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