WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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BC Book Prize authors have been receiving many accolades recently. Here is a run down of the winning and nominated authors!
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize finalist, Daphne Bramham’s book, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada’s Polygamous Mormon Sect, has been nominated for the Best Non-Fiction at the 2009 Arthur Ellis Awards presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.
Iain Lawrence’s book The Séance has been short listed for the Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award. Lawrence is also Shelia A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize finalist!
Bill Slavin and Linda Bailey were nominated for the 2009 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, for Stanley at Sea, which was a finalist for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize.
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanass has won Gold in the Storyteller of the Year category at the Independent Publishers IPPY Awards this year for Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment. Flight of the Hummingbird was also a finalist for the BC Bookseller’s Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie.
Congratulations to all!