Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize is a Canadian literary award that was introduced in 1985 as one of the BC Book Prizes . It is awarded annually to the best fictional literary work by a British Columbia resident. The authors must have lived in British Columbia for three of the last five years.
The name of the award comes from the writer Ethel Wilson , who was born in South Africa but lives in Canada , author of The Innocent Traveler (1949) and Swamp Angel (1954), whose work had a special reference to the landscape of British Columbia and its people.
The 2011 winner was announced by hosts Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen at the Kay Meek Center, Vancouver , on April 21, 2011 at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala. The shortlist for each year will be announced in March.
Winners and nominated titles
1985
- Audrey Thomas , Intertidal Life
- Mary Ellen Collura, Winners
- Charles Lillard , A Coastal Range
1986
- Keath Fraser , Foreign Affairs
- Brian Fawcett , The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
- George Ryga , In the Shadow of the Vulture
- LR Wright , The Suspect
1987
- Leona Gom , Housebroken
- Paulette Jiles , Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
- Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories
1988
- George McWhirter , Cage
- Jane Rule , memory board
- Robin Skelton , The Parrot Who Could
1989
- Bill Schermbrucker , Mimosa
- William Goede, Love In Beijing
- Robert Harlow , Saxophone Winter
1990
- Keith Maillard , Motet
- Marilyn Bowering , To All Appearances A Lady
- Jane Rule , After The Fire
1991
- Audrey Thomas , Wild Blue Yonder
- Sky Lee , Disappearing Moon Cafe
- Caroline Woodward, Disturbing The Peace
1992
- Don Dickinson , Blue Husbands
- MAC Farrant , Sick Pigeon
- Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993
- WD Valgardson , The Girl with the Botticelli Face
- JA Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories
- Linda Svendsen , Marine Life
1994
- Caroline Adderson , Bad Imaginings
- Keith Maillard , Light In The Company Of Women
- Carol Windley , Visible Light
1995
- Gayla Reid , To Be There With You
- Grant Buday , Under Glass
- Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans
1996
- Audrey Thomas , Coming Down From Wa
- Joy Kogawa , Rain Ascends
- Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon
1997
- Gail Anderson-Dargatz , The Cure for Death by Lightning
- Nick Bantock , The Venetian's Wife
- Shani Mootoo , Cereus Blooms at Night
1998
- Marilyn Bowering , Visible Worlds
- Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose
- Holley Rubinsky , At First I Hope for Rescue
1999
- Jack Hodgins , Broken Ground
- Loranne Brown , The Handless Maiden
- Anne Fleming , Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000
- Michael Turner , The Pornographer's Poem
- Caroline Adderson , A History of Forgetting
- Zsuzsi Gartner , All the Anxious Girls on Earth
- Keith Harrison, Furry Creek
- Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood
2001
- Eden Robinson , Monkey Beach
- Anita Rau Badami , The Hero's Walk
- Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus
- Peter Trower , The Judas Hills
- Jack Whyte , Uther
2002
- Madeleine Thien , Simple Recipes
- Rebecca Godfrey , The Torn Skirt
- Andrew Gray , Small Accidents
- Gayla Reid , All the Seas of the World
- Timothy Taylor , Stanley Park
2003
- Carol Shields , Unless
- Kevin Armstrong , Nightwatch
- Bill Gaston , Mount Appetite
- Nancy Lee , Dead Girls
- Gayla Reid , Closer Apart
2004
- Caroline Adderson , Sitting Practice
- Claudia Casper , The Continuation of Love by Other Means
- Steven Galloway , Ascension
- Kevin Patterson , Country of Cold
- Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys
2005
- Pauline Holdstock , Beyond Measure
- Bill Gaston , Sointula
- Theresa Kishkan, A Man in a Distant Field
- Annabel Lyon , The Best Thing for You
- Patrick Taylor, The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty
2006
- Charlotte Gill , lady killer
- Clint Burnham, Smoke Show
- Lydia Kwa , The Walking Boy
- John Lent , So It Won't Go Away
- Audrey Thomas , Tattycoram
2007
- Carol Windley , Home Schooling
- Marilyn Bowering , What It Takes to Be Human
- Bill Gaston , Gargoyles
- Anosh Irani , The Song of Kahunsha
- Adam Lewis Schroeder , Empress of Asia
2008
- Mary Novik , Conceit
- Heather Burt , Adam's Peak
- David Chariandy , Soucouyant
- Shaena Lambert , Radiance
- Claire Mulligan , The Reckoning of Boston Jim
2009
- Lee Henderson , The Man Game
- Steven Galloway , The Cellist of Sarajevo
- Paul Headrick , That Tune Clutches My Heart
- Patrick Lane , Red Dog, Red Dog
- Andreas Schroeder , Renovating Heaven
2010
- Cathleen With , Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
- Michael Turner , 8 × 10
- Ian Weir , Daniel O'Thunder
- Annabel Lyon , The Golden Mean
- Deborah Willis , Vanishing and Other Stories
2011
- Gurjinder Basran , Everything Was Good-Bye
- Rifet Bahtijaragic , Chernovs' Toil and Peace
- Jack Whyte , The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
- Jack Hodgins , The Master of Happy Endings
- Meredith Quartermain , Recipes from the Red Planet
2012
- Esi Edugyan , Half-Blood Blues
- Michael Christie , The Beggar's Garden
- Steven Price , Into That Darkness
- DW Wilson , Once You Break a Knuckle
- Frances Greenslade , Shelter
2013
- Bill Gaston , The World
- CP Boyko , Psychology and Other Stories
- Anne Fleming , Gay Dwarves of America
- Anakana Schofield , Malarky
- Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead
2014
- Ashley Little , Anatomy of a Girl Gang
- Théodora Armstrong , Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
- Janie Chang , Three Souls
- Cynthia Flood , Red Girl Rat Boy
- Kathryn Para , Lucky
2015
- Aislinn Hunter , The World Before Us
- Michael Springate , The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God
- Caroline Adderson , Ellen in Pieces
- Kathy Page , Paradise & Elsewhere
- Brian Payton , The Wind is Not a River
2016
- Alix Hawley , All True Not a Lie in It
2017
- Jennifer Manuel , The Heaviness of Things That Float
2018
- David Chariandy , brother
2019
- Eden Robinson , trickster drift
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/ethel-wilson-fiction-prize/
- ↑ The winners are marked in bold .
- ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2011
- ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/2012#fiction
- ^ Victoria author Bill Gaston among BC Book Prizes winners . In: Times Colonist . May 3, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
- ↑ Tracy Sherlock: Double wins for two BC authors at BC Book Awards . In: The Vancouver Sun . May 4, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
- ↑ Tracy Sherlock: Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize . In: The Vancouver Sun . April 26, 2015. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. 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 January 21, 2016.
