Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.^[1] The prize is named after the Canadian novelist Hubert Evans (1892-1986).

Winners and finalists

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Year	Winner	Nominees
1985	David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law	Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986	Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country	Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
1987	Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid	Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988	P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal	Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989	Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven	Edith Iglauer – Fishing with John Paul Yee – Salt Water City
1990	Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan	Stan Persky – Buddy's Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1991	Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt	Terry Glavin – A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
1992	Rosemary Neering – Down The Road	Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993	Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through	Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C. Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994	Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers	Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995	Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues[2]	Denise Chong – Concubine's Children Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996	Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna	Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997	Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu	Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998	Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace	Richard Bocking – Mighty River Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
1999	Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power	Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh: Memoirs Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane
2000	Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels	Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 James P. Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001	Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea	Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace
2002	Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr	Bart Campbell – The Door is Open Stephen Hume – Off the Map Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
2003	Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba	Thomas Berger – One Man's Justice Keath Fraser – The Voice Gallery: Travels with a Glass Throat Cole Harris – Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance and Reserves in British Columbia Derek Lundy – The Way of the Ship
2004	Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian	Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005	Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen	Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley Patrick Lane – There is a Season Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
2006	Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book	Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise Rita Moir – Windshift Line John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007	Heather Pringle – The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust	Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Eric Miller – The Reservoir Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008	Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing	J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009	Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction	Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010	Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir	Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
2011	John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival	Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
2012	Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt	Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
2013	Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975[3]	Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming George Bowering - Pinboy Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
2014	David Stouck - Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life[4]	Arno Kopecky - The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway J.B. MacKinnon - The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be Bev Sellars - They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School Jane Silcott - Everything Rustles
2015	Eve Joseph - In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying[5]	Nancy Turner - Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America Barry M. Gough - The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest Kevin Chong - Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation Julie Angus - Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
2016	Brian Brett - Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World [6]	Briony Penn - The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan Lorimer Shenher - That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away Maria Tippett - Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture Emily Urquhart - Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
2017	Deborah Campbell - A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War[7]	Carmen Aguirre - Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since the Revolution Mohamed Fahmy with Carol Shaben - The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom Joy Kogawa - Gently to Nagasaki Mark Leiren-Young - The Killer Whale Who Changed the World
2018	Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy [8]	Carys Cragg - Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Theresa Kishkan - Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays Andrew Struthers - The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed Paul Watson - Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
2019	Lindsay Wong, The Woo Woo	Bill Gaston, Just Let Me Look at You Ian Hampton, Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
2020	Alejandro Frid, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene	Ivan Coyote, Rebent Sinner Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience Jonathan Manthorpe, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
2021	Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body[9]	Eva Holland, Nerve: A Personal Journey Through the Science of Fear[10] Liz Levine, Nobody Talks About Anything But the End[10] Benjamin Perrin, Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis[10] Seth Klein, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency[10]
2021	TBA September 24, 2022	Jordan Abel, NISHGA Danielle Geller, Dog Flowers Darrel J. McLeod, Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Ian Williams, Disorientation: Being Black in the World

References

1. Joanna Karaplis (Jan 5, 2010). The Canadian Writer's Market, 18th Edition. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 323.
2. Hobbs at SFU, 2014
3. "The Globe's Mickleburgh, co-author Meggs win B.C. book prize". The Globe and Mail. May 5, 2013. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
4. Marsha Lederman (May 5, 2014). "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
5. Shawn Conner (April 27, 2015). "Vancouver Writers Take Home B.C. Book Prizes". Inside Vancouver. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
6. Adrian Chamberlain (May 1, 2016). "Salt Spring writers win major awards at B.C. Book Prizes". Times Colonist. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
7. Becky Robertson (May 1, 2017). "Deborah Campbell, Julie Flett among B.C. Book Prize winners". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
8. Steven W. Beattie (May 7, 2018). "David Chariandy and Arthur Manuel among winners of the 2018 B.C. Book Prizes". Quill & Quire. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
9. Vicky Qiao, "Billy-Ray Belcourt and Shaena Lambert among BC & Yukon Book Prizes winners". CBC Books, September 28, 2021.
10. Ryan Porter, "Eight shortlists announced for BC and Yukon Book Prizes". Quill & Quire, April 8, 2021.

External links

• Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize Archived 2012-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
• BC Book Prizes