British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction was a Canadian literary award.[1] Awarded annually since 2005 by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation,[2] it was the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, rising from $25,000 in its initial years to $40,000 in 2008.[3] Despite being presented by a BC-based organization, the award was not limited to writers from British Columbia, and instead was open to all non-fiction work by Canadian writers.

In May 2018, the British Columbia Achievement Foundation announced that it was discontinuing the award as part of a process of refocusing the foundation's activities and programs.[4]

Winners

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Year Winner Nominated
2005 Blue ribbon Patrick Lane, There Is a Season
2006 Blue ribbon Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
2007 Blue ribbon Noah Richler, This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada
2008 Blue ribbon Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
2009 Blue ribbon Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
  • Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect
  • Mary Henley Rubio, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings
  • Christopher Shulgan, The Soviet Ambassador: The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika
2010[5] Blue ribbon Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
  • Karen Connelly, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story
  • Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
  • Kenneth Whyte, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
2011 Blue ribbon John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
  • Stevie Cameron, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
  • James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
  • Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
2012 Blue ribbon Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
2013 Blue ribbon Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
2014 Blue ribbon Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
  • Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
  • J. B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
  • Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
  • Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
2015 Blue ribbon Karyn L. Freedman, One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
2016 Blue ribbon Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
  • John Ibbitson, Stephen Harper
  • Emily Urquhart, Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
  • Sheila Watt-Cloutier, The Right to be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
2017 Blue ribbon Sandra Martin, A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices
  • Taras Grescoe, Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue on the Eve of the Second World War
  • Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration
  • Alexandra Shimo, Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve
2018[6] Blue ribbon Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey Into the Lives of Others
  • Ken Dryden, Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey
  • Doug Saunders, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough
  • Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

References

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  1. ^ British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction, official website.
  2. ^ British Columbia Achievement Foundation, official website.
  3. ^ "B.C. book prize is country's richest for non-fiction". canada.com, February 5, 2008.
  4. ^ "Cancellation of lucrative non-fiction award met with sadness, shock". The Globe and Mail, May 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "Globe writer calls B.C. literary win shot in the arm for creative non-fiction". The Globe and Mail, January 16, 2010.
  6. ^ "Carol Off, Tanya Talaga longlisted for 2018 B.C. National Non-fiction Award". Quill and Quire. November 2, 2017. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
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