The winners of the 35th annual BC Book Prizes were announced at a ceremony on May 11, 2019. The West Coast Book Prize Society presented their annual Gala in Vancouver with host Shelagh Rogers.
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners. We’re thrilled to see four BC-published titles among the winners!
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Trickster Drift, Eden Robinson (Knopf Canada)
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
The Woo Woo, Lindsay Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Our Familiar Hunger, Laisha Rosnau (Nightwood Editions)
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro, Sarah Cox (On Point Press / UBC Press)
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
No Fixed Address, Susin Nielsen (Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers)
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Sparks!, Ian Boothby and Nina Matsumoto, ill. (Scholastic Canada)
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act, Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies)