BC Achievement Foundation: Finalists Named for 11th Annual BC National Non-Fiction Award
(firmenpresse) - VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 12/10/14 -- The 2015 finalists for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction - one of the largest non-fiction book prizes in the country - was announced today by Keith Mitchell, chair of the BC Achievement Foundation. The award carries a prize of $40,000.
Now in its 11th year, the annual award has featured such winners as Thomas King, Modris Eksteins, Charlotte Gill, John Vaillant, Ian Brown, Russell Wangersky, Lorna Goodison, Noah Richler, Rebecca Godfrey, and Patrick Lane.
This year''s finalists are Karyn L. Freedman for One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery; Chantal Hebert with Jean Lapierre for The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day That Almost Was; Alison Pick for Between Gods: A Memoir; and James Raffan for Circling the Midnight Sun: Culture and Change in the Invisible Arctic.
"This year''s shortlisted books, as diverse as their subjects are, share the trait of being universally important and informative about the world we live in today," said Mitchell. "We thank the jury for their work in narrowing the field of 134 books nominated for this year''s prize to these finalists."
The shortlist was chosen by jury members, Jared Bland currently the arts editor at The Globe and Mail and previously a senior editor at House of Anansi; John Fraser, a journalist and writer who served as master of Massey College from 1995 to 2014; and Anne Giardini, writer, director, lawyer and executive, and the Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.
The jury will announce the winner of the prize at a special presentation ceremony in Vancouver in February, 2014.
The finalists are described in the following citations from the jury:
The BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Award is an annual national prize presented by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, an independent foundation established and endowed by the Province of British Columbia in 2003 to celebrate excellence in the arts, humanities, enterprise, and community service.
For more information on the award and this year''s finalists, please call 604 261-9777 or visit .
Contacts:
British Columbia Achievement Foundation
Nora Newlands
Executive Director
604-261-3348
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