Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
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The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize
for the best non-fiction
book by a resident of British Columbia
, Canada
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– Bill Reid
– Brazilian Journal
– Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
– The Last Great Sea
– The Last Heathen
– The Short Version: An ABC Book
– The Master Plan:Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
- Everywhere Being is Dancing
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
- Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
BC Book Prizes
The BC Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers.The seven Prizes, plus The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala in April.The Prizes are administered...
for the best non-fiction
Non-fiction
Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...
book by a resident of British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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1985
David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law- Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
- Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1987
Doris ShadboltDoris Shadbolt
Doris Shadbolt, OC, née Meisel, was a Canadian art curator, writer and co-ordinator of exhibitions.-References:For details, see http://www.shadboltfoundation.org/founders.html...
– Bill Reid
- Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
- Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988
P. K. PageP. K. Page
Patricia Kathleen Page, CC, OBC, FRSC , commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian poet. She was the author of over 30 published books: of poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.By special resolution of the United Nations, in 2001 Page's poem "Planet...
– Brazilian Journal
- Sandra DjwaSandra DjwaSandra Djwa, FRSC, is a Canadian writer, critic and cultural biographer.Originally from Newfoundland, she moved to British Columbia where she obtained her PhD from the University of British Columbia in 1968. In 1999, she was honored to deliver the Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture in honor of...
– The Politics of the Imagination - Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989
Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven- Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John
- Paul YeePaul YeePaul Yee is a Chinese-Canadian writer. He is third-generation Canadian and was born in Saskatchewan in 1956 but grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown. Yee holds a Master's degree in Canadian history from the University of British Columbia and worked as archivist at City of Vancouver Archives and at...
– Salt Water City
1990
Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan- Stan PerskyStan PerskyStan Persky is a Canadian writer, media commentator and philosophy instructor.- Early life :Persky was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager, he made contact with and received encouragement from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other writers of the Beat Generation...
– Buddy's - Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1992
Rosemary Neering – Down The Road- Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
- Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993
Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through- Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
- Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994
Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers- Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
- John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995
Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues- 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...
– Concubine's Children - Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996
Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna- Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
- Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997
Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu- Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
- Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998
Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – What I Remember from My Time on Earth- Richard Bocking – Mighty River
- Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
1999
Peter C. NewmanPeter C. Newman
Peter Charles Newman, CC, CD is a Canadian journalist and writer.Born in Vienna, Austria, Newman emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His father, Oscar, was a self-made wealthy factory owner. Newman was educated at Upper Canada College, where he was...
– Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power
- Eric NicolEric NicolEric Patrick Nicol was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humour columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper The Province...
– Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs - Michael PooleMichael PooleMichael "Mike" Poole was an award-winning Canadian film maker and author. He began his career as a copy runner for the Vancouver Sun before becoming a reporter. He earned a journalism degree in Virginia, USA, started in the film business in the 1960s and went on to be a television producer for the...
– Romancing Mary Jane
2000
Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels- Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
- James Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
- Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
- Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001
Terry GlavinTerry Glavin
Terry Glavin is a Canadian author and journalist.Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Daily Columbian, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, and The Georgia Straight...
– The Last Great Sea
- Hugh BrodyHugh BrodyHugh Brody is a British anthropologist, writer, director and lecturer. He was born in 1943 and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He taught social anthropology at Queen's University, Belfast...
– The Other Side of Eden - Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
- Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
- Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
2002
Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr- Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
- Stephen Hume – Off the Map
- Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
- Heather PringleHeather PringleHeather Pringle is a prize-winning Canadian non-fiction author and journalist, focusing on archaeology. Her 2006 book The Master Plan detailed Heinrich Himmler's establishment of the Ahnenerbe in a pseudo-scientific attempt to "prove" Aryan superiority. It won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize...
– The Mummy Congress
2003
Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba- Thomas BergerThomas Berger (Canadian politician)Thomas Rodney Berger, OC, OBC is a Canadian politician and jurist of Swedish descent. Berger was the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party for most of 1969, prior to Dave Barrett.-Background:...
– One Man's Justice - Keath FraserKeath FraserKeath Fraser is a Canadian fiction author . Keath Fraser lived in London, England from 1970 to 1973 where he studied at the University of London and he Earned his Ph.D. and taught English in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for five years as a tenured professor...
– The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat - Cole HarrisCole HarrisRichard Colebrook "Cole" Harris, is a Canadian geographer.-Education:He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 from the University of British Columbia. He received a Master of Science degree in 1962 and achieved his Ph.D...
– Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia - Derek LundyDerek LundyDerek Lundy is a Canadian author.His first published book was Scott Turow: Meeting the Enemy. He achieved bestseller status with his sophomore work, Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters, an account of the harrowing 1996 Vendee Globe round the world single-handed sailing race...
– The Way of the Ship
2004
Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian- Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
- Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
- Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
- Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005
Charles MontgomeryCharles Montgomery
Charles Montgomery is an award-winning Canadian writer and photojournalist.Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, he spent his formative years on a farm on Vancouver Island, and was educated at the University of Victoria and Langara College. Montgomery began his career at the Lillooet Bridge...
– The Last Heathen
- Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
- Patrick LanePatrick LanePatrick 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 - Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
- Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
2006
Stan PerskyStan Persky
Stan Persky is a Canadian writer, media commentator and philosophy instructor.- Early life :Persky was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager, he made contact with and received encouragement from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other writers of the Beat Generation...
– The Short Version: An ABC Book
- Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
- J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
- Rita Moir – Windshift Line
- John VaillantJohn VaillantJohn 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 Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007
Heather PringleHeather Pringle
Heather Pringle is a prize-winning Canadian non-fiction author and journalist, focusing on archaeology. Her 2006 book The Master Plan detailed Heinrich Himmler's establishment of the Ahnenerbe in a pseudo-scientific attempt to "prove" Aryan superiority. It won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize...
– The Master Plan:Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust
- Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
- Eric Miller – The Reservoir
- Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
- Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008
Robert BringhurstRobert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type...
- Everywhere Being is Dancing
- J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet100-Mile DietThe 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating is a non-fiction book written by Canadian writers Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon...
: A Year of Local Eating - Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
- Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb
- Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009
Gabor MatéGábor Máté
Gábor Máté is a Hungarian discus thrower.His personal best throw is 66.54 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Walnut.-Achievements:-References:...
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
- Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
- Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
- Rex WeylerRex WeylerRex Weyler is an American / Canadian author, journalist and ecologist. He has worked as a writer, editor, and publisher at newspapers and magazines, and occasionally as a commentator on Canadian television...
- The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay - Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010
Lorna CrozierLorna Crozier
Lorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria....
- Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
- Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
- Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
- Brian BrettBrian BrettBrian Brett is a Canadian poet and novelist.He studied literature at Simon Fraser University from 1969 to 1974...
- Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life - Charles DemersCharles DemersCharles Demers is a Canadian writer, comedian and political activist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.Demers has published two books: a novel and a collection of essays. The latter was nominated for a Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize...
- Vancouver Special