
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:
Previous winners for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction include:
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Longlist announced
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2010 Award Winner
Photos from the presentation ceremony
Video from the presentation ceremony
2010 award finalists
Media Resources
What's Being Said
Longlist announced
2010 Jury Panel
BC's National Award for Non-Fiction information