The West Coast Book Prize Society is thrilled to have announced the winners of the 38th annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Prizes are awarded annually to recognize the achievements of BC and Yukon authors, illustrators and publishers. Award winners are selected through a juried system, with five finalists in each prize category, including the winner selected in each prize category.
Here is the list of the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes winners:
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (literary fiction)
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki
(Viking/Penguin Random House Canada)
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (literary nonfiction)
NISHGA
Jordan Abel
(McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicine
Dr. Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
No Shelter
Henry Doyle
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Harsha Walia
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
Time is a Flower
Julie Morstad
(Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
Robbie Waisman with Susan McClelland
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard
(Allen Lane Canada/Penguin Random House)
