The winners of the 38th annual B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes were announced at an in-person gala hosted by poet Jillian Christmas in Vancouver.
The winners of the 2022 B.C. and Yukon Book Prizes are:
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (literary fiction)
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Viking/Penguin Random House Canada)
Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (literary nonfiction)
- NISHGA by Jordan Abel (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- No Shelter by Henry Doyle (Anvil Press)
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
- Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicine by Dr. Luschiim Arvid Charlie and Nancy J. Turner (Harbour Publishing)
Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize
- Boy from Buchenwald: The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor by Robbie Waisman with Susan McClelland (Bloomsbury/Raincoast Books)
Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize
- Time is a Flower by Julie Morstad (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes
- Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia (Fernwood Publishing)
Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award
- Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard (Allen Lane Canada/Penguin Random House)
Award-winning B.C. author Audrey Thomas was named the winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, honouring a career that has spanned four decades.
Yukon poet Tara Borin was named the winner of the Borealis Prize: The Commissioner of Yukon Award for Literary Contribution.