British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction is a Canadian literary award.[1] It is awarded annually since 2005 by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation.[2] It is the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, rising from $25,000 2005-2007 to $40,000 since 2008. [3][4]
Winners
- 2005: Patrick Lane, There Is a Season (published in the US as What the Stones Remember)
- 2006: Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
- 2007: Noah Richler, This Is My Country, What's Yours?
- 2008: Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Nominees: Donald Harman Akenson, Jacques Poitras.)
- 2009: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself (Nominees: Daphne Bramham, Mary Henley Rubio, Christopher Shulgan.)
- 2010: Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (Nominees: Karen Connelly, Kenneth Whyte, Eric Siblin.)
- 2011: John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Nominees: Stevie Cameron, James FitzGerald, Charles Foran.)
- 2012: Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (Nominees:Brian Fawcett, Andrew Westoll, Joel Yanofsky)
- 2013: Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (Nominees:George Bowering, Robert R. Fowler)
- 2014: Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Nominees: Carolyn Abraham, J. B. MacKinnon, Margaret MacMillan, Graeme Smith)
References
- ↑ British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, official website.
- ↑ British Columbia Achievement Foundation, official website.
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External links
- British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, official website.
- British Columbia Achievement Foundation, official website.
- News Release: Wangersky Wins Canada's Largest Non-Fiction Award
- British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
- Statement by the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, on the Presentation of British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2011
- News Article:B.C. book prize is country's richest for non-fiction
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