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.

As with the City of Toronto Book Award, the award may go to one or more books.

The award has a monetary value of $3,000. The prize is funded by interest earned from the city’s publishing reserve, which was established in 1977 as a permanent legacy for writers and publishers. The fund received royalties generated from Vancouver’s First Century: A Photo History of Vancouver, edited by city staff. The third edition of the book, renamed Vancouver: A City Album, for many years generated royalty payments for the fund.

Winners and Finalists

Year Winner Finalists
2016
Jury: Shirley Lew, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Mary Schendlinger
Blue ribbon Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Karen Duffek, and Tania Willard, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories
  • Wayde Compton and Renee Sarojini Saklikar, eds., The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them
  • Lorimer Shenher, That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
2015
Jury: Anna Ling Kaye, Zoey Leigh Peterson, Sirish Rao
Blue ribbon Wayde Compton, The Outer Harbour: Stories
  • Aaron Chapman, Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom
  • Bren Simmers, Hastings-Sunrise: Poems
  • Lois Simmie and Cynthia Nugent, Mister Got To Go, Where Are You?
2014
Jury: Jordan Abel, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Anna Ling Kaye
Blue ribbon David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life
  • Bruce Grierson, What Makes Olga Run?
  • Doretta Lau, How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
  • Ashley Little, Anatomy of a Girl Gang: A Novel
  • Billeh Nickerson, Artificial Cherry
2013
Jury: Andrea Davies, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Paul Whitney
Blue ribbon Amber Dawn, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir
  • Jancis M. Andrews, The Ballad of Mrs. Smith
  • Brad Cran, Ink on Paper
  • Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide
  • Sean Kheraj, Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History
2012
Jury: Jane Bouey, David Chariandy, Rebecca Wigod
Blue ribbon W.H. New, YVR
  • John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner, eds., V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
  • Claudia Cornwall, At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver
  • Ali Kazimi, Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru
  • Jen Sookfong Lee, The Better Mother
2011
Jury: Emilie Dierking, Lee Henderson, Jim Wong-Chu
Blue ribbon Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden: Stories
  • Lynne Bowen, Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia
  • Wayde Compton, After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
  • Lesley McKnight, Vancouver Kids
2010
Jury: Janice Douglas, Fred Wah, Jean Wilson
Blue ribbon Bruce Grenville and Scott Steedman, Visions of British Columbia
  • George Bowering, The Box
  • Matt Hern, Common Ground in a Liquid City
  • Chris MacDonald, A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
2009
Jury: Janice Douglas, Fred Wah, Fernanda Viveiros
Blue ribbon Lee Henderson, The Man Game
2008
Jury: Michelle Benjamin, Marc Fournier, Fernanda Viveiros
Blue ribbon Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome, Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
  • Gary Geddes, Falsework
  • Eve Lazarus, At Home With History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver’s Heritage Homes
  • Kaija Pepper, The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham
2007
Jury: Glenn Deer, Marc Fournier, Karen X. Tulchinsky
Blue ribbon Michael Kluckner, Vancouver Remembered
2006
Jury: Rod Clarke, Glenn Deer, Laurie Roggeman
Blue ribbon Jean Barman, Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point

Blue ribbon James P. Delgado, Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver

  • Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley
  • Abraham J. Rogatnick, Ian M. Thom, and Adele Weder, B.C. Binning
2005
Jury: Keith Bunnell, Laurie Roggeman, Max Wyman
Blue ribbon Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
  • Wayson Choy, All That Matters
  • Leslie Robertson and Dara Culhane, eds., In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
  • Various authors, The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada’s Best Writers
2004
Jury: Crystal Allen, Keith Bunnell, George Fetherling
Blue ribbon Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver

Honourable Mentions: Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice; Maggie de Vries, Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister; John Punter, The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design

2003
Jury: George Fetherling, Michael Varty, Anne Yandle
Blue ribbon Lincoln Clarkes, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan, Heroines

Blue ribbon Reid Shier, ed., Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings

  • John Clague and Bob Turner, Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape
  • Fiona Tinwei Lam, Intimate Distances
2002
Jury: Brenda Peterson, Denise Ryan, Michael Varty
Blue ribbon Keith Carlson, A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
  • Doreen Armitage, Burrard Inlet: A History
  • Bart Campbell, The Door is Open: Memoir of a Soup Kitchen Volunteer
  • Cynthia Flood, Making a Stone of the Heart
2001
Jury: Brenda Peterson, Shamina Senaratne, Don Stewart
Blue ribbon Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
2000
Jury: Shamina Senaratne, Nina Smart, Joseph Stewart
Blue ribbon Lilia D’Acres and Donald Luxton, Lions Gate
  • Christine Allen and Collin Varner, Gardens of Vancouver
  • Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
  • Wing Chung Ng, The Chinese in Vancouver: The Pursuit of Identity and Power, 1945-80
1999
Jury: Mark Leier, Bob Sarti, Joseph Stewart
Blue ribbon Bud Osborn, Keys to Kingdoms
  • Shawn Blore and the editors of "Vancouver Magazine", Vancouver: Secrets of the City
  • Grant Buday, White Lung
1998
Jury: Donna Brendon, Ian Chunn, Vickie Jensen
Blue ribbon Chuck Davis, The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia
  • Betty O’Keefe and Ian Macdonald, The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take
  • Carmen Rodriguez, And a Body to Remember With
1997
Jury: Laura Hackett, Judy Taylor, Anne Yandle
Blue ribbon Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
  • John A. Cherrington, Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait
  • Fred Thirkell and Bob Scullion, Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley
1996
Jury: Mary Ann Cantillon, Irene Howard, Brahm Kornbluth
Blue ribbon Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony
  • Grant Buday, Monday Night Man
  • Robert A. J. McDonald, Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913
1995
Jury: Irene Howard, Nancy Stubbs, Greg Willett
Blue ribbon Elspeth Cameron, Earle Birney: A Life
  • Lois Simmie and Cynthia Nugent, Mister Got to Go
  • Ulli Stelzer and Robert Davidson, Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson
1994
Jury: Andrea Davies, Chuck Davis, Bruce Macdonald
Blue ribbon Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
  • Paul Grescoe and Karl Spreitz, Vancouver: Visions of a City
  • Robin Ward, Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast
  • Michael J. Yates, Line Screw
1993
Jury: Gordon Elliott, John Oliphant, Lucy Stewart
Blue ribbon Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
  • Irene Howard, The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia
  • Michael Kluckner and John Atkin, Heritage Walks Around Vancouver
1992
Jury: Jean Barman, Janice Douglas, Margaret Gabriel
Blue ribbon Gerald Straley, Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City
1991
Jury: Sue Baptie, Sean Rossiter, Don Stewart
Blue ribbon Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
1990
Blue ribbon Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
  • Rosemary Brown, Being Brown: A Very Public Life
  • Stan Persky, Buddy's: Meditations on Desire
  • John Schreiner, The Refiners: A Century of BC Sugar
1989
Jury: Jean Barman, Russell Kelly, Doreen Westgarth
Blue ribbon Paul Yee, Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver

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