Billy-Ray Belcourt and the late Karen Bakker high listing of acknowledged B.C. and Yukon writers
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Established in 1985, the annual prizes acknowledge the achievements of B.C. and Yukon authors, illustrators and publishers.
“I’ve loads of gratitude. Each, after I received it in 2021 and now, it looks like an embrace from the Vancouver writing group, from the B.C. writing group,” Belcourt mentioned on the awards presentation on Sept. 24.
“I do really feel like I’m a B.C. author now and that I’ve been welcomed into that group.”
The late Karen Bakker received the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize for The Sounds of Life: How Digital Expertise Is Bringing Us Nearer to the Worlds of Animals and Vegetation.
The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize was awarded to former Vancouver resident (now Kingston, Ont.) Otoniya J. Okot Bitek for A is for Acholi.
In addition to the eight awards for the prize classes, two further awards got to writers for his or her our bodies of labor and contributions to the literary group.
The winner of the Lieutenant-governor’s Award for Literary Excellence is Victoria’s Robin Stevenson, who has written 30 books of fiction and non-fiction for teenagers and youths.
Stevenson’s books have received the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff award and a Stonewall Honor. She has additionally been a finalist for the Governor Basic’s Literary Awards and the Lambda Literary Awards. She is the E book and Periodical Council of Canada’s Champion of Free Expression for 2022.
The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution was awarded to Whitehorse’s Katherine Munro. This award, also referred to as the Borealis Prize, acknowledges a author who has made “substantial contributions to the Yukon writing and publishing group via writing, publishing, group organizing, Indigenous writing and storytelling, or in lots of different methods,” in line with the assertion.
Initially from Vancouver, Munro (kjmunro) moved to the Yukon Territory in 1991. A member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of B.C. Writers, Munro based in 2014 Solstice Haiku, a month-to-month haiku dialogue group in Whitehorse.
The prize-winning authors and publishers had been honoured on the thirty ninth annual B.C. and Yukon E book Prizes Gala on the College Golf Membership in Vancouver on Sept. 24.
Different 2023 BC and Yukon E book Prizes winners:
• Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize: Vancouver’s Cole Pauls, Kwändǖr
• Sheila A. Egoff Youngsters’s Literature Prize: Vancouver’s Rachel Hartman, Within the Serpent’s Wake
• Christie Harris Illustrated Youngsters’s Literature Prize: Kelowna’s Jessika Von Innerebner, That’s My Sweater!
• Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes: Vancouver’s Michael J. Hathaway, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
• Invoice Duthie Booksellers’ Alternative Award: West Vancouver’s Chief Robert Joseph, Namwayut: We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation
