BC Award for Canadian Nonfiction
The longlist for the BC Award for Canadian Nonfiction has been announced. This is Canada’s most lucrative prize for nonfiction.
One hundred and forty-nine titles were nominated for the $40,000 prize by publishers from across the country. The jury panel has selected the following longlist of 11 books:
Burmese Lessons: A Love Story, by Karen Connelly, Random House Canada
Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives it Ruled, by John DeMont, Doubleday Canada
Egg On Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship, by Denise Chong, Random House Canada
Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying, by Wayson Choy, Doubleday Canada
Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir, by Lorna Crozier, Greystone Books
The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son, by Ian Brown, Random House Canada
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, by Eric Siblin, House of Anansi Press
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human - Animal Relationships, by Erika Ritter, Key Porter Books
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness, by Brian Payton, Doubleday Canada
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, by Kenneth Whyte, Vintage Canada
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, by Brian Brett, Greystone Books
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