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
Thursday, June 27, 2013
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
English PEN Ackerley Prize (1982-2013)
2010-2013 info from PEN/Ackerley Prize accessed 6/27/13
From The Biographers' Club and English PEN accessed 11/04/09
The PEN/Ackerley Prize is given to a literary autobiography of outstanding merit, written by an author of British nationality and published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. Past winners include Alan Bennett, Jenny Diski, Lorna Sage, Blake Morrison, Barry Humphries and Margaret Forster. The judges are the Trustees of the fund left by Nancy Ackerley to honour her brother, the novelist and critic JR Ackerley. The winner receives £2,000.
2013
English PEN is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2013 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir. The shortlisted titles are:
Will Cohu – The Wolf Pit
Rachel Cusk – Aftermath
Colin Grant – Bageye at the Wheel
Richard Holloway – Leaving Alexandria
2012 – Duncan Fallowell for How to Disappear
2011 – Michael Frayn for My Father’s Fortune
2010 – Gabriel Weston for Direct Red
2009
English PEN, the founding centre of the worldwide writers’ association announced the shortlist for the 2009 PEN/Ackerley Prize:
Julian Barnes - Nothing to be Frightened of
Julia Blackburn - The Three of Us -- Winner!
Susie Boyt - My Judy Garland Life
Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream
Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot [originally published as If You Don’t Know Me By Now]
2008
The 2008 prize was awarded to Miranda Seymour for her frank account of her family's tangled relationships, In My Father's House, published by Simon & Schuster. Introducing the prize-winning book, Peter Parker, chair of the judges said: 'Miranda Seymour recognises that all family stories can be told from different perspectives and in this book about her own troubled relationship with her father she also allows her mother a voice, a voice that comments throughout on what Seymour is writing, challenging both her memory and her motives in telling this extraordinary story.'
The other short-listed authors in 2008 were:
The Presence by Dannie Abse
Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? by Jane Haynes
The Islamist by Ed Husain
Family Romance by John Lanchester
2007
The twenty-sixth PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography was presented on Wednesday July 18 2007 at the PEN Summer Party to Brian Thompson for his memoir, Keeping Mum.
The other short-listed authors in 2007 were:
Horatio Clare, Running for the Hills
John Cornwell, Seminary Boy
Rupert Everett, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
Simon Gray, The Year of the Jouncer
Jeremy Harding, Mother Country
2006
The twenty-fifth PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography was presented on Thursday July 13 2006 at the PEN Summer Party to Alan Bennett for his memoir, Untold Stories, which presents the very best of Bennett's writing over the last decade, much of it deeply personal. In his acceptance speech, Bennett said: 'I am very honoured to receive the award, particularly as it comes from fellow practitioners and from such a distinguished organization. While not wishing to mention other literary awards, I must say that the British Book Awards are somewhat nylon, if not crinoline, whereas this award is undoubtedly tweed. I was, when Ackerley died, just starting my literary career. I wonder, if he had been able to write as freely about his life as one can now, whether he would have written the books he did. Maybe his sister had that in the back of her mind when she set up the prize. Anyway, I am very, very grateful. Thank you very much indeed.'
The other short-listed authors in 2006 were:
Nina Bawden, Dear Austen
Xandra Bingley, Bertie, May and Mrs Fish
Neil Cross, Heartland
Anna Swan, Statues without Shadows
Previous Winners:
2005 - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Half An Arch
2004 - Bryan Magee, Clouds of Glory - A Hoxton Childhood
2003 - Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train
2002 - Michael Foss, Out of India: a Raj Childhood
2001 - Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
2000 - Mark Frankland, Child of My Time
1999 - Margaret Forster, Precious Lives
1998 - Kathryn Fitzherbert, True to Both Myselves
1997 - Tim Lott, The Scent of Dried Roses
1996 - Eric Lomax, The Railway Man
1995 - Paul Vaughan, Something in Linoleum
1994 - Blake Morrison, When Did You Last See Your Father?
1993 - Barry Humphries, More, Please
1992 - John Osborne, Almost a Gentleman
1991 - Paul Binding, St Martin's Ride
1990 - Germaine Greer, Daddy We Hardly Knew You
1989 - John Healy, The Grass Arena
1988 - Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson & Big God
1987 - Diana Athill, After the Funeral
1986 - Dan Jacobson, Time and Time Again
1985 - Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness
1984 - Richard Cobb, Still Life
1983 - Kathleen Dayus, Her People and Ted Walker, High Path -- joint winners
1982 - Edward Blishen, Shaky Relations
Golden PEN Award
This award is presented to the very greatest of writers - those whose work has given both pleasure to readers and inspiration to their fellow writers. The winner is elected by the Trustees of English PEN, who represent our membership of more than one thousand writers and literary professionals. The winner receives a special golden pen and a cheque for £1,000.
Previous winners include:
2007 - Josephine Pullein-Thompson
2006 - Michael Holroyd
2005 - Jan Morris
2004 - Nina Bawden
2003 - Michael Frayn
2002 - Doris Lessing
2001 - Harold Pinter
2000 - Francis King
1999 - Penelope Fitzgerald
1998 - Muriel Spark
1997 - Iris Murdoch
1996 - William Cooper
1995 - Stephen Spender
1994 - V. S. Pritchett
1993 - Sybille Bedford
Hessell-Tiltman Prize
This prize was created in 2002 with a bequest to the PEN Literary Foundation of £100,000 from English PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman. Each year the prize goes to a historical work of high literary merit covering any historical period until the end of the second world war. The winner receives £3,000 and is announced annually.
Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the '60s and '70s. On her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.
2009
Mark Thompson was awarded the 2008/9 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 published by Faber & Faber. The 2008 judges were Professor Blair Worden (Chair), Professor Jeremy Catto and Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
The other shortlisted writers were:
Mark Mazower - Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Philipp Blom - The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914
Leo Hollis - The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
Frederick Spotts - The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
2008
Clair Wills was awarded the 2007/8 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for That Neutral Island published by Faber. The Chair, Anthony Howard, felt he had learnt a great deal from the book and all three judges agreed that it had been an unexpected 'page turner'.
2007
Vic Gatrell was awarded the 2006/7 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London, published by Atlantic Books. Vic Gatrell said: 'I am delighted that the judges found City of Laughter an accessible book of some literary merit, since I firmly believe that it is the academic historian's obligation to write for more than a couple of hundred people, and to add more than a jargon-laden footnote to our understanding of the past.'
The other shortlisted writers were:
Jerry Brotton - The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection
Deborah Cohen - Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions
William Dalrymple - The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
J. H. Elliott - Empires of the Atlantic World - Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830
Adam Tooze - The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
2006
Bryan Ward Perkins was awarded the 2006 Hesell-Tiltman Prize for History for The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
The other shortlisted writers were:
Charles Townshend - Easter1916: The Irish Rebellion
Simon Schama - Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
2005
Paul Fussell and Richard Overy were jointly awarded the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. The award went to Paul Fussell for The Boys' Crusade and to Richard Overy for The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
The other shortlisted writers were:
Joachim Fest - Inside Hitler's Bunker - The Last Days of the Third Reich
Mark Mazower - Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Jonathan Phillips - The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
2004
Tom Holland won the 2004 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for Rubicon
The other shortlisted writers were:
James Buchan - Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
Norman Davies - Rising'44: 'The Battle for Warsaw'
Richard Fletcher - The Cross and the Crescent: the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims
Diarmaid MacCulloch - Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700
2003
Jenny Uglow won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2003 for The Lunar Men (Faber). The Prize, £3000 plus a silver S.T.Dupont pen, was presented at International Writers' Day 2003 on 7th June at Senate House, University of London.
The other shortlisted writers were:
William Dalrymple - White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India
Geoffrey Moorehouse. The Pilgrimage of Grace:Rebellion that Shook Henry VIII's Throne
Munro Price. Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil
A N Wilson - The Victorians
2002
Margaret Macmillan won the inaugural Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History - £3000 plus a silver Dupont Pen - for Peacemakers (John Murray). "Peacemakers is a splendid history of the Versailles Conference, where the glitterers included Queen Marie of Roumania who arrived with a large entourage, a huge wardrobe, and demands for about half of Hungary," said Sir Stephen Tumim, Chair of the Panel of Judges, presenting the prize. Peacemakers also won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Award.
In previous years we were also proud to award the following prizes:
David TK Wong Prize
This prize was awarded biennially by International PEN and aimed to reward excellence in short fiction. The prize was made possible by the extreme generosity of English PEN member David TK Wong.
The James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction
This award was given to an outstanding work of non-fiction, written in English by an author of British nationality, and published in the United Kingdom.
The Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories
The award was given to an outstanding collection of short stories, written in English by an author of British nationality, and published in the UK in the preceeding year. The award was sponsored by Macmillan and ST Dupont.
From The Biographers' Club and English PEN accessed 11/04/09
The PEN/Ackerley Prize is given to a literary autobiography of outstanding merit, written by an author of British nationality and published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. Past winners include Alan Bennett, Jenny Diski, Lorna Sage, Blake Morrison, Barry Humphries and Margaret Forster. The judges are the Trustees of the fund left by Nancy Ackerley to honour her brother, the novelist and critic JR Ackerley. The winner receives £2,000.
2013
English PEN is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2013 PEN/Ackerley Prize for Memoir. The shortlisted titles are:
Will Cohu – The Wolf Pit
Rachel Cusk – Aftermath
Colin Grant – Bageye at the Wheel
Richard Holloway – Leaving Alexandria
2012 – Duncan Fallowell for How to Disappear
2011 – Michael Frayn for My Father’s Fortune
2010 – Gabriel Weston for Direct Red
2009
English PEN, the founding centre of the worldwide writers’ association announced the shortlist for the 2009 PEN/Ackerley Prize:
Julian Barnes - Nothing to be Frightened of
Julia Blackburn - The Three of Us -- Winner!
Susie Boyt - My Judy Garland Life
Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream
Sathnam Sanghera - The Boy with the Topknot [originally published as If You Don’t Know Me By Now]
2008
The 2008 prize was awarded to Miranda Seymour for her frank account of her family's tangled relationships, In My Father's House, published by Simon & Schuster. Introducing the prize-winning book, Peter Parker, chair of the judges said: 'Miranda Seymour recognises that all family stories can be told from different perspectives and in this book about her own troubled relationship with her father she also allows her mother a voice, a voice that comments throughout on what Seymour is writing, challenging both her memory and her motives in telling this extraordinary story.'
The other short-listed authors in 2008 were:
The Presence by Dannie Abse
Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am? by Jane Haynes
The Islamist by Ed Husain
Family Romance by John Lanchester
2007
The twenty-sixth PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography was presented on Wednesday July 18 2007 at the PEN Summer Party to Brian Thompson for his memoir, Keeping Mum.
The other short-listed authors in 2007 were:
Horatio Clare, Running for the Hills
John Cornwell, Seminary Boy
Rupert Everett, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
Simon Gray, The Year of the Jouncer
Jeremy Harding, Mother Country
2006
The twenty-fifth PEN/Ackerley Prize for literary autobiography was presented on Thursday July 13 2006 at the PEN Summer Party to Alan Bennett for his memoir, Untold Stories, which presents the very best of Bennett's writing over the last decade, much of it deeply personal. In his acceptance speech, Bennett said: 'I am very honoured to receive the award, particularly as it comes from fellow practitioners and from such a distinguished organization. While not wishing to mention other literary awards, I must say that the British Book Awards are somewhat nylon, if not crinoline, whereas this award is undoubtedly tweed. I was, when Ackerley died, just starting my literary career. I wonder, if he had been able to write as freely about his life as one can now, whether he would have written the books he did. Maybe his sister had that in the back of her mind when she set up the prize. Anyway, I am very, very grateful. Thank you very much indeed.'
The other short-listed authors in 2006 were:
Nina Bawden, Dear Austen
Xandra Bingley, Bertie, May and Mrs Fish
Neil Cross, Heartland
Anna Swan, Statues without Shadows
Previous Winners:
2005 - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Half An Arch
2004 - Bryan Magee, Clouds of Glory - A Hoxton Childhood
2003 - Jenny Diski, Stranger on a Train
2002 - Michael Foss, Out of India: a Raj Childhood
2001 - Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
2000 - Mark Frankland, Child of My Time
1999 - Margaret Forster, Precious Lives
1998 - Kathryn Fitzherbert, True to Both Myselves
1997 - Tim Lott, The Scent of Dried Roses
1996 - Eric Lomax, The Railway Man
1995 - Paul Vaughan, Something in Linoleum
1994 - Blake Morrison, When Did You Last See Your Father?
1993 - Barry Humphries, More, Please
1992 - John Osborne, Almost a Gentleman
1991 - Paul Binding, St Martin's Ride
1990 - Germaine Greer, Daddy We Hardly Knew You
1989 - John Healy, The Grass Arena
1988 - Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson & Big God
1987 - Diana Athill, After the Funeral
1986 - Dan Jacobson, Time and Time Again
1985 - Angelica Garnett, Deceived with Kindness
1984 - Richard Cobb, Still Life
1983 - Kathleen Dayus, Her People and Ted Walker, High Path -- joint winners
1982 - Edward Blishen, Shaky Relations
Golden PEN Award
This award is presented to the very greatest of writers - those whose work has given both pleasure to readers and inspiration to their fellow writers. The winner is elected by the Trustees of English PEN, who represent our membership of more than one thousand writers and literary professionals. The winner receives a special golden pen and a cheque for £1,000.
Previous winners include:
2007 - Josephine Pullein-Thompson
2006 - Michael Holroyd
2005 - Jan Morris
2004 - Nina Bawden
2003 - Michael Frayn
2002 - Doris Lessing
2001 - Harold Pinter
2000 - Francis King
1999 - Penelope Fitzgerald
1998 - Muriel Spark
1997 - Iris Murdoch
1996 - William Cooper
1995 - Stephen Spender
1994 - V. S. Pritchett
1993 - Sybille Bedford
Hessell-Tiltman Prize
This prize was created in 2002 with a bequest to the PEN Literary Foundation of £100,000 from English PEN member Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman. Each year the prize goes to a historical work of high literary merit covering any historical period until the end of the second world war. The winner receives £3,000 and is announced annually.
Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the '60s and '70s. On her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.
2009
Mark Thompson was awarded the 2008/9 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 published by Faber & Faber. The 2008 judges were Professor Blair Worden (Chair), Professor Jeremy Catto and Geoffrey Wheatcroft.
The other shortlisted writers were:
Mark Mazower - Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Philipp Blom - The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914
Leo Hollis - The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
Frederick Spotts - The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
2008
Clair Wills was awarded the 2007/8 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for That Neutral Island published by Faber. The Chair, Anthony Howard, felt he had learnt a great deal from the book and all three judges agreed that it had been an unexpected 'page turner'.
2007
Vic Gatrell was awarded the 2006/7 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London, published by Atlantic Books. Vic Gatrell said: 'I am delighted that the judges found City of Laughter an accessible book of some literary merit, since I firmly believe that it is the academic historian's obligation to write for more than a couple of hundred people, and to add more than a jargon-laden footnote to our understanding of the past.'
The other shortlisted writers were:
Jerry Brotton - The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection
Deborah Cohen - Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions
William Dalrymple - The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
J. H. Elliott - Empires of the Atlantic World - Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830
Adam Tooze - The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
2006
Bryan Ward Perkins was awarded the 2006 Hesell-Tiltman Prize for History for The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
The other shortlisted writers were:
Charles Townshend - Easter1916: The Irish Rebellion
Simon Schama - Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
2005
Paul Fussell and Richard Overy were jointly awarded the 2005 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. The award went to Paul Fussell for The Boys' Crusade and to Richard Overy for The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
The other shortlisted writers were:
Joachim Fest - Inside Hitler's Bunker - The Last Days of the Third Reich
Mark Mazower - Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Jonathan Phillips - The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
2004
Tom Holland won the 2004 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for Rubicon
The other shortlisted writers were:
James Buchan - Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
Norman Davies - Rising'44: 'The Battle for Warsaw'
Richard Fletcher - The Cross and the Crescent: the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims
Diarmaid MacCulloch - Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700
2003
Jenny Uglow won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2003 for The Lunar Men (Faber). The Prize, £3000 plus a silver S.T.Dupont pen, was presented at International Writers' Day 2003 on 7th June at Senate House, University of London.
The other shortlisted writers were:
William Dalrymple - White Mughals - Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India
Geoffrey Moorehouse. The Pilgrimage of Grace:Rebellion that Shook Henry VIII's Throne
Munro Price. Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil
A N Wilson - The Victorians
2002
Margaret Macmillan won the inaugural Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History - £3000 plus a silver Dupont Pen - for Peacemakers (John Murray). "Peacemakers is a splendid history of the Versailles Conference, where the glitterers included Queen Marie of Roumania who arrived with a large entourage, a huge wardrobe, and demands for about half of Hungary," said Sir Stephen Tumim, Chair of the Panel of Judges, presenting the prize. Peacemakers also won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Award.
In previous years we were also proud to award the following prizes:
David TK Wong Prize
This prize was awarded biennially by International PEN and aimed to reward excellence in short fiction. The prize was made possible by the extreme generosity of English PEN member David TK Wong.
The James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction
This award was given to an outstanding work of non-fiction, written in English by an author of British nationality, and published in the United Kingdom.
The Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Short Stories
The award was given to an outstanding collection of short stories, written in English by an author of British nationality, and published in the UK in the preceeding year. The award was sponsored by Macmillan and ST Dupont.
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