BC Celebrates Canada's Best

2006 Award Finalists

Under the Bridge By Rebecca Godfrey

Dead Man in Paradise By J.B. MacKinnon

The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter By John Terpstra

The Golden Spruce By John Vaillant

After an exciting inaugural year that saw Patrick Lane win for his memoir There Is a Season, the 2006 finalists for the British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction are Rebecca Godfrey, J.B. MacKinnon, John Terpstra, and John Vaillant.

The British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction celebrates the finest Canadian writers of literary non-fiction, and offers a major prize of $25,000. It is the only national book award to originate in BC. The winner of the second annual award will be announced at a special ceremony in Vancouver on May 26, 2006.

Please click on the book covers above to read the jury citations for each finalist.

Photos from the 2006 presentation ceremony

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2006 Jury

2006 Award Finalists

2005 winner and presentation event