In the Bear’s House
Congratulation to Bruce Hunter for winning the Banff Mountain Book Festival’s Canadian Rockies Award.
Shirin and Salt Man
Congratulations to Nilofar Shidmehr, finalist for the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, one of the BC Book Prizes.
Renovating Heaven
Congratulations to Andreas Schroeder, finalist for the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, one of the BC Book Prizes.
Congratulations once again to Ron Smith and Ruth
Campbell, whose book, Elf
the
Eagle, has
been nominated for a Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Shining Willow Award
for 2009.
They were also finalists for the Christie Harris
Illustrated Children's Literature Prize, BC Book Prizes 2008.
Congratulations, Valerie Stetson, runner-up for the 2008 Danuta Gleed Award
for The
Year I Got Impatient.
Congratulations, George McWhirter, finalist for
the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, BC
Book Prizes 2008, for The Incorrection.
Congratulations to Laurie Block, winner of the inaugural Landsdowne Poetry
Prize
for Time Out of Mind.
Cogratulations to Bill New on being named an Officer of the Order
of Canada.
Readings
See our new Events Page for the current schedule of readings
by Oolichan authors.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council through the Ministry of Tourism, Small Business and Culture.
We are delighted to note that our authors
have won the following
honours and awards.
Year
Award(s)
Author
Title
2006
Governor General's Award for Poetry
John Pass
Stumbling in the Bloom
2005
Governor General's Award shortlist,
W.H. New
Underwood Log
BC Poetry Prize short list
Eve Joseph
The Startled Heart
2004
Governor General’s Award short list
David Manicom
The Burning Eaves
2002
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
Marilyn Dumont
green girl dreams Mountains
2001
Governor General’s Award short list
BC Poetry Prize 2001 finalist
Winner of the Gillian Lowndes Award
John Pass
Water Stair
2000
Nominated for BC 2000 Book Award
Finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 2000
Keith Harrison
Furry Creek
1999
The Literary Network Top Ten Canadian Poetry Books
Mona Fertig
Sex, Death & Travel
1998
QSPELL Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction winner
David Manicom
Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
Danuta Gleed Literary Award short list
Janina Hornosty
Snackers
1997
Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize short list
Margo Button
The Unhinging of Wings
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winner
Margo Button
The Unhinging of Wings
Saskatchewan Book Awards Book of the Year short list
Ven Begamudré
Laterna Magika
Saskatchewan Book Awards Fiction Prize short list
Ven Begamudré
Laterna Magika
City of Regina Prize co-recipient
Ven Begamudré
Laterna Magika
Commonwealth Writers Prize
"Best Book" category for writers published in Canada and Caribbean
short
list
Ven Begamudré
Laterna Magika
1996
Certificate of Honour, BC Historical Foundation
Jan Peterson
Cathedral Grove
Sheila A. Ego. Children’s Prize short list
Constance Horne
Emily Carr’s Woo
1995
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize short list
Grant Buday
Under Glass
1995
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize short list
Aaron Bushkowsky
ed & mabel go to the moon
1993
Bumbershoot/Weyerhaeuser Publication Award winner
Ron Smith/Carol Windley
Visible Light
Writers Guild of Alberta Short Fiction Prize winner
Greg Hollingshead
White Buick
Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Category short list
Greg Hollingshead
White Buick
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize short list
Carol Windley
Visible Light
Governor General’s Award short list
Carol Windley
Visible Light
Certificate of Honour, BC Historical Foundation
R. G. Harvey
The Coast Connection
Saskatchewan Book Awards Book of the Year short list
Ven Begamudré
Van de Graaff Days
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