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Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
The Roderick Haig-Brown Prize is part of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes The BC Book & Yukon Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers and publishers. The prizes, as well as the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutena ..., awarded in celebration of the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. It is awarded to the author(s) of books who "contributes most to the enjoyment and understanding of British Columbia". Unlike the other BC and Yukon Book Prizes, there are no requirements in terms of publication or author residence. Winners and nominees References {{Reflist External linksRoderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize official website BC and Yukon Book Prizes Awards established in 2010 2010 establishments in British Columbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC And Yukon Book Prizes
The BC Book & Yukon Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia and Yukon writers and publishers. The prizes, as well as the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala in April. The prizes are administered and awarded by the West Coast Book Prize Society. Publicity, organization of the awards and fundraising for the Gala and prize pool was handled by Vancouver marketing and publicity firm, Rebus Creative until the end of 2018. In early 2019, Sean Cranbury was appointed as Executive Director by the Board of the West Coast Book Prize Society to take over production and promotion of the BC & Yukon Book Prizes. In 2021, Sharon Bradley took over as Executive Director, and Megan Cole was hired as the Director of Programming and Communications. In 2019, the prizes announced a name change from BC Book Prizes to BC & Yukon Book Prizes. The award criteria has always been open to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bocking
Richard Charles Bocking (March 21, 1931 – September 28, 2012) was an award-winning Canadian filmmaker whose documentaries on the environment and the performing arts aired on Canadian and European network television for over forty years. Biography Born in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Bocking graduated from the University of Manitoba as an agricultural economist and was employed in that field by the Alberta government for seven years. His work then took him into broadcasting when the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) invited him to help produce farm-related programs for radio and television. His broadcasting interests developed to include performing arts and environmental and resource issues. He was transferred to Vancouver to take on the role of television producer. He has since produced over 60 films. Some of those feature documentaries, produced in Canada and abroad, include: ''Tristan und Isolde'' (1976), ''The Music of Man'' (1979), ''Vivaldi'' (1986), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Gill
Ian Gill is an Australian-Canadian writer, documentary filmmaker, and social entrepreneur. He has been the director of Ecotrust Canada since 1994. Before that he worked as a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Gill was president and founder of Ecotrust Canada from 1994 to 2010, when he was appointed founding Executive Director of Ecotrust Australia. Gill served for over five years as a director of Vancity credit union. and currently serves as a director of Vancouver Writers Fest literary festival. He writes for publications in Canada and North America including The Tyee, Alberta Views ''Alberta Views'' (also ''AlbertaViews'') is a Calgary, Alberta regional magazine, established in 1997, that covers political, social and cultural issues in the province of Alberta. It is published 10 times annually and its monthly print run ..., and Policy Options. Works Books * ''Hiking on the Edge: Canada's West Coast Trail'' (1995) * ''Haida Gwaii: Journeys Through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Bramham
Daphne (; ; el, Δάφνη, , ), a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the fierce wrath of the god Cupid, son of Venus, on the god Apollo (Phoebus), she became the unwilling object of the infatuation of Apollo, who chased her against her wishes. Just before being kissed by him, Daphne invoked her river god father, who transformed her into a laurel tree, thus foiling Apollo. Thenceforth Apollo developed a special reverence for laurel. At the Pythian Games, which were held every four years in Delphi in honour of Apollo, a wreath of laurel gathered from the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly was given as a prize. Hence it later became customary to award prizes in the form of laurel wreaths to victorious generals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Jerome
Gillian Jerome is a Canadian poet, essayist, editor and instructor. She won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2009 and the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2010. Jerome is a co-founder of Canadian Women In Literary Arts ''(CWILA),'' and also serves as the poetry editor for '' Geist''. She is a lecturer in literature at the University of British Columbia and also runs writing workshops at the Post 750 in downtown Vancouver. Her work has been published by '' Geist'', ''Canadian Literature'', ''The Malahat Review'', '' The Fiddlehead'', '' Grain'' and the ''Colorado Review''. Personal life and education Jerome was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Victoria and a Masters of Fine Arts in writing at the University of Arizona where she studied American Literature. She has two children from her marriage to fellow writer Brad Cran. The two were divorced in 2014. Career Jerome has taught poetry a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Bowling
Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Awards and recognition * 2002: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, ''Darkness and Silence'' * 2003: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Witness Ghost'' * 2004: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, ''The Memory Orchard'' * 2004: Alberta Literary Awards, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, ''The Paperboy's Winter'' (PDF document) * 2008: |
Rachel Lebowitz
Rachel Victoria Lebowitz (born 30 April 1975) is a Canadian writer. Biography She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1975. After attending graduate school at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec she moved with her husband, Zachariah Wells, to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2003. In 2006, Lebowitz and Wells moved to Vancouver, where Lebowitz enrolled in a teacher-training programme at Simon Fraser University. Also in 2006, Lebowitz's first book, ''Hannus'', was published by Pedlar Press. ''Hannus'' is a biographical work about the life of Lebowitz's great-grandmother, Ida Hannus. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. In 2008, she and Wells' children's book, ''Anything But Hank!'', was published. Her third book, ''Cottonopolis'', uses found and prose poems to tell the story of the cotton industry during the industrial revolution. It was published by Pedlar Press in Spring, 2013. Lebowitz's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Hare
Jan Hare (born 1965) is an Anishinaabe scholar and educator. She is an associate professor of Language and Literacy Education and Professor of Indigenous Education in Teacher Education at the University of British Columbia. Hare is also a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Pedagogy. Early life and education Hare was born in 1965 in the M'Chigeeng First Nation band in Northern Ontario to former Chief Joseph Hare. She completed her Bachelor of Applied Science degree in child studies at the University of Guelph and her Bachelor of Education degree at Nipissing University. Following her undergraduate studies, Hare earned her Master of Arts degree at the University of Western Ontario before leaving her home province to complete her PhD at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Career Following her PhD, Hare accepted a faculty appointment in Language and Literacy Education at UBC where she worked alongside provincial Aboriginal early learning organizations. She also oversaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Vaillant
John Vaillant (born June 4, 1962) is an American-Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in ''The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic'', and '' Outside''. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books. Personal life Vaillant was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998. He is the son of Harvard psychologist George Eman Vaillant, and grandson to the famed anthropologist George Clapp Vaillant. Writing career His first book, ''The Golden Spruce'', dealt with the felling of the Golden Spruce or Kiidk'yaas on Haida Gwaii by Grant Hadwin. His 2010 work, ''The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival'' is about a man-eating tiger incident that happened in the 1990s in Russia's Far Eastern Primorsky Krai, where most of the world's Amur tigers live. It is a mixture of investigative journalism, social history, geography and natural writing. It won a number of awards and was selected for the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Sherwood
A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the Crow family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian jay than to the East Asian blue and green magpies, whereas the blue jay is not closely related to either. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into an American and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to jays, are classified as treepies. Old World ("brown") jays Grey jays American jays In culture Slang The word ''jay'' has an archaic me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Turner
Nancy Jean Turner (born 1947) is a notable North American ethnobiologist, originally qualified in botany, who has done extensive research work with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia, the results of which she has documented in a number of books and numerous articles. Life Turner was born in Berkeley in California in 1947 but moved to British Columbia when she was five. She obtained her doctorate in Ethnobotany after studying the Bella Coola, Haida and Lillooet indigenous groups of the Pacific North-West. She works by interviewing the groups' elder members to identify their names for plants and their uses. Comparison and scientific analysis of this data has enabled her to draw conclusions. Turner's research identified not only the role that plants have had in these group's culture but also the effects that indigenous people have had historically on the landscape of Canada. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hunter (journalist)
Robert Lorne Hunter (October 13, 1941 – May 2, 2005) was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and politician. He was a member of the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1969, and a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1971 and its first president. He led the first on-sea anti-whaling campaigns in the world, against Russian and Australian whalers, which helped lead to the ban on commercial whaling. He campaigned against nuclear testing, the Canadian seal hunt and later, climate change with his book ''Thermageddon: Countdown to 2030.'' He was named by ''Time'' as one of the "Eco-Heroes" of the 20th century. Biography Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Hunter's career in journalism began in the 1960s at the ''Winnipeg Tribune'' and the ''Vancouver Sun'', where he focused on the counterculture as well as environmental issues. Beginning in 1988, he worked as a commentator and reporter for Toronto's Citytv and, since its launch, its all-news sister channel CP24. He created many documentari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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