City of Vancouver Book Award

Canadian literary award

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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, or many years generated royalty payments for the fund.

## Honorees

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City of Vancouver Book Award winners and finalists[1] Year  | Author  | Title  | Result  | Ref.

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1989[a] | Paul Yee | Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver | Winner  |
1990 | Sky Lee | Disappearing Moon Cafe | Winner  |
Rosemary Brown | Being Brown: A Very Public Life | Finalist  |
Stan Persky | Buddy's: Meditations on Desire | Finalist  |
John Schreiner | The Refiners: A Century of BC Sugar | Finalist  |
1991[b] | Michael Kluckner | Vanishing Vancouver | Winner  |
Cyril Leonoff | Leonard Frank: An Enterprising Life | Finalist  |
Robin Ward | Robin Ward's Vancouver | Finalist  |
1992[c] | Gerald Straley | Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City | Winner  |
Elizabeth Bower | No Forwarding Address | Finalist  |
Gregory Edwards | Hidden Cities | Finalist  |
Paul Grescoe | Flesh Wound | Finalist  |
Timothy Oke and Graeme Wynn  | Vancouver and Its Regions | Finalist  |
1993[d] | Bruce Macdonald | Vancouver: A Visual History | Winner  |
Irene Howard | The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia | Finalist  |
Michael Kluckner and John Atkin  | Heritage Walks Around Vancouver | Finalist  |
1994[e] | Denise Chong | The Concubine's Children | Winner  |
Paul Grescoe and Karl Spreitz | Vancouver: Visions of a City | Finalist  |
Robin Ward | Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast | Finalist  |
Michael J. Yates | Line Screw | Finalist  |
1995[f] | Elspeth Cameron | Earle Birney: A Life | Winner  |
Lois Simmie and Cynthia Nugent | Mister Got to Go | Finalist  |
Ulli Stelzer and Robert Davidson | Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson | Finalist  |
1996[g] | Wayson Choy | The Jade Peony | Winner  |
Grant Buday | Monday Night Man | Finalist  |
Robert A. J. McDonald | Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913 | Finalist  |
1997[h] | Rhodri Windsor Liscombe | The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963 | Winner  |
John A. Cherrington | Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait | Finalist  |
Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion | Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley | Finalist  |
1998[i] | Chuck Davis | The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia | Winner  |
Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald  | The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take | Finalist  |
Carmen Rodríguez | And a Body to Remember With | Finalist  |
1999[j] | Bud Osborn | Keys to Kingdoms | Winner  |
Shawn Blore and the editors of Vancouver Magazine | Vancouver: Secrets of the City | Finalist  |
Grant Buday | White Lung | Finalist  |
2000[k] | Lilia D'Acres and Donald Luxton | Lions Gate | Winner  |
Christine Allen and Collin Varner | Gardens of Vancouver | Finalist  |
Wayson Choy | Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood | Finalist  |
Wing Chung Ng | The Chinese in Vancouver: The Pursuit of Identity and Power, 1945-80 | Finalist  |
2001[l] | Madeleine Thien | Simple Recipes | Winner  |
Douglas Coupland | City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver | Finalist  |
Timothy Taylor | Stanley Park | Finalist  |
Gary Wyatt (ed.)  | Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist | Finalist  |
2002[m] | Keith Carlson | A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas | Winner  |
Doreen Armitage | Burrard Inlet: A History | Finalist  |
Bart Campbell | The Door is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer | Finalist  |
Cynthia Flood | Making a Stone of the Heart | Finalist  |
2003[n] | Lincoln Clarkes, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan | Heroines | Winner  |
Reid Shier (ed.)  | Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings | Winner  |
John J. Clague and Bob Turner  | Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape | Finalist  |
Fiona Tinwei Lam | Intimate Distances | Finalist  |
2004[o] | Daniel Francis | L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver | Winner  |
Annabel Lyon | The Best Thing for You | Finalist  |
Paul Yee | The Bone Collector's Son | Finalist  |
Caroline Adderson | Sitting Practice | Honourable mention  |
John Punter | The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design | Honourable mention  |
Maggie de Vries | Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister | Honourable mention  |
2005[p] | Lance Berelowitz | Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination | Winner  |
Wayson Choy | All That Matters | Finalist  |
Leslie Robertson and Dara Culhane (eds.)  | In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver | Finalist  |
Various  | The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers | Finalist  |
2006[q] | Jean Barman | Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point | Winner  |
James P. Delgado | Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver | Winner  |
Derek Hayes | Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley | Finalist  |
Abraham J. Rogatnick, Ian M. Thom, and Adele Weder | B.C. Binning | Finalist  |
2007[r] | Michael Kluckner | Vancouver Remembered | Winner  |
Grant Arnold and Michael Turner  | Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs | Finalist  |
Anita Rau Badami | Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | Finalist  |
Brett Josef Grubisic | The Age of Cities | Finalist  |
2008[s] | Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome | Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Winner  |
Gary Geddes | Falsework | Finalist  |
Eve Lazarus | At Home With History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes | Finalist  |
Kaija Pepper | The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham | Finalist  |
2009[t] | Lee Henderson | The Man Game | Winner  |
Gabor Maté | In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts | Finalist  |
Meredith Quartermain | Nightmarker | Finalist  |
2010[u] | Bruce Grenville and Scott Steedman  | Visions of British Columbia | Winner  |
George Bowering | The Box | Finalist  |
Matt Hern | Common Ground in a Liquid City | Finalist  |
Chris MacDonald | A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver | Finalist  |
2011[v] | Michael Christie | The Beggar's Garden: Stories | Winner  |
Lynne Bowen | Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia | Finalist  | [2]
Wayde Compton | After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region | Finalist  | [2]
Lesley McKnight | Vancouver Kids | Finalist  | [2]
2012[w] | W. H. New | YVR | Winner  |
John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner (eds.)  | V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Finalist  | [3]
Claudia Cornwall | At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver | Finalist  | [3]
Ali Kazimi | Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru | Finalist  | [3]
Jen Sookfong Lee | The Better Mother | Finalist  | [3]
2013[x] | Amber Dawn | How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir | Winner  | [4]
Jancis M. Andrews | The Ballad of Mrs. Smith | Finalist  |
Brad Cran | Ink on Paper | Finalist  |
Harold Kalman and Robin Ward | Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide | Finalist  |
Sean Kheraj | Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History | Finalist  |
2014[y] | David Stouck | Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life | Winner  |
Bruce Grierson | What Makes Olga Run? | Finalist  | [5]
Doretta Lau | How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? | Finalist  | [5]
Ashley Little | Anatomy of a Girl Gang: A Novel | Finalist  | [5]
Billeh Nickerson | Artificial Cherry | Finalist  | [5]
2015[z] | Wayde Compton | The Outer Harbour: Stories | Winner  | [6][7]
Aaron Chapman | Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom | Finalist  |
Bren Simmers | Hastings-Sunrise: Poems | Finalist  |
Lois Simmie and Cynthia Nugent | Mister Got To Go, Where Are You? | Finalist  |
2016[aa] | Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Karen Duffek, and Tania Willard | Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories | Winner  | [8]
Wayde Compton and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (eds.)  | The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them | Finalist  | [9]
Lorimer Shenher | That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away | Finalist  | [9]
2017 | Carleigh Baker | Bad Endings | Winner  | [10]
Grant Arnold, Ian M. Thom, Susan Point, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Thomas Cannell, Myrtle McKay, and William McLennan  | Susan Point: Spindle Whorl | Finalist  |
Gabrielle Prendergast | Pandas on the Eastside | Finalist  |
Sam Wiebe | Invisible Dead | Finalist  |
2018 | Chelene Knight | Dear Current Occupant | Winner  | [11]
Travis Lupick | Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction | Finalist  |
Erín Moure | Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots | Finalist  |
Rachel Rose | Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food | Finalist  |
2019 | Robert Watt and Susan Point | People among the People: The public art of Susan Point | Winner  |
Phillip Huynh | The Forbidden Purple City | Finalist  |
Eve Lazarus | Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer | Finalist  |
Susin Nielsen | No Fixed Address | Finalist  |
Shazia Hafiz Ramji | Port of Being | Finalist  |
2020 | Catherine B. Clement | Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow | Winner  | [12]
Francine Cunningham | on/me | Finalist  | [13]
Alex Leslie | Vancouver for Beginners | Finalist  | [13]
2021 | Michelle Good | Five Little Indians | Winner  | [12]
Joseph Dandurand | The East Side of It All | Finalist  | [13]
Danny Ramadan and Anna Bron | Salma the Syrian Chef | Finalist  | [13]
Marlene Yuen | Ho Sun Hing Printers | Honourable mention  | [citation needed]
2022 | Karen Duffek, Bill McLennan, and Jordan Wilson  | Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art | Winner  |
Meghan Bell | Erase and Rewind | Finalist  | [14]
Henry Doyle | No Shelter | Finalist  | [14]
Grace Eiko Thomson | Chiru Sakura: Falling Cherry Blossoms | Finalist  | [14]
Paul Wong | Debbie Cheung & Christopher Lee, Occupying Chinatown | Finalist  | [14]
2023 | Chelene Knight | Junie | Winner  |
Evelyn Lau | Cactus Gardens | Finalist  |
Michele Assarasakorn, Nathan Fairbairn  | PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space | Finalist  |
Danny Ramadan | The Foghorn Echoes | Finalist  |
Tara McGuire | Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose | Finalist  |
Jan Wade, Deanna Bowen, Wayde Compton, Daina Augaitis, Siobhan McCracken Nixon  | Jan Wade: Soul Power | Finalist  |
2024 | Henry Tsang | White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver | Winner  |
C. A. Tanaka | Baby Drag Queen | Finalist  |
Jen Sookfong Lee | Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart | Finalist  |
Rueben George, Michael Simpson  | It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People | Finalist  |
Joni Low, Jeff O'Brien, editors, plus numerous authors  | What Are Our Supports? | Finalist  |

## Notes

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1. ^ The 1989 jurors were Jean Barman, Russell Kelly, and Doreen Westgarth.
2. ^ The 1991 jurors were Sue Baptie, Sean Rossiter, and Don Stewart.
3. ^ The 1992 jurors were Jean Barman, Janice Douglas, and Margaret Gabriel.
4. ^ The 1993 jurors were Gordon Elliott, John Oliphant, and Lucy Stewart.
5. ^ The 1994 jurors were Andrea Davies, Chuck Davis, and Bruce Macdonald.
6. ^ The 1995 jurors were Irene Howard, Nancy Stubbs, and Greg Willett.
7. ^ The 1996 jurors were Mary Ann Cantillon, Irene Howard, and Brahm Kornbluth.
8. ^ The 1997 jurors were Laura Hackett, Judy Taylor, and Anne Yandle.
9. ^ The 1998 jurors were Donna Brendon, Ian Chunn, and Vickie Jensen.
10. ^ The 1999 jurors were Mark Leier, Bob Sarti, and Joseph Stewart.
11. ^ The 2000 jurors were Shamina Senaratne, Nina Smart, and Joseph Stewart.
12. ^ The 2001 jurors were Brenda Peterson, Shamina Senaratne, and Don Stewart.
13. ^ The 2002 jurors were Brenda Peterson, Denise Ryan, and Michael Varty.
14. ^ The 2003 jurors were George Fetherling, Michael Varty, and Anne Yandle.
15. ^ The 2004 jurors were Crystal Allen, Keith Bunnell, and George Fetherling.
16. ^ The 2005 jurors were Keith Bunnell, Laurie Roggeman, and Max Wyman.
17. ^ The 2006 jurors were Rod Clarke, Glenn Deer, and Laurie Roggeman.
18. ^ The 2007 jurors were Glenn Deer, Marc Fournier, and Karen X. Tulchinsky.
19. ^ The 2008 jurors were Michelle Benjamin, Marc Fournier, and Fernanda Viveiros.
20. ^ The 2009 jurors were Janice Douglas, Fred Wah, and Fernanda Viveiros.
21. ^ The 2010 jurors were Janice Douglas, Fred Wah, and Jean Wilson.
22. ^ The 2011 jurors were Emilie Dierking, Lee Henderson, and Jim Wong-Chu.
23. ^ The 2012 jurors were Jane Bouey, David Chariandy, and Rebecca Wigod.
24. ^ The 2013 jurors were Andrea Davies, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, and Paul Whitney.
25. ^ The 2014 jurors were Jordan Abel, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, and Anna Ling Kaye.
26. ^ The 2015 jurors were Anna Ling Kaye, Zoey Leigh Peterson, and Sirish Rao.
27. ^ The 2016 jurors were Shirley Lew, Zoey Leigh Peterson, and Mary Schendlinger.

## References

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1. ^ "Book Award winners and short lists". City of Vancouver. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
2. ^ a b c Samson, Natalie (2011-09-15). "City of Vancouver Book Award reveals shortlist". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
3. ^ a b c d Carter, Sue (2012-09-13). "City of Vancouver Book Award announces shortlist". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
4. ^ Carter, Sue (2013-11-25). "Amber Dawn wins City of Vancouver Book Award". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
5. ^ a b c d Robertson, Becky (2014-09-17). "City of Vancouver Book Award shortlist announced". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
6. ^ Sherlock, Tracy (2015-11-12). "Author Wayde Compton wins 2015 City of Vancouver Book Award". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2022-01-29. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
7. ^ "Wayde Compton wins City of Vancouver Book Award". The Georgia Straight. 2015-11-12. Archived from the original on 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
8. ^ "This year's City of Vancouver Book Award goes to Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories". The Georgia Straight. 2016-10-03. Archived from the original on 2022-06-14. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
9. ^ a b Lao, Lucy (2016-09-06). "City of Vancouver announces finalists for 2016 Book Award". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
10. ^ Robertson, Becky (2017-10-12). "Carleigh Baker wins 2017 Vancouver Book Award". Quill and Quire. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
11. ^ Smith, Charlie (2018-12-08). "Chelene Knight's Dear Current Occupant wins City of Vancouver Book Award". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
12. ^ a b Dunphy, Martin (2021-11-20). "Winners of the 2021 and 2020 Vancouver Book Award announced, along with city's new poet laureate". The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
13. ^ a b c d Gee, Dana (2021-10-20). "Vancouver Book Award finalists named". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
14. ^ a b c d Zoria, Anna (2022-08-29). "Five finalists announced for the 2022 City of Vancouver Book Award". BC Alliance for Arts + Culture. Archived from the original on 2022-08-29. Retrieved 2023-06-13.

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