City of Vancouver Book Award
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The City of Vancouver Book Award is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the city of Vancouver, British Columbia to the best fiction or non-fiction 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 $2,000.
[edit] Winners
- 1989 - Paul Yee, Saltwater City
- 1990 - Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café
- 1991 - Michael Kluckner, Vanishing Vancouver
- 1992 - Gerald Straley, Trees of Vancouver
- 1993 - Bruce Macdonald, Vancouver: A Visual History
- 1994 - Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children
- 1995 - Elspeth Cameron, Earle Birney: A Life
- 1996 - Wayson Choy, The Jade Peony
- 1997 - Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, The New Spirit: Modern Architecture in Vancouver, 1938-1963
- 1998 - Chuck Davis, The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia
- 1999 - Bud Osborn, Keys to Kingdoms
- 2000 - Lilia D’Acres and Donald Luxton, Lions Gate
- 2001 - Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
- 2002 - Keith Carlson, ed., A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas
- 2003 - multiple winners
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- Lincoln Clarkes, Ken Dietrich-Campbell, Patricia Canning and Elaine Allan, Heroines
- Reid Shier, ed., Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 Block West Hastings
- 2004 - Daniel Francis, L.D.: Mayor Louis Taylor and the Rise of Vancouver
- 2005 - Lance Berelowitz, Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
