Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award

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The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a Canadian literary award that has existed since 1985 and is part of the BC Book Prizes for the best book with regard to its public interest, its basic idea, design, production quality and content ("best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content. ").

Candidates do not have to be Canadian citizens but have lived in British Columbia or the Yukon area for at least three of the past five years . Your work may have been published in other regions or countries. In contrast to the other prizes of the BC Book Prices, the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award - as the name suggests - is not decided by a jury, but results from a vote of the book trade by placing a ballot from the bookstores in British Columbia Selects winner. To a certain extent, the price is shared between the publisher and the author. Like all other BC Book Price awards, it is honored annually at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala in April.

The award honors the memory of publisher Bill Duthie, who founded Duthie's Books in 1957. The award is one of the original four categories of the BC Book Prizes and is originally BC Booksellers' Choice Award in the Honor of Bill Duthie . In 2010 it was decided to simplify the naming analogous to the other prices.

Winners and nominees

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

  • Bill Richardson - Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Candace Savage - Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays (Greystone Books)
  • Ken Drushka - HR: A Biography of HR MacMillan (Harbor Publishing)

1997

1998

1999

  • Tom Henry - Westcoasters: Boats that Built BC (Harbor Publishing)
  • Wade Davis - The Clouded Leopard (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Chris Jaksa , Lynn Tanod - Guiding Lights: BC's Lighthouses and their Keepers (Harbor Publishing)

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

  • R. Samuel Bawif - The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Doreen Armitage - From the Wheelhouse: Tug Boaters Tell Their Own Stories (Harbor Publishing)
  • Bill Proctor and Yvonne Maximchuk - Full Moon, Flood Tide: Bill Proctor's Raincoast (Harbor Publishing)
  • David Nunuk - Natural Light: Visions of British Columbia (Harbor Publishing)
  • Andrew Scott - Painter, Paddler: The Art and Adventures of Stewart Marshall (TouchWood Editions)

2005

2006

2007

  • David Suzuki - David Suzuki: The Autobiography (Greystone Books)
  • Lynne Van Luven (Editor) - Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (TouchWood Editions)
  • Daina Augaitus, Lucille Bell , Nika Collison, Vince Collison, Robert Davidson, Jacqueline Gijssen, Guujaw, Marianne Jones, Peter Macnair , Bill Reid , Isabel Rorick, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas , Don Yoemans - Raven Traveling: Two Centuries of Haida Art (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Michael Kluckner - Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books)
  • Sylvia Olsen - Yetsa's Sweater (Sono Nis Press)

2008

  • Ian McAllister - The Last Wild Wolves: Ghosts of the Great Bear Rainforest (Greystone Books)
  • Mike McCardell - The Blue Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell's Favorite Stories (Harbor Publishing)
  • Grant Arnold , Michael Turner - Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Ishmael Beah - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Chris Harris - Spirit In the Grass: The Cariboo Chilcotin's Forgotten Landscape (Country Light Publishing)

2009

  • Stephen R. Bown - Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Jean Barman - British Columbia: Spirit of the People (Harbor Publishing)
  • Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas - Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment (Greystone Books)
  • Cathy Converse - Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet (TouchWood Editions)
  • Andrew Nikiforuk - Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books)

2010

2011

  • Grant Lawrence - Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (Harbor Publishing)
  • Zsuzsi Gartner (Ed.) - Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow (Douglas & McIntyre)
  • Ross King - Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (Douglas & McIntyre, McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
  • Gary Kent - Fishing with Gubby (Harbor Publishing)
  • Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier (Harbor Publishing)

2012

  • Chuck Davis - The Chuck Davis History of Metropolitan Vancouver (Harbor Publishing)
  • Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt (Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation)
  • Fred Herzog - Fred Herzog: Photographs (Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc.)
  • Gary Hynes - Island Wineries of British Columbia (TouchWood Editions)
  • Robert J. Wiersema - Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen (Greystone Books)

2013

2014

  • Grant Lawrence - The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie ( Douglas & McIntyre )
  • Jesse Donaldson - This Day in Vancouver (Anvil Press)
  • Michael Layland - The Land of Heart's Delight: Early Maps and Charts of Vancouver Island (TouchWood Editions)
  • Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd - Raven Brings the Light ( Harbor Publishing )
  • Paula Wild - The Cougar: Beautiful, Wild and Dangerous ( Douglas & McIntyre )

2015

2016

  • Susan Musgrave - A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World (Whitecap Books)

2017

  • Richard Wagamese - Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations (Douglas & McIntyre) (posthumous)

2018

  • Pat Carney - On Island: Life Among the Coast Dwellers (TouchWood Editions)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/bc–booksellers–choice–award–in–honour–of–bill–duthie/
  2. ↑ Sun columnist Shelley Fralic Honored for book on newspaper's history . In: The Vancouver Sun . May 6, 2013. Archived from the original on June 30, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 8, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vancouversun.com
  3. ^ John Goodman: Grant Lawrence the bookseller's choice at BC Book Prizes . In: North Shore News . May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  4. ^ Shawn Conner: Vancouver Writers Take Home BC Book Prizes . In: Inside Vancouver . April 27, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2016.