The Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award is a
literary prize
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awarded annually by the
BC 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 ...
for the "best book in terms of public appeal, initiative, design, production and content."
The prize is shared by the author and publisher. To qualify, the publisher must be located in
British Columbia
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or the
Yukon
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and in full creative control (editing, design and production). The winner, unlike the other prizes which are determined by judges, is selected by ballot sent to bookstores across the province of British Columbia.
History
The award is named in honour of BC bookseller
Bill Duthie who founded
Duthie Books in 1957.
, Award criteria and description. It was first awarded in 1985 and was one of the original four prizes awarded by the BC Book Prizes. The prize used to be called "BC Booksellers' Choice Award in Honour of Bill Duthie" but the name was simplified in 2010 to align with the other BC Book Prizes.
Winners and finalists
References
External links
Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310002725/http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/about/details/bc-booksellers-choice-award-in-honour-of-bill-duthie , date=2012-03-10 , official website
BC and Yukon Book Prizes
1985 establishments in British Columbia
Awards established in 1985