Tag: Book Award

The George Ryga Award is annually presented to a BC writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new bookGo to full post …read more

Earlier this year Daniel Francis was awarded the British Columbia Historical Federation’s Community History Award for his latest book, Where Mountains Meet the Sea: An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver, which commemorates the 125th anniversary of the District Go to full post …read more

BC’s young readers’ choice award, the Chocolate Lily Award, was awarded in three categories on June 9Go to full post …read more

Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel has won the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize for his latest collection of poetry, Injun, an erasure book-length poem about racism and the representation of Indigenous peoples.Go to full post …read more

The jury agreed that Bearskin Diary is an important book telling the story of one of thousands of Aboriginal children taken from their families by provincial governments during the “Sixties Scoop”.Go to full post …read more

The 2016/2017 shortlist for the Donner Prize, the award recognizing the best public policy book by a Canadian, was announced April 11, 2017 by Kenneth Whyte, Chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation.
Among the five finalists is Brand Command: Canadian Politics Go to full post …read more

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the USA. Go to full post …read more