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BC BOOK PRIZES: 1988
Hilary Stewart has become the first author to receive a second B.C. Book Prize.
Stewart's packaging of a journal belonging to a stranded British seaman who was a slave of Nootka Chief Maquinna, The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Douglas & McIntyre), has won the Bill Duthie's Booksellers' Choice Award for outstanding book production.
When the book 'Prizes "were originated years ago, Stewart's Cedar (D&M) won the first Roderick Haig-Brown Prize for best book about B.C.
This year the Haig-Brown honour went to North Vancouver native W.H. Hagelund for his historical memoir Whalers No More (Harbour). In presenting the prize at the Hotel Vancouver on May 13, Alan Haig-Brown recalled his father's struggles in the 1950's to save Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, an area now threatened by development.
George McWhirter, head of UBC's Creative Writing department, was so surprised to be named winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novel, Cage (Oberon), that he arrived at the podium with his shoelaces untied. Few copies of McWhirter's novel about a B.C. priest in Mexico have been available in B. C. so he expected either Jane Rule's Memory Board or Robin Skelton's The Parrot Who Could to win.
The following evening McWhirter also won the F.R. Scott Prize Translation Prize for The Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco (New Directions), presented at the League of Canadian Poets convention at UBC. Patricia Young won the B.C. Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room (Oolichan). P .K. Page won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for Brazilian Journal (Lester & Orpen Dennys). Nicola Morgan won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Prize for Pride of Lions.
[BCBW 1988]
Stewart's packaging of a journal belonging to a stranded British seaman who was a slave of Nootka Chief Maquinna, The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (Douglas & McIntyre), has won the Bill Duthie's Booksellers' Choice Award for outstanding book production.
When the book 'Prizes "were originated years ago, Stewart's Cedar (D&M) won the first Roderick Haig-Brown Prize for best book about B.C.
This year the Haig-Brown honour went to North Vancouver native W.H. Hagelund for his historical memoir Whalers No More (Harbour). In presenting the prize at the Hotel Vancouver on May 13, Alan Haig-Brown recalled his father's struggles in the 1950's to save Strathcona Park on Vancouver Island, an area now threatened by development.
George McWhirter, head of UBC's Creative Writing department, was so surprised to be named winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for his novel, Cage (Oberon), that he arrived at the podium with his shoelaces untied. Few copies of McWhirter's novel about a B.C. priest in Mexico have been available in B. C. so he expected either Jane Rule's Memory Board or Robin Skelton's The Parrot Who Could to win.
The following evening McWhirter also won the F.R. Scott Prize Translation Prize for The Selected Poems of Jose Emilio Pacheco (New Directions), presented at the League of Canadian Poets convention at UBC. Patricia Young won the B.C. Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room (Oolichan). P .K. Page won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for Brazilian Journal (Lester & Orpen Dennys). Nicola Morgan won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Prize for Pride of Lions.
[BCBW 1988]
Submitted on December 9, 2003 in By David.
