City of Vancouver Book Award

City of Vancouver Book Award

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 $2,000. 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.

Winners

  • 1989 - Paul Yee, Saltwater City
  • 1990 - Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café
  • 1991 - Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
  • 1992 - Gerald Straley, Trees of Vancouver
  • 1993 - Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
  • 1994 - Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
  • 1995 - Elspeth Cameron, Earle Birney: A Life
  • 1996 - Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony
  • 1997 - Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
  • 1998 - Chuck Davis, The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia
  • 1999 - Bud Osborn, Keys to Kingdoms
  • 2000 - Lilia D'Acres and Donald Luxton, Lions Gate
  • 2001 - Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
  • 2002 - Keith Carlson, ed., A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
  • 2003 - multiple winners
Lincoln Clarkes, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan, Heroines
Reid Shier, ed., Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings
  • 2004 - Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
  • 2005 - Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
  • 2006 - multiple winners
Jean Barman, Stanley Park’s Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch and Brockton Point
James P. Delgado, Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver
  • 2007 - Michael Kluckner, Vancouver Remembered
  • 2008 - Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
  • 2009 - Lee Henderson, The Man Game
  • 2010 - Bruce Grenville and Scott Steedman, Visions of British Columbia
  • 2011 - Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden

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