The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.[citation needed]
The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).
Winners and finalists
edit| Year | Author | Titles | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Audrey Thomas | Intertidal Life | Winner | [1] |
| Mary Ellen Collura | Winners | Shortlist | ||
| Charles Lillard | A Coastal Range | Shortlist | ||
| 1986 | Keath Fraser | Foreign Affairs | Winner | |
| Brian Fawcett | The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie | Shortlist | ||
| George Ryga | In the Shadow of the Vulture | Shortlist | ||
| L. R. Wright | The Suspect | Shortlist | ||
| 1987 | Leona Gom | Housebroken | Winner | |
| Paulette Jiles | Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma Kola | Shortlist | ||
| Rona Murray | The Indigo Dress and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
| 1988 | George McWhirter | Cage | Winner | |
| Jane Rule | Memory Board | Shortlist | ||
| Robin Skelton | The Parrot Who Could | Shortlist | ||
| 1989 | Bill Schermbrucker | Mimosa | Winner | |
| William Goede | Love In Beijing | Shortlist | ||
| Robert Harlow | Saxophone Winter | Shortlist | ||
| 1990 | Keith Maillard | Motet | Winner | |
| Jane Rule | After the Fire | Shortlist | ||
| 1991 | Audrey Thomas | Wild Blue Yonder | Winner | |
| Sky Lee | Disappearing Moon Cafe | Shortlist | ||
| Caroline Woodward | Disturbing the Peace | Shortlist | ||
| 1992 | Don Dickinson | Blue Husbands | Winner | |
| M.A.C. Farrant | Sick Pigeon | Shortlist | ||
| Maureen Moore | The Illuminations of Alice Mallory | Shortlist | ||
| 1993 | W.D. Valgardson | The Girl with the Botticelli Face | Winner | |
| Jane Eaton Hamilton | July Nights and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
| Linda Svendsen | Marine Life | Shortlist | ||
| 1994 | Caroline Adderson | Bad Imaginings | Winner | |
| Keith Maillard | Light in the Company of Women | Shortlist | ||
| Carol Windley | Visible Light | Shortlist | ||
| 1995 | Gayla Reid | To Be There With You | Winner | |
| Grant Buday | Under Glass | Shortlist | ||
| Patricia Robertson | City of Orphans | Shortlist | ||
| 1996 | Audrey Thomas | Coming Down From Wa | Winner | |
| Joy Kogawa | Rain Ascends | Shortlist | ||
| Lorraine Vernon | Through the Canyon | Shortlist | ||
| 1997 | Gail Anderson-Dargatz | The Cure for Death by Lightning | Winner | |
| Nick Bantock | The Venetian's Wife | Shortlist | ||
| Shani Mootoo | Cereus Blooms at Night | Shortlist | ||
| 1998 | Marilyn Bowering | Visible Worlds | Winner | |
| Sally Ireland | Fox's Nose | Shortlist | ||
| Holley Rubinsky | At First I Hope for Rescue | Shortlist | ||
| 1999 | Jack Hodgins | Broken Ground | Winner | |
| Loranne Brown | The Handless Maiden | Shortlist | ||
| Anne Fleming | Pool-Hopping and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
| 2000 | Michael Turner | The Pornographer's Poem | Winner | |
| Caroline Adderson | A History of Forgetting | Shortlist | ||
| Zsuzsi Gartner | All the Anxious Girls on Earth | Shortlist | ||
| Keith Harrison | Furry Creek | Shortlist | ||
| Alan R. Wilson | Before the Flood | Shortlist | ||
| 2001 | Eden Robinson | Monkey Beach | Winner | |
| Anita Rau Badami | The Hero's Walk | Shortlist | ||
| Barbara Lambert | A Message for Mr. Lazarus | Shortlist | ||
| Peter Trower | The Judas Hills | Shortlist | ||
| Jack Whyte | Uther | Shortlist | ||
| 2002 | Madeleine Thien | Simple Recipes | Winner | |
| Rebecca Godfrey | The Torn Skirt | Shortlist | ||
| Andrew Gray | Small Accidents | Shortlist | ||
| Gayla Reid | All the Seas of the World | Shortlist | ||
| Timothy Taylor | Stanley Park | Shortlist | ||
| 2003 | Carol Shields | Unless | Winner | |
| Kevin Armstrong | Nightwatch | Shortlist | ||
| Bill Gaston | Mount Appetite | Shortlist | ||
| Nancy Lee | Dead Girls | Shortlist | ||
| Gayla Reid | Closer Apart | Shortlist | ||
| 2004 | Caroline Adderson | Sitting Practice | Winner | |
| Claudia Casper | The Continuation of Love by Other Means | Shortlist | ||
| Steven Galloway | Ascension | Shortlist | ||
| Kevin Patterson | Country of Cold | Shortlist | ||
| Janet Warner | Other Sorrows, Other Joys | Shortlist | ||
| 2005 | Pauline Holdstock | Beyond Measure | Winner | |
| Bill Gaston | Sointula | Shortlist | ||
| Theresa Kishkan | A Man in a Distant Field | Shortlist | ||
| Annabel Lyon | The Best Thing for You | Shortlist | ||
| Patrick Taylor | The Apprenticeship of Dr. Laverty | Shortlist | ||
| 2006 | Charlotte Gill | Ladykiller | Winner | |
| Clint Burnham | Smoke Show | Shortlist | ||
| Lydia Kwa | The Walking Boy | Shortlist | ||
| John Lent | So It Won't Go Away | Shortlist | ||
| Audrey Thomas | Tattycoram | Shortlist | ||
| 2007 | Carol Windley | Home Schooling | Winner | |
| Marilyn Bowering | What It Takes to Be Human | Shortlist | ||
| Bill Gaston | Gargoyles | Shortlist | ||
| Anosh Irani | The Song of Kahunsha | Shortlist | ||
| Adam Lewis Schroeder | Empress of Asia | Shortlist | ||
| 2008 | Mary Novik | Conceit | Winner | |
| Heather Burt | Adam's Peak | Shortlist | ||
| David Chariandy | Soucouyant | Shortlist | ||
| Shaena Lambert | Radiance | Shortlist | ||
| Claire Mulligan | The Reckoning of Boston Jim | Shortlist | ||
| 2009 | Lee Henderson | The Man Game | Winner | |
| Steven Galloway | The Cellist of Sarajevo | Shortlist | ||
| Paul Headrick | That Tune Clutches My Heart | Shortlist | ||
| Patrick Lane | Red Dog, Red Dog | Shortlist | ||
| Andreas Schroeder | Renovating Heaven | Shortlist | ||
| 2010 | Cathleen With | Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison | Winner | [2] |
| Annabel Lyon | The Golden Mean | Shortlist | ||
| Michael Turner | 8 x 10 | Shortlist | ||
| Ian Weir | Daniel O'Thunder | Shortlist | ||
| Deborah Willis | Vanishing and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
| 2011 | Gurjinder Basran | Everything Was Good-Bye | Winner | [3][4] |
| Rifet Bahtijaragic | Chernovs’ Toil and Peace | Shortlist | ||
| Jack Hodgins | The Master of Happy Endings | Shortlist | ||
| Meredith Quartermain | Recipes from the Red Planet | Shortlist | ||
| Jack Whyte | The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace | Shortlist | ||
| 2012 | Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | Winner | [5][6] |
| Michael Christie | The Beggar's Garden | Shortlist | [7] | |
| Frances Greenslade | Shelter | Shortlist | [7] | |
| Steven Price | Into the Darkness | Shortlist | [7] | |
| D. W. Wilson | Once You Break a Knuckle | Shortlist | [7] | |
| 2013 | Bill Gaston | The World | Winner | [8] |
| C. P. Boyko | Psychology and Other Stories | Shortlist | ||
| Anne Fleming | Gay Dwarves of America | Shortlist | ||
| Anakana Schofield | Malarky | Shortlist | ||
| Yasuko Thanh | Floating Like the Dead | Shortlist | ||
| 2014 | Ashley Little | Anatomy of a Girl Gang | Winner | [9][10] |
| Théodora Armstrong | Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility | Shortlist | ||
| Janie Chang | Three Souls | Shortlist | ||
| Cynthia Flood | Red Girl Rat Boy | Shortlist | ||
| Kathryn Para | Lucky | Shortlist | ||
| 2015 | Aislinn Hunter | The World Before Us | Winner | [11] |
| Caroline Adderson | Ellen in Pieces | Shortlist | ||
| Kathy Page | Paradise & Elsewhere | Shortlist | ||
| Brian Payton | The Wind is Not a River | Shortlist | ||
| Michael Springate | The Beautiful West & the Beloved of God | Shortlist | ||
| 2016 | Alix Hawley | All True Not a Lie in It | Winner | [12] |
| Pauline Holdstock | The Hunter and the Wild Girl | Shortlist | ||
| Irina Kovalyova | Specimen | Shortlist | ||
| Nasreen Pejvack | Amity | Shortlist | ||
| Anakana Schofield | Martin John | Shortlist | ||
| 2017 | Jennifer Manuel | The Heaviness of Things That Float | Winner | [13][14] |
| Joan Haggerty | The Dancehall Years | Shortlist | ||
| Anosh Irani | The Parcel | Shortlist | ||
| Jen Sookfong Lee | The Conjoined | Shortlist | ||
| Ashley Little | Niagara Motel | Shortlist | [15] | |
| 2018 | David Chariandy | Brother | Winner | [16][17] |
| Andrea MacPherson | What We Once Believed | Shortlist | [18] | |
| Zoey Leigh Peterson | Next Year, For Sure | Shortlist | [18] | |
| Eden Robinson | Son of a Trickster | Shortlist | [18] | |
| Daniel Zomparelli | Everything Is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person | Shortlist | [18] | |
| 2019 | Eden Robinson | Trickster Drift | Winner | |
| Amber Dawn | Sodom Road Exit | Shortlist | ||
| Erin Frances Fisher | That Tiny Life | Shortlist | ||
| Alex Leslie | We All Need to Eat | Shortlist | ||
| Kathy Page | Dear Evelyn | Shortlist | ||
| 2020 | Stephen Price | Lampedusa | Winner | |
| Michael Christie | Greenwood | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Nazanine Hozar | Aria | Shortlist | [19][20] | |
| Alix Ohlin | Dual Citizens | Shortlist | [19] | |
| Rhea Tregebov | Rue des Rosiers | Shortlist | [19] | |
| 2021 | Shaena Lambert | Petra | Winner | [21] |
| Susan Sanford Blades | Fake It So Real | Shortlist | [22][23] | |
| Michelle Good | Five Little Indians | Shortlist | [22][23] | |
| Aislinn Hunter | The Certainties | Shortlist | [22][23] | |
| Annabel Lyon | Consent | Shortlist | [22][23] | |
| 2022 | Ruth Ozeki | The Book of Form and Emptiness | Winner | [24] |
| Cedar Bowers | Astra | Shortlist | [25][26] | |
| Carrie Jenkins | Victoria Sees It | Shortlist | [25][26] | |
| Rahela Nayebzadah | Monster Child | Shortlist | [25][26] | |
| Alix Ohlin | We Want What We Want | Shortlist | [25][26] | |
| 2023 | Billy-Ray Belcourt | A Minor Chorus | Winner | [27] |
| Marion Ehrenberg | The Language of Dreams | Shortlist | [28] | |
| Tsering Yangzom Lama | We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies | Shortlist | [28] | |
| Janice Lynn Mather | Uncertain Kin | Shortlist | [28] | |
| Danny Ramadan | The Foghorn Echoes | Shortlist | [28] |
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External links
edit- Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize Archived 2012-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, official website