British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non Fiction

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British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-fiction is a Canadian literary award. It is awarded annually since 2005 by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation. It is the largest non-fiction prize in Canada, rising from $25,000 2005-2007 to $40,000 since 2008.

Winners

2005: Patrick Lane, There Is a Season (published in the US as What the Stones Remember)

2006: Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk

2007: Noah Richler, This Is My Country, What's Yours?

2008: Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Nominees: Donald Harman Akenson, Jacques Poitras.)

2009: Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself (Nominees: Daphne Bramham, Mary Henley Rubio, Christopher Shulgan.)

2010: Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (Nominees: Karen Connelly, Kenneth Whyte, Eric Siblin.)

2011: John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Nominees: Stevie Cameron, James FitzGerald, Charles Foran.)

2012: Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (Nominees:Brian Fawcett, Andrew Westoll, Joel Yanofsky)

2013: Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (Nominees:George Bowering, Robert R. Fowler)

2014: Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Nominees: Carolyn Abraham, J. B. MacKinnon, Margaret MacMillan, Graeme Smith)

2015: Karyn L. Freedman, One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery(Nominees: Chantel Hébert, Alison Pick, James Raffan)

2016: Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva, (Nominees: John Ibbitson, Emily Urquhart, Sheila Watt-Cloutier)

References

British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Wikipedia

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