HOW WE STACK UP AFTER 20 YEARS, SOME STATISTICS TO PONDER-WINNING TITLES FOR BC BOOK PRIZES [Excludes Booksellers' Choice Award for which only B.C. publishers are eligible: (20/20)]

Published out of B.C. vs. Published in B.C.

Harris Prize 2/2 (100%) 0/2 --

Wilson Prize 17/20 (85%) 3/20 (15%)

Egoff Prize 15/18 (83%) 3/18 (17%)

Evans Prize 7/20 (35%) 13/20 (65%)

Livesay Prize 6/19 (32%) 13/19 (68%)

Haig-Brown Prize 0/20 -- 20/20 (100%)

TOTALS 47/99 (47.5%) 52/99 (52.5%)

Books published by B.C. publishers have been eligible for 119 prizes in 20 years. Of all the Haig-Brown and Booksellers' Choice prizes presented since 1985, Douglas & McIntyre and Harbour Publishing have received 28 out of 40 (70%). Groundwood Books in Ontario, an affiliate of D&M, has won exactly half of the 18 Egoff Prizes. Total wins by B.C. publishing houses are Talonbooks (5), Arsenal Pulp (3), Whitecap (3), Oolichan (2), Sono Nis (2), Polestar (2), UBC (2), Western Canada Wilderness Committee (2), Orca (1), Raincoast (1), Beach Holme (1), Ben-Simon (1), Caitlin (1), Gorse (1), Cavendish (1), Salal (1). Of the 72 prizes won by books published in B.C., D&M (27) and Harbour (15) have received 42 of them (58%).