Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.^[1] The prize is named after the Canadian novelist Hubert Evans (1892-1986).

Winners and finalists[]

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Year	Winner	Nominees
1985	David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law	Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986	Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country	Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
1987	– Bill Reid	Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988	P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal	Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989	Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven	Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John Paul Yee – Salt Water City
1990	Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan	Stan Persky – Buddy's Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1991	Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt	Terry Glavin – A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
1992	Rosemary Neering – Down The Road	Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993	Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through	Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C. Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994	Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers	Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995	Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues^[2]	Denise Chong – Concubine's Children Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996	Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna	Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997	Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu	Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998	Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace	Richard Bocking – Mighty River Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
1999	Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power	Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane
2000	Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels	Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 James P. Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001	Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea	Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
2002	Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr	Bart Campbell – The Door is Open Stephen Hume – Off the Map Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
2003	Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba	Thomas Berger – One Man's Justice Keath Fraser – The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat Cole Harris – Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia Derek Lundy – The Way of the Ship
2004	Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian	Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005	Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen	Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley Patrick Lane – There is a Season Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
2006	Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book	Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise Rita Moir – Windshift Line John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007	Heather Pringle – The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust	Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Eric Miller – The Reservoir Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008	Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing	J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009	Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction	Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010	Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir	Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
2011	John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival	Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
2012	Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt	Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
2013	Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975^[3]	Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming George Bowering - Pinboy Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
2014	David Stouck - Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life^[4]	Arno Kopecky - The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway J.B. MacKinnon - The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be Bev Sellars - They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School Jane Silcott - Everything Rustles
2015	Eve Joseph - In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying^[5]	Nancy Turner - Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America Barry M. Gough - The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest Kevin Chong - Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation Julie Angus - Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
2016	Brian Brett - Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World ^[6]	Briony Penn - The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan Lorimer Shenher - That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away Maria Tippett - Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture Emily Urquhart - Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
2017	Deborah Campbell - A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War^[7]	Carmen Aguirre - Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution Mohamed Fahmy with Carol Shaben - The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom Joy Kogawa - Gently to Nagasaki Mark Leiren-Young - The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
2018	Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy ^[8]	Carys Cragg - Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Theresa Kishkan - Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays Andrew Struthers - The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed Paul Watson - Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
2019	Lindsay Wong, The Woo Woo	Bill Gaston, Just Let Me Look at You Ian Hampton, Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
2020	Alejandro Frid, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene	Ivan Coyote, Rebent Sinner Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience Jonathan Manthorpe, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
2021	Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body^[9]	, Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear^[10] , Nobody Talks About Anything But the End^[10] Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis^[10] , A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency^[10]

References[]

^ Joanna Karaplis (Jan 5, 2010). The Canadian Writer's Market, 18th Edition. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 323.
^ Hobbs at SFU, 2014
^ "The Globe's Mickleburgh, co-author Meggs win B.C. book prize". The Globe and Mail. May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
^ Marsha Lederman (May 5, 2014). "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
^ Shawn Conner (April 27, 2015). "Vancouver Writers Take Home B.C. Book Prizes". Inside Vancouver. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
^ Adrian Chamberlain (May 1, 2016). "Salt Spring writers win major awards at B.C. Book Prizes". Times Colonist. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
^ Becky Robertson (May 1, 2017). "Deborah Campbell, Julie Flett among B.C. Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
^ Steven W. Beattie (May 7, 2018). "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
^ Vicky Qiao, "Billy-Ray Belcourt and Shaena Lambert among BC & Yukon Book Prizes winners". CBC Books, September 28, 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ryan Porter, "Eight shortlists announced for BC and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 8, 2021.

External links[]

[1] Joanna Karaplis (Jan 5, 2010). The Canadian Writer's Market, 18th Edition. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 323.

[2] Hobbs at SFU, 2014

[3] "The Globe's Mickleburgh, co-author Meggs win B.C. book prize". The Globe and Mail. May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.

[4] Marsha Lederman (May 5, 2014). "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 8, 2014.

[5] Shawn Conner (April 27, 2015). "Vancouver Writers Take Home B.C. Book Prizes". Inside Vancouver. Retrieved April 30, 2015.

[6] Adrian Chamberlain (May 1, 2016). "Salt Spring writers win major awards at B.C. Book Prizes". Times Colonist. Retrieved May 10, 2016.

[7] Becky Robertson (May 1, 2017). "Deborah Campbell, Julie Flett among B.C. Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 4, 2017.

[8] Steven W. Beattie (May 7, 2018). "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 15, 2018.

[9] Vicky Qiao, "Billy-Ray Belcourt and Shaena Lambert among BC & Yukon Book Prizes winners". CBC Books, September 28, 2021.

[porter-10] Ryan Porter, "Eight shortlists announced for BC and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 8, 2021.

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