Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize

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The Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize is awarded for a work of literary non-fiction by an author from British Columbia or the Yukon. Part of the BC Book Prizes.

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2015

  • Eve Joseph – In the Slender Margin

Also shortlisted:

  • Julie Angus – Olive Odyssey
  • Kevin Chong – Northern Dancer
  • Barry Gough – The Elusive Mr. Pond
  • Nancy J. Turner – Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge

2014

  • David Stouck – Arthur Erickson

Also shortlisted:

  • Arno Kopecky – The Oil Man and the Sea
  • J.B. MacKinnon – The Once and Future World
  • Bev Sellars – They Called Me Number One
  • Jane Silcott – Everything Rustles

2013

  • Geoff Meggs, Rod Mickleburgh – The Art of the Impossible

Also shortlisted:

  • Carol Shaben – Into the Abyss
  • Sandra Djwa – Journey with No Maps
  • Luanne Armstrong – The Light through the Trees
  • George Bowering – Pinboy

2012

  • Charlotte Gill – Eating Dirt

Also shortlisted:

  • Gary Geddes – Drink the Bitter Root
  • JJ Lee – The Measure of a Man
  • Theresa Kishkan – Mnemonic
  • Carmen Aguirre – Something Fierce

2011

  • John Vaillant – The Tiger

Also shortlisted:

  • Morris Bates, Jim Brown – Morris as Elvis
  • Douglas Coupland – Marshall McLuhan
  • Sarah Leavitt – Tangles
  • Derek Lundy – Borderlands

2010

  • Lorna Crozier – Small Beneath the Sky

Also shortlisted:

  • Ehor Boyanowsky – Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts
  • Brian Brett – Trauma Farm
  • Charles Demers – Vancouver Special
  • Brian Payton – The Ice Passage

2009

  • Gabor Mate – In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Also shortlisted:

2008

  • Robert Bringhurst – Everywhere Being is Dancing

Also shortlisted:

  • J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith – The 100-Mile Diet
  • Don Gayton – Interwoven Wild
  • Theresa Kishkan – Phantom Limb
  • Patricia E. Roy – The Triumph of Citizenship

2007

  • Heather Pringle – The Master Plan

Also shortlisted:

  • Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou
  • Dan Zuberi – Differences that Matter
  • Eric Miller – The Reservoir
  • Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn

2006

  • Stan Persky – The Short Version

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
  • J.B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
  • Rita Moir – Windshift Line
  • John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce

2005

  • Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen

Also shortlisted:

  • Katherine Gordon – The Slocan
  • Patrick Lane – There is a Season
  • Alan Twigg – First Invaders
  • Rex Weyler – Greenpeace

2004

  • Maria Tippett, Bill Reid – The Making of an Indian

Also shortlisted:

  • Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow
  • Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
  • Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats
  • Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line

2003

  • Sandra Shields, David Campion – Where Fire Speaks

Also shortlisted:

  • Thomas Berger – One Man's Justice
  • Keath Fraser – The Voice Gallery
  • Cole Harris – Making Native Space
  • Derek Lundy – The Way of a Ship

2002

  • Susan Crean – The Laughing One

Also shortlisted:

  • Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
  • Stephen Hume – Off the Map
  • Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
  • Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress

2001

  • Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea

Also shortlisted:

  • Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
  • Rosemary Neering – Wild West Women
  • Harold Rhenisch – Tom Thomson's Shack
  • Patricia Van Tighem – The Bear's Embrace

2000

  • Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump

Also shortlisted:

  • Douglas Cole – Franz Boas
  • James Delgado – Across the Top of the World
  • Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
  • Andrea Lebowitz, Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas

1999

  • Peter Newman – Titans

Also shortlisted:

  • Eric Nicol – Anything for a Laugh
  • Michael Poole – Romancing Mary Jane

1998

  • Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace

Also shortlisted:

  • Richard Bocking – Mighty River
  • Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope

1997

  • Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu

Also shortlisted:

  • Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
  • Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began

1996

  • Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna

Also shortlisted:

  • Bev Christensen – Too Good To Be True
  • Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations

1995

  • Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will

Also shortlisted:

  • Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
  • Rick Ouston – Finding Family

1994

  • Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers

Also shortlisted:

  • Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
  • John Mills – Thank Your Mother For The Rabbits

1993

  • Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through

Also shortlisted:

  • Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B.C.
  • Rolf Knight, Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens

1992

  • Rosemary Neering – Down The Road

Also shortlisted:

  • Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
  • Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West

1991

  • Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt

Also shortlisted:

  • Terry Glavin – A Death Feast in Dimlahamid
  • Paul Tennant – Aboriginal Peoples and Politics

1990

  • Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan

Also shortlisted:

  • Stan Persky – Buddy's
  • Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province

1989

  • Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven

Also shortlisted:

  • Edith Iglauer – Fishing With John
  • Paul Yee – Saltwater City

1988

Also shortlisted:

  • Roy Minter – The White Pass
  • Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination

1987

  • Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid

Also shortlisted:

  • Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
  • Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian

1986

  • Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country

Also shortlisted:

  • Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
  • Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own

1985

  • David Ricardo Williams – Duff

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
  • Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent