Longlist announced for Canada's largest award for Non-Fiction

The jury for Canada's largest literary non-fiction prize, the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, has released its longlist for 2010. One hundred and forty-nine titles were nominated for the $40,000 prize by publishers from across the country. The jury panel has selected the following longlist of 11 books.

Title	Author	Publisher
Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled	John DeMont	Doubleday Canada
Egg On Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship	Denise Chong	Random House Canada
Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying	Wayson Choy	Doubleday Canada
Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir	Lorna Crozier	Greystone Books
The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son	Ian Brown	Random House Canada
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece	Eric Siblin	House of Anansi Press
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human – Animal Relationships	Erika Ritter	Key Porter Books
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness	Brian Payton	Doubleday Canada
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst	Kenneth Whyte	Vintage Canada
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life	Brian Brett	Greystone Books

Jury Chair Andreas Schroeder notes: "Canada's non-fiction writers have always been among the most compelling participants in our national conversation, and the outstanding titles on this year's longlist for BC's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction provide proof positive that this conversation continues to be vital, fascinating, and irrepressible".

The finalists for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction will be announced in early December. The award presentation will take place in January 2010 in Vancouver.

The members of the jury for the 2010 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction are:

Vicki Gabereau, radio and televison host. Known for her award-winning CBC Radio show Gabereau and for her daily talk show on CTV, Ms. Gabereau is an award-winning radio and television personality, and the former host of Gabereau on CBC and Gabereau Live! On CTV. She is the author of a memoir, This Won't Hurt a Bit. Ms. Gabereau was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2006, and received a Lifetime Achievement award from RTNDA Canada in 2008.

Philip Marchand, author, book columnist and magazine writer. One of Canada's best-known commentators on books, Mr. Marchand was the book columnist for the Toronto Star for eighteen years and since 2008 for the National Post. Mr. Marchand has written the biography, Marshall McLuhan, and Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature.

Andreas Schroeder, author, television and radio host, and holder of the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Non-fiction at UBC. Mr. Schroeder has written 21 books, published in most of Canada's major magazines and newspapers, and served as a long-time contributor to CBC Radio's "Basic Black Show". His latest book is an autobiographical novel entitled Renovating Heaven.

Previous winners for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction include:

Russell Wangersky for Burning Down the House (2009)

Lorna Goodison for From Harvey River (2008)

Noah Richler for This Is My Country, What's Yours? (2007)

Rebecca Godfrey for Under the Bridge (2006)

Patrick Lane for There Is a Season (2005)