Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).

Winners and nominees

Year Winner Nominated
1985 Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life
1986 Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs
1987 Leona Gom, Housebroken
1988 George McWhirter, Cage
1989 Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa
1990 Keith Maillard, Motet
1991 Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder
  • Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
  • Caroline Woodward, Disturbing the Peace
1992 Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
  • M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon
  • Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory
1993 W.D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face
1994 Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
1995 Gayla Reid, To Be There With You
  • Grant Buday, Under Glass
  • Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans
1996 Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa
  • Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends
  • Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon
1997 Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
1998 Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
1999 Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground
  • Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden
  • Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories
2000 Michael Turner, The Pornographer's Poem
2001 Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
2002 Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
2003 Carol Shields, Unless
2004 Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice
2005 Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
2006 Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
2007 Carol Windley, Home Schooling
2008 Mary Novik, Conceit
2009 Lee Henderson, The Man Game
2010 Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
2011 Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye[1]
2012 Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues[2]
2013 Bill Gaston, The World[3]
2014 Ashley Little, Anatomy of a Girl Gang[4]
  • Théodora Armstrong, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
  • Janie Chang, Three Souls
  • Cynthia Flood, Red Girl Rat Boy
  • Kathryn Para, Lucky
2015 Aislinn Hunter, The World Before Us[5]
2016 Alix Hawley, All True Not a Lie in It[6]
2017 Jennifer Manuel, The Heaviness of Things That Float[7]
2018 David Chariandy, Brother[8]
2019 Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift
2020 Stephen Price, Lampedusa

References

  1. Tracy Sherlock (April 22, 2011). "Dual-culture novel garners BC Book Prize fiction award". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
  2. "Victoria writer Esi Edugyan wins the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award". Times Colonist. May 13, 2012. Archived from the original on August 29, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012.
  3. "Victoria author Bill Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners". Times Colonist. May 3, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  4. Tracy Sherlock (May 4, 2014). "Double wins for two B.C. authors at B.C. Book Awards". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  5. Tracy Sherlock (April 26, 2015). "Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  6. Tracy Sherlock (May 2, 2016). "Daniel Boone story wins coveted book prize". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  7. "Deborah Campbell, Richard Wagamese and Jennifer Manuel among B.C. Book Prize winners". CBC Books. May 1, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  8. "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill and Quire. May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
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