BC Book Prizes Finalists Announced
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Congratulations to the authors and illustrators on the shortlists for this year's BC Book Prizes. With five finalists in each of seven categories, the 31st Annual BC Book Prizes celebrates the best of BC books published in 2014.
The winners in the seven categories will be announced at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prizes Gala on Saturday, April 25, 2015. The sit down dinner will be held at the Pinnacle Vancouver Harbourfront Hotel. Tickets will be available for purchase online from the BC Book Prizes website beginning Monday, March 16.
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (Supported by Friesens and Webcom):
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.
The World Before Us
by Aislinn Hunter
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (Supported by TBA):
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
In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
by Eve Joseph
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
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
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (Supported by the BC Teachers’ Federation):
Dreamland Theatre
by Rob Budde
Publisher: Caitlin Press
For Your Safety Please Hold On
by Kayla Czaga
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
From the Poplars
by Cecily Nicholson
Publisher: Talonbooks
School
by Jen Currin
Publisher: Coach House Books
Washita
by Patrick Lane
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (Supported by Marquis, Victoria Bindery, and First Choice Books):
Born Out of This
by Christine Lowther
Publisher: Caitlin Press
Great Bear Wild: Dispatches from a Northern Rainforest
by Ian McAllister
Publisher: Greystone Books
The Sea Among Us: The Amazing Strait of Georgia
by Richard Beamish, Gordon McFarlane (editors)
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
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
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize (Supported by CUPE and Friends of Sheila Egoff):
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
Rabbit Ears
by Maggie de Vries
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Sophie, in Shadow
by Eileen Kernaghan
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize (Supported by 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
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award (Supported by the BC Booksellers’ Association):
Cloudwalker
by Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom
by Aaron Chapman
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
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
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
For synopses and author biographies, visit the BC Book Prizes website.
