City of Vancouver Book Award
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The City of Vancouver Book Award is a Canadian
literary award, that has been presented annually by the city of Vancouver
, British Columbia
to one or more works of literature judged as the year's best fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama work about the city.
As with the City of Toronto Book Award
, the award may go to one or more books.
The award has a monetary value of $
2,000. The prize is funded by interest earned from the city’s publishing reserve, which was established in 1977 as a permanent legacy for writers and publishers. The fund received royalties generated from Vancouver’s First Century: a photo history of Vancouver, edited by city staff. The third edition of the book, renamed Vancouver: A City Album, for many years generated royalty payments for the fund.
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literary award, that has been presented annually by the city of Vancouver
Vancouver
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, British Columbia
British Columbia
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to one or more works of literature judged as the year's best fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama work about the city.
As with the City of Toronto Book Award
City of Toronto Book Award
The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto"....
, the award may go to one or more books.
The award has a monetary value of $
Canadian dollar
The Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. As of 2007, the Canadian dollar is the 7th most traded currency in the world. It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or C$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
2,000. The prize is funded by interest earned from the city’s publishing reserve, which was established in 1977 as a permanent legacy for writers and publishers. The fund received royalties generated from Vancouver’s First Century: a photo history of Vancouver, edited by city staff. The third edition of the book, renamed Vancouver: A City Album, for many years generated royalty payments for the fund.
Winners
- 1989 - Paul Yee, Saltwater City
- 1990 - Sky LeeSky LeeSky Lee is a Canadian artist and novelist.Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction and identifies as lesbian.-Personal life:...
, Disappearing Moon Café - 1991 - Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
- 1992 - Gerald Straley, Trees of Vancouver
- 1993 - Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
- 1994 - Denise ChongDenise Chong- Early life and schooling :A third generation Chinese Canadian, Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 9 June 1953, and was raised in Prince George. She studied economy at the University of British Columbia earning her bachelor degee in 1975...
, The Concubine's Children - 1995 - Elspeth CameronElspeth CameronElspeth MacGregor Cameron is a Canadian writer known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Irving Layton and Earle Birney. Her biography of Hugh MacLennan, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life, was nominated for a Governor General's Award. She has also published a volume of...
, Earle Birney: A Life - 1996 - Wayson ChoyWayson ChoyWayson Choy, CM is a Canadian writer.-Early life:Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. A Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown...
, The Jade PeonyThe Jade PeonyThe Jade Peony is a novel by Wayson Choy. It was first published in 1995 by Douglas and McIntyre.The novel features stories told by three siblings, Jook-Liang, Jung-Sum and Sek-Lung or Sekky... - 1997 - Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
- 1998 - Chuck Davis, The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia
- 1999 - Bud Osborn, Keys to Kingdoms
- 2000 - Lilia D'Acres and Donald Luxton, Lions Gate
- 2001 - Madeleine ThienMadeleine ThienMadeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under...
, Simple Recipes - 2002 - Keith Carlson, ed., A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
- 2003 - multiple winners
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- Lincoln ClarkesLincoln ClarkesLincoln Clarkes is an award-winning photographer , who has published two books, Heroines , an epic photographic documentary of the addicted women of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, which won the Vancouver Book Award, and Views, a retrospective of his works...
, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan, Heroines - Reid Shier, ed., Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings
- 2004 - Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
- 2005 - Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
- 2006 - multiple winners
- Jean BarmanJean BarmanJean Barman is a historian of British Columbia. Born in Stephen, Minnesota, Barman arrived in British Columbia in 1971. Her work The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia has been described as the "standard text on the subject [of British Columbia history]." She has received the...
, Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point - James P. DelgadoJames P. DelgadoJames P. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist, explorer and author.-Life:As a maritime archaeologist who has worked all around the globe, he has spent decades underwater exploration and has uncovered many new archaeological sites across the globe...
, Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver- 2007 - Michael Kluckner, Vancouver Remembered
- 2008 - Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
- 2009 - Lee HendersonLee HendersonLee Henderson is a Canadian writer, the author of The Broken Record Technique and The Man Game . The Broken Record Technique won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes a first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author writing in English...
, The Man Game - 2010 - Bruce Grenville and Scott Steedman, Visions of British Columbia
- 2011 - Michael ChristieMichael Christie (writer)Michael Christie is a Canadian short story writer, whose debut collection The Beggar's Garden is a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted nominee for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize....
, The Beggar's Garden
- Lincoln Clarkes