FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Lee Henderson’s novel The Man Game has won the 2009 Vancouver Book Award. Earlier this year Lee Henderson won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for The Man Game. The award was presented this afternoon at City Hall.
The finalists for the 2009 award also included Gabor Maté, who won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and Meredith Quartermain for Nightmarker.
Congratulations Margrit Garzitto from Surrey, BC. She is the proud new owner of a copy of Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America by Chris Wood.
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Congratulations are in order for Stephen Bown and Elise Partridge!
Bown’s BC Bookseller’s Choice award-winning book, Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver, has been nominated for the CAA/Lela Common Award for Canadian History by the Canadian Author Association Literary Awards. Chameleon Hours, Partridge’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize norminated collection is nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry.
Winners will be announced June 6th in Toronto. Congratulations and best of luck to these two great BC books and writers!
Our congratulations to Vancouver’s second Poet Laureate, Brad Cran. While we are sad to say goodbye to Vancouver’s inaugural Poet Laureate, George McWhirter, we are excited to see what Brad Cran will be championing during his honourary two-year term.
The Poet Laureate Program is a partnership of the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival.
Congratulations to the winners of the 25th annual BC Book Prizes:
Visit our 2009 Prizes page for details on all the titles that were recognized this year.
The Canadian Booksellers Association celebrates the “Best in the Business”, and the Libris Awards are voted on by members of the book industry. The Shortlist was announced April 22, and the winners will be announced on June 20, 2009. We’d like to extend our congratulations to all those shortlisted for the 2009 awards, especially those representing BC!
Congratulations everyone!
The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence was established in 2003 by the Honourable Iona Campagnolo. It is meant to recognize British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the Province.
Our formal congratulations to author, journalist. editor, and educator, Terry Glavin for your amazing contributions to BC culture. He has “an extraordinarily holistic vision that … shows us a world where culture and nature, human aspiration, natural beauty, language, history and social justice are inextricably intertwined.” according to this year’s jury members.
Terry Glavin lives in Victoria and is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. His most recent book is Waiting for the Macaws and Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions and he is very well known for his Transmontanus Series with New Star Books. Terry Glavin is a frequent contributor to various newspapers and magazines, and his column for The Tyee, Dissent, appears twice monthly.
» Read what the 2009 jury had to say about Terry’s contribution to BC.
Bryan Pike, Executive Director here at BC Book Prizes met four BC Book Prize finalists at the airport today. Margaret Horsfield, Katarina Jovanovic, Elise Partridge, and Robin Stevenson join Bryan on tour in Northern BC. Check out the full tour schedule here.
We wish we could take every finalist author on tour, and it was a very hard decision…. but the authors have been confirmed for the 6th annual BC Book Prizes On Tour! Joining us from April 13-18 across Northern BC are Margaret Horsfield, Katarina Jovanovic, Elise Partridge, and Robin Stevenson. And touring throughout the Kootenays and Okanagan from April 19-24 will be Stephen Bown, Karen Hofmann, Andreas Schroeder, and Rex Weyler.
Congratulations to Nan Gregory whose book Pink (shortlisted for Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize) has been named a finalist for the $10,000 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Joining her on the list is Christie Harris Prize winner, Robert Heidbreder (A Sea-Wishing Day), whose book Lickety-Split is also in the running.
Meanwhile, John Wilson’s book The Alchemist’s Dream (shortlisted for the Sheila Egoff Children’s Literature Prize) is a finalist for the $5,000 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
Both awards will be announced November 6 and are administered by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
