BC and Yukon Book PrizesWinnerRoderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize1989

Given by West Coast Book Prize Society

Other Names: BC Book Prize, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, Sheila A. Egoff Children's Book Prize, Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the B.C. Book Prizes, the award was show more originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry show less
Stages:
All, Winner (218), Finalist (114), Shortlist (419)
Categories:
All, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (1)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1)

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The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the B.C. Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. In 1989, it was renamed after poet Dorothy Livesay, whose Day and Night (1944) and Poems for People (1947) received the Governor General's Award for Poetry (English, Member-written)
The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize is awarded annually as one of the BC Book Prizes for the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. (English, Member-written)
The shortlist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, which is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of the province of British Columbia, Canada. (English, Member-written)
The Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually for the best juvenile or young adult novel or work of non-fiction by a resident of British Columbia or the Yukon, Canada. (English, Member-written)
The Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for Canadian authors and illustrator of picture books, picture story books, and illustrated non-fiction books (English, Member-written)

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