Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, established in 1985, is awarded annually as the BC Book Prize for the best non-fiction book by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. [1] The prize is named after the Canadian novelist Hubert Evans (1892-1986).

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Winners and finalists

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YearWinnerNominees
1985

David Ricardo Williams – Duff: A Life in the Law

  • Michael Kluckner – Vancouver The Way It Was
  • Daniel Raunet – Without Surrender, Without Consent
1986

Bruce Hutchison – The Unfinished Country

  • Muriel Kitagawa – This Is My Own: Letters to Wes
  • Reginald Roy – The Journal of Private Fraser
1987

Doris Shadbolt – Bill Reid

  • Philip Croft – Nature Diary of a Quiet Pedestrian
  • Sherrill MacLaren – Braehead
1988

P. K. Page – Brazilian Journal

  • Sandra Djwa – The Politics of the Imagination
  • Roy Minter – The White Pass
1989

Robin Ridington – Trail To Heaven

1990

Philip Marchand – Marshall McLuhan

  • Stan Persky – Buddy's
  • Patricia Roy – A White Man's Province
1991

Scott Watson – Jack Shadbolt

1992

Rosemary Neering – Down The Road

  • Jean Barman – The West Beyond The West
  • Robin Fisher – Duff Patullo of British Columbia
1993

Lynne Bowen – Muddling Through

  • Irene Howard – The Struggle For Social Justice in B. C.
  • Rolf Knight and Homer Stevens – Homer Stevens
1994

Sharon Brown – Some Become Flowers

  • Arthur Mayse – My Father, My Friend
  • John Mills – Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits
1995

Lisa Hobbs Birnie – Uncommon Will: The Death and Life of Sue Rodrigues [2]

  • Denise Chong – Concubine's Children
  • Rick Ouston – Finding Family
1996

Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna

  • Bev Christiansen – Too Good To Be True: Alcan's Kemano Completion Project
  • Sheryl Salloum – Underlying Vibrations: The Photography Of John Vanderpont
1997

Catherine Lang – O-bon in Chimunesu

  • Deanna Kawatski – Clara and Me
  • Arthur J. Ray – I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
1998

Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey – Stolen from Our Embrace

  • Richard Bocking – Mighty River
  • Elizabeth Simpson – The Perfection of Hope
1999

Peter C. Newman – Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power

2000

Rita Moir – Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels

  • Douglas Cole – Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906
  • James P. Delgado – Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage
  • Margaret Horsfield – Cougar Annie's Garden
  • Andrea Lebowitz and Gillian Milton – Gilean Douglas: Writing Nature, Finding Home
2001

Terry Glavin – The Last Great Sea

  • 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
2002

Susan Crean – The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr

  • Bart Campbell – The Door is Open
  • Stephen Hume – Off the Map
  • Ross A. Laird – Grain of Truth
  • Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
2003

Sandra Shields and David Campion – Where Fire Speaks: A Visit With the Himba

2004

Maria Tippett – Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

  • Maria Coffey – Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure
  • Pat Wastell Norris – High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered
  • Peter Steele – The Man Who Mapped the Arctic
  • Mark Zuehlke – The Gothic Line: Canada’s Month of Hell in World War II Italy
2005

Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen

  • Katherine Gordon – The Slocan: Portrait of a Valley
  • Patrick Lane – There is a Season
  • Alan Twigg – First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
  • Rex Weyler – Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World
2006

Stan Persky – The Short Version: An ABC Book

  • Michael Kluckner – Vanishing British Columbia
  • J. B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise
  • Rita Moir – Windshift Line
  • John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
2007

Heather Pringle – The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust

  • Karsten Heuer – Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
  • Eric Miller – The Reservoir
  • Harold Rhenisch – The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys Through a Dark Century
  • Dan Zuberi – Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada
2008

Robert Bringhurst - Everywhere Being is Dancing

  • J.B. MacKinnon, Alisa Smith - The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
  • Don Gayton - Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden
  • Theresa Kishkan - Phantom Limb
  • Patricia E. Roy - The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
2009

Gabor Maté - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

  • Chris Wood - Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America
  • Tim Lilburn - Going Home: Essays
  • Rex Weyler - The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Messay
  • Ronald Wright - What is America? A Short History of the New World Order
2010

Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

  • Brian Payton - The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness
  • Ehor Boyanowsky - Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes
  • Brian Brett - Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
  • Charles Demers - Vancouver Special
2011

John Vaillant - The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

  • Derek Lundy - Borderlands: Riding the Edge of America
  • Douglas Coupland - Marshall McLuhan
  • Morris Bates, Jim Brown - Morris as Elvis: Take a Chance on Life
  • Sarah Leavitt - Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
2012

Charlotte Gill - Eating Dirt

  • Gary Geddes - Drink the Bitter Root
  • JJ Lee - The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
  • Theresa Kishkan - Mnemonic: A Book of Trees
  • Carmen Aguirre - Something Fierce
2013

Geoff Meggs and Rod Mickleburgh - The Art of the Impossible: Dave Barrett and the NDP in Power, 1972-1975 [3]

  • Luanne Armstrong - The Light Through the Trees: Reflections on Land and Farming
  • George Bowering - Pinboy
  • Sandra Djwa - Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
  • Carol Shaben - Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changes the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop
2014

David Stouck - Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life [4]

  • Arno Kopecky - The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
  • J.B. MacKinnon - The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
  • Bev Sellars - They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
  • Jane Silcott - Everything Rustles
2015

Eve Joseph - In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying [5]

  • Nancy Turner - Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America
  • Barry M. Gough - The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest
  • Kevin Chong - Northern Dancer: The Legendary Horse That Inspired a Nation
  • Julie Angus - Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World
2016

Brian Brett - Tuco: The Parrot, the Others, and A Scattershot World [6]

  • Briony Penn - The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan
  • Lorimer Shenher - That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
  • Maria Tippett - Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture
  • Emily Urquhart - Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
2017

Deborah Campbell - A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War [7]

2018

Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson - The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy [8]

  • Carys Cragg - Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
  • Theresa Kishkan - Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays
  • Andrew Struthers - The Sacred Herb / The Devil’s Weed
  • Paul Watson - Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
2019

Lindsay Wong, The Woo Woo

  • Bill Gaston, Just Let Me Look at You
  • Ian Hampton, Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music
  • Kate Harris, Land of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
  • Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman, A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC
2020Alejandro Frid, Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene
  • Ivan Coyote, Rebent Sinner
  • Helen Knott, In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience
  • Jonathan Manthorpe, Claws of the Panda: Beijing’s Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada
  • Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
2021 Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body [9]
2021 Blueribbon icon.png TBA September 24, 2022

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