The West Coast Book Prize Society announced the winners for the 2017 BC Book Prizes. Congratulations to the authors, illustrators, and publishers! The winner of the 2017 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence was announced on April 4th.
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
The Heaviness of Things That Float
by Jennifer Manuel
Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
by Deborah Campbell
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You
by Adèle Barclay
Publisher: Nightwood Editions
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History
by Neil J. Sterritt
Publisher: Creekstone Press
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
The Skeleton Tree
by Iain Lawrence
Publisher: Tundra Books
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
My Heart Fills With Happiness
by Monique Gray Smith
Illustrated by Julie Flett
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
by Richard Wagamese
Publisher: Douglas and McIntyre
Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence
Douglas Coupland
More About the Winners & Nominees