/EINPresswire.com/ -- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/09/15 -- The jury for the 12th Annual BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, one of Canada's largest literary non-fiction prizes, has selected its longlist for 2016.

One hundred thirty-seven books by 35 publishers were nominated for the $40,000 prize from across the country. The prize jury has selected the following longlist of ten books.

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Title                       Author                Publisher
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Dispatches from the Front:  David Halton          Penguin Random House
 Canada's Voice at War                            Canada
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Stephen Harper              John Ibbitson         Penguin Random House
                                                  Canada
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Canoe Country: The Making   Roy MacGregor         Penguin Random House
 of Canada                                        Canada
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Genius at Play: The         Siobhan Roberts       Penguin Random House
 Curious Mind of John                             Canada
 Horton Conway
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What is Government Good     Donald J. Savoie      McGill Queens University
 At? A Canadian Answer                            Press
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Fallen                      Kara Stanley          Greystone Books Ltd.
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Stalin's Daughter: The      Rosemary Sullivan     Harper Collins
 Extraordinary and
 Tumultuous Life of
 Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Beyond the Pale: Folklore,  Emily Urquhart        Harper Collins
 Family, and the Mystery
 of Our Hidden Genes
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The Prison Book Club        Ann Walmsley          Penguin Random House
                                                  Canada
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The Right to be Cold: One   Sheila Watt-Cloutier  Penguin Random House
 Woman's Story of                                 Canada
 Protecting her Culture,
 the Arctic and the Whole
 Planet
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The BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction will announce its shortlist in December and the award will be presented in Vancouver in early 2016.

The jury for the 2016 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction comprises:

Ann Giardini, QC, Jury Chair, writer, director, lawyer, executive, and currently Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

Richard Gwyn, a Toronto columnist, well-respected writer, and biographer of John A. Macdonald.

Hal Wake, Artistic Director of the Vancouver Writers Festival and a member of granting juries for Canada Council, BC Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.

"Congratulations to the 2016 longlist authors and our sincere thanks to the jury panel for their thoughtful deliberations," said BC Achievement Foundation chair Keith Mitchell. "The selected works show the remarkable breadth and vibrancy of non-fiction writing in Canada."

Previous winners of the BC Award include:

--  Karyn L. Freedman for One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and
    Recovery (2015)
--  Thomas King for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native
    People in North America (2014)
--  Modris Eksteins for Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth
    in the Modern Age (2013)
--  Charlotte Gill for Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with
    The Tree-Planting Tribe (2012)
--  John Vaillant for The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
    (2011)
--  Ian Brown for The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled
    Son (2010)
--  Russell Wangersky for Burning Down the House (2009)
--  Lorna Goodison for From Harvey River: A Memory of My Mother and Her
    People (2008)
--  Noah Richler for This Is My Country, What's Yours? (2007)
--  Rebecca Godfrey for Under the Bridge (2006)
--  Patrick Lane for There Is a Season (2005)

The BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction is presented by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, an independent foundation established and endowed by the Province of British Columbia in 2003 to celebrate excellence in the arts, humanities, enterprise and community service. This is the twelfth year in which the award will be presented.

For more information on the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and on submission guidelines, please visit www.bcachievement.com.

Contacts:
Cathryn Wilson
British Columbia Achievement Foundation
604-261-9777
info@bcachievement.com
www.bcachievement.com

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