Winners and Finalists
Find out which books were shortlisted in previous years.
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2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019+
2024 finalists
- All
- Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution
- Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
- Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Winners
This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fleece and Fibre: Textile Producers of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands
Publisher: Heritage House
Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia
Publisher: Royal BC Museum Publications
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
Publisher: Greystone Books
Rise Up and Sing! Power, Protest, and Activism in Music
illustrated by Louise Reimer
Publisher: Greystone Books
2023 finalists
- All
- Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution
- Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
- Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Winners
True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart | Penguin Random House Canada
Her Courage Rises: 50 Trailblazing Women of British Columbia and the Yukon
illustrated by Kimiko Fraser
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
Publisher: Princeton University Press
PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space
illustrated by Michele Assarasakorn
Publisher: Razorbill | Penguin Random House Canada
Return to Solitude: More Desolation Sound Adventures with the Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, the Spaghetti Bandit and Others
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock
illustrated by Isabelle Follath
Publisher: Tundra Books | Penguin Random House Canada
Cold Case BC: The Stories behind the Province’s Most Intriguing Murder and Missing Persons Cases
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
2022 Winners & Finalists
- All
- Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution
- Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
- Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Winners
Peter Lee’s Notes from the Field
illustrated by Julie Kwon
Publisher: Tundra Books | Penguin Random House Canada
2021 Winners & Finalists
- All
- Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution
- Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
- Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Winners
I Talk Like A River
illustrated by Sydney Smith
Publisher: Neal Porter Books/Penguin Random House Canada
Just Beyond the Very, Very Far North
illustrated by Kelly Pousette
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Canada
Princesses versus Dinosaurs
illustrated by Joy Ang
Publisher: Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada
2020 Winners & Finalists
- All
- Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution
- Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
- Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
- Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
- Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Winners
2019 Winners & Finalists
Previous Winners & Finalists
2019 Winner & Finalists
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
**Winner: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By Bob Joseph
Publisher: Page Two
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
By Darrel J. McLeod
Publisher:: Douglas & McIntyre
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer
By Eve Lazarus
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island
By Robert Amos
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
**Winner: Sparks!
By Ian Boothby
Illustrated by Nina Matsumoto
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Sterling
By Aidan Cassie
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sir Simon
By Cale Atkinson
Publisher: Penguin Random House Young Readers
Robert Bateman: The Boy Who Painted Nature
By Margriet Ruurs
Illustrated by Robert Bateman
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Nameless City: The Divided Earth
By Faith Erin Hicks
Publisher: First Second
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
**Winner: Our Familiar Hunger
By Laisha Rosnau
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Beholden
By Fred Wah and Rita Wong
Publisher: Talonbooks
Quarrels
By Eve Joseph
Publisher: Anvil Press
The Small Way
By Onjana Yawnghwe
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Port of Being
By Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
**Winner: Trickster Drift
By Eden Robinson
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Dear Evelyn
By Kathy Page
Publisher: Biblioasis
Sodom Road Exit
By Amber Dawn
Publisher : Arsenal Pulp Press
That Tiny Life
By Erin Frances Fisher
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
We All Need to Eat: Stories
By Alex Leslie
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
**Winner: The Woo Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids Demos, and My Crazy Chinese Family
By Lindsay Wong
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood
By Bill Gaston
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir In Music
By Ian Hampton
Publisher: Porcupine’s Quill
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
By Kate Harris
Publisher: Knopf Canada
A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
By Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman
Publisher: Heritage House
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
**Winner: Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro
By Sarah Cox
Publisher: On Point Press, UBC Press
Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood
By Bill Gaston
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada’s Last Great Tree
By Harley Rustad
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Atlii Gwaii: Upholding Haida Law at Lyell Island
By Council of the Haida Nation
Publisher: Locarno Press
Beau Dick: Revolutionary Sprit
By Darrin Martens
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
**Winner: No Fixed Address
By Susin Nielsen
Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
Very Rich
By Polly Horvath
Publisher: Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers
The Journey Forward
By Monique Gray Smith and Richard Van Camp
Publisher: McKellar and Martin Publishing Group Ltd.
Learning to Breath
By Janice Lynn Mather
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Canada
Nice Try, Jane Sinner
By Lianne Oelke
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2018 Winner & Finalists
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
**Winner
Brother
By David Chariandy
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Next Year For Sure
By Zoey Leigh Peterson
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
What We Once Believed
By Andrea MacPherson
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Son of a Trickster
By Eden Robinson
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Everything is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person
By Daniel Zomparelli
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
**Winner
Prison Industrial Complex Explodes
By Mercedes Eng
Publisher: Talonbooks
Frequent, small loads of laundry
By Rhonda Ganz
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing
An Honest Woman
By Jónína Kirton
Publisher: Talonbooks
The Rules of the Kingdom
By Julie Paul
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Fragments, Desire
By Onjana Yawnghwe
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
**Winner
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land Rebuilding the Economy
By Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson
Publisher: James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
By Carys Cragg
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays
By Theresa Kishkan
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing
The Sacred Herb/The Devils Weed
By Andrew Struthers
Publisher: New Star Books
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
By Paul Watson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
**Winner
Changing Tides
By Kotaro Hayashi, Fumio “Frank” Kanno, Henry Tanaka, and Jim Tanaka
Publisher: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
Where It Hurts
By Sarah de Leeuw
Publisher: NeWest Press
Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws
By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Fighting for Space
By Travis Lupick
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Surrey: A City of Stories
By K. Jane Watt
Publisher: City of Surrey
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
**Winner
Zero Repeat Forever
By G. S. Prendergast
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Saying Good-bye to London
By Julie Burtinshaw
Publisher: Second Story Press
Runner
By Norma Charles
Publisher: Red Deer Press
The Goat
By Anne Fleming
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Heartwood Hotel
By Kallie George
Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher Ltd.
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
**Winner
The Nameless City: The Stone Heart
By Faith Erin Hicks
Publisher: First Second
A Day with Yayah
By Nicola Campbell, illustrated by Julie Flett
Publisher: Tradewind Books
Charles
By S. E. Hume, illustrated by Jessica Bromley Bartram
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Wolf Island
By Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Alphabet Thief
By Bill Richardson, illustrated by Roxanne Bikadoroff
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
**Winner
On Island
By Pat Carney
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Bad Endings
By Carleigh Baker
Publisher Anvil Press
Spindrift
By Anita Hadley and Michael L. Hadley (editors)
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Dirty Windshields
By Grant Lawrence
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Hello Humpback!
By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
2017 Winner & Finalists
2017
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Claudia Cornwall, Alma Lee and Peter Such
WINNER
The Heaviness of Things That Float
by Jennifer Manuel
Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre
The Dancehall Years
by Joan Haggerty
Publisher: Mother Tongue Press
The Parcel
by Anosh Irani
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Niagara Motel
by Ashley Little
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
The Conjoined
by Jen Sookfong Lee
Publisher: ECW Press
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Brad Cran, George Fetherling, JJ Lee
WINNER
A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
by Deborah Campbell
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Mexican Hooker #1: Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma
by Carmen Aguirre
Publisher: Random House Canada
The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey form Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom
by Mohamed Fahmy with Carol Shaben
Published: Random House Canada
Gently to Nagasaki
by Joy Kogawa
Publisher: Caitlin Press
The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
by Mark Leiren-Young
Publisher: Greystone Books
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Trevor Carolan, Raoul Fernandes and Miranda Pearson
WINNER
If I Were In a Cage I’d Reach Out For You
by Adèle Barclay
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
poemw
by Anne Fleming
Publisher: Pedlar Press
The News
by Rob Taylor
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
Stepping in Tall Grass
by Richard Therrien
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
100 Days
by Juliane Okot Bitek
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Jon Bartlett, Briony Penn and Jennifer Pike
WINNER
Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History
by Neil J. Sterritt
Publisher: Creekstone Press
The Recorded History of the Laird Basin 1790-1910: Where British Columbia joins the Yukon and N.W.T.
By Anthony Kenyon
Publisher: Fort Nelson News
A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island
by Michael Layland
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia
by David Pitt-Brooke
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Peace in Peril: The Real Cost of the Site C Dam
by Christopher Pollon, illustrated with photos by Ben Nelms
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Marian Keen, Schot Richie and Gina McMurchy-Barber
WINNER
The Skeleton Tree
by Iain Lawrence
Publisher: Tundra Books
Everyday Hero
by Kathleen Cherry
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Rahtrum Chronicles: The Dream
by R.K. McLay
Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
A Day of Signs and Wonders
by Kit Pearson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publihsers
Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle
by Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Karen Autio, Julie McLaughlin and Jordan Stratford
WINNER
My Heart Fills with Happiness
by Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Julie Flett
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Peace Dancer
by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Today
by Julie Morstad
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey
by Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Nizar Ali Badr
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Deep Roots: How Trees Sustain Our Planet
by Nikki Tate
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: Members of the BC Booksellers’ Association
WINNER
Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations
by Richard Wagamese
Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre
Peace Dancer
by Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Wade Davis: Photographs
by Wade Davis
Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre
The Last Gant in Town: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang
by Aaron Chapman
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
A Perfect Eden: Encounters by Early Explorers of Vancouver Island
by Michael Layland
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Alan Twigg, Mary-Ann Yazedjian and Sheryl MacKay
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Douglas Copeland
2016 Winner & Finalists
2016
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Friesens
SPONSOR: Chelsea Rooney, John Vigna, Pam Withers
All True Not a Lie in It
by Alix Hawley
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Amity
by Nasreen Pejvack
Publisher: Inanna Publications
The Hunter and the Wild Girl
by Pauline Holdstock
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Martin John
by Anakana Schofield
Publisher: Biblioasis
Specimen
by Irina Kovalyova
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
2016
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: BC Teachers’ Federation
SPONSOR: Vivien Bowers, Dawne Murray, David Stouck
Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World
by Brian Brett
Publisher: Greystone Books
Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
by Emily Urquhart
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
by Maria Tippett
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
by Briony Penn
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
by Lorimer Shenher
Publisher: Greystone Books
2016
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Kayla Czaga, Christopher Levenson, Cecily Nicholson
SPONSOR: Anonymous
Transmitter and Receiver
by Raoul Fernandes
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
The Fire Extinguisher
by Miranda Pearson
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Foreign Park
by Jeff Steudel
Publisher: Anvil Press
Twoism
by Ali Blythe
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Where the words end and my body begins
by Amber Dawn
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
2016
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Dan Francis, Margaret Horsfield, Christine Lowther
SPONSOR: Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books
The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
by Briony Penn
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
Ground-Truthing: Reimagining the Indigenous Rainforests of BC’s North Coast
by Derrick Stacey Denholm
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in British Columbia
by John Thistle
Publisher: UBC Press
Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932-33 Miners’ Strike
by Jon Bartlett, Rika Ruebsaat
Publisher: New Star Books
Tod Inlet: A Healing Place
by Gwen Curry
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books
2016
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Tanya Lloyd Kyi, Diane Tullson, Irene Watts
SPONSOR: BC Library Association, Friends of Sheila Egoff, BC Books for Kids, and the University of Victoria Libraries
The Truth Commission
by Susan Juby
Publisher: Razorbill
Are You Seeing Me?
by Darren Groth
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 1)
by Jordan Stratford
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Seven Dead Pirates
by Linda Bailey
Publisher: Tundra Books
We Are All Made of Molecules
by Susin Nielsen
Publisher: Tundra Books
2016
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Nancy Hundal, Sophia Hunter, Sharlene Sharma
SPONSOR: Kate Walker and Vancouver Kidsbooks
Peace is an Offering
by Annette LeBox
Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin
Publisher: Dial Books
Orca Chief
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
Illustrated by Roy Henry Vickers
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Red Bicycle: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Bicycle
by Jude Isabella
Illustrated by Simone Shin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Song for a Summer Night: A Lullaby
by Robert Heidbreder
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Publisher: Groundwood Books
This is Sadie
by Sara O’Leary
Illustrated by Julie Morstad
Publisher: PUBLISHER
2016
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: members of the BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association, Sandhill Book Marketing, Ampersand Inc., Canadian Manda Group Inc., and the Western Book Reps Association
A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World
by Susan Musgrave
Publisher: Whitecap Books
Cold Case Vancouver: The City’s Most Baffling Unsolved Murders
by Eve Lazarus
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper
by Caroline Woodward
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Orca Chief
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
by Caroline Adderson, John Atkin, Kerry Gold, Evelyn Lau, Eve Lazarus, John Mackie, Elise & Stephen Partridge, and Bren Simmers with an introduction by Michael Kluckner and photographs by Tracey Ayton and Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Anvil Press
2016
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Betty Keller, Peter Darbyshire, Barbara Pope
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Alan Twigg
2015 Winners & Finalists
2015
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Anne Giardini, Paul Headrick, Sirish Rao
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
The World Before Us
by Aislinn Hunter
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God
by Michael Springate
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Ellen in Pieces
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Paradise & Elsewhere
by Kathy Page
Publisher: Biblioasis
The Wind is Not a River
by Brian Payton
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
2015
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Stuart Derdeyn, Joan Givner, Jane Silcott
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation
In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
by Eve Joseph
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
by Nancy J. Turner
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
by Barry Gough
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation
by Kevin Chong
Publisher: Viking
Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
by Julie Angus
Publisher: Greystone Books
2015
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Daniela Elza, Gillian Jerome, Renée Sarojini Saklikar
SPONSOR: Anonymous
From the Poplars
by Cecily Nicholson
Publisher: Talonbooks
Dreamland Theatre
by Rob Budde
Publisher: Caitlin Press
For Your Safety Please Hold On
by Kayla Czaga
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
School
by Jen Currin
Publisher: Coach House Books
Washita
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
2015
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Derek Hayes, Deb McVittie, Paul Whitney
SPONSOR: Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books
The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
by Richard Beamish, Gordon McFarlane (editors)
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Born Out of This
by Christine Lowther
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
by Ian McAllister
Publisher: Greystone Books
Surveying Southern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1901-07
by Jay Sherwood
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Tofino and Clayoquot Sound: A History
by Margaret Horsfield, Ian Kennedy
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
2015
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Ashley Little, Robin Stevenson, Beryl Young
SPONSOR: Friends of Sheila Egoff
Rabbit Ears
by Maggie de Vries
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Blue Gold
by Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher: Annick Press
Capricious
by Gabrielle Prendergast
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Finding Grace
by Becky Citra
Publisher: Second Story Press
Sophie, in Shadow
by Eileen Kernaghan
Publisher: Thistledown Press
2015
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Kim La Fave, Julie Morstad, Shannon Ozirny
SPONSOR:Kate Walker and Kidsbooks
Dolphin SOS
by Roy Miki, Slavia Miki
Illustrated by Julie Flett
Publisher: Tradewind Books
Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
by Chieri Uegaki
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Publisher: Kids Can Press
The Most Magnificent Thing
by Ashley Spires
Illustrated by Ashley Spires
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Norman, Speak!
by Caroline Adderson
Illustrated by Qin Leng
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Stop, Thief!
by Heather Tekavec
Illustrated by Pierre Pratt
Publisher: Kids Can Press
2015
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association
Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver’s Historic Commodore Ballroom
by Aaron Chapman
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Cloudwalker
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
A Rock Fell on the Moon: Dad and the Great Yukon Silver Ore Heist
by Alicia Priest
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
by Richard Beamish, Gordon McFarlane (editors)
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Sobo Cookbook: Recipes from the Tofino Restaurant at the End of the Canadian Road
by Lisa Ahier, with Andrew Morrison
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
2015
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Kit Pearson, Michael Kluckner, Sandra Singh
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Betty Keller
2014
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Steven Price, Mary Schendlinger, Kate Walker
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
by Ashley Little
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
by Théodora Armstrong
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Lucky
by Kathryn Para
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing
Red Girl Rat Boy
by Cynthia Flood
Publisher: Biblioasis
Three Souls
by Janie Chang
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
2014 Winner & Finalists
2014
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Steven Price, Mary Schendlinger, Kate Walker
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
by Ashley Little
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
by Théodora Armstrong
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Lucky
by Kathryn Para
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing
Red Girl Rat Boy
by Cynthia Flood
Publisher: Biblioasis
Three Souls
by Janie Chang
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
2014
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Rod Mickleburgh, Ian Milgrew, Lynne van Luven
SPONSOR: AbeBooks
Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
by David Stouck
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Everything Rustles
by Jane Silcott
Publisher: Anvil Press
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
by Arno Kopecky
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
by J.B. MacKinnon
Publisher: Random House of Canada
They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
by Bev Sellars
Publisher: Talonbooks
2014
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Kate Braid, Sarah de Leeuw, Rob Taylor
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation and Rebus Creative
The Place of Scraps
by Jordan Abel
Publisher: Talonbooks
Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain
by Russell Thornton
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections
by Renée Sarojini Saklikar
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
The Lost Letters
by Catherine Greenwood
Publisher: Brick Books
Wood
by Jennica Harper
Publisher: Anvil Press
2014
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Celia Duthie, Richard Hopkins, Scott Steedman
SPONSOR: Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books
Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
by David Stouck
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Charles Edenshaw
by Robin K. Wright and Daina Augaitis (editors), with Haida Advisors Robert Davidson and James Hart
Publisher: Vancouver Art Gallery and Black Dog Publishing
Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
by Sean Kheraj
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
by Graeme Truelove
Publisher: New Star Books
Voyage Through the Past Century
by Rolf Knight
Publisher: New Star Books
2014
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Norma Charles, Pamela Porter, John Wilson
SPONSOR: Kidsbooks and Tourism Vancouver
The New Normal
by Ashley Little
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
If Only
by Becky Citra
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Path of Names
by Ari Goelman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
Record Breaker
by Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Victoria
by Silvana Goldemberg, translated by Emilie Smith
Publisher: Tradewind Books
2014
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Norma Charles, Pamela Porter, John Wilson
SPONSOR: Kidsbooks and Tourism Vancouver
How To
by Julie Morstad
Illustrated by Julie Morstad
Publisher: Simply Read Books
The Great Bear Sea: Exploring the Marine Life of a Pacific Paradise
by Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read
Illustrated by Ian McAllister
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Not Your Typical Dragon
by Dan Bar-el
Illustrated by Tim Bowers
Publisher: Viking Children’s Books
When I Was Eight
by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard
Publisher: Annick Press
Wild Berries
by Julie Flett
Illustrated by Julie Flett
Publisher: Simply Read Books
2014
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association
The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie
by Grant Lawrence
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous
by Paula Wild
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Land of Heart’s Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island
by Michael Layland
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Raven Brings the Light
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
This Day in Vancouver
by Jesse Donaldson
Publisher: Anvil Press
2014
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Sarah Ellis, Sheila Peacock, Jessica Walker
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Kit Pearson
2013 Winner & Finalists
2013
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Joy Gugeler, Theresa Kishkan, Andreas Schroeder
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
The World
by Bill Gaston
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada, Penguin Group Canada
Floating Like the Dead
by Yasuko Thanh
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Gay Dwarves of America
by Anne Fleming
Publisher: Pedlar Press
Malarky
by Anakana Schofield
Publisher: Biblioasis
Psychology and Other Stories
by C.P. Boyko
Publisher: Biblioasis
2013
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Brian Lynch, Mark Stanton, Sylvia Taylor
SPONSOR: AbeBooks, Victoria Bindery and First Choice Books
The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975
by Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
by Carol Shaben
Publisher: Random House Canada
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
by Sandra Djwa
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
The Light through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
by Luanne Armstrong
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Pinboy
by George Bowering
Publisher: Cormorant Books
2013
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Larissa Lai, Susan Musgrave, John Pass
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation
Geographies of a Lover
by Sarah de Leeuw
Publisher: NeWest Press
A Grain of Rice
by Evelyn Lau
Publisher: Oolichan Books
IKMQ
by Roger Farr
Publisher: New Star Books
Night-Eater
by Patricia Young
Publisher: Quattro Books
The Properties
by Colin Browne
Publisher: Talonbooks
2013
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Sybil Harrison, Grant Lawrence, Sheryl MacKay
SPONSOR: Marquis
British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
by Derek Hayes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
by Jackson Davies, Marc Strange
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Liquor, Lust, and the Law: The Story of Vancouver’s Legendary Penthouse Nightclub
by Aaron Chapman
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Standing Up with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom
by Leslie A. Robertson, Kwagu’l Gixsam Clan
Publisher: The University of British Columbia Press
Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru – An Illustrated History
by Ali Kazimi
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
2013
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Glen Huser, Sheryl McFarlane, Pam Withers
SPONSOR:BC Library Association
Middle of Nowhere
by Caroline Adderson
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Mimi Power and the I-Don’t-Know-What
by Victoria Miles
Publisher: Tradewind Books
The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls
by John Lekich
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
by Susin Nielsen
Publisher: Tundra Books
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
2013
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Dianna Bonder, Marguerite Ruurs, Yukiko Tosa
SPONSOR: Ampersand Inc. and Kate Walker
Maggie’s Chopsticks
by Alan Woo
Illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Gift Days
by Kari-Lynn Winters
Illustrated by Stephen Taylor
Publisher: Fitzhenry & WhitesideR
Hey Canada!
by Vivien Bowers
Illustrated by Milan Pavlovic
Publisher: Tundra Books
Rainbow Shoes
by Tiffany Stone
Illustrated by Stefan Czernecki
Publisher: Tradewind Books
What’s Up, Bear?: A Book About Opposites
by Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Sean L. Moore
Publisher: Owlkids Books
2013
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association
Making Headlines: 100 Years of The Vancouver Sun
by Shelley Fralic, with research by Kate Bird
Publisher: The Vancouver Sun
British Columbia: A New Historical Atlas
by Derek Hayes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Bruno and the Beach: The Beachcombers at 40
by Jackson Davies, Marc Strange
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
by Harold Kalman, Robin Ward
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History
by Daniel Francis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
2013
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Brian Brett, Lynn Copeland, Alma Lee
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Lorna Crozier
2012 Winner & Finalists
2012
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Gurjinder Basran, Tracy Sherlock, Paul Whitney
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
Half-Blood Blues
by Esi Edugyan
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
The Beggar’s Garden
by Michael Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Into That Darkness
by Steven Price
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
Once You Break a Knuckle
by D.W. Wilson
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada, Penguin Group Canada
Shelter
by Frances Greenslade
Publisher: Random House Canada
2012
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Ria Bleumer, Derek Lundy, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
SPONSOR: AbeBooks
Eating Dirt
by Charlotte Gill
Publisher: Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation
Drink the Bitter Root
by Gary Geddes
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
by JJ Lee
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
by Theresa Kishkan
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Something Fierce
by Carmen Aguirre
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.
2012
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Daphne Marlatt, Russell Thornton, Hannah Main-van der Kamp
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation
crawlspace
by John Pass
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
by Patrick Lane, Edited by Russell Morton Brown & Donna Bennett, Afterword by Nicholas Bradley
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Demeter Goes Skydiving
by Susan McCaslin
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Discovery Passages
by Garry Thomas Morse
Publisher: Talonbooks
Oyama Pink Shale
by Sharon Thesen
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
2012
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Katherine Gordon, Stephen Hume, Lee Trentadue
SPONSOR: Transcontinental Printing
The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
by Chuck Davis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests
by Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher: Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation
Fred Herzog: Photographs
by Fred Herzog
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.
The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton [#4 in the Unheralded Artists of BC Series]
by Sheryl Salloum, Foreword by Sherrill Grace
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing
Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and Their Contemporaries
by Scott Watson, Edited by Naomi Sawada & Jana Tyner
Publisher: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia
2012
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Rob Bittner, Sylvia Olsen, Cathleen With
SPONSOR: BC Library Association
Blood Red Road
by Moira Young
Publisher: Doubleday Canada Publishing Group
I’ll Be Watching
by Pamela Porter
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest
by Caitlyn Vernon
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Runaway
by Glen Huser
Publisher: Tradewind Books
What is Real
by Karen Rivers
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
2012
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Julie Flett, Dionne Risler, Judith Saltman
SPONSOR: Ampersand Inc.
When I Was Small
by Sara O’Leary
Illustrated by Julie Morstad
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Dalen & Gole: Scandal in Port Angus
by Mike Deas
Illustrated by ILLUSTRATOR
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Grandpa’s Girls
by Nicola I. Campbell
Illustrated by Kim La Fave
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?
by Dan Bar-el
Illustrated by Rae Maté
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Shake Awakes
by Robert Heidbreder
Illustrated by Marc Mongeau
Publisher: Tradewind Books
2012
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association
The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver
by Chuck Davis
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Eating Dirt
by Charlotte Gill
Publisher: Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation
Fred Herzog: Photographs
by Fred Herzog
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.
Island Wineries of British Columbia
by Gary Hynes
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen
by Robert J. Wiersema
Publisher: Greystone Books
2012
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: George Bowering, Max Wyman, Evelyn Gillespie
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Brian Brett
2011 Winner & Finalists
2011
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Ann Cowan, Sean Cranbury, Michael Turner
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
Everything Was Good-Bye
by Gurjinder Basran
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing
Chernovs’ Toil and Peace
by Rifet Bahtijaragic
Illustrated by Bill Hoopes
Publisher: Publish America
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
by Jack Whyte
Publisher: Viking Canada
The Master of Happy Endings
by Jack Hodgins
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
Recipes from the Red Planet
by Meredith Quartermain
Publisher: BookThug
2011
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Jean Barman, Evelyn Gillespie, Terry Glavin
SPONSOR: AbeBooks
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
by Derek Lundy
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Marshall McLuhan
by Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Penguin Canada
Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
by Morris Bates, Jim Brown
Publisher: Fox Music Books
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
by Sarah Leavitt
Publisher: Freehand Books
2011
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Tammy Armstrong, Heidi Greco, Fred Wah
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation
On the Material
by Stephen Collis
Publisher: Talonbooks
Decompositions
by Ken Belford
Publisher: Talonbooks
The Inquisition Yours
by Jen Currin
Publisher: Coach House Books
My Darling Nellie Grey
by George Bowering
Publisher: Talonbooks
The Secret Signature of Things
by Eve Joseph
Publisher: Brick Books
2011
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Nikita Collison, Rosemary Neering, Andrew Scott
SPONSOR: Transcontinental Printing
Images from the Likeness House
by Dan Savard
Publisher: Royal BC Museum
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
by Grant Lawrence
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
by Aaron Glass, Aldona Jonaitis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Visions of BC: A Landscape Manual
by Bruce Grenville, Scott Steedman (editors)
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
by Sylvia Olsen
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
2011
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Sarah Ellis, Carrie Mac, Shannon Orzirny
SPONSOR: BC Library Association
Hunger Journeys
by Maggie de Vries
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom
by Susin Nielsen
Publisher: Tundra Books
Fatty Legs: A True Story
by Christy Jordon-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes
Publisher: Annick Press
Free as a Bird
by Gina McMurchy-Barber
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Northward to the Moon
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood Books
2011
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Nan Gregory, Robert Heidbreder, Cynthia Nugent
SPONSOR: Kate Walker and Company
Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet / Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L’alfabet di Michif
by Julie Flett
Illustrated by ILLUSTRATOR
Publisher: Simply Read Books
The Cowboy Fisherman
by Seiji Hiroe
Fraser Bear: A Cub’s Life
by Maggie de Vries
Illustrated by Renné Benoit
Publisher: Greystone Books
The Salmon Bears: Giants of the Great Bear Rainforest
by Ian McAllister, Nicholas Read
Illustrated by Ian McAllister
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Up We Grow! A Year in the Life of a Small, Local Farm
by Deborah Hodge
Illustrated by Brian Harris
Publisher: Kids Can Press
2011
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: BC Booksellers’ Association
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
by Grant Lawrence
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Darwin’s Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow
by Zsuzsi Gartner (editor)
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
by Ross King
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, co-published with McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Fishing with Gubby
by Gary Kent
Illustrated by Kim La Fave
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier
by Robert Budd
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
2011
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Jane Davidson, Rob Sanders, Audrey Thomas
SPONSOR: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
George Bowering
2010 Winner & Finalists
2010
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Claudia Casper, Lee Henderson, Ann McDonell
SPONSOR: Friesens and Webcom
Having Faith in the Polar Girls’ Prison
by Cathleen With
Publisher: Penguin Group Canada
8 × 10
by Michael Turner
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Daniel O’Thunder
by Ian Weir
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
The Golden Mean
by Annabel Lyon
Publisher: Random House Canada
Vanishing and Other Stories
by Deborah Willis
Publisher: Penguin Group Canada
2010
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Ron Smith, Rex Weyler, Gudrun Will
SPONSOR: Abebooks
Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
by Lorna Crozier
Publisher: Greystone Books
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
by Brian Payton
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
by Ehor Boyanowsky
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
by Brian Brett
Publisher: Greystone Books
Vancouver Special
by Charles Demers
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
2010
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Wayde Compton, Carla Funk, Betsy Warland
SPONSOR: BC Teachers’ Federation
is a door
by Fred Wah
Publisher: Talonbooks
Automaton Biographies
by Larissa Lai
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
The Fly in Autumn
by David Zieroth
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Harbour
by Miranda Pearson
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Red Nest
by Gillian Jerome
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
2010
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: John Lent, Rebecca Wigod, Daniel Wood
SPONSOR:
Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
by Andrew Scott
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation
by Ian Gill
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Jacob’s Prayer
by Lorne Dufour
Publisher: Caitlin Press
A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future
by Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, Neil Boyd
Publisher: Greystone Books
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
by Brian Brett
Publisher: Greystone Books
2010
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Lois Brymer, John Burns, Ann Walsh
SPONSOR: BC Library Association
The Gryphon Project
by Carrie Mac
Publisher: Penguin Group Canada
Counting on Hope
by Sylvia Olsen
Publisher: Sono Nis Press
Inferno
by Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Return to Bone Tree Hill
by Kristin Butcher
Publisher: Thistledown Press
The Ship of Lost Souls
by Rachelle Delaney
Publisher: HarperTrophyCanada
2010
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Rae Maté, Phyllis Simon, Maggie de Vries
SPONSOR: Kate Walker and Company
Maggie Can’t Wait
by Frieda Wishinsky
Illustrated by Dean Griffiths
Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Bubble Homes and Fish Farts
by Fiona Bayrock
Illustrated by Carolyn Conahan
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Ella’s Umbrellas
by Jennifer Lloyd
Illustrated by Ashley Spires
Publisher: Simply Read Books
On My Walk
by Kari-Lynn Winters
Illustrated by Christina Leist
Publisher: Tradewind Books
Vanishing Habitats
by Robert Bateman with Nancy Kovacs
Illustrated by Robert Bateman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada / Madison Press
2010
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSOR: Duthie family and independent BC bookstores
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
by Brian Brett
Publisher: Greystone Books
Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia
by Andrew Scott
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
One More Time: The Dal Richards Story
by Dal Richards with Jim Taylor
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Red: A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen
by Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
2010
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Terry Glavin, Lynne van Luven, Robert Wiersema
SPONSORS: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Stan Persky
2009 Winner & Finalists
2009
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Caroline Adderson, Richard Hopkins, and James Irvine
SPONSORS: Friesens and Webcom
The Man Game
by Lee Henderson
Publisher: Penguin Group (Canada)
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Red Dog, Red Dog
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Renovating Heaven
by Andreas Schroeder
Publisher: Oolichan Books
That Tune Clutches My Heart
by Paul Headrick
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
2009
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Robert Brighurst, Barbara Jo May, and Jan Whitford
SPONSORS: Abebooks
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
by Gabor Mate, MD
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
by Chris Wood
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Going Home: Essays
by Tim Lilburn
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message
by Rex Weyler
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
by Ronald Wright
Publisher: Knopf Canada
2009
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Margaret Gunning, Evelyn Lau, and Billeh Nickerson
SPONSORS: BC Teachers’ Federation
The Given
by Daphne Marlatt
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Chameleon Hours
by Elise Partridge
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Shirin and Salt Man
by Nilofar Shidmehr
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Vancouver: A Poem
by George Stanley
Publisher: New Star Books
Water Strider
by Karen Hofmann
Publisher: Frontenac House Ltd.
2009
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: Janis McKenzie, Joseph Stewart, and Eric Swanick
SPONSORS:
Simon Fraser: In Search of Modern British Columbia
by Stephen Hume
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
by Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
The Peace: A History in Photographs
by Donald A. Pettit
Illustrated by Barbara Swail
Publisher: Peace photoGraphics Inc.
The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect
by Daphne Bramham
Publisher: Random House Canada
Voices from the Sound: Chronicles of Clayoquot Sound and Tofino 1899–1929
by Margaret Horsfield
Publisher: Salal Books
2009
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Janice Douglas, James Heneghan, and Tonya Martin
SPONSORS: BC Library Association
My One Hundred Adventures
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Bonechiller
by Graham McNamee
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books, distributed by Random House of Canada
The Lit Report
by Sarah N. Harvey
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
The Séance
by Iain Lawrence
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, distributed by Random House of Canada
A Thousand Shades of Blue
by Robin Stevenson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
2009
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Ron Jobe, Kari-Lynn Winters, and Bonne Zabolotney
SPONSORS: Kate Walker and Company
The King Has Goat Ears
by Katarina Jovanovic
Illustrated by Philippe Beha
Publisher: Tradewind Books
Good-bye Marianne
by Irene N. Watts
Illustrated by Kathryn E. Shoemaker
Publisher: Tundra Books
Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth
by Robert Bateman
Publisher: Scholastic Canada Ltd.
Rosie and Buttercup
by Chieri Uegaki
Illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Stanley At Sea
by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin
Publisher: Kids Can Press
2009
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSORS: BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books
Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver
by Stephen Bown
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
British Columbia: Spirit of the People
by Jean Barman
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Publisher: Greystone Books
Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet
by Cathy Converse
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
by Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher: Greystone Books
2009
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Ellen Godfrey, David Hill, Sheryl MacKay
SPONSORS: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Terry Glavin
2008 Winner & Finalists
2008
ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Margaret Gunning, Rob Wiersema and Carol Windley
SPONSORS: Friesens, Transcontinental and Webcom
Conceit
by Mary Novik
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Adam’s Peak
by Heather Burt
Publisher: The Dundurn Group
Radiance
by Shaena Lambert
Publisher: Random House Canada
The Reckoning of Boston Jim
by Claire Mulligan
Publisher: Brindle & Glass
Soucouyant
by David Chariandy
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
2008
HUBERT EVANS NON-FICTION PRIZE
JURORS: Kirk LaPointe, Rita Moir and Harold Rhenisch
SPONSORS: Abebooks
Everywhere Being is Dancing
by Robert Bringhurst
Publisher: Gaspereau Press
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
Publisher: Random House Canada
Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
by Don Gayton
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Phantom Limb
by Theresa Kishkan
Publisher: Thistledown Press
The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
by Patricia E. Roy
Publisher: UBC Press
2008
DOROTHY LIVESAY POETRY PRIZE
JURORS: Elizabeth Bachinsky, Kate Braid and John Pass
SPONSORS: BC Teachers’ Federation
Forage
by Rita Wong
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
The Incorrection
by George McWhirter
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Ox
by Christopher Patton
Publisher: Véhicule Press
Paper Trail
by Arleen Paré
Publisher: NeWest Press
Soft Geography
by Gillian Wigmore
Publisher: Caitlin Press
2008
RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE
JURORS: David Lester, Kate Walker and Judith Williams
SPONSORS: BC 150
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
by J. B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
Publisher: Random House Canada
Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in the Pacific Northwest
by Barry Gough
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
by Ian McAllister
Publisher: Greystone Books
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture
by Tim Bowling
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
by Chris Harris
Publisher: Country Light Publishing
2008
SHEILA A. EGOFF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Julie Burtinshaw, Shelley Hrdlitschka and David Ward
SPONSORS: BC Library Association
The Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane
by Polly Horvath
Publisher: Groundwood Books
The Alchemist’s Dream
by John Wilson
Publisher: Key Porter Book
Baboon: A Novel
by David Jones
Publisher: Annick Press
For Now
by Gayle Friesen
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Porcupine
by Meg Tilly
Publisher: Tundra Books
2008
CHRISTIE HARRIS ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN’S LITERATURE PRIZE
JURORS: Alison Acheson, Kathryn Shoemaker and John Wilson
SPONSORS: Kate Walker and Company
A Sea-Wishing Day
by Robert Heidbreder
Illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
Publisher: Kids Can Press
The Day It All Blew Away
by Lisa Cinar
Publisher: Simply Read Books
Elf the Eagle
by Ron Smith
Illustrated by Ruth Campbell
Publisher: Oolichan Books
Jeffrey and Sloth
by Kari-Lynn Winters
Illustrated by Ben Hodson
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Pink
by Nan Gregory
Illustrated by Luc Melanson
Publisher: Groundwood Books
2008
BILL DUTHIE BOOKSELLER’S CHOICE AWARD
JURORS: BC Booksellers’ Association
SPONSORS: BC Booksellers’ Association and Duthie Books
The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest
by Ian McAllister
Publisher: Greystone Books
The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories
by Mike McCardell
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs
by Grant Arnold, Michael Turner
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre and Vancouver Art Gallery
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin’s Forgotten Landscape
by Chris Harris
Publisher: Country Light Publishing
2008
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE
JURORS: Carla Funk, Margaret Reynolds, Mel Bolen
SPONSORS: The Honourable Lieutenant Governor of BC
Gary Geddes