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Douglas & McIntyre

          Douglas & McIntyre is one of Canada’s most eminent independent publishers with books that have won many national and international awards, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award. The company, originally called J.J. Douglas Ltd. and co-founded by Jim Douglas and Scott McIntyre, was established in […]

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Congratulations to the 2017 BC Book Prizes winners

May 4th, 2017

Hearty congratulations to the winners of the 2017 BC Book Prizes (including links to ABPBC member publishers):

  • The Heaviness of Things That Float, by Jennifer Manuel (Douglas & McIntyre) – Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  • Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History, by Neil J. Sterritt (Creekstone Press) – Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
  • A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War, by Deborah Campbell (Knopf Canada) – Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
  • If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, by Adèle Barclay (Nightwood Editions) – Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
  • The Skeleton Tree, by Iain Lawrence (Tundra Books) – Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
  • My Heart Fills With Happiness, by Monique Gray Smith and Julie Flett (Orca Book Publishers) – Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
  • Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations, by Richard Wagamese (Douglas & McIntyre) – Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award