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 For the past five years, AbeBooks.com has been a sponsor of the BC Book Prizes – British Columbia’s top literary event. AbeBooks is headquartered in Victoria, the capital of BC, and we were founded by British Columbians in 1996 so we are thrilled to acclaim the writing talent on our doorstep.
As in previous years, AbeBooks supported the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and there were five contenders covering five diverse subjects – diet, how everything is connected, gardening, the history of landscapes and BC’s ill treatment of Asian immigrants.
Congratulations to Robert Binghurst - author of Everywhere Being is Dancing - who scooped the award.
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The 2008 Nominees for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize: |
Robert Bringhurst
A collection of talks and meditations brought together under the belief that everything is related to everything else. The author studies poetry, polyphonics, oral literature, storytelling, translation, mythology, homogeny, cultural ecology, literary criticism and typography, and highlights connections.
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J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith
When the authors discover the average ingredient in a run-of-the-mill meal travels 1,500 miles to their kitchen, they decide to only eat food produced within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver home. What are the air miles on your next meal? (Released in the US as Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally )
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Patricia E. Roy
A no-holds-barred examination of Canada’s antipathy to Asians and the removal of all Japanese Canadians from the BC coast in 1942, and the book also explains why Canada ignored the rights of Japanese Canadians and placed limits on immigration. A grim era in Canadian history goes under the microscope.
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Theresa Kishkan
The author explores culture and nature by looking at landscape and place through a number of historical perspectives, ranging from natural history to family history to the broader ideas of regional and human history.
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Don Gayton
Gayton unravels the work and rituals of gardening. He dwells on the relationships between plant species, soil, weeds, insects and frost, and examines why gardeners garden. If you have green fingers, dirt under your fingernails and a passion for plants, then this might be for you.
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