The British Columbia Book Prize is not for BC books, it's a non-fiction prize given in and by BC. There's something wrong with a book prize being presented by a premier, but oh well.... Twenty-five thousand big ones for non-fiction.
Winner this year is Noah Richler for This is My Country... What's Yours?, his exploration of what Canadian novels have to say about Canadian history and identity. Good choice, I think.
And the $10,000 Dafoe Prize (from the Dafoe Foundation) for writing on Canada has gone to John English for his much nominated Trudeau biography.
