May 12, 2012
BC Book Prizes Gala
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Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, shortlisted for the BC Booksellers Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie, is currently on tour.
He is in Seattle, WA on Monday, Portland, OR on Tuesday, and Bellingham, WA on Wednesday. Visit D&M Events for more details.
Please join the Robson Reading Series this Thursday when local novelists Lee Henderson and Andreas Schroeder read from their latest work, both finalists for The BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Lee and Andreas will be reading on Thursday, March 26, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the UBC Library/Bookstore at Robson Square (plaza level). Admission is free, coffee and tea will be served, and the audience will have an opportunity to ask the authors questions about their books and writing following the reading.
The Robson Reading Series is a free, multi-genre reading series that features some of the finest writers from Canada and abroad. Events are organized by the UBC Library and the UBC Bookstore, and sponsored in part by the Canada Council. For a list of upcoming events, visit Robson Reading Series or Robson Square Author Events.
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The 25th annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the Marriott Pinnacle Hotel in Downtown Vancouver. Visit the Event Page for more details, tickets are now on sale!
Tickets for the 25th Annual Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala will be going on sale on Monday, March 23, 2009. The Gala will take place at the Marriott Pinnacle in Downtown Vancouver on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Check back for more details soon.
With seven prestigeous prizes and hundreds of great books, choosing five finalists per category was certainly a difficult task for our judges. But we are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2009 BC Book Prizes. Congratulations to the authors and their publishers! View the 2009 Finalists here.
The BC Book Prizes would like to invite all publishers, authors, illustrators, writers, media, and book lovers to the 25th annual BC Book Prize Soirée on Saturday April 18, 2009. Keep your eyes on our Event Page here on the website and if you’re on Facebook, you can RSVP to our Soirée Event on Facebook and invite your friends!
Congratulations Tracy French of New Westminster. She is the proud new owner of For Now by Gayle Friesen, a finalist for the 2009 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize.
If you would like to be entered to win a BC Book Prize book every month, all you need to do is sign up for our newsletter/updates (see left sidebar) on the website!
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