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Vancouver Noir
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by Diane Purvey & John Belshaw

Vancouver Noir provides fascinating insight into the tension between Terminal City’s shady dealings and its yearning for social conformity between 1930 and 1960.

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Congratulations to our Member Finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards!

October 11th, 2011

Poetry
Garry Thomas Morse, Vancouver, Discovery Passages
(Talonbooks; distributed by Publishers Group)
(ISBN 978-0-88922-660-9)

Non-Fiction

Andrew Nikiforuk, Calgary (Alberta), Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests
(Greystone Books, an imprint of D&M Publishers / David Suzuki Foundation; distributed by HarperCollins Canada)
(ISBN 978-1-55365-510-7)

Children’s Literature — Illustration
Kim La Fave, Roberts Creek (British Columbia), Fishing with Gubby, text by Gary Kent
(Harbour Publishing; distributed by the publisher)
(ISBN 978-1-55017-497-7)

Translation – French to English
David Scott Hamilton, Vancouver, Exit
(Anvil Press; distributed by University of Toronto Press)
(ISBN 978-1-897-53566-0)
English translation of Paradis, clef en main by Nelly Arcan (Les Éditions Les 400 coups)