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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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, or many years generated royalty payments for the fund.
Honorees
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver | Winner | |
| 1990 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Disappearing Moon Cafe | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Being Brown: A Very Public Life | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Buddy's: Meditations on Desire | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| 1991Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vanishing Vancouver | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Leonard Frank: An Enterprising Life | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Robin Ward's Vancouver | Finalist | ||
| 1992Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Trees of Vancouver: A Guide to the Common and Unusual Trees of the City | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | No Forwarding Address | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hidden Cities | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Flesh Wound | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Graeme Wynn | Vancouver and Its Regions | Finalist | ||
| 1993Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vancouver: A Visual History | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and John Atkin | Heritage Walks Around Vancouver | Finalist | ||
| 1994Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Karl Spreitz | Vancouver: Visions of a City | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Robin Ward's Heritage West Coast | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Line Screw | Finalist | ||
| 1995Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Earle Birney: A Life | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Cynthia Nugent | Mister Got to Go | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Robert Davidson | Eagle Transforming: The Art of Robert Davidson | Finalist | ||
| 1996Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Monday Night Man | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Making Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries 1863-1913 | Finalist | ||
| 1997Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vancouver at the Dawn: A Turn-of-the-Century Portrait | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Bob Scullion | Postcards from the Past: Edwardian Images of Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley | Finalist | ||
| 1998Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Ian Macdonald | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | And a Body to Remember With | Finalist | ||
| 1999Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Keys to Kingdoms | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and the editors of Vancouver Magazine | Vancouver: Secrets of the City | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | White Lung | Finalist | ||
| 2000Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Donald Luxton | Lions Gate | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Collin Varner | Gardens of Vancouver | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| 2001Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Simple Recipes | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stanley Park | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". (ed.) | Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist | Finalist | ||
| 2002Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Burrard Inlet: A History | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Making a Stone of the Heart | Finalist | ||
| 2003Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan | Heroines | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". (ed.) | Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings | Winner | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Bob Turner | Vancouver, City on the Edge: Living with a Dynamic Geological Landscape | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Intimate Distances | Finalist | ||
| 2004Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sitting Practice | Honourable mention | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Honourable mention | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister | Honourable mention | ||
| 2005Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | All That Matters | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Dara Culhane (eds.) | In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver | Finalist | ||
| Various | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| 2006Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Waterfront: The Illustrated Maritime History of Greater Vancouver | Winner | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Historical Atlas of Vancouver and the Lower Fraser Valley | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., Ian M. Thom, and Adele Weder | B.C. Binning | Finalist | ||
| 2007Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vancouver Remembered | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Michael Turner | Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| 2008Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Gillian Jerome | Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Falsework | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | At Home With History: The Untold Secrets of Greater Vancouver's Heritage Homes | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| 2009Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Nightmarker | Finalist | ||
| 2010Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Scott Steedman | Visions of British Columbia | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Common Ground in a Liquid City | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| 2011Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Whoever Gives Us Bread: The Story of Italians in British Columbia | Finalist | [2] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region | Finalist | [2] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vancouver Kids | Finalist | [2] | |
| 2012Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | YVR | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Elee Kraljii Gardiner (eds.) | V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside | Finalist | [3] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver | Finalist | [3] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru | Finalist | [3] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | [3] | |
| 2013Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir | Winner | [4] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ink on Paper | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Robin Ward | Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History | Finalist | ||
| 2014Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | What Makes Olga Run? | Finalist | [5] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? | Finalist | [5] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Anatomy of a Girl Gang: A Novel | Finalist | [5] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Artificial Cherry | Finalist | [5] | |
| 2015Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Winner | [6][7] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Live at the Commodore: The Story of Vancouver's Historic Commodore Ballroom | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Hastings-Sunrise: Poems | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Cynthia Nugent | Mister Got To Go, Where Are You? | Finalist | ||
| 2016Template:Efn | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Karen Duffek, and Tania Willard | Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories | Winner | [8] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (eds.) | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | [9] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away | Finalist | [9] | |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bad Endings | Winner | [10] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., Ian M. Thom, Susan Point, Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Thomas Cannell, Myrtle McKay, and William McLennan | Susan Point: Spindle Whorl | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pandas on the Eastside | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Invisible Dead | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dear Current Occupant | Winner | [11] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | Script error: No such module "Sort". and Susan Point | People among the People: The public art of Susan Point | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | No Fixed Address | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Port of Being | Finalist | ||
| 2020 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Chinatown Through a Wide Lens: The Hidden Photographs of Yucho Chow | Winner | [12] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | on/me | Finalist | [13] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vancouver for Beginners | Finalist | [13] | |
| 2021 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Five Little Indians | Winner | [12] |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Script error: No such module "sort". | Finalist | [13] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". and Anna Bron | Salma the Syrian Chef | Finalist | [13] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ho Sun Hing Printers | Honourable mention | Script error: No such module "Unsubst". | |
| 2022 | Script error: No such module "Sort"., Bill McLennan, and Jordan Wilson | Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Erase and Rewind | Finalist | [14] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | No Shelter | Finalist | [14] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Chiru Sakura: Falling Cherry Blossoms | Finalist | [14] | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Debbie Cheung & Christopher Lee, Occupying Chinatown | Finalist | [14] | |
| 2023 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Junie | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Cactus Gardens | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., Nathan Fairbairn | PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | The Foghorn Echoes | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., Deanna Bowen, Wayde Compton, Daina Augaitis, Siobhan McCracken Nixon | Jan Wade: Soul Power | Finalist | ||
| 2024 | Script error: No such module "Sort". | White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver | Winner | |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Baby Drag Queen | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., Michael Simpson | It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People | Finalist | ||
| Script error: No such module "Sort"., Jeff O'Brien, editors, plus numerous authors | What Are Our Supports? | Finalist |
Notes
References
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