British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction

British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction is a Canadian literary award

Literary award

A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...

. It is awarded annually since 2005 by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation. It is the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, rising from $25,000 2005-2007 to $40,000 since 2008.

Winners

2005: Patrick Lane
Patrick Lane
Patrick Lane is an award-winning Canadian poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel Red Dog, Red Dog.-Biography:...

, There Is a Season (published in the US as What the Stones Remember)
2006: Rebecca Godfrey
Rebecca Godfrey
Rebecca Godfrey is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is also a writing mentor with the Creative Nonfiction mentoring program.She was born in Toronto, Ontario, to writers Dave Godfrey and Ellen Godfrey. As a child her family relocated to Victoria, British Columbia...

, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
2007: Noah Richler
Noah Richler
Noah Richler is a Canadian journalist, who was raised in Montreal, Canada and London, England. He is the son of Florence Isabel Wood and famous Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler...

, This Is My Country, What's Yours?
2008: Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan.-Biography:...

, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Nominees: Donald Harman Akenson, Jacques Poitras.)
2009: Russell Wangersky
Russell Wangersky
Russell Wangersky is a Canadian journalist and short story writer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Canada since the age of 3, Wangersky was educated at Acadia University....

, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself (Nominees: Daphne Bramham, Mary Henley Rubio, Christopher Shulgan.)
2010: Ian Brown
Ian Brown (journalist)
Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and author, winner of several national magazine and newspaper awards.He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning...

, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (Nominees: Karen Connelly
Karen Connelly
Karen Marie Connelly is a Canadian writer and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada.-Life and work:...

, Kenneth Whyte
Kenneth Whyte
Kenneth Whyte is a Canadian newspaper and magazine editor. He has been publisher of the weekly Maclean's newsmagazine since March 2005. He is also president of Rogers Publishing Limited....

, Eric Siblin.)
2011: John Vaillant
John Vaillant
John Vaillant is a non-fiction author and journalist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver for the past thirteen years. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the 2005 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize...

, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Nominees: Stevie Cameron
Stevie Cameron
Stevie Cameron is an award-winning Canadian investigative journalist and best-selling author. Born in Belleville, Ontario in 1943, she now lives in Toronto with her husband, David Cameron, a professor at the University of Toronto. They have two daughters; both Toronto-based screenwriters.-Early...

, James FitzGerald, Charles Foran
Charles Foran
Charles Foran is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer living in Peterborough, Ontario.-Biography:Foran was born in August 1960 in Toronto to a Franco-Ontarian mother and a father from an Ottawa Irish family. He attended Catholic elementary school and Brebeuf College School, a Jesuit high...

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