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Thursday, June 27, 2013

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

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