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WIN THE WINNERS CONTEST

This year's Win the Winners Contest will return to local bookstores across the province from May 14 to June 11! You could win a copy of each of this year's winning books.

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2017 WINNERS REVEALED

The winners of this year's BC Book Prizes were announced at the 33rd annual Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prizes Gala on April 29 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in downtown Vancouver.


 
  • The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel (Douglas and McIntyre) - Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
  • Mapping My Way Home: A Gitxsan History by Neil J. Sterritt (Creekstone Press) - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
  • A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War by Deborah Campbell (Knopf Canada) - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize
  • If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You by Adèle Barclay (Nightwood Editions) - Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
  • The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence (Tundra Books) - Sheila A. Egoff  Children's Literature Prize
  • My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith and Julie Flett (Orca Book Publishers) - Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
  • Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations by Richard Wagamese (Douglas and McIntyre) - Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award
Congratulations to all the nominated authors, illustrators, and publishers!


See all the 2017 winners and finalists
 

ONLINE AUCTION

The BC Book Prizes Online Auction is now open!

Show your support for the BC Book Prizes and BC authors and publishers, and help us bring nominated authors to schools in communities all across BC.

Don't miss out on the amazing items that have been gathered together. Unique packages, event tickets, and so much more.

The auction will end at 10:00 am on Wednesday, June 14, so don't wait, place your bids today.