Friday, April 22, 2011

BC Book Prizes . . . and the Winners Are . . .

The following is from the bcbookprizes.ca web site:

Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Supported by Friesens and Webcom
Winner! Everything Was Good-Bye
by Gurjinder Basran
Publisher: Mother Tongue Publishing

Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Supported by Abebooks
Winner! The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
Publisher: Knopf Canada

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Supported by the BC Teachers’ Federation
Winner! On the Material
by Stephen Collis
Publisher: Talonbooks

Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Supported by Transcontinental Printing
Winner! Images from the Likeness House
by Dan Savard
Publisher: Royal BC Museum

Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Supported by the BC Library Association
Winner! Hunger Journeys
by Maggie de Vries
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada


Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Supported by Kate Walker and Company
Winner! Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet / Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L’alfabet di Michif
by Julie Flett
Publisher: Simply Read Books

Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Supported by The BC Booksellers’ Association
Winner! Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
by Grant Lawrence
Publisher: Harbour Publishing

Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Winner! George Bowering

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