City of Vancouver Book Award explained

The City of Vancouver Book Award is a Canadian literary award, that has been presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia to one or more works of literature judged as the year's best fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama work about the city.

As with the City of Toronto Book Award, the award may go to one or more books.

The award has a monetary value of $3,000. The prize is funded by interest earned from the city's publishing reserve, which was established in 1977 as a permanent legacy for writers and publishers. The fund received royalties generated from Vancouver's First Century: A Photo History of Vancouver, edited by city staff. The third edition of the book, renamed Vancouver: A City Album, for many years generated royalty payments for the fund.

Honorees

City of Vancouver Book Award winners and finalists[1] !Year!Author!Title!Result!Ref.
1989Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in VancouverWinner
1990Disappearing Moon CafeWinner
Being Brown: A Very Public LifeFinalist
Buddy's: Meditations on DesireFinalist
Finalist
1991Vanishing VancouverWinner
Leonard Frank: An Enterprising LifeFinalist
Robin Ward's VancouverFinalist
1992Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the CityWinner
No Forwarding AddressFinalist
Hidden CitiesFinalist
Flesh WoundFinalist
and Graeme WynnVancouver and Its RegionsFinalist
1993Vancouver: A Visual HistoryWinner
Finalist
and John AtkinHeritage Walks Around VancouverFinalist
1994Winner
and Karl SpreitzVancouver: Visions of a CityFinalist
Robin Ward's Heritage West CoastFinalist
Line ScrewFinalist
1995Earle Birney: A LifeWinner
and Cynthia NugentMister Got to GoFinalist
and Robert DavidsonEagle Transforming: The Art of Robert DavidsonFinalist
1996Winner
Monday Night ManFinalist
Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913Finalist
1997Winner
Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century PortraitFinalist
and Bob ScullionPostcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser ValleyFinalist
1998Winner
and Ian MacdonaldFinalist
And a Body to Remember WithFinalist
1999Keys to KingdomsWinner
and the editors of Vancouver MagazineVancouver: Secrets of the CityFinalist
White LungFinalist
2000 and Donald LuxtonLions GateWinner
and Collin VarnerGardens of VancouverFinalist
Paper Shadows: A Chinatown ChildhoodFinalist
Finalist
2001Simple RecipesWinner
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's VancouverFinalist
Stanley ParkFinalist
(ed.)Susan Point: Coast Salish ArtistFinalist
2002Winner
Burrard Inlet: A HistoryFinalist
Finalist
Making a Stone of the HeartFinalist
2003, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine AllanHeroinesWinner
(ed.)Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West HastingsWinner
and Bob TurnerVancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological LandscapeFinalist
Intimate DistancesFinalist
2004L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of VancouverWinner
Finalist
Finalist
Sitting PracticeHonourable mention
Honourable mention
Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished SisterHonourable mention
2005Dream City: Vancouver and the Global ImaginationWinner
All That MattersFinalist
and Dara Culhane (eds.)In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside VancouverFinalist
VariousFinalist
2006Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton PointWinner
Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater VancouverWinner
Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser ValleyFinalist
, Ian M. Thom, and Adele WederB.C. BinningFinalist
2007Vancouver RememberedWinner
and Michael TurnerFred Herzog: Vancouver PhotographsFinalist
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?Finalist
Finalist
2008 and Gillian JeromeHope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown EastsideWinner
FalseworkFinalist
At Home With History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage HomesFinalist
Finalist
2009Winner
In the Realm of the Hungry GhostsFinalist
NightmarkerFinalist
2010 and Scott SteedmanVisions of British ColumbiaWinner
Finalist
Common Ground in a Liquid CityFinalist
Finalist
2011Winner
Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British ColumbiaFinalist[2]
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and RegionFinalist
Vancouver KidsFinalist
2012YVRWinner
and Elee Kraljii Gardiner (eds.)V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown EastsideFinalist[3]
At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's VancouverFinalist
Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata MaruFinalist
Finalist
2013How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's MemoirWinner[4]
Finalist
Ink on PaperFinalist
and Robin WardExploring Vancouver: The Architectural GuideFinalist
Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental HistoryFinalist
2014Arthur Erickson: An Architect's LifeWinner
What Makes Olga Run?Finalist[5]
How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?Finalist
Anatomy of a Girl Gang: A NovelFinalist
Artificial CherryFinalist
2015Winner[6] [7]
Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore BallroomFinalist
Hastings-Sunrise: PoemsFinalist
and Cynthia NugentMister Got To Go, Where Are You?Finalist
2016, Karen Duffek, and Tania WillardLawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded TerritoriesWinner[8]
and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (eds.)Finalist[9]
That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got AwayFinalist
2017Bad EndingsWinner[10]
, Ian M. Thom, Susan Point, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Thomas Cannell, Myrtle McKay, and William McLennanSusan Point: Spindle WhorlFinalist
Pandas on the EastsideFinalist
Invisible DeadFinalist
2018Dear Current OccupantWinner[11]
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with AddictionFinalist
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by TootsFinalist
Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of FoodFinalist
2019 and Susan PointPeople among the People: The public art of Susan PointWinner
Finalist
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic KillerFinalist
No Fixed AddressFinalist
Port of BeingFinalist
2020Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho ChowWinner[12]
on/meFinalist[13]
Vancouver for BeginnersFinalist
2021Five Little IndiansWinner
Finalist
and Anna BronSalma the Syrian ChefFinalist
Ho Sun Hing Printers Honourable mention
2022, Bill McLennan, and Jordan WilsonWhere the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast ArtWinner
Erase and RewindFinalist[14]
No ShelterFinalist
Chiru Sakura: Falling Cherry BlossomsFinalist
Debbie Cheung & Christopher Lee, Occupying ChinatownFinalist

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Book Award winners and short lists . 2023-06-13 . . en.
  2. Web site: Samson . Natalie . 2011-09-15 . City of Vancouver Book Award reveals shortlist . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2022-10-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221007030244/https://quillandquire.com/book-news/2011/09/15/city-of-vancouver-book-award-reveals-shortlist/ . live .
  3. Web site: Carter . Sue . 2012-09-13 . City of Vancouver Book Award announces shortlist . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2015-09-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150928085314/http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2012/09/13/city-of-vancouver-book-award-announces-shortlist/ . live .
  4. Web site: Carter . Sue . 2013-11-25 . Amber Dawn wins City of Vancouver Book Award . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2021-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210523140555/https://quillandquire.com/book-news/2013/11/25/amber-dawn-wins-city-of-vancouver-book-award/ . live .
  5. Web site: Robertson . Becky . 2014-09-17 . City of Vancouver Book Award shortlist announced . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2017-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170606161416/http://www.quillandquire.com/awards/2014/09/17/city-of-vancouver-book-award-shortlist-announced-2/ . live .
  6. Web site: Sherlock . Tracy . 2015-11-12 . Author Wayde Compton wins 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award . 2023-06-12 . . 2022-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220129132623/https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/author-wayde-compton-wins-2015-city-of-vancouver-book-award . live .
  7. Web site: 2015-11-12 . Wayde Compton wins City of Vancouver Book Award . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2023-02-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230208010010/https://www.straight.com/arts/576856/wayde-compton-wins-city-vancouver-book-award . live .
  8. Web site: 2016-10-03 . This year's City of Vancouver Book Award goes to Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2022-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220614005810/https://www.straight.com/arts/799961/years-city-vancouver-book-award-goes-lawrence-paul-yuxweluptun-unceded-territories . live .
  9. Web site: Lao . Lucy . 2016-09-06 . City of Vancouver announces finalists for 2016 Book Award . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2022-12-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221208034718/https://www.straight.com/arts/772211/city-vancouver-announces-finalists-2016-book-award . live .
  10. Web site: Robertson . Becky . 2017-10-12 . Carleigh Baker wins 2017 Vancouver Book Award . 2023-06-12 . . en . 2022-11-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221127045117/https://quillandquire.com/awards/2017/10/12/carleigh-baker-wins-2017-vancouver-book-award/ . live .
  11. Web site: Smith . Charlie . 2018-12-08 . Chelene Knight's Dear Current Occupant wins City of Vancouver Book Award . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2022-12-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221209150445/https://www.straight.com/arts/1175081/chelene-knights-dear-current-occupant-wins-vancouver-book-award . live .
  12. Web site: Dunphy . Martin . 2021-11-20 . Winners of the 2021 and 2020 Vancouver Book Award announced, along with city's new poet laureate . 2023-06-13 . . en . 2023-03-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230322214508/https://www.straight.com/news/winners-of-2021-and-2020-vancouver-book-award-announced-along-with-new-poet-laureate . live .
  13. Web site: Gee . Dana . 2021-10-20 . Vancouver Book Award finalists named . 2023-06-12 . . 2022-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220522143357/https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/vancouver-book-award-finalists-named . live .
  14. Web site: Zoria . Anna . 2022-08-29 . Five finalists announced for the 2022 City of Vancouver Book Award . 2023-06-13 . BC Alliance for Arts + Culture . en-CA . 2022-08-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220829173708/https://www.allianceforarts.com/blog/2022/8/29/five-finalists-announced-for-the-2022-city-of-vancouver-book-award . live .