Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

Der Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize ist ein kanadischer Literaturpreis, der 1985 als einer der BC Book Prizes eingeführt wurde. Mit seiner Vergabe wird alljährlich das beste fiktionale schriftstellerische Werk eines Einwohners von British Columbia geehrt. Die Autoren müssen drei der letzten fünf Jahre in British Columbia gelebt haben.^[1]

Der Name des Preises stammt von der in Südafrika geborenen, aber in Kanada lebenden Schriftstellerin Ethel Wilson, Autorin von The Innocent Traveller (1949) und Swamp Angel (1954), deren Werk einen besonderen Bezug zur Landschaft British Columbias und deren Einwohnern besaß.

Die jeweilige Shortlist eines Jahrgangs wird im März bekannt gegeben.

Gewinner und nominierte Titel

1985

• Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life
• Mary Ellen Collura, Winners
• Charles Lillard, A Coastal Range

1986

• Keath Fraser, Foreign Affairs
• Brian Fawcett, The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie
• George Ryga, In the Shadow of the Vulture
• L. R. Wright, The Suspect

1987

• Leona Gom, Housebroken
• Paulette Jiles, Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola
• Rona Murray, The Indigo Dress and Other Stories

1988

• George McWhirter, Cage
• Jane Rule, Memory Board
• Robin Skelton, The Parrot Who Could

1989

• Bill Schermbrucker, Mimosa
• William Goede, Love In Beijing
• Robert Harlow, Saxophone Winter

1990

• Keith Maillard, Motet
• Marilyn Bowering, To All Appearances A Lady
• Jane Rule, After The Fire

1991

• Audrey Thomas, Wild Blue Yonder
• Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
• Caroline Woodward, Disturbing The Peace

1992

• Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
• M.A.C. Farrant, Sick Pigeon
• Maureen Moore, The Illuminations of Alice Mallory

1993

• W. D. Valgardson, The Girl with the Botticelli Face
• J.A. Hamilton, July Nights and Other Stories
• Linda Svendsen, Marine Life

1994

• Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
• Keith Maillard, Light In The Company Of Women
• Carol Windley, Visible Light

1995

• Gayla Reid, To Be There With You
• Grant Buday, Under Glass
• Patricia Robertson, City of Orphans

1996

• Audrey Thomas, Coming Down From Wa
• Joy Kogawa, Rain Ascends
• Lorraine Vernon, Through the Canyon

1997

• Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Cure for Death by Lightning
• Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife
• Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night

1998

• Marilyn Bowering, Visible Worlds
• Sally Ireland, Fox's Nose
• Holley Rubinsky, At First I Hope for Rescue

1999

• Jack Hodgins, Broken Ground
• Loranne Brown, The Handless Maiden
• Anne Fleming, Pool-Hopping and Other Stories

2000

• Michael Turner, The Pornographer's Poem
• Caroline Adderson, A History of Forgetting
• Zsuzsi Gartner, All the Anxious Girls on Earth
• Keith Harrison, Furry Creek
• Alan R. Wilson, Before the Flood

2001

• Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach
• Anita Rau Badami, The Hero's Walk
• Barbara Lambert, A Message for Mr. Lazarus
• Peter Trower, The Judas Hills
• Jack Whyte, Uther

2002

• Madeleine Thien, Simple Recipes
• Rebecca Godfrey, The Torn Skirt
• Andrew Gray, Small Accidents
• Gayla Reid, All the Seas of the World
• Timothy Taylor, Stanley Park

2003

• Carol Shields, Unless
• Kevin Armstrong, Nightwatch
• Bill Gaston, Mount Appetite
• Nancy Lee, Dead Girls
• Gayla Reid, Closer Apart

2004

• Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice
• Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means
• Steven Galloway, Ascension
• Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold
• Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys

2005

• Pauline Holdstock, Beyond Measure
• Bill Gaston, Sointula
• Theresa Kishkan, A Man in a Distant Field
• Annabel Lyon, The Best Thing for You
• Patrick Taylor, The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty

2006

• Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
• Clint Burnham, Smoke Show
• Lydia Kwa, The Walking Boy
• John Lent, So It Won't Go Away
• Audrey Thomas, Tattycoram

2007

• Carol Windley, Home Schooling
• Marilyn Bowering, What It Takes to Be Human
• Bill Gaston, Gargoyles
• Anosh Irani, The Song of Kahunsha
• Adam Lewis Schroeder, Empress of Asia

2008

• Mary Novik, Conceit
• Heather Burt, Adam's Peak
• David Chariandy, Soucouyant
• Shaena Lambert, Radiance
• Claire Mulligan, The Reckoning of Boston Jim

2009

• Lee Henderson, The Man Game
• Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo
• Paul Headrick, That Tune Clutches My Heart
• Patrick Lane, Red Dog, Red Dog
• Andreas Schroeder, Renovating Heaven

2010

• Cathleen With, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison
• Michael Turner, 8 × 10
• Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder
• Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
• Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories

2011

• Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye^[2]
• Rifet Bahtijaragic, Chernovs’ Toil and Peace
• Jack Whyte, The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
• Jack Hodgins, The Master of Happy Endings
• Meredith Quartermain, Recipes from the Red Planet

2012

• Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues^[3]
• Michael Christie, The Beggar’s Garden
• Steven Price, Into That Darkness
• D. W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle
• Frances Greenslade, Shelter

2013

• Bill Gaston, The World^[4]
• C.P. Boyko, Psychology and Other Stories
• Anne Fleming, Gay Dwarves of America
• Anakana Schofield, Malarky
• Yasuko Thanh, Floating Like the Dead

2014

• Ashley Little, Anatomy of a Girl Gang^[5]
• Théodora Armstrong, Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility
• Janie Chang, Three Souls
• Cynthia Flood, Red Girl Rat Boy
• Kathryn Para, Lucky

2015

• Aislinn Hunter, The World Before Us^[6]
• Michael Springate, The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God
• Caroline Adderson, Ellen in Pieces
• Kathy Page, Paradise & Elsewhere
• Brian Payton, The Wind is Not a River

2016

• Alix Hawley, All True Not a Lie in It

2017

• Jennifer Manuel, The Heaviness of Things That Float

2018

• David Chariandy, Brother

2019

• Eden Robinson, Trickster Drift

2020

• Steven Price, Lampedusa

2021

• Shaena Lambert, Petra

Einzelnachweise

1. Archivierte Kopie (Memento vom 1. Oktober 2012 im Internet Archive)
2. Archivierte Kopie (Memento vom 2. September 2011 im Internet Archive)
3. Archivierte Kopie (Memento vom 16. Juli 2012 im Internet Archive)
4. Victoria author Bill Gaston among B.C. Book Prizes winners. In: Times Colonist. 3. Mai 2013, abgerufen am 8. August 2013. 
5. Tracy Sherlock: Double wins for two B.C. authors at B.C. Book Awards. In: The Vancouver Sun. 4. Mai 2014, abgerufen am 17. September 2014. 
6. Tracy Sherlock: Vancouver's Aislinn Hunter wins Ethel Wilson fiction prize. In: The Vancouver Sun. 26. April 2015, archiviert vom Original am 7. Juli 2015; abgerufen am 21. Januar 2016. 

Weblinks

• BC Book Prizes