The seven winners of the 33rd annual BC Book Prizes were announced at a gala at Vancouver’s Pinnacle Harbourfront hotel on April 29, 2017. Congratulations to all the winners!
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Jennifer Manuel, The Heaviness of Things That Float (Douglas and McIntyre)
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Neil J. Sterritt, Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History (Creekstone Press)
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
Deborah Campbell, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (Knopf Canada)
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood Editions)
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Monique Gray Smith, illustrated by Julie Flett, My Heart Fills With Happiness (Orca Book Publishers)
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Iain Lawrence, The Skeleton Tree (Tundra Books)
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations (Douglas and McIntyre)
Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Douglas Coupland
The B.C. Book Prizes were established in 1985 to celebrate the achievement of British Columbia writers and publishers. They are handed out by the non-profit West Coast Book Prize Society.