City of Vancouver Book Award

Given by City of Vancouver

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The City of Vancouver Book Award is presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to the best book about the city. The book may be from any category as long as its subject näytä lisää matter focuses on Vancouver or the story is based in the city. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (33), Shortlist (81)
Luokat:
Kaikki, Tie (3), No Category (111)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2019 (5), 2018 (2), 2017 (4), 2016 (3), 2015 (4), 2014 (5), 2013 (4), 2012 (5), 2011 (3), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (6), 2003 (4), 2002 (4), 2001 (4), 2000 (4), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (5), 1991 (3), 1990 (4), 1989 (1)

Winner 33

TeosKategoriaVuosi
People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point (tekijä: ROBERT D WATT)2019
Dear current occupant : a memoir (tekijä: Chelene Knight)2018
Bad Endings (tekijä: Carleigh Baker)2017
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories (tekijä: Karen Duffek)2016
The Outer Harbour (tekijä: Wayde Compton)2015
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life (tekijä: David Stouck)2014
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir (tekijä: Amber Dawn)2013
YVR (tekijä: W. H. New)2012
The Beggar's Garden (tekijä: Michael Christie)2011
Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual (tekijä: Bruce Grenville)2010
The Man Game (tekijä: Lee Henderson)2009
Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (tekijä: Brad Cran)2008
Vancouver Remembered (tekijä: Michael Kluckner)2007
Waterfront : The Illustrated Maritime Story of Greater Vancouver (tekijä: James P. Delgado)Tie2006
Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point (tekijä: Jean Barman)2006
Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination (tekijä: Lance Berelowitz)2005
L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver (tekijä: Daniel Francis)2004
Heroines (tekijä: Lincoln Clarkes)Tie2003
Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings (tekijä: Reid Shier)Tie2003
A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas (tekijä: Keith Thor Carlson)2002
Simple Recipes (tekijä: Madeleine Thien)2001
Lions Gate (tekijä: Lilia D'Acres)2000
Keys to kingdoms (tekijä: Bud Osborn)1999
The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopedia (tekijä: Chuck Davis)1998
The new spirit: Modern architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963 (tekijä: Rhodri Winson Liscombe)1997
The Jade Peony (tekijä: Wayson Choy)1996
Earle Birney: A Life (tekijä: Elspeth Cameron)1995
The Concubine's Children (tekijä: Denise Chong)1994
Vancouver: A Visual History (tekijä: Bruce Macdonald)1993
Trees of Vancouver/a Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City (tekijä: Gerald B. Straley)1992
Vanishing Vancouver (tekijä: Michael Kluckner)1991
Disappearing Moon Cafe (tekijä: Sky Lee)1990
Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver (tekijä: Paul Yee)1989

Shortlist 81

TeosVuosi
The Forbidden Purple City (tekijä: Philip Huynh)2019
Murder by Milkshake: an Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer. (tekijä: Eve Lazarus)2019
No Fixed Address (tekijä: Susin Nielsen)2019
Port of Being (tekijä: Shazia Hafiz Ramji)2019
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction (tekijä: Travis Lupick)2018
Susan Point : spindle whorl (tekijä: Susan A. Point)2017
Pandas on the Eastside (tekijä: Gabrielle S. Prendergast)2017
Invisible Dead (tekijä: Sam Wiebe)2017
The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (tekijä: Wayde Compton)2016
That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away (tekijä: Lorimer Shenher)2016
Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom (tekijä: Aaron Chapman)2015
Hastings-Sunrise (tekijä: Bren Simmers)2015
Mister Got To Go, Where Are You? (tekijä: Lois Simmie)2015
What Makes Olga Run?: The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives (tekijä: Bruce Grierson)2014
How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun (tekijä: Doretta Lau)2014
Anatomy of a Girl Gang (tekijä: Ashley Little)2014
Artificial Cherry (tekijä: Billeh Nickerson)2014
Ink on Paper (tekijä: Brad Cran)2013
Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide (tekijä: Harold Kalman)2013
Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History (Nature | History | Society Series) (tekijä: Sean Kheraj)2013
V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (tekijä: John Mikhail Asfour)2012
Letters from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers Her Family's Jewish Past (tekijä: Claudia Cornwall)2012
Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru -- An Illustrated History (tekijä: Ali Kazimi)2012
The Better Mother (tekijä: Jen Sookfong Lee)2012
After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (tekijä: Wayde Compton)2011
Vancouver Kids (tekijä: Lesley McKnight)2011
The Box (tekijä: George Bowering)2010
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future (tekijä: Matt Hern)2010
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver (tekijä: Christopher Macdonald)2010
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (tekijä: Gabor Maté)2009
Nightmarker (tekijä: Meredith Quartermain)2009
Falsework (tekijä: Gary Geddes)2008
At Home with History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes (tekijä: Eve Lazarus)2008
The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham (tekijä: Kaija Pepper)2008
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (tekijä: Anita Rau Badami)2007
The Age of Cities (tekijä: Brett Josef Grubisic)2007
Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (tekijä: Fred Herzog)2007
Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley (tekijä: Derek Hayes)2006
B.C. Binning (tekijä: Abraham J. Rogatnick)2006
All That Matters (tekijä: Wayson Choy)2005
The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada's Best Writers (tekijä: Douglas Coupland)2005
In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver (tekijä: Leslie A. Robertson)2005
Sitting Practice: A Novel (tekijä: Caroline Adderson)2004
The Best Thing For You (tekijä: Annabel Lyon)2004
The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design (tekijä: John Punter)2004
Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister (tekijä: Maggie de Vries)2004
The Bone Collector's Son (tekijä: Paul Yee)2004
Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape (tekijä: John J. Clague)2003
Intimate Distances (tekijä: Fiona Tinwei Lam)2003
Burrard Inlet: A History (tekijä: Doreen Armitage)2002
The Door is Open (tekijä: Bart Campbell)2002
Making a Stone of the Heart: A Novel (tekijä: Cynthia Flood)2002
City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver (tekijä: Douglas Coupland)2001
Stanley Park (tekijä: Timothy Taylor)2001
Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist (tekijä: Gary Wyatt)2001
Gardens of Vancouver (tekijä: Christine Allen)2000
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found (tekijä: Wayson Choy)2000
The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power (Contemporary Chinese Studies Series) (tekijä: Wing Chung Ng)2000
Vancouver: Secrets of the City (tekijä: Shawn Blore)1999
White Lung (tekijä: Grant Buday)1999
The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take (tekijä: Ian MacDonald)1998
and a body to remember with (tekijä: Carmen Rodriguez)1998
Vancouver at the Dawn (tekijä: John Cherrington)1997
Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley (tekijä: Fred Thirkell)1997
Monday night man : stories (tekijä: Grant Buday)1996
Making Vancouver : class, status, and social boundaries, 1863-1913 (tekijä: Robert A. J. McDonald)1996
Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson (tekijä: Robert Davidson)1995
Mister Got to Go: The Cat that Wouldn't Leave (tekijä: Lois Simmie)1995
Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast (tekijä: Robin Ward)1994
Line Screw (tekijä: J.M. Yates)1994
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer (tekijä: Irene Howard)1993
Heritage Walks Around Vancouver (tekijä: Michael Kluckner)1993
No Forwarding Address (tekijä: Elisabeth Bowers)1992
Hidden Cities: Art & Design in Architectural Details of Vancouver & Victoria (tekijä: Gregory Edwards)1992
Flesh Wound (tekijä: Paul Grescoe)1992
Vancouver and Its Region (tekijä: Graeme Wynn)1992
An Enterprising Life (tekijä: Cyril E. Leonoff)1991
Robin Ward's Vancouver (tekijä: Robin Ward)1991
Being Brown: A Very Public Life (tekijä: Rosemary Brown)1990
Buddy's: Meditations on Desire (tekijä: Stan Persky)1990
The Refiners: A Century of B.C. Sugar (tekijä: John Schreiner)1990

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