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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