright. Mr. Galassi won the P.E.N./Roger Klein Award for Editing in 1984 and the LMP Editor’s Award in 1990
Mr. Galassi has published two books of poems: Morning Run (Paris Review Editions, 1988) and North Street (HarperCollins, 2000). He has also translated several volumes of the work of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale and was poetry editor of The Paris Review between 1978 and 1987. He has also won the John Ciardi Award in Poetry from the Italian American Foundation (1999), the Premio Montale for translation (1999), and the Weidenfeld Translation Prize (1999). Mr. Galassi was president of the Academy of American Poets from 1994 to 1999.
2007
Drenka Willen joined Harcourt as a translator and freelance editor in the nineteen-sixties. She took over day-to-day duties for the Helen & Kurt Wolff imprint in 1981. She is currently a Senior Editor. Among the authors and translators she has worked with are Günter Grass, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Stanislaw Lem, Octavio Paz, Wisława Szymborska, José Saramago, Irving Howe, Ryszard Kapuściński, Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, Yehuda Amichai, Edward Gorey, Wendy Wasserstein, George Konrád, Charles Simic, Bohumil Hrabal, Cees Nooteboom, Breyten Breytenbach, James Kelman, Paul Klebnikov, Milovan Djilas, Tomaž Šalamun, Danilo Kiš, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Antonio Muñoz Molina, David Albahari, Andrew Miller, Claire Messud, Andrew O’Hagan, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Ralph Manheim, William Weaver, Edith Grossman, Margaret Jull Costa, Krishna Winston, Clare Cavanagh, Stanisław Barańczak, and Geoffrey Brock. Their honors include the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, Poet Laureate of the United States, the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the E.M.Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Award, and the PEN Translation Prize
2006
Gary Fisketjon served from 1980 to 1986 as an editor at Random House and Vintage Books, from 1986 to 1990 as Editorial Director of the Atlantic Monthly Press, and since then as Editor-at-Large and Vice President of Alfred A. Knopf Publishers. Among the writers he has worked with are Julian Barnes, Peter Carey, Raymond Carver, Annie Dillard, Michael Doane, Andre Dubus, Bret Easton Ellis, Richard Ford, David Gates, Martha Gellhorn, Kent Haruf, Patricia Highsmith, Margot Livesey, Cormac McCarthy, Jay McInerney, Haruki Murakami, Redmond O’Hanlon, Mona Simpson, Graham Swift, Donna Tartt, Rupert Thomson, Joy Williams, Jeanette Winterson, Geoffrey Wolff, and Tobias Wolff. Their honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Books Critics Award, the Booker Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
2005
Nan A. Talese is a Senior Vice President of Doubleday and the Publisher and Editorial Director of Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, a trade book publishing imprint known for its literary excellence. She began her publishing career at Random House, where she published Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner and The Savage God by A. Alvarez, a book that changed America 's understanding of suicide. After joining Simon & Schuster she began her long editorial relationship with Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan, Barry Unsworth and Thomas Keneally, all winners of the prestigious Booker Prize.
It was at Houghton Mifflin, which she joined in 1981 as Executive Editor, eventually becoming Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, that she began her association with Pat Conroy as editor of his novel The Prince of Tides. She joined Doubleday as a Senior Vice President in 1988, and two years later introduced her author-oriented imprint dedicated to the publication of a select list of quality fiction and nonfiction. The critically acclaimed and bestselling titles she has published since the imprint's inception include There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz; Beach Music and My Losing Season by Pat Conroy; Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; Amsterdam, Atonement, and Saturday by Ian McEwan; How the Irish Saved Civilization, The Gifts of the Jews, Desire of the Everlasting Hills and Sailing the Wine Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill; Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth; Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser; Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd as well as the works of George Plimpton, Mark Richard, Robert MacNeil, Peter Ackroyd, Kevin Canty, Jennifer Egan and Adam Haslett among others.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence 2004-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence is administered by the BC Book Prizes and recognizes a writer who has contributed significantly to the development of literary excellence in British Columbia, as well as having written a substantial body of literary work throughout his or her career.
The recipient receives a cash award of $5,000 and a commemorative certificate.
The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence was first conceived in the spring of 2002. Led by the late Carol Shields, a group of respected BC writers met with the current Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, the Honourable Iona Campagnolo to initiate a special provincial literary arts award. Inspired by Shields, this meeting resulted in the establishment of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
2004 - P.K. Page
2005 - Robert Bringhurst
2006 - Jack Hodgins
2007 - Patrick Lane
2008 - Gary Geddes
2009 - Terry Glavin
2010 - Stan Persky
2011 - George Bowering
2012 - Brian Brett
2013 - Lorna Crozier and Sarah Ellis
The Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence is administered by the BC Book Prizes and recognizes a writer who has contributed significantly to the development of literary excellence in British Columbia, as well as having written a substantial body of literary work throughout his or her career.
The recipient receives a cash award of $5,000 and a commemorative certificate.
The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence was first conceived in the spring of 2002. Led by the late Carol Shields, a group of respected BC writers met with the current Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, the Honourable Iona Campagnolo to initiate a special provincial literary arts award. Inspired by Shields, this meeting resulted in the establishment of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.
2004 - P.K. Page
2005 - Robert Bringhurst
2006 - Jack Hodgins
2007 - Patrick Lane
2008 - Gary Geddes
2009 - Terry Glavin
2010 - Stan Persky
2011 - George Bowering
2012 - Brian Brett
2013 - Lorna Crozier and Sarah Ellis
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award 1985-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a literary prize awarded annually by the BC Book Prizes for the "best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content." The prize is shared by the author and publisher. To qualify, the publisher must be located in British Columbia or the Yukon and in full creative control (editing, design and production). The winner, unlike the other prizes which are determined by judges, is selected by ballot sent to bookstores across the province of British Columbia.
The award is named in honour of BC bookseller Bill Duthie who founded Duthie's Books in 1957. It was first awarded in 1985 and was one of the original four prizes awarded by the BC Book Prizes. The prize used to be called "BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie" but the name was simplified in 2010 to align with the other BC Book Prizes.
1985 Islands Protection Society - Islands at the Edge (Douglas & McIntyre)
Hilary Stewart - Cedar (Douglas & McIntyre)
John Edwards - The Roman Cookery of Apicius (Hartley & Marks)
1986 Cameron Young et al, - The Forests of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
John Adams and Becky Thomas - Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells (Harbour Publishing)
Philip Hersee - Vancouver: Touch The Magic (self-published)
1987 Doris Shadbolt - Bill Reid (Douglas & McIntyre)
Philip Croft - Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian (Harbour Publishing)
Ruth Kirk - Wisdom of the Elders (Douglas & McIntyre)
1988 Hilary Stewart - The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Douglas & McIntyre)
Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor - Rick Hansen: Man In Motion (Douglas & McIntyre)
Howard White, Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury’s Coast (Harbour Publishing)
1989 Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire - Stein: The Way of the River (Talonbooks)
Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country (Douglas & McIntyre)
Joe Garner - Never Chop Your Rope (Cinnabar Press)
1990 Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Carmanah (Western Canada Wilderness Committee)
Paul St. Pierre - Chilcotin & Beyond (Douglas & McIntyre)
Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering - The Coast Of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
1991 Michael Kluckner - Vanishing Vancouver (Whitecap Books)
Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury’s Album (Harbour Publishing)
Jack Webster - Webster! (Douglas & McIntyre)
1992 Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer (photographer) - The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Hakla Gwaii (Douglas & McIntyre)
Liv Kennedy - Coastal Villages (Harbour Publishing)
Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris - Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
1993 Nick Bantock - Sabine's Notebook (Chronicle Books)
Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples - Nemiah: The Unconquered Country (New Star Books)
Bruce MacDonald - Vancouver: A Visual History (Talonbooks)
1994 Alan Haig-Brown - Fishing for a Living (Harbour Publishing)
Diane Swanson - The Emerald Sea (Whitecap Books)
Clayton Mack - Grizzlies & White Guys (Harbour Publishing)
1995 Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer - Eagle Transforming (Douglas & McIntyre)
Tom Henry - The Good Company (Harbour Publishing)
Rosalind MacPhee - Picasso’s Women (Douglas & McIntyre)
1996 Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book (Douglas & McIntyre)
Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Greystone Books)
Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan (Harbour Publishing)
1997 Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings - British Columbia: A Natural History (Greystone Books)
Bruce Obee - Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure (Beautiful British Columbia Magazine)
Maria Coffey - Sailing Back in Time (Whitecap Books)
1998 Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young - The Great Bear Rainforest (Harbour Publishing)
Keith Keller - Dangerous Waters (Harbour Publishing)
Ian Gill - Haida Gwaii (Raincoast Books)
1999 Tom Henry - Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC (Harbour Publishing)
Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard (Douglas & McIntyre)
Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC’s Lighthouses and their Keepers (Harbour Publishing)
2000 Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (Douglas & McIntyre)
Faith Moosang - First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy (Arsenal Pulp/Presentation House Gallery)
Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton - Lions Gate (Talonbooks)
John Baldwin - Mountains of the Coast (Harbour Publishing)
Kenneth Macrae Leighton - Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast (Creekstone Press)
2001 Dan Francis - The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Patricia Van Tighem - The Bear’s Embrace (Anchor)
Douglas Coupland - City of Glass (Douglas & McIntyre)
Terry Glavin - The Last Great Sea (Greystone Books)
Rosemary Neering - Wild West Women (Whitecap Books)
2002 Terry Reksten - Illustrated History of BC (Douglas & McIntyre)
Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson - How to Be a Canadian (Douglas & McIntyre)
Wade Davis - Light at the Edge of the World (Douglas & McIntyre)
Rick Blacklaws, Diana French - Ranchland (Harbour Publishing)
Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith - A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust)
2003 Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller - Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats (Harbour Publishing)
Bill Richardson - Dear Sad Goat (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ian Thom - E. J. Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre)
Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre)
Alison Watt - The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island (Harbour Publishing)
2004 R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 (Douglas & McIntyre)
Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories (Harbour Publishing)
Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor’s Raincoast(Harbour Publishing)
David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall (TouchWood Editions)
2005 Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume - Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (Harbour Publishing)
Anny Scoones - Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (Hedgerow Press)
Stephen Hume - Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Douglas Coupland - Souvenir of Canada 2 (Douglas & McIntyre)
David Suzuki and Wayne Grady - Tree: A Life Story (Greystone Books)
2006 James P. Delgado - Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver (Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers)
Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster - Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas (TouchWood Editions)
Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby - Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest (Harbour Publishing)
Douglas Coupland - Terry (Douglas & McIntyre)
Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke - Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing)
2007 David Suzuki - David Suzuki: The Autobiography (Greystone Books)
Lynne Van Luven (editor) - Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids (TouchWood Editions)
Daina Augaitus, Lucille Bell, Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter Macnair, Bill Reid, Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Don Yoemans - Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art (Douglas & McIntyre)
Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa’s Sweater (Sono Nis Press)
2008 Ian McAllister - The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest (Greystone Books)
Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories (Harbour Publishing)
Grant Arnold, Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Douglas & McIntyre)
Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape (Country Light Publishing)
2009 Stephen R. Bown – Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver (Douglas & McIntyre)
Jean Barman – British Columbia: Spirit of the People (Harbour Publishing)
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment (Greystone Books)
Cathy Converse – Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet (TouchWood Editions)
Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books)
2010 Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books)
Andrew Scott - Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Dal Richards with Jim Taylor - One More Time: The Dal Richards Story (Harbour Publishing)
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Red: A Haida Manga (Douglas & McIntyre)
Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa - Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen (Harbour Publishing)
2011 Grant Lawrence – Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbour Publishing)
Zsuzsi Gartner (editor) - Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ross King - Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (Douglas & McIntyre, co-published with McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
Gary Kent, illustrated by Kim La Fave - Fishing with Gubby (Harbour Publishing)
Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier (Douglas & McIntyre)
2012 Chuck Davis – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver (Harbour Publishing)
Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt (Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation)
Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia (TouchWood Editions)
Robert J. Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greystone Books)
2013 Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird - Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun)[4]
Jackson Davies and Marc Strange - Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40 (Harbour Publishing)
Daniel Francis - Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History (Harbour Publishing)
Derek Hayes - British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre)
Harold Kalman and Robin Ward - Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre)
The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a literary prize awarded annually by the BC Book Prizes for the "best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content." The prize is shared by the author and publisher. To qualify, the publisher must be located in British Columbia or the Yukon and in full creative control (editing, design and production). The winner, unlike the other prizes which are determined by judges, is selected by ballot sent to bookstores across the province of British Columbia.
The award is named in honour of BC bookseller Bill Duthie who founded Duthie's Books in 1957. It was first awarded in 1985 and was one of the original four prizes awarded by the BC Book Prizes. The prize used to be called "BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie" but the name was simplified in 2010 to align with the other BC Book Prizes.
1985 Islands Protection Society - Islands at the Edge (Douglas & McIntyre)
Hilary Stewart - Cedar (Douglas & McIntyre)
John Edwards - The Roman Cookery of Apicius (Hartley & Marks)
1986 Cameron Young et al, - The Forests of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
John Adams and Becky Thomas - Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells (Harbour Publishing)
Philip Hersee - Vancouver: Touch The Magic (self-published)
1987 Doris Shadbolt - Bill Reid (Douglas & McIntyre)
Philip Croft - Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian (Harbour Publishing)
Ruth Kirk - Wisdom of the Elders (Douglas & McIntyre)
1988 Hilary Stewart - The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Douglas & McIntyre)
Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor - Rick Hansen: Man In Motion (Douglas & McIntyre)
Howard White, Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury’s Coast (Harbour Publishing)
1989 Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire - Stein: The Way of the River (Talonbooks)
Bruce Hutchison - A Life In The Country (Douglas & McIntyre)
Joe Garner - Never Chop Your Rope (Cinnabar Press)
1990 Western Canada Wilderness Committee - Carmanah (Western Canada Wilderness Committee)
Paul St. Pierre - Chilcotin & Beyond (Douglas & McIntyre)
Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering - The Coast Of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
1991 Michael Kluckner - Vanishing Vancouver (Whitecap Books)
Jim Spilsbury - Spilsbury’s Album (Harbour Publishing)
Jack Webster - Webster! (Douglas & McIntyre)
1992 Robert Bringhurst and Ulli Steltzer (photographer) - The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and the Spirit of Hakla Gwaii (Douglas & McIntyre)
Liv Kennedy - Coastal Villages (Harbour Publishing)
Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris - Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia (Whitecap Books)
1993 Nick Bantock - Sabine's Notebook (Chronicle Books)
Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples - Nemiah: The Unconquered Country (New Star Books)
Bruce MacDonald - Vancouver: A Visual History (Talonbooks)
1994 Alan Haig-Brown - Fishing for a Living (Harbour Publishing)
Diane Swanson - The Emerald Sea (Whitecap Books)
Clayton Mack - Grizzlies & White Guys (Harbour Publishing)
1995 Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer - Eagle Transforming (Douglas & McIntyre)
Tom Henry - The Good Company (Harbour Publishing)
Rosalind MacPhee - Picasso’s Women (Douglas & McIntyre)
1996 Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book (Douglas & McIntyre)
Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Greystone Books)
Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan (Harbour Publishing)
1997 Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings - British Columbia: A Natural History (Greystone Books)
Bruce Obee - Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure (Beautiful British Columbia Magazine)
Maria Coffey - Sailing Back in Time (Whitecap Books)
1998 Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young - The Great Bear Rainforest (Harbour Publishing)
Keith Keller - Dangerous Waters (Harbour Publishing)
Ian Gill - Haida Gwaii (Raincoast Books)
1999 Tom Henry - Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC (Harbour Publishing)
Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard (Douglas & McIntyre)
Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC’s Lighthouses and their Keepers (Harbour Publishing)
2000 Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest (Douglas & McIntyre)
Faith Moosang - First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy (Arsenal Pulp/Presentation House Gallery)
Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton - Lions Gate (Talonbooks)
John Baldwin - Mountains of the Coast (Harbour Publishing)
Kenneth Macrae Leighton - Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast (Creekstone Press)
2001 Dan Francis - The Encyclopedia of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Patricia Van Tighem - The Bear’s Embrace (Anchor)
Douglas Coupland - City of Glass (Douglas & McIntyre)
Terry Glavin - The Last Great Sea (Greystone Books)
Rosemary Neering - Wild West Women (Whitecap Books)
2002 Terry Reksten - Illustrated History of BC (Douglas & McIntyre)
Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson - How to Be a Canadian (Douglas & McIntyre)
Wade Davis - Light at the Edge of the World (Douglas & McIntyre)
Rick Blacklaws, Diana French - Ranchland (Harbour Publishing)
Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith - A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust)
2003 Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller - Skookum Tugs: British Columbia's Working Tugboats (Harbour Publishing)
Bill Richardson - Dear Sad Goat (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ian Thom - E. J. Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre)
Derek Hayes - Historical Atlas of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre)
Alison Watt - The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island (Harbour Publishing)
2004 R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 (Douglas & McIntyre)
Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories (Harbour Publishing)
Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor’s Raincoast(Harbour Publishing)
David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall (TouchWood Editions)
2005 Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume - Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat (Harbour Publishing)
Anny Scoones - Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm (Hedgerow Press)
Stephen Hume - Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Douglas Coupland - Souvenir of Canada 2 (Douglas & McIntyre)
David Suzuki and Wayne Grady - Tree: A Life Story (Greystone Books)
2006 James P. Delgado - Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver (Stanton Atkins & Dosil Publishers)
Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster - Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas (TouchWood Editions)
Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby - Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest (Harbour Publishing)
Douglas Coupland - Terry (Douglas & McIntyre)
Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke - Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness (Harbour Publishing)
2007 David Suzuki - David Suzuki: The Autobiography (Greystone Books)
Lynne Van Luven (editor) - Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids (TouchWood Editions)
Daina Augaitus, Lucille Bell, Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter Macnair, Bill Reid, Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Don Yoemans - Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art (Douglas & McIntyre)
Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa’s Sweater (Sono Nis Press)
2008 Ian McAllister - The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest (Greystone Books)
Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories (Harbour Publishing)
Grant Arnold, Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Douglas & McIntyre)
Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape (Country Light Publishing)
2009 Stephen R. Bown – Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver (Douglas & McIntyre)
Jean Barman – British Columbia: Spirit of the People (Harbour Publishing)
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas – Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment (Greystone Books)
Cathy Converse – Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet (TouchWood Editions)
Andrew Nikiforuk – Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books)
2010 Brian Brett – Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books)
Andrew Scott - Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing)
Dal Richards with Jim Taylor - One More Time: The Dal Richards Story (Harbour Publishing)
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Red: A Haida Manga (Douglas & McIntyre)
Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa - Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen (Harbour Publishing)
2011 Grant Lawrence – Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbour Publishing)
Zsuzsi Gartner (editor) - Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (Douglas & McIntyre)
Ross King - Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (Douglas & McIntyre, co-published with McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
Gary Kent, illustrated by Kim La Fave - Fishing with Gubby (Harbour Publishing)
Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier (Douglas & McIntyre)
2012 Chuck Davis – The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver (Harbour Publishing)
Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt (Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation)
Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia (TouchWood Editions)
Robert J. Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greystone Books)
2013 Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird - Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun (The Vancouver Sun)[4]
Jackson Davies and Marc Strange - Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40 (Harbour Publishing)
Daniel Francis - Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History (Harbour Publishing)
Derek Hayes - British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas (Douglas & McIntyre)
Harold Kalman and Robin Ward - Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre)
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize 2003-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the author and illustrator of the best picture books, picture story books, and illustrated non-fiction books. The prize is shared by the author and the illustrator, who must be a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. It was announced in 2002 and first awarded in 2003. A handful of finalists (roughly 25%) are also selected for another award: participation in the expenses-paid BC Book Prizes on Tour, a week-long tour across the province to present their books at schools and libraries each April.
The prize was announced three months after the death of Christie Harris, and was the first new BC Book Prize category since the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize was introduced in 1987.
2003 Salmon Creek - by Annette LeBox, illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Amber Waiting - by Nan Gregory, illustratad by Kady Macdonald Denton
How Sleep Found Tabitha - by Maggie De Vries, illustrated by Sheena Lott
The Klondike Cat - by Julie Lawson, illustrated by Paul Mombourquette
Solomon’s Tree - by Andrea Spalding, illustrated by Janet Wilson
2004 Stanley’s Party - by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin
Adventures in Ancient China - by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid - by Julie Lawson, illustrated by Kasia Charko
Suki’s Kimono - by Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Sunny - by Robin Mitchell and Judith Steedman
2005 Goodbye to Griffith Street - by Marilynn Reynolds, illustrated by Renné Benoit
The Moccasins - by Earl Einarson, illustrated by Julie Flett
Owls - by Adrienne Mason, illustrated by Nancy Gray Ogle
Ride ‘em Cowboy - by Stefan Czernecki
When They Are Up - by Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer, illustrated by Kirsti Anne Wakelin
2006 The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams - by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Bamboo - by Paul Yee, illustrated by Shaoli Wang
The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada - by Diane Silvey, illustrated by John Manth
The Milkman - by Carol Foskett Cordsen, illustrated by Douglas B. Jones
Picturescape - by Elisa Gutiérrez
2007 Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story - by Maggie De Vries, illustrated by Renné Benoit
Abby’s Birds - by Ellen Schwartz, illustrated by Sima Elizabeth Shefrin
The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration - by Deborah Hodge, illustrated by John Mantha
The Queen’s Feet - by Sarah Ellis, illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Zoe and the Fawn - by Catherine Jameson, illustrated by Julie Flett
2008 A Sea-Wishing Day - by Robert Heidbreder, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
The Day It All Blew Away - by Lisa Cinar
Elf the Eagle - by Ron Smith, illustrated by Ruth Campbell
Jeffrey and Sloth - by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Ben Hodson
Pink - by Nan Gregory, illustrated by Luc Melanson
2009 The King Has Goat Ears - by Katarina Jovanovic, illustrated by Philippe Beha
Good-bye Marianne - by Irene N. Watts, illustrated by Kathryn E. Shoemaker
Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth - by Robert Bateman
Rosie and Buttercup - by Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Stanley At Sea - by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin
2010 Maggie Can’t Wait - by Frieda Wishinsky, illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts - by Fiona Bayrock, illustrated by Carolyn Conahan
Ella’s Umbrellas - by Jennifer Lloyd, illustrated by Ashley Spires
On My Walk - by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Christina Leist
Vanishing Habitats - by Robert Bateman
2011 Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet - by Julie Flett
The Cowboy Fisherman - by Seiji Hiroe
Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life - by Maggie de Vries, illustrated by Renné Benoit
The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest - by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read, illustrated by Ian McAllister
Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm - by Deborah Hodge, illustrated by Brian Harris
2012 When I Was Small - by Sara O'Leary
Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus - by Mike Deas, illustrated by Kim La Fave
Grandpa's Girls - by Nicola I. Campbell
Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been? - by Dan Bar-el, illustrated by Rae Maté
Shake Awakes - by Robert Heidbreder, illustrated by Marc Mongeau
2013 Maggie’s Chopsticks - by Alan Woo, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Gift Days - by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Stephen Taylor
Hey Canada! - by Vivien Bowers, illustrated by Milan Pavlovic
Rainbow Shoes - by Tiffany Stone, illustrated by Stefan Czernecki
What’s Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites - by Frieda Wishinsky, illustrated by Sean L. Moore
The Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the author and illustrator of the best picture books, picture story books, and illustrated non-fiction books. The prize is shared by the author and the illustrator, who must be a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. It was announced in 2002 and first awarded in 2003. A handful of finalists (roughly 25%) are also selected for another award: participation in the expenses-paid BC Book Prizes on Tour, a week-long tour across the province to present their books at schools and libraries each April.
The prize was announced three months after the death of Christie Harris, and was the first new BC Book Prize category since the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize was introduced in 1987.
2003 Salmon Creek - by Annette LeBox, illustrated by Karen Reczuch
Amber Waiting - by Nan Gregory, illustratad by Kady Macdonald Denton
How Sleep Found Tabitha - by Maggie De Vries, illustrated by Sheena Lott
The Klondike Cat - by Julie Lawson, illustrated by Paul Mombourquette
Solomon’s Tree - by Andrea Spalding, illustrated by Janet Wilson
2004 Stanley’s Party - by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin
Adventures in Ancient China - by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid - by Julie Lawson, illustrated by Kasia Charko
Suki’s Kimono - by Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Sunny - by Robin Mitchell and Judith Steedman
2005 Goodbye to Griffith Street - by Marilynn Reynolds, illustrated by Renné Benoit
The Moccasins - by Earl Einarson, illustrated by Julie Flett
Owls - by Adrienne Mason, illustrated by Nancy Gray Ogle
Ride ‘em Cowboy - by Stefan Czernecki
When They Are Up - by Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer, illustrated by Kirsti Anne Wakelin
2006 The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams - by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Bamboo - by Paul Yee, illustrated by Shaoli Wang
The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada - by Diane Silvey, illustrated by John Manth
The Milkman - by Carol Foskett Cordsen, illustrated by Douglas B. Jones
Picturescape - by Elisa Gutiérrez
2007 Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story - by Maggie De Vries, illustrated by Renné Benoit
Abby’s Birds - by Ellen Schwartz, illustrated by Sima Elizabeth Shefrin
The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration - by Deborah Hodge, illustrated by John Mantha
The Queen’s Feet - by Sarah Ellis, illustrated by Dusan Petricic
Zoe and the Fawn - by Catherine Jameson, illustrated by Julie Flett
2008 A Sea-Wishing Day - by Robert Heidbreder, illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
The Day It All Blew Away - by Lisa Cinar
Elf the Eagle - by Ron Smith, illustrated by Ruth Campbell
Jeffrey and Sloth - by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Ben Hodson
Pink - by Nan Gregory, illustrated by Luc Melanson
2009 The King Has Goat Ears - by Katarina Jovanovic, illustrated by Philippe Beha
Good-bye Marianne - by Irene N. Watts, illustrated by Kathryn E. Shoemaker
Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth - by Robert Bateman
Rosie and Buttercup - by Chieri Uegaki, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Stanley At Sea - by Linda Bailey, illustrated by Bill Slavin
2010 Maggie Can’t Wait - by Frieda Wishinsky, illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts - by Fiona Bayrock, illustrated by Carolyn Conahan
Ella’s Umbrellas - by Jennifer Lloyd, illustrated by Ashley Spires
On My Walk - by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Christina Leist
Vanishing Habitats - by Robert Bateman
2011 Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet - by Julie Flett
The Cowboy Fisherman - by Seiji Hiroe
Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life - by Maggie de Vries, illustrated by Renné Benoit
The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest - by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read, illustrated by Ian McAllister
Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm - by Deborah Hodge, illustrated by Brian Harris
2012 When I Was Small - by Sara O'Leary
Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus - by Mike Deas, illustrated by Kim La Fave
Grandpa's Girls - by Nicola I. Campbell
Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been? - by Dan Bar-el, illustrated by Rae Maté
Shake Awakes - by Robert Heidbreder, illustrated by Marc Mongeau
2013 Maggie’s Chopsticks - by Alan Woo, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Gift Days - by Kari-Lynn Winters, illustrated by Stephen Taylor
Hey Canada! - by Vivien Bowers, illustrated by Milan Pavlovic
Rainbow Shoes - by Tiffany Stone, illustrated by Stefan Czernecki
What’s Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites - by Frieda Wishinsky, illustrated by Sean L. Moore
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize 1987-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best juvenile or young adult novel or work of non-fiction by a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. It was first awarded in 1987. It is supported by the B.C Library Association.
1987 Sarah Ellis - The Baby Project
Paul Yee - The Curses of Third Uncle
James Houston - The Falcon Bow
1988 Nicola Morgan - Pride of Lions
Kit Pearson - A Handful of Time
Mary Razzell - Salmonberry Wine
1989 Mary-Ellen Lang Collura - Sunny
Florence McNeil - Catriona's Island
Deborah Turney Zagwyn - Mood Pocket, Mud Bucket
1990 Paul Yee - Tales from Gold Mountain
Sarah Ellis - Next-Door Neighbours
Kit Pearson - The Sky is Falling
1991 Nancy Hundal - I Heard My Mother Call My Name
Sue Ann Alderson - Chapter One
Scott Watson - Jack Shadbolt
1992 Alexandra Morton - Siwiti: A Whale's Story
Kit Pearson - Looking at the Moon
Sarah Ellis - Pick Up Sticks
1993 Shirley Sterling - My Name is Seepeetza
Ainslie Manson - A Dog Came Too
Sue Ann Alderson - Sure as Strawberries
1994 Julie Lawson - White Jade Tiger
David Bouchard - If You're Not from the Prairie
Sue Ann Alderson - A Ride for Martha
1995 Lillian Boraks-Nemetz - The Old Brown Suitcase
James Heneghan - Torn Away
Mary Razzell - White Wave
1996 Nan Gregory - How Smudge Came
Constance Horne - Emily Carr's Woo
Andrea Spalding - Finders Keepers
1997 Sarah Ellis - Back of Beyond
Kit Pearson - Awake and Dreaming
W.D. Valgardson - Sarah and the People of Sand River
1998 James Heneghan - Wish Me Luck
John Wilson - Across Frozen Seas
Julie Lawson - Emma and the Silk Train
1999 Sandra Lightburn - Driftwood Cove
Paul Yee - The Boy in the Attic
Ann Walsh - The Doctor's Apprentice
2000 Vivien Bowers - WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
Julie Ovenell-Carter (ill. Kitty Macaulay) - The Butterflies' Promise
W.D. Valgardson - The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
Karen Rivers - Dream Water
Nikki Tate - Tarragon Island
2001 James Heneghan - The Grave
Ainslie Manson - Ballerinas Don't Wear Glasses
W.D. Valgardson - Frances
Gayle Friesen - Men of Stone
Nikki Tate - No Cafes in Narnia
2002 Polly Horvath - Everything on a Waffle
Norma Charles - The Accomplice
Maggie de Vries - Chance and the Butterfly
Sarah Ellis - Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
Valerie Wyatt and John Mantha - The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts
2003 James Heneghan - Flood
Karen Rivers - The Gold Diggers Club
Luanne Armstrong - Jeannie and the Gentle Giants
John Lekich - The Losers' Club
Gayle Friesen - Losing Forever
2004 Dennis Foon - Skud
Polly Horvath - The Canning Season
John Wilson - Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
Sarah Ellis - The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Irene N. Watts and Lillian Boraks-Nemetz - Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
2005 Susan Juby - Miss Smithers
Eileen Kernaghan - The Alchemist's Daughter
Cynthia Nugent - Francesca and the Magic Bike
Sandy Frances Duncan - Gold Rush Orphan
Shelley Hrdlitschka - Kat's Fall
Sylvia Olsen - White Girl
2006 Barbara Nickel - Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastien Bach
Iain Lawrence - The Convicts
Pamela Porter - The Crazy Man
John Wilson - Four Steps to Death
Polly Horvath - The Vacation
2007 Sarah Ellis - Odd Man Out
Iain Lawrence - Gemini Summer
Craig Spence - Josh & the Magic Vial
James Heneghan - Safe House
Glen Huser - Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen
2008 Polly Horvath - The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane
John Wilson - The Alchemist's Dream
David Jones - Baboon: A Novel
Gayle Friesen - For Now
Meg Tilly - Porcupine
2009 Polly Horvath - My One Hundred Adventures
Graham McNamee - Bonechiller
Sarah N. Harvey - The Lit Report
Iain Lawrence - The Seance
Robin Stevenson - A Thousand Shades of Blue
2010 Carrie Mac - The Gryphon Project
Sylvio Olsen - Counting on Hope
Robin Stevenson - Inferno
Kristin Butcher - Return to Bone Tree Hill
Rachelle Delaney - The Ship of Lost Souls
2011 Maggie de Vries - Hunger Journeys
Susin Nielsen - Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom
Christy Jordon-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton - Fatty Legs: A True Story
Gina McMurchy-Barber - Free as a Bird
Polly Horvath - Northward to the Moon
2012 Moira Young - Blood Red Road
Pamela Porter - I'll Be Watching
Caitlyn Vernon - Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
Glen Huser - The Runaway
Karen Rivers - What is Real
2013 Caroline Adderson - Middle of Nowhere
Rachel Hartman - Seraphina
John Lekich - The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls
Victoria Miles - Mimi Power and the I-Don't-Know-What
Susin Nielsen - The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best juvenile or young adult novel or work of non-fiction by a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. It was first awarded in 1987. It is supported by the B.C Library Association.
1987 Sarah Ellis - The Baby Project
Paul Yee - The Curses of Third Uncle
James Houston - The Falcon Bow
1988 Nicola Morgan - Pride of Lions
Kit Pearson - A Handful of Time
Mary Razzell - Salmonberry Wine
1989 Mary-Ellen Lang Collura - Sunny
Florence McNeil - Catriona's Island
Deborah Turney Zagwyn - Mood Pocket, Mud Bucket
1990 Paul Yee - Tales from Gold Mountain
Sarah Ellis - Next-Door Neighbours
Kit Pearson - The Sky is Falling
1991 Nancy Hundal - I Heard My Mother Call My Name
Sue Ann Alderson - Chapter One
Scott Watson - Jack Shadbolt
1992 Alexandra Morton - Siwiti: A Whale's Story
Kit Pearson - Looking at the Moon
Sarah Ellis - Pick Up Sticks
1993 Shirley Sterling - My Name is Seepeetza
Ainslie Manson - A Dog Came Too
Sue Ann Alderson - Sure as Strawberries
1994 Julie Lawson - White Jade Tiger
David Bouchard - If You're Not from the Prairie
Sue Ann Alderson - A Ride for Martha
1995 Lillian Boraks-Nemetz - The Old Brown Suitcase
James Heneghan - Torn Away
Mary Razzell - White Wave
1996 Nan Gregory - How Smudge Came
Constance Horne - Emily Carr's Woo
Andrea Spalding - Finders Keepers
1997 Sarah Ellis - Back of Beyond
Kit Pearson - Awake and Dreaming
W.D. Valgardson - Sarah and the People of Sand River
1998 James Heneghan - Wish Me Luck
John Wilson - Across Frozen Seas
Julie Lawson - Emma and the Silk Train
1999 Sandra Lightburn - Driftwood Cove
Paul Yee - The Boy in the Attic
Ann Walsh - The Doctor's Apprentice
2000 Vivien Bowers - WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
Julie Ovenell-Carter (ill. Kitty Macaulay) - The Butterflies' Promise
W.D. Valgardson - The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
Karen Rivers - Dream Water
Nikki Tate - Tarragon Island
2001 James Heneghan - The Grave
Ainslie Manson - Ballerinas Don't Wear Glasses
W.D. Valgardson - Frances
Gayle Friesen - Men of Stone
Nikki Tate - No Cafes in Narnia
2002 Polly Horvath - Everything on a Waffle
Norma Charles - The Accomplice
Maggie de Vries - Chance and the Butterfly
Sarah Ellis - Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
Valerie Wyatt and John Mantha - The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts
2003 James Heneghan - Flood
Karen Rivers - The Gold Diggers Club
Luanne Armstrong - Jeannie and the Gentle Giants
John Lekich - The Losers' Club
Gayle Friesen - Losing Forever
2004 Dennis Foon - Skud
Polly Horvath - The Canning Season
John Wilson - Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
Sarah Ellis - The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Irene N. Watts and Lillian Boraks-Nemetz - Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
2005 Susan Juby - Miss Smithers
Eileen Kernaghan - The Alchemist's Daughter
Cynthia Nugent - Francesca and the Magic Bike
Sandy Frances Duncan - Gold Rush Orphan
Shelley Hrdlitschka - Kat's Fall
Sylvia Olsen - White Girl
2006 Barbara Nickel - Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastien Bach
Iain Lawrence - The Convicts
Pamela Porter - The Crazy Man
John Wilson - Four Steps to Death
Polly Horvath - The Vacation
2007 Sarah Ellis - Odd Man Out
Iain Lawrence - Gemini Summer
Craig Spence - Josh & the Magic Vial
James Heneghan - Safe House
Glen Huser - Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen
2008 Polly Horvath - The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane
John Wilson - The Alchemist's Dream
David Jones - Baboon: A Novel
Gayle Friesen - For Now
Meg Tilly - Porcupine
2009 Polly Horvath - My One Hundred Adventures
Graham McNamee - Bonechiller
Sarah N. Harvey - The Lit Report
Iain Lawrence - The Seance
Robin Stevenson - A Thousand Shades of Blue
2010 Carrie Mac - The Gryphon Project
Sylvio Olsen - Counting on Hope
Robin Stevenson - Inferno
Kristin Butcher - Return to Bone Tree Hill
Rachelle Delaney - The Ship of Lost Souls
2011 Maggie de Vries - Hunger Journeys
Susin Nielsen - Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom
Christy Jordon-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton - Fatty Legs: A True Story
Gina McMurchy-Barber - Free as a Bird
Polly Horvath - Northward to the Moon
2012 Moira Young - Blood Red Road
Pamela Porter - I'll Be Watching
Caitlyn Vernon - Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
Glen Huser - The Runaway
Karen Rivers - What is Real
2013 Caroline Adderson - Middle of Nowhere
Rachel Hartman - Seraphina
John Lekich - The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls
Victoria Miles - Mimi Power and the I-Don't-Know-What
Susin Nielsen - The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 1985-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
1985 David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law
Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986 Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country
1987 Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid
Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988 P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal
Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989 Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven
Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John
Paul Yee – Salt Water City
1990 Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan
Stan Persky – Buddy's
Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1991 Scott Wilson – Jack Shadbolt
1992 Rosemary Neering – Down The Road
Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993 Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through
Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994 Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers
Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995 Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues
Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996 Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna
Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997 Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu
Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998 Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – What I Remember from My Time on Earth
Richard Bocking – Mighty River
Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
1999 Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane
2000 Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels
Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
James Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001 Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea
Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
2002 Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
Stephen Hume – Off the Map
Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
2003 Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
Thomas Berger – One Man's Justice
Keath Fraser – The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
Cole Harris – Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia
Derek Lundy – The Way of the Ship
2004 Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005 Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen
Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
Patrick Lane – There is a Season
Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the
World
2006 Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book
Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
Rita Moir – Windshift Line
John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007 Heather Pringle – The Master Plan:Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Eric Miller – The Reservoir
Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008 Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing
J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb
Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009 Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay
Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010 Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
2011 John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan
Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
2012 Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt
Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root
JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
2013 Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975[2]
Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
George Bowering - Pinboy
Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
1985 David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law
Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986 Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country
1987 Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid
Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988 P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal
Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989 Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven
Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John
Paul Yee – Salt Water City
1990 Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan
Stan Persky – Buddy's
Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1991 Scott Wilson – Jack Shadbolt
1992 Rosemary Neering – Down The Road
Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993 Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through
Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994 Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers
Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995 Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues
Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996 Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna
Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997 Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu
Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998 Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – What I Remember from My Time on Earth
Richard Bocking – Mighty River
Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
1999 Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane
2000 Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels
Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
James Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001 Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea
Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
2002 Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
Stephen Hume – Off the Map
Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
2003 Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
Thomas Berger – One Man's Justice
Keath Fraser – The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
Cole Harris – Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia
Derek Lundy – The Way of the Ship
2004 Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005 Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen
Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
Patrick Lane – There is a Season
Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the
World
2006 Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book
Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
Rita Moir – Windshift Line
John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007 Heather Pringle – The Master Plan:Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Eric Miller – The Reservoir
Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008 Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing
J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb
Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009 Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay
Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010 Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
2011 John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan
Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
2012 Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt
Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root
JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
2013 Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975[2]
Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
George Bowering - Pinboy
Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize 1985-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Roderick Haig-Brown Prize is part of the BC Book Prizes, awarded in celebration of the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. It is awarded to the author(s) of books who "contributes most to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". No requirements in terms of publication or author residence exist.
1985 Hilary Stewart, Cedar
Barry Gough, Gunboat Frontier
Saeko Usukawa, Sound Heritage
1986 Donald Graham, Keepers of the Light
Douglas Cole, "Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
Peter Murray, The Devil and Mr. Duncan
1987 Ruth Kirk, Wisdom of the Elders
Philip Croft, Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Alan Twigg, Vancouver and Its Winters
1988 W.A. Hagelund, Whalers No More
Jo-Ann Canning-Dew, Hastings & Main
Lynne Bowen, Three Dollar Dreams
1989 Celia Haig-Brown, Resistance and Renewal
Howard White, The Accidental Airline
Bridget Moran, Stoney Creek Woman
1990 Western Canada Wildernesss Committee, Carmanah
Earl K. Pollon, Shirley Smith Matheson, This Was Our Valley
Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Write It On Your Heart
1991 Paul Tennant, Aboriginal People and Politics
Cyril E. Leonoff, An Enterprising Life
Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
1992 Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
Michael Poole, Ragged Islands
Jean Barman, The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
1993 Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Bruce MacDonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
Vickie Jensen, Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
1994 Alex Rose (editor), Nisga'a Tribal Council, illustrated by Gary Flegehen, Nisga'a: People of the Nass River
Graham Osborne, British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
Alan Haig-Brown, Fishing for a Living
1995 Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
Tzeporah Berman et al., illustrated by Marguerite Gibbons, Clayoquot & Dissent
Beth Hill, Seven-Knot Summers
1996 Ken Drushka, HR: A Biography Of H.R. MacMillan
Tom Henry, Dogless in Metchosin
Patrick Reid, Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
1997 Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws, The Fraser River
Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings, British Columbia: A Natural History
Don Gayton, Landscapes of the Interior
1998 Richard Bocking, Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
Michael Kluckner, The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
Daniel Wood, Beverly Sinclair, Western Journeys
1999 Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen, River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
Helene Cyr, Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter's Experience
Sean Rossiter, Hotel Georgia
2000 Margaret Horsfield, Cougar Annie's Garden
Faith Moosang, First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy
Dick Hammond, Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
2001 Daniel Francis, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Richard Somerset Mackie, Island Timber
Terry Glavin, The Last Great Sea
Philip Resnick, The Politics of Resentment
Harold Rhenisch, Tom Thomson's Shack
Gary Wyatt, Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
2002 Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith, A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
Wayne Campbell, et al., Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
John Armstrong, Guilty of Everything
Terry Reksten, Illustrated History of BC
Maria Coffey, Dag Goering, Visions of the Wild
2003 Earnest Perrault, Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan
Ian Thom, E.J. Hughes
Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy, Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
Alison Watt, The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
Francis Mansbridge, Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock
2004 Donald Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
Ross Freake and Don Plant, Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
Rob Butler, The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
David Nunuk, Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
R. Samuel Bawlf, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
2005 Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
Robert Hunter and Robert Keziere, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
Nancy J. Turner, Plants of Haida Gwaii
Jay Sherwood, Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photo Journal of Frank Swannell
2006 John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster, Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
Daryl Ashby, John Muir: West Coast Pioneer
Jean Barman, Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
2007 Katherine Gordon, Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia
Judith Williams, Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast
Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill, and Johanne Lamoureux, Emily Carr
Jan Hare and Jean Barman, Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
Rachel Lebowitz, Hannus
2008 J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Barry Gough, Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest
Ian McAllister, The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture
Chris Harris, Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
2009 Stephen Hume, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Donald A. Pettit, The Peace: A History in Photographs
Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
Margaret Horsfield, Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929
2010 Andrew Scott, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
Ian Gill, All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
Lorne Dufour, Jacob's Prayer
Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
2011 Dan Savard, Images from the Likeness House
Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis, The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors), Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual
Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
2012 Chuck Davis, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver [2]
Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests
Fred Herzog, Fred Herzog: Photographs
Sheryl Salloum, Foreword by Sherrill Grace, The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton [#4 in the Unheralded Artists of BC Series]
Scott Watson, Edited by Naomi Sawada & Jana Tyner, Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries
2013 Derek Hayes, British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas [3]
Aaron Chapman, Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
Jackson Davies and Marc Strange, Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
Ali Kazimi, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru - An Illustrated History
Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
The Roderick Haig-Brown Prize is part of the BC Book Prizes, awarded in celebration of the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. It is awarded to the author(s) of books who "contributes most to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". No requirements in terms of publication or author residence exist.
1985 Hilary Stewart, Cedar
Barry Gough, Gunboat Frontier
Saeko Usukawa, Sound Heritage
1986 Donald Graham, Keepers of the Light
Douglas Cole, "Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
Peter Murray, The Devil and Mr. Duncan
1987 Ruth Kirk, Wisdom of the Elders
Philip Croft, Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Alan Twigg, Vancouver and Its Winters
1988 W.A. Hagelund, Whalers No More
Jo-Ann Canning-Dew, Hastings & Main
Lynne Bowen, Three Dollar Dreams
1989 Celia Haig-Brown, Resistance and Renewal
Howard White, The Accidental Airline
Bridget Moran, Stoney Creek Woman
1990 Western Canada Wildernesss Committee, Carmanah
Earl K. Pollon, Shirley Smith Matheson, This Was Our Valley
Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Write It On Your Heart
1991 Paul Tennant, Aboriginal People and Politics
Cyril E. Leonoff, An Enterprising Life
Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
1992 Herb Hammond, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
Michael Poole, Ragged Islands
Jean Barman, The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
1993 Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire, Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Bruce MacDonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
Vickie Jensen, Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
1994 Alex Rose (editor), Nisga'a Tribal Council, illustrated by Gary Flegehen, Nisga'a: People of the Nass River
Graham Osborne, British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
Alan Haig-Brown, Fishing for a Living
1995 Howard White, Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
Tzeporah Berman et al., illustrated by Marguerite Gibbons, Clayoquot & Dissent
Beth Hill, Seven-Knot Summers
1996 Ken Drushka, HR: A Biography Of H.R. MacMillan
Tom Henry, Dogless in Metchosin
Patrick Reid, Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
1997 Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws, The Fraser River
Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings, British Columbia: A Natural History
Don Gayton, Landscapes of the Interior
1998 Richard Bocking, Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
Michael Kluckner, The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
Daniel Wood, Beverly Sinclair, Western Journeys
1999 Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen, River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
Helene Cyr, Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter's Experience
Sean Rossiter, Hotel Georgia
2000 Margaret Horsfield, Cougar Annie's Garden
Faith Moosang, First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy
Dick Hammond, Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
2001 Daniel Francis, The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Richard Somerset Mackie, Island Timber
Terry Glavin, The Last Great Sea
Philip Resnick, The Politics of Resentment
Harold Rhenisch, Tom Thomson's Shack
Gary Wyatt, Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
2002 Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith, A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
Wayne Campbell, et al., Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
John Armstrong, Guilty of Everything
Terry Reksten, Illustrated History of BC
Maria Coffey, Dag Goering, Visions of the Wild
2003 Earnest Perrault, Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan
Ian Thom, E.J. Hughes
Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy, Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
Alison Watt, The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
Francis Mansbridge, Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock
2004 Donald Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
Ross Freake and Don Plant, Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
Rob Butler, The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
David Nunuk, Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
R. Samuel Bawlf, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580
2005 Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford, A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming
Robert Hunter and Robert Keziere, The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey
Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
Nancy J. Turner, Plants of Haida Gwaii
Jay Sherwood, Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photo Journal of Frank Swannell
2006 John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster, Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas
Daryl Ashby, John Muir: West Coast Pioneer
Jean Barman, Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point
2007 Katherine Gordon, Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia
Judith Williams, Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast
Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill, and Johanne Lamoureux, Emily Carr
Jan Hare and Jean Barman, Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast
Rachel Lebowitz, Hannus
2008 J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Barry Gough, Fortune's River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest
Ian McAllister, The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture
Chris Harris, Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
2009 Stephen Hume, Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Donald A. Pettit, The Peace: A History in Photographs
Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect
Margaret Horsfield, Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929
2010 Andrew Scott, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
Ian Gill, All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
Lorne Dufour, Jacob's Prayer
Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
2011 Dan Savard, Images from the Likeness House
Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis, The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors), Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual
Sylvia Olsen, Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
2012 Chuck Davis, The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver [2]
Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests
Fred Herzog, Fred Herzog: Photographs
Sheryl Salloum, Foreword by Sherrill Grace, The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton [#4 in the Unheralded Artists of BC Series]
Scott Watson, Edited by Naomi Sawada & Jana Tyner, Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries
2013 Derek Hayes, British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas [3]
Aaron Chapman, Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver's Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
Jackson Davies and Marc Strange, Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
Ali Kazimi, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru - An Illustrated History
Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan, Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 1985-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).
1985 Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life
Mary Ellen Collura, Winners
Charles Lillard, A Coastal Range
1986 Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs
Brian Fawcett, The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
George Ryga, In the Shadow of the Vulture
L. R. Wright, The Suspect
1987 Leona Gom, Housebroken
Paulette Jiles, Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
1988 George McWhirter, Cage
Jane Rule, Memory Board
Robin Skelton, The Parrot Who Could
1989 Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa
William Goede, Love In Beijing
Robert Harlow, Saxophone Winter
1990 Keith Maillard, Motet
Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances A Lady
Jane Rule, After The Fire
1991 Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder
Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
Caroline Woodward, Disturbing The Peace
1992 Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon
Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993 W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face
J.A. Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories
Linda Svendsen, Marine Life
1994 Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
Keith Maillard, Light In The Company Of Women
Carol Windley, Visible Light
1995 Gayla Reid, To Be There With You
Grant Buday, Under Glass
Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans
1996 Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa
Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends
Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon
1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife
Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
1998 Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose
Holley Rubinsky, At First I Hope for Rescue
1999 Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground
Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden
Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000 Michael Turner, The Pornographer's Poem
Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting
Zsuzsi Gartner, All the Anxious Girls on Earth
Keith Harrison, Furry Creek
Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood
2001 Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
Anita Rau Badami, The Hero's Walk
Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus
Peter Trower, The Judas Hills
Jack Whyte, Uther
2002 Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
Rebecca Godfrey, The Torn Skirt
Andrew Gray, Small Accidents
Gayla Reid, All the Seas of the World
Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
2003 Carol Shields, Unless
Kevin Armstrong, Nightwatch
Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
Nancy Lee, Dead Girls
Gayla Reid, Closer Apart
2004 Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice
Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means
Steven Galloway, Ascension
Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold
Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys
2005 Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
Bill Gaston, Sointula
Theresa Kishkan, A Man in a Distant Field
Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing for You
Patrick Taylor, The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty
2006 Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
Clint Burnham, Smoke Show
Lydia Kwa, The Walking Boy
John Lent, So It Won't Go Away
Audrey Thomas, Tattycoram
2007 Carol Windley, Home Schooling
Marilyn Bowering, What It Takes to Be Human
Bill Gaston, Gargoyles
Anosh Irani, The Song of Kahunsha
Adam Lewis Schroeder, Empress of Asia
2008 Mary Novik, Conceit
Heather Burt, Adam's Peak
David Chariandy, Soucouyant
Shaena Lambert, Radiance
Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim
2009 Lee Henderson, The Man Game
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
Paul Headrick, That Tune Clutches My Heart
Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog
Andreas Schroeder, Renovating Heaven
2010 Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
Michael Turner, 8 x 10
Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder
Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories
2011 Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye
Rifet Bahtijaragic, Chernovs’ Toil and Peace
Jack Whyte, The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
Jack Hodgins, The Master of Happy Endings
Meredith Quartermain, Recipes from the Red Planet
2012 Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
Steven Price, Into The Darkness
D.W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle
Frances Greenslade, Shelter
2013 Bill Gaston, The World
C.P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories
Anne Fleming, Gay Dwarves of America
Anakana Schofield, Malarky
Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).
1985 Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life
Mary Ellen Collura, Winners
Charles Lillard, A Coastal Range
1986 Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs
Brian Fawcett, The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
George Ryga, In the Shadow of the Vulture
L. R. Wright, The Suspect
1987 Leona Gom, Housebroken
Paulette Jiles, Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
1988 George McWhirter, Cage
Jane Rule, Memory Board
Robin Skelton, The Parrot Who Could
1989 Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa
William Goede, Love In Beijing
Robert Harlow, Saxophone Winter
1990 Keith Maillard, Motet
Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances A Lady
Jane Rule, After The Fire
1991 Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder
Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
Caroline Woodward, Disturbing The Peace
1992 Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon
Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993 W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face
J.A. Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories
Linda Svendsen, Marine Life
1994 Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
Keith Maillard, Light In The Company Of Women
Carol Windley, Visible Light
1995 Gayla Reid, To Be There With You
Grant Buday, Under Glass
Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans
1996 Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa
Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends
Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon
1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife
Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
1998 Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose
Holley Rubinsky, At First I Hope for Rescue
1999 Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground
Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden
Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000 Michael Turner, The Pornographer's Poem
Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting
Zsuzsi Gartner, All the Anxious Girls on Earth
Keith Harrison, Furry Creek
Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood
2001 Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
Anita Rau Badami, The Hero's Walk
Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus
Peter Trower, The Judas Hills
Jack Whyte, Uther
2002 Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
Rebecca Godfrey, The Torn Skirt
Andrew Gray, Small Accidents
Gayla Reid, All the Seas of the World
Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park
2003 Carol Shields, Unless
Kevin Armstrong, Nightwatch
Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
Nancy Lee, Dead Girls
Gayla Reid, Closer Apart
2004 Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice
Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means
Steven Galloway, Ascension
Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold
Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys
2005 Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
Bill Gaston, Sointula
Theresa Kishkan, A Man in a Distant Field
Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing for You
Patrick Taylor, The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty
2006 Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
Clint Burnham, Smoke Show
Lydia Kwa, The Walking Boy
John Lent, So It Won't Go Away
Audrey Thomas, Tattycoram
2007 Carol Windley, Home Schooling
Marilyn Bowering, What It Takes to Be Human
Bill Gaston, Gargoyles
Anosh Irani, The Song of Kahunsha
Adam Lewis Schroeder, Empress of Asia
2008 Mary Novik, Conceit
Heather Burt, Adam's Peak
David Chariandy, Soucouyant
Shaena Lambert, Radiance
Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim
2009 Lee Henderson, The Man Game
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
Paul Headrick, That Tune Clutches My Heart
Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog
Andreas Schroeder, Renovating Heaven
2010 Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
Michael Turner, 8 x 10
Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder
Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories
2011 Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye
Rifet Bahtijaragic, Chernovs’ Toil and Peace
Jack Whyte, The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
Jack Hodgins, The Master of Happy Endings
Meredith Quartermain, Recipes from the Red Planet
2012 Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
Steven Price, Into The Darkness
D.W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle
Frances Greenslade, Shelter
2013 Bill Gaston, The World
C.P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories
Anne Fleming, Gay Dwarves of America
Anakana Schofield, Malarky
Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 1986-2013
from wikipedia accessed 6/27/13
The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
One of the B.C. Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry.
Winners and nominees[edit]
1986 Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel
1987 Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers
John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled
Tom Wayman, The Face of Jack Munro
1988 Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
Norm Sibum, Eight Poems
Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash
1989 Charles Lillard, Circling North
Doug Beardsley, Dancing Star
bill bissett, what we have
1990 Victoria Walker, Suitcase
Marlene Cookshaw, The Whole Elephant
Maureen McCarthy, The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
1991 Jeff Derksen, Down Time
bill bissett, Hard 2 beleev
Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire
1992 Barry McKinnon, Pulplog
John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis
Michael Turner, Company Town
1993 bill bissett, Inkorrect Thoughts
Kirsten Emmott, How Do You Feel?
Diana Hartog, Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
1994 Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
Brian Brett, Poems New and Selected
Howard White, Ghost in the Gears
1995 Linda Rogers, Hard Candy
Aaron Bushowsky, Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon
Adeena Karasick, Mêmewars
1996 Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce
Kate Braid, To this Cedar Fountain
Robin Skelton, The Edge of Time
1997 Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings
Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
Joyce Nelson, Seeing in the Dark
1998 Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
Lyle Neff, Ivanhoe Station
Linda Rogers, Heaven Cake
1999 David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last
Patrick Friesen, St. Mary at Main
Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
2000 Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go
Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm
Susan Musgrave, Things That Keep and Do Not Change
D.C. Reid, Love and Other Things That Hurt
Tom Wayman, The Colours of the Forest
2001 Don McKay, Another Gravity
George Bowering, His Life
Patrick Lane, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
John Pass, Water Stair
Sue Wheeler, Slow-Moving Target
2002 Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
Stephen Guppy, Understanding Heaven
Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
Daphne Marlatt, This Tremor Love Is
Catherine Owen, The Wrecks of Eden
2003 bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes / text bites
Colin Browne, Ground Water
Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless
Patrick Friesen, The Breath You Take from the Lord
Tom Wayman, My Father's Cup
2004 Philip Kevin Paul, Taking the Names Down from the Hill
Marilyn Bowering, The Alchemy of Happiness
Robert Bringhurst, Ursa Major
Denise Cammiade, The Creature I Am
Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain
2005 Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing
Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past
Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart
Patrick Lane, Go Leaving
D.C. Reid, The Hunger
2006 Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking
Stephen Collis, Anarchive
Jordan Scott, Silt
George Sipos, Anything But the Moon
Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
2007 Don McKay, Strike / Slip
Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon
Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria
Terence Young, Moving Day
2008 Rita Wong, Forage
George McWhirter, The Incorrection
Christopher Patton, Ox
Arleen Paré, Paper Trail
Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography
2009 Daphne Marlatt, The Given
Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours
Nilofar Shidmehr, Shirin and Salt Man
George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem
Karen Hofmann, Water Strider
2010 Fred Wah, Is a Door
Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies
David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn
Miranda Pearson, Harbour
Gillian Jerome, Red Nest
2011 Stephen Collis, On the Material
Ken Belford, Decompositions
Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours
George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey
Eve Joseph, The Secret Signature of Things
2012 John Pass, Crawlspace
Patrick Lane, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
Susan McCaslin, Demeter Goes Skydiving
Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages
Sharon Thesen, Oyama Pink Shale
2013 Sarah de Leeuw, Geographies of a Lover
Evelyn Lau, A Grain of Rice
Roger Farr, IKMQ
Patricia Young, Night-Eater
Colin Browne, The Properties
The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.
One of the B.C. Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry.
Winners and nominees[edit]
1986 Joe Rosenblatt, Poetry Hotel
1987 Diana Hartog, Candy from Strangers
John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled
Tom Wayman, The Face of Jack Munro
1988 Patricia Young, All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
Norm Sibum, Eight Poems
Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash
1989 Charles Lillard, Circling North
Doug Beardsley, Dancing Star
bill bissett, what we have
1990 Victoria Walker, Suitcase
Marlene Cookshaw, The Whole Elephant
Maureen McCarthy, The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
1991 Jeff Derksen, Down Time
bill bissett, Hard 2 beleev
Phyllis Webb, Hanging Fire
1992 Barry McKinnon, Pulplog
John Pass, The Hour's Acropolis
Michael Turner, Company Town
1993 bill bissett, Inkorrect Thoughts
Kirsten Emmott, How Do You Feel?
Diana Hartog, Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
1994 Gregory Scofield, The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
Brian Brett, Poems New and Selected
Howard White, Ghost in the Gears
1995 Linda Rogers, Hard Candy
Aaron Bushowsky, Ed and Mabel Go to the Moon
Adeena Karasick, Mêmewars
1996 Patrick Lane, Too Spare, Too Fierce
Kate Braid, To this Cedar Fountain
Robin Skelton, The Edge of Time
1997 Margo Button, The Unhinging of Wings
Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
Joyce Nelson, Seeing in the Dark
1998 Patricia Young, What I Remember from My Time on Earth
Lyle Neff, Ivanhoe Station
Linda Rogers, Heaven Cake
1999 David Zieroth, How I Joined Humanity at Last
Patrick Friesen, St. Mary at Main
Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
2000 Lorna Crozier, What the Living Won't Let Go
Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm
Susan Musgrave, Things That Keep and Do Not Change
D.C. Reid, Love and Other Things That Hurt
Tom Wayman, The Colours of the Forest
2001 Don McKay, Another Gravity
George Bowering, His Life
Patrick Lane, The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
John Pass, Water Stair
Sue Wheeler, Slow-Moving Target
2002 Karen Solie, Short Haul Engine
Stephen Guppy, Understanding Heaven
Aislinn Hunter, Into the Early Hours
Daphne Marlatt, This Tremor Love Is
Catherine Owen, The Wrecks of Eden
2003 bill bissett, peter among th towring boxes / text bites
Colin Browne, Ground Water
Marlene Cookshaw, Shameless
Patrick Friesen, The Breath You Take from the Lord
Tom Wayman, My Father's Cup
2004 Philip Kevin Paul, Taking the Names Down from the Hill
Marilyn Bowering, The Alchemy of Happiness
Robert Bringhurst, Ursa Major
Denise Cammiade, The Creature I Am
Russell Thornton, House Built of Rain
2005 Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing
Aislinn Hunter, The Possible Past
Eve Joseph, The Startled Heart
Patrick Lane, Go Leaving
D.C. Reid, The Hunger
2006 Meredith Quartermain, Vancouver Walking
Stephen Collis, Anarchive
Jordan Scott, Silt
George Sipos, Anything But the Moon
Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences
2007 Don McKay, Strike / Slip
Maxine Gadd, Backup to Babylon
Steven Price, Anatomy of Keys
Sharon Thesen, The Good Bacteria
Terence Young, Moving Day
2008 Rita Wong, Forage
George McWhirter, The Incorrection
Christopher Patton, Ox
Arleen Paré, Paper Trail
Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography
2009 Daphne Marlatt, The Given
Elise Partridge, Chameleon Hours
Nilofar Shidmehr, Shirin and Salt Man
George Stanley, Vancouver: A Poem
Karen Hofmann, Water Strider
2010 Fred Wah, Is a Door
Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies
David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn
Miranda Pearson, Harbour
Gillian Jerome, Red Nest
2011 Stephen Collis, On the Material
Ken Belford, Decompositions
Jen Currin, The Inquisition Yours
George Bowering, My Darling Nellie Grey
Eve Joseph, The Secret Signature of Things
2012 John Pass, Crawlspace
Patrick Lane, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
Susan McCaslin, Demeter Goes Skydiving
Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages
Sharon Thesen, Oyama Pink Shale
2013 Sarah de Leeuw, Geographies of a Lover
Evelyn Lau, A Grain of Rice
Roger Farr, IKMQ
Patricia Young, Night-Eater
Colin Browne, The Properties
BC Book Prizes (1985-2011)
This post has been updated under each individual prize instead of in this post which still needs formatting help. The awards include:
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
* * * * *
2011 Information from BC Book Prizes accessed 3/17/11
2011 FINALISTS
The West Coast Book Prize Society is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2011 BC Book Prizes. Winners announced April 21, 2011
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Chernovs’ Toil and Peace by Rifet Bahtijaragic
Everything Was Good-Bye by Gurjinder Basran
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace by Jack Whyte
The Master of Happy Endings by Jack Hodgins
Recipes from the Red Planet by Meredith Quartermain
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America by Derek Lundy
Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland
Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life by Morris Bates, Jim Brown
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Decompositions by Ken Belford
The Inquisition Yours by Jen Currin
My Darling Nellie Grey by George Bowering
On The Material by Stephen Collis
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence
Images from the Likeness House by Dan Savard
The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History by Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis
Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual by Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors)
Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater by Sylvia Olsen
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielsen
Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordon-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber
Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries
Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
The Cowboy Fisherman by Seiji Hiroe
Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life by Maggie de Vries
Owls See Clearly at Night (Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer): A Michif Alphabet / L’alfabet di Michi by Julie Flett
The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read
Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm by Deborah Hodge
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence
Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow by Zsuzsi Gartner (editor)
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King
Fishing with Gubby by Gary Kent
Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier by Robert Budd
2011 Non-Fiction Longlist from British Columbia Achievement Foundation accessed 12/14/10
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women Stevie Cameron -- shortlist
Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan Douglas Coupland
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past James FitzGerald -- shortlist
Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard Valerie Fortney
Mordecai: The Life & Times Charles Foran -- shortlist
Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In the Klondike Charlotte Gray
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training Tom Jokinen
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Lifes Work at 72 Molly Peacock
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival John Vaillant -- Winner!
The Wave: In the Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean Susan Casey
2010 Finalists from BC Book Prizes accessed 5/3/10
The West Coast Book Prize Society is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2010 BC Book Prizes. Congratulations to the authors and their publishers!
Winners announced April 24, 2010 | emcee Shelagh Rogers | Government House, Victoria
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison by Cathleen With
8 x 10 by Michael Turner
Daniel O’Thunder by Ian Weir
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir by Lorna Crozier
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness by Brian Payton
Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes by Ehor Boyanowsky
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
Vancouver Special by Charles Demers
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! is a door by Fred Wah
Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai
The Fly in Autumn by David Zieroth
Harbour by Miranda Pearson
Red Nest by Gillian Jerome
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia by Andrew Scott
All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation by Ian Gill
Jacob’s Prayer by Lorne Dufour
A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future by Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! The Gryphon Project by Carrie Mac
Counting on Hope by Sylvia Olsen
Inferno by Robin Stevenson
Return to Bone Tree Hill by Kristin Butcher
The Ship of Lost Souls by Rachelle Delaney
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! Maggie Can’t Wait by Frieda Wishinsky Illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts by Fiona Bayrock Illustrated by Carolyn Conahan
Ella’s Umbrellas by Jennifer Lloyd Illustrated by Ashley Spires
On My Walk by Kari-Lynn Winters Illustrated by Christina Leist
Vanishing Habitats by Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs Illustrated by Robert Bateman
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Winner! Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia by Andrew Scott
One More Time: The Dal Richards Story by Dal Richards with Jim Taylor
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen by Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Stan Persky
2009 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Man Game by Lee Henderson
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
Renovating Heaven by Andreas Schroeder
That Tune Clutches My Heart by Paul Headrick
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate, MD
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America by Chris Wood
Going Home: Essays by Tim Lilburn
The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message by Rex Weyler
What is America? A Short History of the New World Order by Ronald Wright
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! The Given by Daphne Marlatt
Chameleon Hours by Elise Partridge
Shirin and Salt Man by Nilofar Shidmehr
Vancouver: A Poem by George Stanley
Water Strider by Karen Hofmann
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia by Stephen Hume
Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside by Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome
The Peace: A History in Photographs by Donald A. Pettit
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect by Daphne Bramham
Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929
by Margaret Horsfield
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
The Lit Report by Sarah N. Harvey
The Séance by Iain Lawrence
A Thousand Shades of Blue by Robin Stevenson
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! The King Has Goat Ears by Katarina Jovanovic
Good-bye Marianne by Irene N. Watts
Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth by Robert Bateman
Rosie and Buttercup by Chieri Uegaki
Stanley At Sea by Linda Bailey
BC Booksellers’ Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver by Stephen Bown
British Columbia: Spirit of the People by Jean Barman
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet by Cathy Converse
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Terry Glavin
2008 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Conceit by Mary Novik
Adam’s Peak by Heather Burt
Radiance by Shaena Lambert
The Reckoning of Boston Jim by Claire Mulligan
Soucouyant by David Chariandy
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Everywhere Being is Dancing by Robert Bringhurst
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden by Don Gayton
Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan
The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 by Patricia E. Roy
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Forageby Rita Wong
The Incorrection by George McWhirter
Ox by Christopher Patton
Paper Trail by Arleen Paré
Soft Geography by Gillian Wigmore
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest by Barry Gough
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture by Tim Bowling
Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape by Chris Harris
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath
The Alchemist’s Dream by John Wilson
Baboon: A Novel by David Jones
For Now by Gayle Friesen
Porcupine by Meg Tilly
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! A Sea-Wishing Day by Robert Heidbreder
The Day It All Blew Away by Lisa Cinar
Elf the Eagle by Ron Smith
Jeffrey and Sloth by Kari-Lynn Winters
Pink by Nan Gregory
BC Booksellers’ Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister
The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories by Mike McCardell
Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs by Grant Arnold, Michael Turner
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape by Chris Harris
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Gary Geddes
2007 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Home Schooling by Carol Windley
Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder
Gargoyles by Bill Gaston
The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
What It Takes to Be Human by Marilyn Bowering
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada by Dan Zuberi
The Reservoir by Eric Miller
The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century by Harold Rhenisch
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Strike/Slip by Don McKay
Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price
Backup to Babylon by Maxine Gadd
The Good Bacteria by Sharon Thesen
Moving Day by Terence Young
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia by Katherine Gordon
Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast by Judith Williams
Emily Carr by Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill, and Johanne Lamoureux
Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast by Jan Hare and Jean Barman
Hannus by Rachel Lebowitz
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis
Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence
Josh and the Magic Vial by Craig Spence
Safe House by James Heneghan
Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen by Glen Huser
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story by Maggie de Vries
Abby’s Birds by Ellen Schwartz
The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration by Deborah Hodge
The Queen’s Feet by Sarah Ellis
Zoe and the Fawn by Catherine Jameson
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! David Suzuki: The Autobiography by David Suzuki
Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids by Lynne Van Luven (editor)
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art by Daina Augaitus, Lucille Bell,
Vancouver Remembered by Michael Kluckner
Yetsa’s Sweater by Sylvia Olsen
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Patrick Lane
2006 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Ladykiller by Charlotte Gill
Smoke Show
by Clint Burnham
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Smoke Show
So It Won’t Go Away
by John Lent
Publisher: Thistledown Press
So It Won’t Go Away
Tattycoram
by Audrey Thomas
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Tattycoram
The Walking Boy
by Lydia Kwa
Publisher: Key Porter Books
The Walking Boy
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Priz
Sponsored by Abebooks
Winner! The Short Version: An ABC Book by Stan Persky
Dead Man in Paradise by J. B. MacKinnon
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Vanishing British Columbia by Michael Kluckner
Windshift Line by Rita Moir
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Sponsored by the BC Teachers’ Federation
Winner! Vancouver Walking by Meredith Quartermain
Anarchive by Stephen Collis
Anything but the Moon by George Sipos
Silt by Jordan Scott
Thirty-Seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences by Jan Zwicky
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Sponsored by Sandhill Book Marketing with the support of an anonymous donor and the BC Branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada
Winner! The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination by Lance Berelowitz
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas by Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster
John Muir: West Coast Pioneer by Daryl Ashby
Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point by Jean Barman
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Sponsored by the BC Library Association
Winner! Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach by Barbara Nickel
The Convicts by Iain Lawrence
The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
Four Steps to Death by John Wilson
The Vacation by Polly Horvath
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Sponsored by an anonymous donor
Winner! The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Bamboo by Paul Yee Illustrated by Shaoli Wang
The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Diane Silvey Illustrated by John Manth
The Milkman by Carol Foskett Cordsen Illustrated by Douglas B. Jones
Picturescape by Elisa Gutiérrez
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Sponsored by the BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books
Winner! Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver by James P. Delgado
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas by Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster
Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby
Terry by Douglas Coupland
Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness by Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Jack Hodgins
2005 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Friesens and Transcontinental Printers
Winner! Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty by Patrick Taylor
The Best Thing for You by Annabel Lyon
A Man in a Distant Field by Theresa Kishkan
Sointula by Bill Gaston
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Abebooks
Winner! The Last Heathen by Charles Montgomery
First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbiaby Alan Twigg
Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World by Rex Weyler
The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley by Katherine Gordon
There is a Season by Patrick Lane
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Sponsored by the BC Teachers’ Federation
Winner! Robinson’s Crossing by Jan Zwicky
Go Leaving Strange by Patrick Lane
The Hunger by D. C. Reid
The Possible Past by Aislinn Hunter
The Startled Heart by Eve Joseph
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Sponsored by Sandhill Book Marketing, Dempsey Distributing and the BC Branch of the Editors Association of Canada / Association canadienne des réviseurs and an anonymous donor
Winner! A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming by Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford
The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey by Robert Hunter and Robert Keziere
L. D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver by Daniel Francis
Plants of Haida Gwaii by Nancy J. Turner
Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photo Journal of Frank Swannell by Jay Sherwood
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Sponsored by the BC Library Association
Winner! Miss Smithers by Susan Juby
The Alchemist’s Daughter by Eileen Kernaghan
Francesca and the Magic Bike by Cynthia Nugent
Gold Rush Orphan by Sandy Frances Duncan
Kat’s Fall by Shelley Hrdlitschka
White Girl by Sylvia Olsen
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature PrizeSponsored by an anonymous donor
Winner! Goodbye to Griffith Street by Marilynn Reynolds Illustrated by Renné Benoit
The Moccasins by Earl Einarson Illustrated by Julie Flett
Owls by Adrienne Mason Illustrated by Nancy Gray Ogle
Ride ‘em Cowboyby Stefan Czernecki
When They Are Up by Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer Illustrated by Kirsti Anne Wakelin
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Sponsored by the BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books
Winner! Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat by Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume
Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm by Anny Scoones
Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia by Stephen Hume
Souvenir of Canada 2 by Douglas Coupland
Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Robert Bringhurst
2004 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Sitting Practice
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Thomas Allen
Sitting Practice
Ascension
by Steven Galloway
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Ascension
The Continuation of Love by Other Means
by Claudia Casper
Publisher: Penguin
The Continuation of Love by Other Means
Country of Cold
by Kevin Patterson
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Country of Cold
Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
by Janet Warner
Publisher: St. Martin's Pres
Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
by Maria Tippett
Publisher: Random House Canada
Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
by Mark Zuehlke
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
by Pat Wastell Norris
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
by Peter Steele
Publisher: Raincoast Books
The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
by Maria Coffey
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Taking the Names Down from the Hill
by Philip Kevin Paul
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Taking the Names Down from the Hill
The Alchemy of Happiness
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Beach Holme
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Creature I Am
by Denise Cammiade
Publisher: Sono Nis
The Creature I Am
House Built of Rain
by Russell Thornton
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
House Built of Rain
Ursa Major
by Robert Bringhurst
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Ursa Major
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
by Donald Luxton
Publisher: Talonbooks
Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
by Ross Freake and Don Plant
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
by Rob Butler
Publisher: Key Porter
The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
by David Nunuk
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
by R. Samuel Bawlf
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Skud
by Dennis Foon
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Skud
The Canning Season
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood Books
The Canning Season
Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
by John Wilson
Publisher: Key Porter
Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood Books
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
by Irene N. Watts and Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Publisher: Tundra Books
Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
Top
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Stanley’s Party
by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Stanley’s Party
Adventures in Ancient China
by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Adventures in Ancient China
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid
by Julie Lawson
Illustrated by Kasia Charko
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid
Suki’s Kimono
by Chieri Uegaki
Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Suki’s Kimono
Sunny
by Robin Mitchell and Judith Steedman
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Sunny
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
by R. Samuel Bawlf
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories
by Doreen Armitage
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories
Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor’s Raincoast
by Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor’s Raincoast
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
by David Nunuk
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall
by Andrew Scott
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall
Top
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! P. K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page
2003 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Unless
by Carol Shields
Publisher: Random House
Unless
Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations
by Gayla Reid
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations
Dead Girls
by Nancy Lee
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Dead Girls
Mount Appetite
by Bill Gaston
Publisher: Raincoast
Mount Appetite
Night Watch
by Kevin Armstrong
Publisher: Penguin Books
Night Watch
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
by Sandra Shields, David Campion
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
by Cole Harris
Publisher: UBC Press
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
One Man’s Justice
by Thomas Berger
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
One Man’s Justice
The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
by Keath Fraser
Publisher: Thomas Allen
The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
The Way of a Ship
by Derek Lundy
Publisher: Random House
The Way of a Ship
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! peter among th towring boxes
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
peter among th towring boxes
The Breath You Take from the Lord
by Patrick Friesen
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Breath You Take from the Lord
Ground Water
by Colin Browne
Publisher: Talonbooks
Ground Water
My Father’s Cup
by Tom Wayman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
My Father’s Cup
Shameless
by Marlene Cookshaw
Publisher: Brick Books
Shameless
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
by Ernest Perrault
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
E. J. Hughes
by Ian Thom
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
E. J. Hughes
Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
by Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy
Publisher: Talonbooks
Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
by Alison Watt
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock
by Francis Mansbridge
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Flood by James Heneghan
The Gold Diggers Club by Karen Rivers
Jeannie and the Gentle Giants by Luanne Armstrong
The Losers’ Club by John Lekich
Losing Forever by Gayle Friesen
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Salmon Creek by Annette LeBox, Karen Reczuch
Amber Waiting by Nan Gregory, Kady Macdonald Denton
How Sleep Found Tabitha by Maggie de Vries, Sheena Lott
The Klondike Cat by Julie Lawson, Paul Mombourquette
Solomon’s Tree by Andrea Spalding, Janet Wilson
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Skookum Tugs: British Columbia’s Working Tugboats by Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller
Dear Sad Goat by Bill Richardson
E. J. Hughes by Ian Thom
Historical Atlas of Canada by Derek Hayes
The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island by Alison Watt
2002 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Simple Recipes
by Madeleine Thien
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Simple Recipes
All the Seas of the World
by Gayla Reid
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
All the Seas of the World
Small Accidents
by Andrew Gray
Publisher: Raincoast
Small Accidents
Stanley Park
by Timothy Taylor
Publisher: Knopf
Stanley Park
The Torn Skirt
by Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher: HarperCollins
The Torn Skirt
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
by Susan Crean
Publisher: HarperCollins
The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
The Door is Open
by Bart Campbell
Publisher: Anvil Press
The Door is Open
Grain of Truth
by Ross A. Laird
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Grain of Truth
The Mummy Congress
by Heather Pringle
Publisher: Penguin Books
The Mummy Congress
Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken
by Stephen Hume
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Short Haul Engine
by Karen Solie
Publisher: Brick Books
Short Haul Engine
Into the Early Hours
by Aislinn Hunter
Publisher: Polestar
Into the Early Hours
This Tremor Love Is
by Daphne Marlatt
Publisher: Talonbooks
This Tremor Love Is
Understanding Heaven
by Stephen Guppy
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn
Understanding Heaven
The Wrecks of Eden
by Catherine Owen
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn
The Wrecks of Eden
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
by Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust
A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
by Wayne Campbell, et al.
Publisher: UBC Press
Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
Guilty of Everything
by John Armstrong
Publisher: New Star Books
Guilty of Everything
Illustrated History of BC
by Terry Reksten
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Illustrated History of BC
Visions of the Wild
by Maria Coffey, Dag Goering
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Visions of the Wild
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Everything on a Waffle
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood
Everything on a Waffle
The Accomplice
by Norma Charles
Publisher: Raincoast
The Accomplice
Chance and the Butterfly
by Maggie de Vries
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Chance and the Butterfly
Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Scholastic
Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts
by Valerie Wyatt, John Mantha
Publisher: Kids Can Press
The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Illustrated History of BC
by Terry Reksten
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Illustrated History of BC
How to Be a Canadian
by Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
How to Be a Canadian
Light at the Edge of the World
by Wade Davis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Light at the Edge of the World
Ranchland
by Rick Blacklaws, Diana French
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Ranchland
A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
by Keith Thor Carlson,
2001 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Monkey Beach
by Eden Robinson
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Monkey Beach
The Hero’s Walk
by Anita Rau Badami
Publisher: Ballantine Books
The Hero’s Walk
The Judas Hills
by Peter Trower
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Judas Hills
A Message for Mr. Lazarus
by Barbara Lambert
Publisher: Cormorant
A Message for Mr. Lazarus
Uther
by Jack Whyte
Publisher: Penguin Books
Uther
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Last Great Sea
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: Greystone
The Last Great Sea
The Bear’s Embrace
by Patricia Van Tighem
Publisher: Anchor
The Bear’s Embrace
The Other Side of Eden
by Hugh Brody
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Other Side of Eden
Tom Thomson’s Shack
by Harold Rhenisch
Publisher: New Star Books
Tom Thomson’s Shack
Wild West Women
by Rosemary Neering
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Wild West Women
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Another Gravity
by Don McKay
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Another Gravity
The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
His Life
by George Bowering
Publisher: ECW Press
His Life
Slow-Moving Target
by Sue Wheeler
Publisher: Brick Books
Slow-Moving Target
Water Stair
by John Pass
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Water Stair
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
by Daniel Francis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Island Timber
by Richard Somerset Mackie
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Island Timber
The Last Great Sea
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: Greystone
The Last Great Sea
The Politics of Resentment
by Philip Resnick
Publisher: UBC Press
The Politics of Resentment
Tom Thomson’s Shack
by Harold Rhenisch
Publisher: New Star Books
Tom Thomson’s Shack
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! The Grave
by James Heneghan
Publisher: Groundwood
The Grave
Ballerinas Don’t Wear Glasses
by Ainslie Manson
Illustrated by Dean Griffith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Ballerinas Don’t Wear Glasses
Frances
by W. D. Valgardson
Publisher: Groundwood
Frances
Men of Stone
by Gayle Friesen
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Men of Stone
No Cafes in Narnia
by Nikki Tate
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
No Cafes in Narnia
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
by Dan Francis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
The Bear’s Embrace
by Patricia Van Tighem
Publisher: Anchor
The Bear’s Embrace
City of Glass
by Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
City of Glass
The Last Great Sea
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: Greystone
The Last Great Sea
Wild West Women
by Rosemary Neering
2000 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Pornographer’s Poem
by Michael Turner
Publisher: Random House
The Pornographer’s Poem
All the Anxious Girls On Earth
by Zsuzsi Gartner
Publisher: Anchor
All the Anxious Girls On Earth
Before the Flood
by Alan R. Wilson
Publisher: Cormorant
Before the Flood
Furry Creek
by Keith Harrison
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Furry Creek
A History of Forgetting
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Key Porter
A History of Forgetting
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels
by Rita Moir
Publisher: Coteau
Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
by James P. Delgado
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Cougar Annie’s Garden
by Margaret Horsfield
Publisher: Salal Books
Cougar Annie’s Garden
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
by Douglas Cole
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
by Andrea Lebowitz, Gillian Milton
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! What the Living Won’t Let Go
by Lorna Crozier
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
What the Living Won’t Let Go
49th Parallel Psalm
by Wayde Compton
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
49th Parallel Psalm
The Colours of the Forest
by Tom Wayman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Colours of the Forest
Love and Other Things that Hurt
by D. C. Reid
Publisher: Black Moss Press
Love and Other Things that Hurt
Things that Keep and Do Not Change
by Susan Musgrave
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Things that Keep and Do Not Change
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Cougar Annie’s Garden
by Margaret Horsfield
Publisher: Salal Books
Cougar Annie’s Garden
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
by Faith Moosang
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp/Presentation House Gallery
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
by Dick Hammond
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
by Derek Hayes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
by Gary Wyatt
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
by Vivien Bowers
Publisher: Maple Tree Press
WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
The Butterflies’ Promise
by Julie Ovenell-Carter
Illustrated by Kitty Macaulay
Publisher: Annick Press
The Butterflies’ Promise
The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
by W. D. Valgardson
Publisher: Groundwood
The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
Dream Water
by Karen Rivers
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Dream Water
Tarragon Island
by Nikki Tate
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Tarragon Island
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
by Derek Hayes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
by Faith Moosang
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp/Presentation House Gallery
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
Lions Gate
by Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton
Publisher: Talonbooks
Lions Gate
Mountains of the Coast
by John Baldwin
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Mountains of the Coast
Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast
by Kenneth Macrae Leighton
1999 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Broken Ground
by Jack Hodgins
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Broken Ground
The Handless Maiden
by Loranne Brown
Publisher: Random House
The Handless Maiden
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
by Anne Fleming
Publisher: Polestar
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
by Peter C. Newman
Publisher: Penguin Books
Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
by Eric Nicol
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijauna Grower
by Michael Poole
Publisher: Greystone
Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijauna Grower
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! How I Joined Humanity at Last
by David Zieroth
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
How I Joined Humanity at Last
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
by Jan Zwicky
Publisher: Brick Books
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
St. Mary at Main
by Patrick Friesen
Publisher: The Muses Company
St. Mary at Main
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
by Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen
Publisher: Greystone
River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter’s Experience
by Helene Cyr
Publisher: New Society
Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter’s Experience
Hotel Georgia
by Sean Rossiter
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Hotel Georgia
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Driftwood Cove
by Sandra Lightburn
Illustrated by Ron Lightburn
Publisher: Doubleday
Driftwood Cove
The Boy in the Attic
by Paul Yee
Illustrated by Gu Xiong
Publisher: Groundwood
The Boy in the Attic
The Doctor’s Apprentice
by Ann Walsh
Publisher: Beach Holme
The Doctor’s Apprentice
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC
by Tom Henry
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC
The Clouded Leopard
by Wade Davis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Clouded Leopard
Guiding Lights: BC’s Lighthouses and their Keepers
by Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod
1998 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Visible Worlds
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: HarperCollins
Visible Worlds
At First I Hope for Rescue
by Holley Rubinsky
Publisher: Knopf
At First I Hope for Rescue
Fox’s Nose
by Sally Ireland
Publisher: Cormorant
Fox’s Nose
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Stolen from Our Embrace
by Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Stolen from Our Embrace
Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
by Richard Bocking
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
The Perfection of Hope
by Elizabeth Simpson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Perfection of Hope
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! What I Remember from My Time on Earth
by Patricia Young
Publisher: Anansi
What I Remember from My Time on Earth
Heaven Cake
by Linda Rogers
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Heaven Cake
Ivanhoe Station
by Lyle Neff
Publisher: Anvil Press
Ivanhoe Station
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
by Richard Bocking
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Raincoast
The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
Western Journeys
by Daniel Wood, Beverley Sinclair
Publisher: Raincoast
Western Journeys
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Wish Me Luck
by James Heneghan
Publisher: Groundwood
Wish Me Luck
Across Frozen Seas
by John Wilson
Publisher: Dundurn
Across Frozen Seas
Emma and the Silk Train
by Julie Lawson
Illustrated by Paul Mombourquette
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Emma and the Silk Train
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Great Bear Rainforest
by Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Great Bear Rainforest
Dangerous Waters
by Keith Keller
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Dangerous Waters
Haida Gwaii
by Ian Gill
1997 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Cure for Death by Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Publisher: Knopf
The Cure for Death by Lightning
Cereus Blooms at Night
by Shani Mootoo
Publisher: HarperCollins
Cereus Blooms at Night
The Venetian’s Wife
by Nick Bantock
Publisher: Raincoast
The Venetian’s Wife
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! O-bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered
by Catherine Lang
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
O-bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered
Clara and Me
by Deanna Kawatski
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Clara and Me
I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People
by Arthur J. Ray
Publisher: Key Porter/Lester
I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! The Unhinging of Wings
by Margo Button
Publisher: Oolichan Books
The Unhinging of Wings
Autobiography
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Beach Holme
Autobiography
Seeing in the Dark
by Joyce Nelson
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Seeing in the Dark
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! The Fraser River
by Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Fraser River
British Columbia: A Natural History
by Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings
Publisher: Greystone
British Columbia: A Natural History
Landscapes of the Interior
by Don Gayton
Publisher: New Society
Landscapes of the Interior
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Back of Beyond
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood
Back of Beyond
Awake and Dreaming
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Awake and Dreaming
Sarah and the People of Sand River
by W. D. Valgardson
Illustrated by Ian Wallace
Publisher: Groundwood
Sarah and the People of Sand River
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! British Columbia: A Natural History
by Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings
Publisher: Greystone
British Columbia: A Natural History
Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure
by Bruce Obee
Publisher: Beautiful British Columbia Magazine
Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure
Sailing Back in Time
by Maria Coffey
1996 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Coming Down from Wa
by Audrey Thomas
Publisher: Viking
Coming Down from Wa
The Rain Ascends
by Joy Kogawa
Publisher: Penguin Books
The Rain Ascends
Through the Canyon
by Lorraine Vernon
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Through the Canyon
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Letter from Vienna
by Claudia Cornwall
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Letter from Vienna
Too Good to be True: Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project
by Bev Christensen
Publisher: Talonbooks
Too Good to be True: Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project
Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpant
by Sheryl Salloum
Publisher: Horsdal & Schubart
Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpant
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Too Spare, Too Fierce
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Too Spare, Too Fierce
The Edge of Time
by Robin Skelton
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
The Edge of Time
To this Cedar Fountain
by Kate Braid
Publisher: Polestar
To this Cedar Fountain
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! HR: A Biography Of H. R. MacMillan
by Ken Drushka
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
HR: A Biography Of H. R. MacMillan
Dogless in Metchosin
by Tom Henry
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Dogless in Metchosin
Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
by Patrick Reid
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! How Smudge Came
by Nan Gregory
Illustrated by Ron Lightburn
Publisher: Red Deer Press
How Smudge Came
Emily Carr’s Woo
by Constance Horne
Illustrated by Lissa Calvert
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Emily Carr’s Woo
Finders Keepers
by Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Dundurn
Finders Keepers
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book
by Bill Richardson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
by Candace Savage
Publisher: Greystone
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan
by Ken Drushka
1995 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! To Be There With You
by Gayla Reid
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
To Be There With You
City of Orphans
by Patricia Robertson
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
City of Orphans
Under Glass
by Grant Buday
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Under Glass
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodriguez
by Lisa Hobbs Birnie
Publisher: Macmillan
Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodriguez
Concubine’s Children
by Denise Chong
Publisher: Viking
Concubine’s Children
Finding Family
by Rick Ouston
Publisher: New Star Books
Finding Family
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Hard Candy
by Linda Rogers
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Hard Candy
ed and mabel go to the moon
by Aaron Bushkowsky
Publisher: Oolichan Books
ed and mabel go to the moon
Mêmewars
by Adeena Karasick
Publisher: Talonbooks
Mêmewars
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
by Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
Clayoquot & Dissent
by Tzeporah Berman et al.
Illustrated by Marguerite Gibbons
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Clayoquot & Dissent
Seven-Knot Summers
by Beth Hill
Publisher: Horsdal & Schubart
Seven-Knot Summers
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! The Old Brown Suitcase
by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Publisher: Ben-Simon
The Old Brown Suitcase
Torn Away
by James Heneghen
Publisher: Penguin Books
Torn Away
White Wave
by Mary Razzell
Publisher: Groundwood
White Wave
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Eagle Transforming
by Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Eagle Transforming
The Good Company
by Tom Henry
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Good Company
Picasso’s Women
by Rosalind MacPhee
1994 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Bad Imaginings
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Bad Imaginings
Light in the Company Of Women
by Keith Maillard
Publisher: HarperCollins
Light in the Company Of Women
Visible Light
by Carol Windley
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Visible Light
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Some Become Flowers
by Sharon Brown
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Some Become Flowers
My Father, My Friend
by Arthur Mayse
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
My Father, My Friend
Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
by John Mills
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
by Gregory Scofield
Publisher: Polestar
The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
The Ghost In the Gears
by Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Ghost In the Gears
Poems New and Selected
by Brian Brett
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Poems New and Selected
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Nisga’a
by Alex Rose (editor)
Publisher: Nisga'a Tribal Council/Douglas & McIntyre
Nisga’a
British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
by Graham Osborne
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
Fishing for a Living
by Alan Haig-Brown
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fishing for a Living
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! White Jade Tiger
by Julie Lawson
Publisher: The Dundurn Group
White Jade Tiger
Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria while her father goes to China for a year. But on a field trip to Chinatown, she explores a curious shop in Fan Tan Alley and accidentally passes through a hidden door. She finds herself in Victoria’s Chinatown of the 1880s. Mistaken for a Chinese boy, she is soon caught up in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway and in a race through the Fraser Canyon to find a jade tiger amulet. Julie Lawson has written more than twenty young adult titles. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia. More
If You’re Not from the Prairie
by David Bouchard
Publisher: Raincoast/Summerwild
If You’re Not from the Prairie
A Ride for Martha
by Sue Ann Alderson
Illustrated by Ann Blades
Publisher: Groundwood
A Ride for Martha
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Fishing for a Living
by Alan Haig-Brown
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fishing for a Living
The Emerald Sea
by Diane Swanson
Illustrated by Dale Sanders
Publisher: Whitecap Books
The Emerald Sea
Grizzlies & White Guys
by Clayton Mack
1993 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Girl with the Botticelli Face
by W. D. Valgardson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Girl with the Botticelli Face
July Nights and Other Stories
by J. A. Hamilton
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
July Nights and Other Stories
Marine Life
by Linda Svendsen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Marine Life
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists
by Lynne Bowen
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists
Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing
by Homer Stevens, Rolf Knight
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
by Irene Howard
Publisher: UBC Press
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! inkorrect thots
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
inkorrect thots
How Do You Feel?
by Kirsten Emmott
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
How Do You Feel?
Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
by Diana Hartog
Publisher: Coach House
Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
by Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Vancouver: A Visual History
by Bruce MacDonald
Publisher: Talonbooks
Vancouver: A Visual History
Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
by Vickie Jensen
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! My Name is Seepeetza
by Shirley Sterling
Publisher: Groundwood Books
My Name is Seepeetza
A Dog Came Too
by Ainslie Manson
Illustrated by Ann Blades
Publisher: Groundwood Books
A Dog Came Too
Sure as Strawberries
by Sue Ann Alderson
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Sure as Strawberries
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Sabine’s Notebook
by Nick Bantock
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Sabine’s Notebook
Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
by Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples
Publisher: New Star Books
Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
Vancouver: A Visual History
by Bruce MacDonald
1992 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Blue Husbands
by Don Dickinson
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Blue Husbands
The Illumination of Alice Mallory
by Maureen Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
The Illumination of Alice Mallory
Sick Pigeon
by M. A. C. Farrant
Publisher: Thistledown
Sick Pigeon
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Down The Road
by Rosemary Neering
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Down The Road
Duff Pattullo of British Columbia
by Robin Fisher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Duff Pattullo of British Columbia
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
by Jean Barman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Pulp Log
by Barry McKinnon
Publisher: Caitlin
Pulp Log
Company Town
by Michael Turner
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
Company Town
The Hour’s Acropolis
by John Pass
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Hour’s Acropolis
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
by Herb Hammond
Publisher: Polestar
Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
Ragged Islands
by Michael Poole
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Ragged Islands
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
by Jean Barman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Siwiti: A Whale’s Story
by Alexandra Morton
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Siwiti: A Whale’s Story
Looking At The Moon
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking
Looking At The Moon
Pick-Up Sticks
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Margaret McElderry
Pick-Up Sticks
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii
by Robert Bringhurst
Illustrated by Ulli Steltzer (photographs)
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii
Coastal Villages
by Liv Kennedy
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Coastal Villages
Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia
by Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris
1991 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Wild Blue Yonder
by Audrey Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Books
Wild Blue Yonder
Disappearing Moon Cafe
by Sky Lee
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Disturbing The Peace
by Caroline Woodward
Publisher: Polestar
Disturbing The Peace
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Jack Shadbolt
by Scott Watson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Jack Shadbolt
A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: New Star
A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Down Time
by Jeff Derksen
Publisher: Talonbooks
Down Time
Hanging Fire
by Phyllis Webb
Publisher: Talonnooks
Hanging Fire
hard 2 beleev
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
hard 2 beleev
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Aboriginal People and Politics
by Paul Tennant
Publisher: UBC Press
Aboriginal People and Politics
An Enterprising Life
by Cyril E. Leonoff
Publisher: Talonbooks
An Enterprising Life
Vanishing Vancouver
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Vanishing Vancouver
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! I Heard My Mother Call My Name
by Nancy Hundal
Publisher: HarperCollins
I Heard My Mother Call My Name
Chapter One
by Sue Ann Alderson
Publisher: General Paperbacks
Chapter One
Jack Shadbolt
by Scott Watson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Jack Shadbolt
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Vanishing Vancouver
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Vanishing Vancouver
Spilsbury’s Album
by Jim Spilsbury
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Spilsbury’s Album
Webster!
by Jack Webster
1990 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Motet
by Keith Maillard
Publisher: Random House
Motet
After The Fire
by Jane Rule
Publisher: Lazara Press
After The Fire
To All Appearances A Lady
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Random House
To All Appearances A Lady
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
by Philip Marchand
Publisher: Random House
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
Buddy’s
by Stan Persky
Publisher: New Star Books
Buddy’s
A White Man’s Province
by Patricia Roy
Publisher: UBC Press
A White Man’s Province
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Suitcase
by Victoria Walker
Publisher: Gorse Press
Suitcase
The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
by Maureen McCarthy
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
The Whole Elephant
by Marlene Cookshaw
Publisher: Brick Books
The Whole Elephant
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Carmanah
by Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Publisher: Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Carmanah
This Was Our Valley
by Earl K Pollon, Shirlee Smith Matheson
Publisher: Detselig
This Was Our Valley
Write It On Your Heart
by Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire
Publisher: Talonbooks & Theytis Books
Write It On Your Heart
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Tales From Gold Mountain
by Paul Yee
Illustrated by Simon Ng
Publisher: Groundwood
Tales From Gold Mountain
Next-Door Neighbours
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood
Next-Door Neighbours
The Sky is Falling
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking Kestrel
The Sky is Falling
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Carmanah
by Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Publisher: Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Carmanah
Chilcotin & Beyond
by Paul St. Pierre
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Chilcotin & Beyond
The Coast Of British Columbia
by Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering
1989 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Mimosa
by Bill Schermbrucker
Publisher: Talonbooks
Mimosa
Love In Beijing
by William Goede
Publisher: Cormorant
Love In Beijing
The Saxophone Winter
by Robert Harlow
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Saxophone Winter
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Trail To Heaven
by Robin Ridington
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Trail To Heaven
Fishing with John
by Edith Iglauer
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fishing with John
Saltwater City
by Paul Yee
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Saltwater City
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Circling North
by Charles Lillard
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Circling North
A Dancing Star
by Doug Beardsley
Publisher: Thistledown Press
A Dancing Star
what we have
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
what we have
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Resistance and Renewal
by Celia Haig-Brown
Publisher: Tillicum/Pulp
Resistance and Renewal
The Accidental Airline
by Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Accidental Airline
Stoney Creek Woman
by Bridget Moran
Publisher: Tillicum/Pulp
Stoney Creek Woman
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Sunny
by Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
Publisher: Irwin
Sunny
Catriona’s Island
by Florence McNeil
Publisher: Groundwood
Catriona’s Island
Mood Pocket, Mud Bucket
by Deborah Turney Zagwyn
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Mood Pocket, Mud Bucket
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Stein: The Way Of The River
by Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire
Publisher: Talonbooks
Stein: The Way Of The River
A Life In The Country
by Bruce Hutchison
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
A Life In The Country
Never Chop Your Rope
by Joe Garner
1988 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Cage
by George McWhirter
Publisher: Oberon Press
Cage
Memory Board
by Jane Rule
Publisher: Macmillan
Memory Board
The Parrot Who Could
by Robin Skelton
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Parrot Who Could
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Brazilian Journal
by P. K. Page
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
Brazilian Journal
The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott
by Sandra Djwa
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott
The White Pass
by Roy Minter
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The White Pass
Top
Poetry Prize
Winner! All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room
by Patricia Young
Publisher: Oolichan Books
All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room
The Beginning of the Long Dash
by Sharon Thesen
Publisher: Coach House
The Beginning of the Long Dash
Eight Poems
by Norm Sibum
Publisher: Tanks
Eight Poems
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Whalers No More
by W. A. Hagelund
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Whalers No More
Hastings & Main
by Jo-Ann Canning-Dew
Publisher: New Star Books
Hastings & Main
Three Dollar Dreams
by Lynne Bowen
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Three Dollar Dreams
The White Pass
by Roy Minter
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The White Pass
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Pride of Lions
by Nicola Morgan
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pride of Lions
A Handful of Time
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking/Penguin
A Handful of Time
Salmonberry Wine
by Mary Razzell
Publisher: Groundwood
Salmonberry Wine
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt
by Hilary Stewart
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt
Rick Hansen: Man In Motion
by Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Rick Hansen: Man In Motion
Spilsbury’s Coast
by Howard White, Jim Spilsbury
1987 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Housebroken
by Leona Gom
Publisher: NeWest Press
Housebroken
The Indigo Dress & Other Stories
by Rona Murray
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Indigo Dress & Other Stories
Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola
by Paulette Jiles
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Bill Reid
by Doris Shadbolt
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bill Reid
Braehead: Three Founding Families in Nineteenth Century Canada
by Sherrill MacLaren
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Braehead: Three Founding Families in Nineteenth Century Canada
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
by Philip Croft
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Top
Poetry Prize
Winner! Candy From Strangers
by Diana Hartog
Publisher: Coach House
Candy From Strangers
The Face of Jack Munro
by Tom Wayman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Face of Jack Munro
The Night the Dog Smiled
by John Newlove
Publisher: ECW Press
The Night the Dog Smiled
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Wisdom of the Elders
by Ruth Kirk
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Wisdom of the Elders
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
by Philip Croft
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Vancouver and Its Writers
by Alan Twigg
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Vancouver and Its Writers
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! The Baby Project
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood
The Baby Project
The Curses of Third Uncle
by Paul Yee
Publisher: James Lorimer
The Curses of Third Uncle
The Falcon Bow
by James Houston
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The Falcon Bow
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Bill Reid
by Doris Shadbolt
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bill Reid
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
by Philip Croft
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Wisdom of the Elders
by Ruth Kirk
1986 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Foreign Affairs
by Keath Fraser
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
Foreign Affairs
In the Shadow of the Vulture
by George Ryga
Publisher: Talonbooks
In the Shadow of the Vulture
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
by Brian Fawcett
Publisher: Talonbooks
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
The Suspect
by L. R. Wright
Publisher: Doubleday
The Suspect
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Unfinished Country
by Bruce Hutchison
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Unfinished Country
The Journal of Private Fraser
by Reginald Roy
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Journal of Private Fraser
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
by Muriel Kitagawa
Publisher: Talonbooks
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
Top
Poetry Prize
Winner! Poetry Hotel
by Joe Rosenblatt
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Poetry Hotel
The Glass Air
by P. K. Page
Publisher: Oxford
The Glass Air
Letters for Some Islands
by Anne Marriott
Publisher: Mosaic
Letters for Some Islands
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Keepers of the Light
by Donald Graham
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Keepers of the Light
Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
by Douglas Cole
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
The Devil and Mr. Duncan
by Peter Murray
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Devil and Mr. Duncan
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Forests of British Columbia
by Cameron Young et al.
Publisher: Whitecap Books
The Forests of British Columbia
Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells
by John Adams and Becky Thomas
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells
Vancouver: Touch The Magic
by Philip Hersee
1985 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Intertidal Life by Audrey Thomas
A Coastal Range by Charles Lillard
Winners by Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Duff: A Life in the Law by David Ricardo Williams
Vancouver The Way It Was
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Vancouver The Way It Was
Without Surrender, Without Consent by Daniel Raunet
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Cedar by Hilary Stewart
Gunboat Frontier by Barry Gough
Sound Heritage by Saeko Usukawa
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Islands at the Edge by Islands Protection Society
Cedar by Hilary Stewart
The Roman Cookery of Apiciusby John Edwards
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
* * * * *
2011 Information from BC Book Prizes accessed 3/17/11
2011 FINALISTS
The West Coast Book Prize Society is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2011 BC Book Prizes. Winners announced April 21, 2011
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Chernovs’ Toil and Peace by Rifet Bahtijaragic
Everything Was Good-Bye by Gurjinder Basran
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace by Jack Whyte
The Master of Happy Endings by Jack Hodgins
Recipes from the Red Planet by Meredith Quartermain
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America by Derek Lundy
Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland
Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life by Morris Bates, Jim Brown
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me by Sarah Leavitt
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Decompositions by Ken Belford
The Inquisition Yours by Jen Currin
My Darling Nellie Grey by George Bowering
On The Material by Stephen Collis
The Secret Signature of Things by Eve Joseph
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence
Images from the Likeness House by Dan Savard
The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History by Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis
Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual by Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors)
Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater by Sylvia Olsen
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom by Susin Nielsen
Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordon-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber
Hunger Journeys by Maggie de Vries
Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
The Cowboy Fisherman by Seiji Hiroe
Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life by Maggie de Vries
Owls See Clearly at Night (Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer): A Michif Alphabet / L’alfabet di Michi by Julie Flett
The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read
Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm by Deborah Hodge
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound by Grant Lawrence
Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow by Zsuzsi Gartner (editor)
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven by Ross King
Fishing with Gubby by Gary Kent
Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier by Robert Budd
2011 Non-Fiction Longlist from British Columbia Achievement Foundation accessed 12/14/10
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women Stevie Cameron -- shortlist
Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan Douglas Coupland
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past James FitzGerald -- shortlist
Sunray: The Death and Life of Captain Nichola Goddard Valerie Fortney
Mordecai: The Life & Times Charles Foran -- shortlist
Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich In the Klondike Charlotte Gray
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training Tom Jokinen
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Lifes Work at 72 Molly Peacock
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival John Vaillant -- Winner!
The Wave: In the Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean Susan Casey
2010 Finalists from BC Book Prizes accessed 5/3/10
The West Coast Book Prize Society is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2010 BC Book Prizes. Congratulations to the authors and their publishers!
Winners announced April 24, 2010 | emcee Shelagh Rogers | Government House, Victoria
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison by Cathleen With
8 x 10 by Michael Turner
Daniel O’Thunder by Ian Weir
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir by Lorna Crozier
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness by Brian Payton
Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes by Ehor Boyanowsky
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
Vancouver Special by Charles Demers
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! is a door by Fred Wah
Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai
The Fly in Autumn by David Zieroth
Harbour by Miranda Pearson
Red Nest by Gillian Jerome
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia by Andrew Scott
All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation by Ian Gill
Jacob’s Prayer by Lorne Dufour
A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future by Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! The Gryphon Project by Carrie Mac
Counting on Hope by Sylvia Olsen
Inferno by Robin Stevenson
Return to Bone Tree Hill by Kristin Butcher
The Ship of Lost Souls by Rachelle Delaney
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! Maggie Can’t Wait by Frieda Wishinsky Illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts by Fiona Bayrock Illustrated by Carolyn Conahan
Ella’s Umbrellas by Jennifer Lloyd Illustrated by Ashley Spires
On My Walk by Kari-Lynn Winters Illustrated by Christina Leist
Vanishing Habitats by Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs Illustrated by Robert Bateman
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Winner! Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett
Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia by Andrew Scott
One More Time: The Dal Richards Story by Dal Richards with Jim Taylor
Red: A Haida Manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen by Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Stan Persky
2009 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Man Game by Lee Henderson
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Red Dog, Red Dog by Patrick Lane
Renovating Heaven by Andreas Schroeder
That Tune Clutches My Heart by Paul Headrick
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate, MD
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America by Chris Wood
Going Home: Essays by Tim Lilburn
The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message by Rex Weyler
What is America? A Short History of the New World Order by Ronald Wright
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! The Given by Daphne Marlatt
Chameleon Hours by Elise Partridge
Shirin and Salt Man by Nilofar Shidmehr
Vancouver: A Poem by George Stanley
Water Strider by Karen Hofmann
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia by Stephen Hume
Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside by Brad Cran, Gillian Jerome
The Peace: A History in Photographs by Donald A. Pettit
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in a Polygamous Mormon Sect by Daphne Bramham
Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929
by Margaret Horsfield
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath
Bonechiller by Graham McNameeThe Lit Report by Sarah N. Harvey
The Séance by Iain Lawrence
A Thousand Shades of Blue by Robin Stevenson
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! The King Has Goat Ears by Katarina Jovanovic
Good-bye Marianne by Irene N. Watts
Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth by Robert Bateman
Rosie and Buttercup by Chieri Uegaki
Stanley At Sea by Linda Bailey
BC Booksellers’ Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver by Stephen Bown
British Columbia: Spirit of the People by Jean Barman
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet by Cathy Converse
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Terry Glavin
2008 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Conceit by Mary Novik
Adam’s Peak by Heather Burt
Radiance by Shaena Lambert
The Reckoning of Boston Jim by Claire Mulligan
Soucouyant by David Chariandy
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Everywhere Being is Dancing by Robert Bringhurst
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden by Don Gayton
Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan
The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67 by Patricia E. Roy
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Forageby Rita Wong
The Incorrection by George McWhirter
Ox by Christopher Patton
Paper Trail by Arleen Paré
Soft Geography by Gillian Wigmore
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest by Barry Gough
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture by Tim Bowling
Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape by Chris Harris
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane by Polly Horvath
The Alchemist’s Dream by John Wilson
Baboon: A Novel by David Jones
For Now by Gayle Friesen
Porcupine by Meg Tilly
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Winner! A Sea-Wishing Day by Robert Heidbreder
The Day It All Blew Away by Lisa Cinar
Elf the Eagle by Ron Smith
Jeffrey and Sloth by Kari-Lynn Winters
Pink by Nan Gregory
BC Booksellers’ Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest by Ian McAllister
The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories by Mike McCardell
Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs by Grant Arnold, Michael Turner
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape by Chris Harris
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Gary Geddes
2007 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Home Schooling by Carol Windley
Empress of Asia by Adam Lewis Schroeder
Gargoyles by Bill Gaston
The Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani
What It Takes to Be Human by Marilyn Bowering
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd by Karsten Heuer
Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada by Dan Zuberi
The Reservoir by Eric Miller
The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century by Harold Rhenisch
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Strike/Slip by Don McKay
Anatomy of Keys by Steven Price
Backup to Babylon by Maxine Gadd
The Good Bacteria by Sharon Thesen
Moving Day by Terence Young
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Made to Measure: A History of Land Surveying in British Columbia by Katherine Gordon
Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast by Judith Williams
Emily Carr by Ian M. Thom, Charles C. Hill, and Johanne Lamoureux
Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast by Jan Hare and Jean Barman
Hannus by Rachel Lebowitz
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Odd Man Out by Sarah Ellis
Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence
Josh and the Magic Vial by Craig Spence
Safe House by James Heneghan
Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen by Glen Huser
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Tale of a Great White Fish: A Sturgeon Story by Maggie de Vries
Abby’s Birds by Ellen Schwartz
The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration by Deborah Hodge
The Queen’s Feet by Sarah Ellis
Zoe and the Fawn by Catherine Jameson
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! David Suzuki: The Autobiography by David Suzuki
Nobody’s Mother: Life Without Kids by Lynne Van Luven (editor)
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art by Daina Augaitus, Lucille Bell,
Vancouver Remembered by Michael Kluckner
Yetsa’s Sweater by Sylvia Olsen
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Patrick Lane
2006 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Ladykiller by Charlotte Gill
Smoke Show
by Clint Burnham
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Smoke Show
So It Won’t Go Away
by John Lent
Publisher: Thistledown Press
So It Won’t Go Away
Tattycoram
by Audrey Thomas
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Tattycoram
The Walking Boy
by Lydia Kwa
Publisher: Key Porter Books
The Walking Boy
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Priz
Sponsored by Abebooks
Winner! The Short Version: An ABC Book by Stan Persky
Dead Man in Paradise by J. B. MacKinnon
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Vanishing British Columbia by Michael Kluckner
Windshift Line by Rita Moir
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Sponsored by the BC Teachers’ Federation
Winner! Vancouver Walking by Meredith Quartermain
Anarchive by Stephen Collis
Anything but the Moon by George Sipos
Silt by Jordan Scott
Thirty-Seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences by Jan Zwicky
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Sponsored by Sandhill Book Marketing with the support of an anonymous donor and the BC Branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada
Winner! The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant
Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination by Lance Berelowitz
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas by Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster
John Muir: West Coast Pioneer by Daryl Ashby
Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point by Jean Barman
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Sponsored by the BC Library Association
Winner! Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach by Barbara Nickel
The Convicts by Iain Lawrence
The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
Four Steps to Death by John Wilson
The Vacation by Polly Horvath
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Sponsored by an anonymous donor
Winner! The Blue Jean Book: The Story Behind the Seams by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
Bamboo by Paul Yee Illustrated by Shaoli Wang
The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada by Diane Silvey Illustrated by John Manth
The Milkman by Carol Foskett Cordsen Illustrated by Douglas B. Jones
Picturescape by Elisa Gutiérrez
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Sponsored by the BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books
Winner! Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver by James P. Delgado
Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas by Sheila Harrington, Judith Stevenson, and Kathy Dunster
Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest by Andy Lamb, Bernard Hanby
Terry by Douglas Coupland
Three Rivers: The Yukon’s Great Boreal Wilderness by Juri Peepre and Sarah Locke
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Jack Hodgins
2005 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Friesens and Transcontinental Printers
Winner! Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty by Patrick Taylor
The Best Thing for You by Annabel Lyon
A Man in a Distant Field by Theresa Kishkan
Sointula by Bill Gaston
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Sponsored by Abebooks
Winner! The Last Heathen by Charles Montgomery
First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbiaby Alan Twigg
Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World by Rex Weyler
The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley by Katherine Gordon
There is a Season by Patrick Lane
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Sponsored by the BC Teachers’ Federation
Winner! Robinson’s Crossing by Jan Zwicky
Go Leaving Strange by Patrick Lane
The Hunger by D. C. Reid
The Possible Past by Aislinn Hunter
The Startled Heart by Eve Joseph
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Sponsored by Sandhill Book Marketing, Dempsey Distributing and the BC Branch of the Editors Association of Canada / Association canadienne des réviseurs and an anonymous donor
Winner! A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming by Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Betty C. Keller, Rosella M. Leslie, Otto Langer and Don Staniford
The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey by Robert Hunter and Robert Keziere
L. D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver by Daniel Francis
Plants of Haida Gwaii by Nancy J. Turner
Surveying Northern British Columbia: A Photo Journal of Frank Swannell by Jay Sherwood
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Sponsored by the BC Library Association
Winner! Miss Smithers by Susan Juby
The Alchemist’s Daughter by Eileen Kernaghan
Francesca and the Magic Bike by Cynthia Nugent
Gold Rush Orphan by Sandy Frances Duncan
Kat’s Fall by Shelley Hrdlitschka
White Girl by Sylvia Olsen
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature PrizeSponsored by an anonymous donor
Winner! Goodbye to Griffith Street by Marilynn Reynolds Illustrated by Renné Benoit
The Moccasins by Earl Einarson Illustrated by Julie Flett
Owls by Adrienne Mason Illustrated by Nancy Gray Ogle
Ride ‘em Cowboyby Stefan Czernecki
When They Are Up by Richard Thompson and Maggee Spicer Illustrated by Kirsti Anne Wakelin
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Sponsored by the BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books
Winner! Birds of the Raincoast: Habits and Habitat by Harvey Thommasen, Kevin Hutchings, R. Wayne Campbell, Mark Hume
Home: Tales of a Heritage Farm by Anny Scoones
Raincoast Chronicles 20: Lilies and Fireweed: Frontier Women of British Columbia by Stephen Hume
Souvenir of Canada 2 by Douglas Coupland
Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! Robert Bringhurst
2004 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Sitting Practice
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Thomas Allen
Sitting Practice
Ascension
by Steven Galloway
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Ascension
The Continuation of Love by Other Means
by Claudia Casper
Publisher: Penguin
The Continuation of Love by Other Means
Country of Cold
by Kevin Patterson
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Country of Cold
Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
by Janet Warner
Publisher: St. Martin's Pres
Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
by Maria Tippett
Publisher: Random House Canada
Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian
The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
by Mark Zuehlke
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
by Pat Wastell Norris
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
by Peter Steele
Publisher: Raincoast Books
The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
by Maria Coffey
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Taking the Names Down from the Hill
by Philip Kevin Paul
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Taking the Names Down from the Hill
The Alchemy of Happiness
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Beach Holme
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Creature I Am
by Denise Cammiade
Publisher: Sono Nis
The Creature I Am
House Built of Rain
by Russell Thornton
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
House Built of Rain
Ursa Major
by Robert Bringhurst
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Ursa Major
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
by Donald Luxton
Publisher: Talonbooks
Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia
Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
by Ross Freake and Don Plant
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Firestorm: The Summer BC Burned
The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
by Rob Butler
Publisher: Key Porter
The Jade Coast: Ecology of the North Pacific Ocean
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
by David Nunuk
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
by R. Samuel Bawlf
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Skud
by Dennis Foon
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Skud
The Canning Season
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood Books
The Canning Season
Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
by John Wilson
Publisher: Key Porter
Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood Books
The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
by Irene N. Watts and Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Publisher: Tundra Books
Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People
Top
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Stanley’s Party
by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Stanley’s Party
Adventures in Ancient China
by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Adventures in Ancient China
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid
by Julie Lawson
Illustrated by Kasia Charko
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Arizona Charlie and the Klondike Kid
Suki’s Kimono
by Chieri Uegaki
Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Suki’s Kimono
Sunny
by Robin Mitchell and Judith Steedman
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Sunny
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
by R. Samuel Bawlf
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577–1580
From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories
by Doreen Armitage
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories
Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor’s Raincoast
by Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor’s Raincoast
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
by David Nunuk
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia
Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall
by Andrew Scott
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall
Top
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! P. K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page
2003 Winners & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Unless
by Carol Shields
Publisher: Random House
Unless
Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations
by Gayla Reid
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations
Dead Girls
by Nancy Lee
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Dead Girls
Mount Appetite
by Bill Gaston
Publisher: Raincoast
Mount Appetite
Night Watch
by Kevin Armstrong
Publisher: Penguin Books
Night Watch
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
by Sandra Shields, David Campion
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
by Cole Harris
Publisher: UBC Press
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
One Man’s Justice
by Thomas Berger
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
One Man’s Justice
The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
by Keath Fraser
Publisher: Thomas Allen
The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat
The Way of a Ship
by Derek Lundy
Publisher: Random House
The Way of a Ship
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! peter among th towring boxes
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
peter among th towring boxes
The Breath You Take from the Lord
by Patrick Friesen
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Breath You Take from the Lord
Ground Water
by Colin Browne
Publisher: Talonbooks
Ground Water
My Father’s Cup
by Tom Wayman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
My Father’s Cup
Shameless
by Marlene Cookshaw
Publisher: Brick Books
Shameless
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
by Ernest Perrault
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Tong: The Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver’s Quiet Titan
E. J. Hughes
by Ian Thom
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
E. J. Hughes
Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
by Randy Bouchard, Dorothy Kennedy
Publisher: Talonbooks
Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America
The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
by Alison Watt
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island
Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock
by Francis Mansbridge
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Flood by James Heneghan
The Gold Diggers Club by Karen Rivers
Jeannie and the Gentle Giants by Luanne Armstrong
The Losers’ Club by John Lekich
Losing Forever by Gayle Friesen
Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Salmon Creek by Annette LeBox, Karen Reczuch
Amber Waiting by Nan Gregory, Kady Macdonald Denton
How Sleep Found Tabitha by Maggie de Vries, Sheena Lott
The Klondike Cat by Julie Lawson, Paul Mombourquette
Solomon’s Tree by Andrea Spalding, Janet Wilson
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Skookum Tugs: British Columbia’s Working Tugboats by Robb Douglas, Peter A. Robson, Betty Keller
Dear Sad Goat by Bill Richardson
E. J. Hughes by Ian Thom
Historical Atlas of Canada by Derek Hayes
The Last Island: A Naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island by Alison Watt
2002 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Simple Recipes
by Madeleine Thien
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Simple Recipes
All the Seas of the World
by Gayla Reid
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
All the Seas of the World
Small Accidents
by Andrew Gray
Publisher: Raincoast
Small Accidents
Stanley Park
by Timothy Taylor
Publisher: Knopf
Stanley Park
The Torn Skirt
by Rebecca Godfrey
Publisher: HarperCollins
The Torn Skirt
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
by Susan Crean
Publisher: HarperCollins
The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
The Door is Open
by Bart Campbell
Publisher: Anvil Press
The Door is Open
Grain of Truth
by Ross A. Laird
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Grain of Truth
The Mummy Congress
by Heather Pringle
Publisher: Penguin Books
The Mummy Congress
Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken
by Stephen Hume
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Off the Map: Western Travels on Roads Less Taken
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Short Haul Engine
by Karen Solie
Publisher: Brick Books
Short Haul Engine
Into the Early Hours
by Aislinn Hunter
Publisher: Polestar
Into the Early Hours
This Tremor Love Is
by Daphne Marlatt
Publisher: Talonbooks
This Tremor Love Is
Understanding Heaven
by Stephen Guppy
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn
Understanding Heaven
The Wrecks of Eden
by Catherine Owen
Publisher: Wolsak and Wynn
The Wrecks of Eden
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
by Keith Thor Carlson, Colin Duffield, Albert (Sonny) McHalsie, Jan Perrier, Leeanna Lynn Rhodes, David M. Schaepe and David Smith
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre / University of Washington Press / Stó:lo Heritage Trust
A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
by Wayne Campbell, et al.
Publisher: UBC Press
Birds of British Columbia (Volume 4, Passerines)
Guilty of Everything
by John Armstrong
Publisher: New Star Books
Guilty of Everything
Illustrated History of BC
by Terry Reksten
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Illustrated History of BC
Visions of the Wild
by Maria Coffey, Dag Goering
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Visions of the Wild
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Everything on a Waffle
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood
Everything on a Waffle
The Accomplice
by Norma Charles
Publisher: Raincoast
The Accomplice
Chance and the Butterfly
by Maggie de Vries
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Chance and the Butterfly
Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Scholastic
Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea
The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts
by Valerie Wyatt, John Mantha
Publisher: Kids Can Press
The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Illustrated History of BC
by Terry Reksten
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Illustrated History of BC
How to Be a Canadian
by Will Ferguson, Ian Ferguson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
How to Be a Canadian
Light at the Edge of the World
by Wade Davis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Light at the Edge of the World
Ranchland
by Rick Blacklaws, Diana French
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Ranchland
A Stó:lo–Coast Salish Historical Atlas
by Keith Thor Carlson,
2001 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Monkey Beach
by Eden Robinson
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Monkey Beach
The Hero’s Walk
by Anita Rau Badami
Publisher: Ballantine Books
The Hero’s Walk
The Judas Hills
by Peter Trower
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Judas Hills
A Message for Mr. Lazarus
by Barbara Lambert
Publisher: Cormorant
A Message for Mr. Lazarus
Uther
by Jack Whyte
Publisher: Penguin Books
Uther
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Last Great Sea
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: Greystone
The Last Great Sea
The Bear’s Embrace
by Patricia Van Tighem
Publisher: Anchor
The Bear’s Embrace
The Other Side of Eden
by Hugh Brody
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Other Side of Eden
Tom Thomson’s Shack
by Harold Rhenisch
Publisher: New Star Books
Tom Thomson’s Shack
Wild West Women
by Rosemary Neering
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Wild West Women
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Another Gravity
by Don McKay
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Another Gravity
The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Bare Plum of Winter Rain
His Life
by George Bowering
Publisher: ECW Press
His Life
Slow-Moving Target
by Sue Wheeler
Publisher: Brick Books
Slow-Moving Target
Water Stair
by John Pass
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Water Stair
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
by Daniel Francis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Island Timber
by Richard Somerset Mackie
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Island Timber
The Last Great Sea
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: Greystone
The Last Great Sea
The Politics of Resentment
by Philip Resnick
Publisher: UBC Press
The Politics of Resentment
Tom Thomson’s Shack
by Harold Rhenisch
Publisher: New Star Books
Tom Thomson’s Shack
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! The Grave
by James Heneghan
Publisher: Groundwood
The Grave
Ballerinas Don’t Wear Glasses
by Ainslie Manson
Illustrated by Dean Griffith
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Ballerinas Don’t Wear Glasses
Frances
by W. D. Valgardson
Publisher: Groundwood
Frances
Men of Stone
by Gayle Friesen
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Men of Stone
No Cafes in Narnia
by Nikki Tate
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
No Cafes in Narnia
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
by Dan Francis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
The Bear’s Embrace
by Patricia Van Tighem
Publisher: Anchor
The Bear’s Embrace
City of Glass
by Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
City of Glass
The Last Great Sea
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: Greystone
The Last Great Sea
Wild West Women
by Rosemary Neering
2000 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Pornographer’s Poem
by Michael Turner
Publisher: Random House
The Pornographer’s Poem
All the Anxious Girls On Earth
by Zsuzsi Gartner
Publisher: Anchor
All the Anxious Girls On Earth
Before the Flood
by Alan R. Wilson
Publisher: Cormorant
Before the Flood
Furry Creek
by Keith Harrison
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Furry Creek
A History of Forgetting
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Key Porter
A History of Forgetting
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels
by Rita Moir
Publisher: Coteau
Buffalo Jump: A Woman’s Travels
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
by James P. Delgado
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
Cougar Annie’s Garden
by Margaret Horsfield
Publisher: Salal Books
Cougar Annie’s Garden
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
by Douglas Cole
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
by Andrea Lebowitz, Gillian Milton
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! What the Living Won’t Let Go
by Lorna Crozier
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
What the Living Won’t Let Go
49th Parallel Psalm
by Wayde Compton
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
49th Parallel Psalm
The Colours of the Forest
by Tom Wayman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Colours of the Forest
Love and Other Things that Hurt
by D. C. Reid
Publisher: Black Moss Press
Love and Other Things that Hurt
Things that Keep and Do Not Change
by Susan Musgrave
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Things that Keep and Do Not Change
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Cougar Annie’s Garden
by Margaret Horsfield
Publisher: Salal Books
Cougar Annie’s Garden
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
by Faith Moosang
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp/Presentation House Gallery
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
by Dick Hammond
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Haunted Waters: Tales of the Old Coast
Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
by Derek Hayes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
by Gary Wyatt
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Mythic Beings: Spirit Art of the Northwest Coast
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
by Vivien Bowers
Publisher: Maple Tree Press
WOW Canada! Exploring the Land from Coast to Coast to Coast
The Butterflies’ Promise
by Julie Ovenell-Carter
Illustrated by Kitty Macaulay
Publisher: Annick Press
The Butterflies’ Promise
The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
by W. D. Valgardson
Publisher: Groundwood
The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
Dream Water
by Karen Rivers
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Dream Water
Tarragon Island
by Nikki Tate
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Tarragon Island
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
by Derek Hayes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
by Faith Moosang
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp/Presentation House Gallery
First Son: Portraits by C. D. Hoy
Lions Gate
by Lilia D'Acres, Don Luxton
Publisher: Talonbooks
Lions Gate
Mountains of the Coast
by John Baldwin
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Mountains of the Coast
Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast
by Kenneth Macrae Leighton
1999 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Broken Ground
by Jack Hodgins
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Broken Ground
The Handless Maiden
by Loranne Brown
Publisher: Random House
The Handless Maiden
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
by Anne Fleming
Publisher: Polestar
Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
by Peter C. Newman
Publisher: Penguin Books
Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
by Eric Nicol
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs
Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijauna Grower
by Michael Poole
Publisher: Greystone
Romancing Mary Jane: A Year in the Life of a Failed Marijauna Grower
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! How I Joined Humanity at Last
by David Zieroth
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
How I Joined Humanity at Last
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
by Jan Zwicky
Publisher: Brick Books
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
St. Mary at Main
by Patrick Friesen
Publisher: The Muses Company
St. Mary at Main
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
by Mark Hume, Harvey Thommassen
Publisher: Greystone
River of the Angry Moon: Seasons on the Bella Coola
Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter’s Experience
by Helene Cyr
Publisher: New Society
Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter’s Experience
Hotel Georgia
by Sean Rossiter
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Hotel Georgia
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Driftwood Cove
by Sandra Lightburn
Illustrated by Ron Lightburn
Publisher: Doubleday
Driftwood Cove
The Boy in the Attic
by Paul Yee
Illustrated by Gu Xiong
Publisher: Groundwood
The Boy in the Attic
The Doctor’s Apprentice
by Ann Walsh
Publisher: Beach Holme
The Doctor’s Apprentice
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC
by Tom Henry
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC
The Clouded Leopard
by Wade Davis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Clouded Leopard
Guiding Lights: BC’s Lighthouses and their Keepers
by Chris Jaksa, Lynn Tanod
1998 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Visible Worlds
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: HarperCollins
Visible Worlds
At First I Hope for Rescue
by Holley Rubinsky
Publisher: Knopf
At First I Hope for Rescue
Fox’s Nose
by Sally Ireland
Publisher: Cormorant
Fox’s Nose
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Stolen from Our Embrace
by Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Stolen from Our Embrace
Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
by Richard Bocking
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
The Perfection of Hope
by Elizabeth Simpson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Perfection of Hope
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! What I Remember from My Time on Earth
by Patricia Young
Publisher: Anansi
What I Remember from My Time on Earth
Heaven Cake
by Linda Rogers
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Heaven Cake
Ivanhoe Station
by Lyle Neff
Publisher: Anvil Press
Ivanhoe Station
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
by Richard Bocking
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Mighty River: A Portrait of the Fraser
The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Raincoast
The Pullet Surprise: A Year on an Urban Farm
Western Journeys
by Daniel Wood, Beverley Sinclair
Publisher: Raincoast
Western Journeys
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Wish Me Luck
by James Heneghan
Publisher: Groundwood
Wish Me Luck
Across Frozen Seas
by John Wilson
Publisher: Dundurn
Across Frozen Seas
Emma and the Silk Train
by Julie Lawson
Illustrated by Paul Mombourquette
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Emma and the Silk Train
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Great Bear Rainforest
by Ian McAllister, Karen McAllister, Cameron Young
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Great Bear Rainforest
Dangerous Waters
by Keith Keller
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Dangerous Waters
Haida Gwaii
by Ian Gill
1997 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Cure for Death by Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Publisher: Knopf
The Cure for Death by Lightning
Cereus Blooms at Night
by Shani Mootoo
Publisher: HarperCollins
Cereus Blooms at Night
The Venetian’s Wife
by Nick Bantock
Publisher: Raincoast
The Venetian’s Wife
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! O-bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered
by Catherine Lang
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
O-bon in Chimunesu: A Community Remembered
Clara and Me
by Deanna Kawatski
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Clara and Me
I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People
by Arthur J. Ray
Publisher: Key Porter/Lester
I Have Lived Here Since the World Began: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Native People
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! The Unhinging of Wings
by Margo Button
Publisher: Oolichan Books
The Unhinging of Wings
Autobiography
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Beach Holme
Autobiography
Seeing in the Dark
by Joyce Nelson
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Seeing in the Dark
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! The Fraser River
by Alan Haig-Brown, Rick Blacklaws
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Fraser River
British Columbia: A Natural History
by Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings
Publisher: Greystone
British Columbia: A Natural History
Landscapes of the Interior
by Don Gayton
Publisher: New Society
Landscapes of the Interior
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Back of Beyond
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood
Back of Beyond
Awake and Dreaming
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Penguin Books
Awake and Dreaming
Sarah and the People of Sand River
by W. D. Valgardson
Illustrated by Ian Wallace
Publisher: Groundwood
Sarah and the People of Sand River
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! British Columbia: A Natural History
by Richard Cannings, Sydney Cannings
Publisher: Greystone
British Columbia: A Natural History
Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure
by Bruce Obee
Publisher: Beautiful British Columbia Magazine
Over Beautiful British Columbia: An Aerial Adventure
Sailing Back in Time
by Maria Coffey
1996 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Coming Down from Wa
by Audrey Thomas
Publisher: Viking
Coming Down from Wa
The Rain Ascends
by Joy Kogawa
Publisher: Penguin Books
The Rain Ascends
Through the Canyon
by Lorraine Vernon
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Through the Canyon
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Letter from Vienna
by Claudia Cornwall
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Letter from Vienna
Too Good to be True: Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project
by Bev Christensen
Publisher: Talonbooks
Too Good to be True: Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project
Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpant
by Sheryl Salloum
Publisher: Horsdal & Schubart
Underlying Vibrations: The Photography of John Vanderpant
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Too Spare, Too Fierce
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Too Spare, Too Fierce
The Edge of Time
by Robin Skelton
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
The Edge of Time
To this Cedar Fountain
by Kate Braid
Publisher: Polestar
To this Cedar Fountain
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! HR: A Biography Of H. R. MacMillan
by Ken Drushka
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
HR: A Biography Of H. R. MacMillan
Dogless in Metchosin
by Tom Henry
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Dogless in Metchosin
Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
by Patrick Reid
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Wild Colonial Boy: A Memoir
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! How Smudge Came
by Nan Gregory
Illustrated by Ron Lightburn
Publisher: Red Deer Press
How Smudge Came
Emily Carr’s Woo
by Constance Horne
Illustrated by Lissa Calvert
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Emily Carr’s Woo
Finders Keepers
by Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Dundurn
Finders Keepers
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book
by Bill Richardson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
by Candace Savage
Publisher: Greystone
Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
HR: A Biography of H. R. MacMillan
by Ken Drushka
1995 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! To Be There With You
by Gayla Reid
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
To Be There With You
City of Orphans
by Patricia Robertson
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
City of Orphans
Under Glass
by Grant Buday
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Under Glass
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodriguez
by Lisa Hobbs Birnie
Publisher: Macmillan
Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodriguez
Concubine’s Children
by Denise Chong
Publisher: Viking
Concubine’s Children
Finding Family
by Rick Ouston
Publisher: New Star Books
Finding Family
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Hard Candy
by Linda Rogers
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Hard Candy
ed and mabel go to the moon
by Aaron Bushkowsky
Publisher: Oolichan Books
ed and mabel go to the moon
Mêmewars
by Adeena Karasick
Publisher: Talonbooks
Mêmewars
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
by Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Raincoast Chronicles: Eleven Up
Clayoquot & Dissent
by Tzeporah Berman et al.
Illustrated by Marguerite Gibbons
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Clayoquot & Dissent
Seven-Knot Summers
by Beth Hill
Publisher: Horsdal & Schubart
Seven-Knot Summers
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! The Old Brown Suitcase
by Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Publisher: Ben-Simon
The Old Brown Suitcase
Torn Away
by James Heneghen
Publisher: Penguin Books
Torn Away
White Wave
by Mary Razzell
Publisher: Groundwood
White Wave
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Eagle Transforming
by Robert Davidson, Ulli Steltzer
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Eagle Transforming
The Good Company
by Tom Henry
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Good Company
Picasso’s Women
by Rosalind MacPhee
1994 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Bad Imaginings
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Bad Imaginings
Light in the Company Of Women
by Keith Maillard
Publisher: HarperCollins
Light in the Company Of Women
Visible Light
by Carol Windley
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Visible Light
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Some Become Flowers
by Sharon Brown
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Some Become Flowers
My Father, My Friend
by Arthur Mayse
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
My Father, My Friend
Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
by John Mills
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
by Gregory Scofield
Publisher: Polestar
The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel
The Ghost In the Gears
by Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Ghost In the Gears
Poems New and Selected
by Brian Brett
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Poems New and Selected
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Nisga’a
by Alex Rose (editor)
Publisher: Nisga'a Tribal Council/Douglas & McIntyre
Nisga’a
British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
by Graham Osborne
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
British Columbia: A Wild and Fragile Beauty
Fishing for a Living
by Alan Haig-Brown
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fishing for a Living
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! White Jade Tiger
by Julie Lawson
Publisher: The Dundurn Group
White Jade Tiger
Jasmine is not sure she likes the idea of being stuck in Victoria while her father goes to China for a year. But on a field trip to Chinatown, she explores a curious shop in Fan Tan Alley and accidentally passes through a hidden door. She finds herself in Victoria’s Chinatown of the 1880s. Mistaken for a Chinese boy, she is soon caught up in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway and in a race through the Fraser Canyon to find a jade tiger amulet. Julie Lawson has written more than twenty young adult titles. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia. More
If You’re Not from the Prairie
by David Bouchard
Publisher: Raincoast/Summerwild
If You’re Not from the Prairie
A Ride for Martha
by Sue Ann Alderson
Illustrated by Ann Blades
Publisher: Groundwood
A Ride for Martha
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Fishing for a Living
by Alan Haig-Brown
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fishing for a Living
The Emerald Sea
by Diane Swanson
Illustrated by Dale Sanders
Publisher: Whitecap Books
The Emerald Sea
Grizzlies & White Guys
by Clayton Mack
1993 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! The Girl with the Botticelli Face
by W. D. Valgardson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Girl with the Botticelli Face
July Nights and Other Stories
by J. A. Hamilton
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
July Nights and Other Stories
Marine Life
by Linda Svendsen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Marine Life
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists
by Lynne Bowen
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists
Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing
by Homer Stevens, Rolf Knight
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
by Irene Howard
Publisher: UBC Press
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! inkorrect thots
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
inkorrect thots
How Do You Feel?
by Kirsten Emmott
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
How Do You Feel?
Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
by Diana Hartog
Publisher: Coach House
Polite to Bees: A Bestiary
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
by Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller
Vancouver: A Visual History
by Bruce MacDonald
Publisher: Talonbooks
Vancouver: A Visual History
Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
by Vickie Jensen
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Where the People Gather: Carving A Totem Pole
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! My Name is Seepeetza
by Shirley Sterling
Publisher: Groundwood Books
My Name is Seepeetza
A Dog Came Too
by Ainslie Manson
Illustrated by Ann Blades
Publisher: Groundwood Books
A Dog Came Too
Sure as Strawberries
by Sue Ann Alderson
Publisher: Red Deer Press
Sure as Strawberries
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Sabine’s Notebook
by Nick Bantock
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Sabine’s Notebook
Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
by Terry Glavin and the Nemiah Valley Peoples
Publisher: New Star Books
Nemiah: The Unconquered Country
Vancouver: A Visual History
by Bruce MacDonald
1992 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Blue Husbands
by Don Dickinson
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Blue Husbands
The Illumination of Alice Mallory
by Maureen Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
The Illumination of Alice Mallory
Sick Pigeon
by M. A. C. Farrant
Publisher: Thistledown
Sick Pigeon
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Down The Road
by Rosemary Neering
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Down The Road
Duff Pattullo of British Columbia
by Robin Fisher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Duff Pattullo of British Columbia
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
by Jean Barman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Pulp Log
by Barry McKinnon
Publisher: Caitlin
Pulp Log
Company Town
by Michael Turner
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp
Company Town
The Hour’s Acropolis
by John Pass
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Hour’s Acropolis
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
by Herb Hammond
Publisher: Polestar
Seeing the Forest Among the Trees
Ragged Islands
by Michael Poole
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Ragged Islands
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
by Jean Barman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Siwiti: A Whale’s Story
by Alexandra Morton
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Siwiti: A Whale’s Story
Looking At The Moon
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking
Looking At The Moon
Pick-Up Sticks
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Margaret McElderry
Pick-Up Sticks
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii
by Robert Bringhurst
Illustrated by Ulli Steltzer (photographs)
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Black Canoe: Bill Reid and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii
Coastal Villages
by Liv Kennedy
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Coastal Villages
Coastal Wildlife of British Columbia
by Bruce Obee, Tim Fitzharris
1991 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Wild Blue Yonder
by Audrey Thomas
Publisher: Penguin Books
Wild Blue Yonder
Disappearing Moon Cafe
by Sky Lee
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Disturbing The Peace
by Caroline Woodward
Publisher: Polestar
Disturbing The Peace
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Jack Shadbolt
by Scott Watson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Jack Shadbolt
A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
by Terry Glavin
Publisher: New Star
A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Down Time
by Jeff Derksen
Publisher: Talonbooks
Down Time
Hanging Fire
by Phyllis Webb
Publisher: Talonnooks
Hanging Fire
hard 2 beleev
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
hard 2 beleev
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Aboriginal People and Politics
by Paul Tennant
Publisher: UBC Press
Aboriginal People and Politics
An Enterprising Life
by Cyril E. Leonoff
Publisher: Talonbooks
An Enterprising Life
Vanishing Vancouver
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Vanishing Vancouver
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! I Heard My Mother Call My Name
by Nancy Hundal
Publisher: HarperCollins
I Heard My Mother Call My Name
Chapter One
by Sue Ann Alderson
Publisher: General Paperbacks
Chapter One
Jack Shadbolt
by Scott Watson
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Jack Shadbolt
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Vanishing Vancouver
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Vanishing Vancouver
Spilsbury’s Album
by Jim Spilsbury
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Spilsbury’s Album
Webster!
by Jack Webster
1990 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Motet
by Keith Maillard
Publisher: Random House
Motet
After The Fire
by Jane Rule
Publisher: Lazara Press
After The Fire
To All Appearances A Lady
by Marilyn Bowering
Publisher: Random House
To All Appearances A Lady
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
by Philip Marchand
Publisher: Random House
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium and the Messenger
Buddy’s
by Stan Persky
Publisher: New Star Books
Buddy’s
A White Man’s Province
by Patricia Roy
Publisher: UBC Press
A White Man’s Province
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Suitcase
by Victoria Walker
Publisher: Gorse Press
Suitcase
The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
by Maureen McCarthy
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Girls in the Last Seat Waving
The Whole Elephant
by Marlene Cookshaw
Publisher: Brick Books
The Whole Elephant
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Carmanah
by Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Publisher: Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Carmanah
This Was Our Valley
by Earl K Pollon, Shirlee Smith Matheson
Publisher: Detselig
This Was Our Valley
Write It On Your Heart
by Harry Robinson, Wendy Wickwire
Publisher: Talonbooks & Theytis Books
Write It On Your Heart
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Tales From Gold Mountain
by Paul Yee
Illustrated by Simon Ng
Publisher: Groundwood
Tales From Gold Mountain
Next-Door Neighbours
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood
Next-Door Neighbours
The Sky is Falling
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking Kestrel
The Sky is Falling
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Carmanah
by Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Publisher: Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Carmanah
Chilcotin & Beyond
by Paul St. Pierre
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Chilcotin & Beyond
The Coast Of British Columbia
by Bob Herger, Rosemary Neering
1989 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Mimosa
by Bill Schermbrucker
Publisher: Talonbooks
Mimosa
Love In Beijing
by William Goede
Publisher: Cormorant
Love In Beijing
The Saxophone Winter
by Robert Harlow
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Saxophone Winter
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Trail To Heaven
by Robin Ridington
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Trail To Heaven
Fishing with John
by Edith Iglauer
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fishing with John
Saltwater City
by Paul Yee
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Saltwater City
Top
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Winner! Circling North
by Charles Lillard
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Circling North
A Dancing Star
by Doug Beardsley
Publisher: Thistledown Press
A Dancing Star
what we have
by bill bissett
Publisher: Talonbooks
what we have
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Resistance and Renewal
by Celia Haig-Brown
Publisher: Tillicum/Pulp
Resistance and Renewal
The Accidental Airline
by Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Accidental Airline
Stoney Creek Woman
by Bridget Moran
Publisher: Tillicum/Pulp
Stoney Creek Woman
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Sunny
by Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
Publisher: Irwin
Sunny
Catriona’s Island
by Florence McNeil
Publisher: Groundwood
Catriona’s Island
Mood Pocket, Mud Bucket
by Deborah Turney Zagwyn
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Mood Pocket, Mud Bucket
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Stein: The Way Of The River
by Michael M'Gonigle, Wendy Wickwire
Publisher: Talonbooks
Stein: The Way Of The River
A Life In The Country
by Bruce Hutchison
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
A Life In The Country
Never Chop Your Rope
by Joe Garner
1988 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Cage
by George McWhirter
Publisher: Oberon Press
Cage
Memory Board
by Jane Rule
Publisher: Macmillan
Memory Board
The Parrot Who Could
by Robin Skelton
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Parrot Who Could
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Brazilian Journal
by P. K. Page
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
Brazilian Journal
The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott
by Sandra Djwa
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott
The White Pass
by Roy Minter
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The White Pass
Top
Poetry Prize
Winner! All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room
by Patricia Young
Publisher: Oolichan Books
All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room
The Beginning of the Long Dash
by Sharon Thesen
Publisher: Coach House
The Beginning of the Long Dash
Eight Poems
by Norm Sibum
Publisher: Tanks
Eight Poems
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Whalers No More
by W. A. Hagelund
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Whalers No More
Hastings & Main
by Jo-Ann Canning-Dew
Publisher: New Star Books
Hastings & Main
Three Dollar Dreams
by Lynne Bowen
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Three Dollar Dreams
The White Pass
by Roy Minter
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The White Pass
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! Pride of Lions
by Nicola Morgan
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pride of Lions
A Handful of Time
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: Viking/Penguin
A Handful of Time
Salmonberry Wine
by Mary Razzell
Publisher: Groundwood
Salmonberry Wine
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt
by Hilary Stewart
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt
Rick Hansen: Man In Motion
by Rick Hansen, Jim Taylor
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Rick Hansen: Man In Motion
Spilsbury’s Coast
by Howard White, Jim Spilsbury
1987 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Housebroken
by Leona Gom
Publisher: NeWest Press
Housebroken
The Indigo Dress & Other Stories
by Rona Murray
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Indigo Dress & Other Stories
Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola
by Paulette Jiles
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Bill Reid
by Doris Shadbolt
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bill Reid
Braehead: Three Founding Families in Nineteenth Century Canada
by Sherrill MacLaren
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Braehead: Three Founding Families in Nineteenth Century Canada
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
by Philip Croft
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Top
Poetry Prize
Winner! Candy From Strangers
by Diana Hartog
Publisher: Coach House
Candy From Strangers
The Face of Jack Munro
by Tom Wayman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Face of Jack Munro
The Night the Dog Smiled
by John Newlove
Publisher: ECW Press
The Night the Dog Smiled
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Wisdom of the Elders
by Ruth Kirk
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Wisdom of the Elders
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
by Philip Croft
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Vancouver and Its Writers
by Alan Twigg
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Vancouver and Its Writers
Top
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Winner! The Baby Project
by Sarah Ellis
Publisher: Groundwood
The Baby Project
The Curses of Third Uncle
by Paul Yee
Publisher: James Lorimer
The Curses of Third Uncle
The Falcon Bow
by James Houston
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
The Falcon Bow
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Bill Reid
by Doris Shadbolt
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bill Reid
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
by Philip Croft
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
Wisdom of the Elders
by Ruth Kirk
1986 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Foreign Affairs
by Keath Fraser
Publisher: Stoddart Publishing
Foreign Affairs
In the Shadow of the Vulture
by George Ryga
Publisher: Talonbooks
In the Shadow of the Vulture
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
by Brian Fawcett
Publisher: Talonbooks
The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
The Suspect
by L. R. Wright
Publisher: Doubleday
The Suspect
Top
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! The Unfinished Country
by Bruce Hutchison
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Unfinished Country
The Journal of Private Fraser
by Reginald Roy
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Journal of Private Fraser
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
by Muriel Kitagawa
Publisher: Talonbooks
This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
Top
Poetry Prize
Winner! Poetry Hotel
by Joe Rosenblatt
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Poetry Hotel
The Glass Air
by P. K. Page
Publisher: Oxford
The Glass Air
Letters for Some Islands
by Anne Marriott
Publisher: Mosaic
Letters for Some Islands
Top
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Keepers of the Light
by Donald Graham
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Keepers of the Light
Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
by Douglas Cole
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts
The Devil and Mr. Duncan
by Peter Murray
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
The Devil and Mr. Duncan
Top
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! The Forests of British Columbia
by Cameron Young et al.
Publisher: Whitecap Books
The Forests of British Columbia
Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells
by John Adams and Becky Thomas
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Floating Schools and Frozen Inkwells
Vancouver: Touch The Magic
by Philip Hersee
1985 Winners and Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Winner! Intertidal Life by Audrey Thomas
A Coastal Range by Charles Lillard
Winners by Mary-Ellen Lang Collura
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Winner! Duff: A Life in the Law by David Ricardo Williams
Vancouver The Way It Was
by Michael Kluckner
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Vancouver The Way It Was
Without Surrender, Without Consent by Daniel Raunet
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Winner! Cedar by Hilary Stewart
Gunboat Frontier by Barry Gough
Sound Heritage by Saeko Usukawa
BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie
Winner! Islands at the Edge by Islands Protection Society
Cedar by Hilary Stewart
The Roman Cookery of Apiciusby John Edwards
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
