FOR THE FIRST TIME, A BOOK PUBLISHED in B.C. has received the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. "I'm delighted," says Howard White, this year's winner for Writing in the Rain (Harbour $12.95), "My book is regional. And the other finalists included W.O. Mitchell and Morley Torgov." White is the publisher of Harbour Publishing and the NDP candidate in the provincial riding of Sunshine Coast/Powell River. Since 1947 the Leacock Medal has been awarded to only three B.C. writers: Earle Birney, Eric Nicol and W.P. Kinsella. The award now includes a $3,500 cash award from the J.P. Wiser distillery. "It will be particularly nice to get some cash back from Mr. Wiser," White reflected. And on the serious side, Mission novelist Andreas Schroeder has won this year's Investigative Journalism Award for his Saturday Night feature, 'Boys Will Be Boys: But Why Are They Starting To Murder?'

[BCBW 1991]