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City of Vancouver Book Award

Index City of Vancouver Book Award

The City of Vancouver Book Award is a Canadian literary award, that has been presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia to one or more works of literature judged as the year's best fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama work about the city. [1]

67 relations: Aaron Chapman, Ali Kazimi, Amber Dawn, Anita Rau Badami, Annabel Lyon, Ashley Little, Billeh Nickerson, Bren Simmers, Brett Josef Grubisic, British Columbia, Bruce Ronald Henderson, Bud Osborn, Canada, Canadian dollar, Carleigh Baker, Carmen Rodríguez, Caroline Adderson, Claudia Maria Cornwall, Cynthia Flood, Cyril Edel Leonoff, Daniel Francis, David Stouck, Denise Chong, Derek Hayes, Douglas Coupland, Elizabeth Bower, Elspeth Cameron, Gary Geddes, George Bowering, Gillian Jerome, Graeme Wynn, Gregory Edwards, Irene Howard, James P. Delgado, Jean Barman, Jen Sookfong Lee, John Atkin, John Clague, John Punter, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Lee Henderson, Leslie E. Robertson, Lincoln Clarkes, Lynne Bowen, Madeleine Thien, Maggie de Vries, Matt Hern, Meredith Quartermain, Michael Christie (writer), Michael Turner (musician), ..., Patricia Canning Todd, Paul Yee, Quill & Quire, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Robert Davidson (artist), Robin Ward (television personality), Rosemary Brown (politician), Sky Lee, Stan Persky, Susan Point, Tania Willard, Timothy Taylor (writer), Toronto Book Awards, Vancouver, W. H. New, Wayde Compton, Wayson Choy. Expand index (17 more) »

Aaron Chapman

Aaron James Chapman (born 29 May 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Peterborough United.

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Ali Kazimi

Ali Kazimi (pronounced KA-zim-E) (born 1961) is an Indian-born Canadian film-maker and writer.

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Amber Dawn

Amber Dawn is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer.

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Anita Rau Badami

Anita Rau Badami (born 24 September 1961) is a writer of South Asian descent living in Canada.

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Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon (born 1971) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Ashley Little

Ashley Little (born 1983) is a Canadian author of both adult and young adult literature.

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Billeh Nickerson

Billeh Nickerson (born February 14, 1972) is a Canadian writer, editor, performer, producer and arts advocate.

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Bren Simmers

Bren Simmers is a Canadian poet.

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Brett Josef Grubisic

Brett Josef Grubisic (born 1963) is a Canadian novelist and editor, and professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Bruce Ronald Henderson

Bruce Ronald Henderson, also known as Bruce Grenville and Martin Renwick, (born 1950) is a New Zealand anarchist, hoaxer and producer of artistamps.

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Bud Osborn

Bud Osborn (4 August 1947 – 6 May 2014) was a poet, community organizer, and activist in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.

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Carleigh Baker

Carleigh Baker is a Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection Bad Endings is a shortlisted finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and won the City of Vancouver Book Award.

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Carmen Rodríguez

Carmen Rodríguez (born June 19, 1948) is a Chilean-Canadian author, poet, educator, political social activist, and a founding member of Aquelarre Magazine.

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Caroline Adderson

Caroline Adderson (born September 9, 1963) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

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Claudia Maria Cornwall

Claudia Maria Cornwall (born Claudia Maria Wiener, 1948 in Shanghai, China) is a Canadian writer and journalist.

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Cynthia Flood

Cynthia Flood (born September 17, 1940)"Vancouver writer wins $10,000 Canadian fiction prize".

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Cyril Edel Leonoff

Cyril Edel Leonoff (February 22, 1925 – April 7, 2016) was a Canadian geotechnical engineer, historian, and author.

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Daniel Francis

Daniel Francis (born October, 1978 in Scarborough, Tobago) is a former professional American and Canadian football defensive back.

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David Stouck

David Hamilton Stouck (born 1940) is a Canadian literary critic and biographer, formerly Professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

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Denise Chong

Denise Chong, OC (born 9 June 1953) is a Canadian economist and writer.

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Derek Hayes

Derek Hayes (born 8 December 1977 in Dungannon) is a British former race driver from Northern Ireland who competed in various series including Formula Palmer Audi, Formula 3 Euroseries, NASCAR Busch Series and British Formula 3.

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Douglas Coupland

Douglas CouplandSteve Lohr, "No More McJobs for Mr.

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Elizabeth Bower

Elizabeth Bower (born 1 August 1976) is an English actress, best known for starring as Dr Melody Bell in Doctors from 2007 to 2009.

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Elspeth Cameron

Elspeth MacGregor Cameron (born 10 January 1943) is a Canadian writer known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Irving Layton and Earle Birney.

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Gary Geddes

Gary Geddes (born 9 June 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet and writer.

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George Bowering

George Harry Bowering, (born December 1, 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer.

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Gillian Jerome

Gillian Jerome is a Canadian poet, essayist and author.

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Graeme Wynn

Graeme Wynn (born 19 April 1959, in Thirroul, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league player for the St. George Dragons and the Western Suburbs Magpies in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership.

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Gregory Edwards

Gregory Edwards (born January 19, 1981) is a contemporary artist who lives in New York City.

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Irene Howard

Irene Mary Steiner Howard (17 June 1903 – December 1981) was a British casting director.

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James P. Delgado

James Preston Delgado, Ph.D. (born January 11, 1958) is a maritime archaeologist, historian, maritime preservation expert, author, television host, and explorer.

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Jean Barman

Jean Barman is a historian of British Columbia.

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Jen Sookfong Lee

Jen Sookfong Lee is a Chinese Canadian broadcaster and novelist.

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John Atkin

John Atkin is a former two term Democratic member of the Connecticut Senate from Norwalk, Connecticut's 25th Senate district and a former three term member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut's 140th House district.

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John Clague

John Clague (1928–2004) was an American artist and sculptor.

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John Punter

John Punter, (born January 27, 1949), is an English record producer and recording engineer.

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Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is a Canadian First Nations artist, of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent.

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Lee Henderson

Lee Henderson is a Canadian writer, the author of The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada 2002), The Man Game (Penguin Canada, August 2008), and The Road Narrows As You Go (Hamish Hamilton, 2014).

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Leslie E. Robertson

Leslie Earl Robertson (born February 12, 1928) is an American engineer.

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Lincoln Clarkes

Lincoln Clarkes (born 1957, in Toronto) is an award-winning photographer (National Magazine Awards, silver; Western Magazine Awards, gold), who has published three books, Heroines (2002), Views (2005) and Cyclists (2013) and has been the subject of two documentary films.

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Lynne Bowen

Lynne Bowen (born August 22, 1940 in Indian Head, Saskatchewan) is an award-winning Canadian non-fiction writer, historian, professor and journalist.

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Madeleine Thien

Madeleine Thien (born 1974) is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.

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Maggie de Vries

Maggie de Vries, born in 1961 in Ontario, Canada (but growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a writer for children, teens and adults and creative writing instructor.

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Matt Hern

Matt Hern is a community organizer, independent scholar, writer and activist based in East Vancouver, British Columbia (Coast Salish Territories) who is known for his work in radical urbanism, community development, ecology and alternative forms of education.

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Meredith Quartermain

Meredith Quartermain, née Yearsley (born October 1, 1950) is a Canadian poet, novelist and story writer who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Michael Christie (writer)

Michael Christie is a Canadian writer, whose debut story collection The Beggar's Garden was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

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Michael Turner (musician)

For other people named Michael Turner, see Michael Turner (disambiguation). Michael Turner (born 1962 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a musician, and writer of poetry, prose and opera librettos.

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Patricia Canning Todd

Patricia Canning Todd (born Mary Patricia Canning, July 22, 1922 – September 5, 2015), was an American tennis player who had her best results just after World War II.

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Paul Yee

Paul Yee (born 1 October 1956) is a Chinese-Canadian historian and writer.

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Quill & Quire

Quill & Quire, a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry, was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000.

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Renée Sarojini Saklikar

Renée Sarojini Saklikar is an Indian-born Canadian lawyer, poet and author.

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Robert Davidson (artist)

Robert Charles Davidson, CM, OBC (born 4 November 1946 in Hydaburg, Alaska), is a Canadian artist of Haida heritage.

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Robin Ward (television personality)

Robin Ward (born April 10, 1944) is a Canadian actor and television personality.

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Rosemary Brown (politician)

Rosemary Brown, (née Wedderburn; June 17, 1930 – April 26, 2003), was a Canadian politician.

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Sky Lee

Sky Lee (born September 15, 1952 in Port Alberni, British Columbia as Sharon Lee) is a Canadian artist and novelist.

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Stan Persky

Stan Persky (born 19 January 1941) is a Canadian writer, media commentator and philosophy instructor.

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Susan Point

Susan Point (born 1952) is a Musqueam Coast Salish artist from Canada, who works in the Coast Salish tradition.

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Tania Willard

Tania Willard (born 1977) is an indigenous curator and artist from the Secwepemc nation, of the British Columbia interior, Canada.

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Timothy Taylor (writer)

Timothy Taylor (born 1963) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist, and professor of creative writing.

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Toronto Book Awards

The Toronto Book Awards are Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the City of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book or books "that are evocative of Toronto".

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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W. H. New

William Herbert New, OC, FRSC (March 28, 1938) is a Canadian poet and literary critic.

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Wayde Compton

Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a Canadian writer.

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Wayson Choy

Wayson Choy, CM (崔維新 Pinyin: Cuī Wéixīn; Jyutping: Ceoi1 Wai4-san1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Canadian writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Vancouver_Book_Award

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