Former Swift Current resident,
Lorna Crozier has won the BC Book Prize for non-fiction for her account of growing up in Swift Current. Fans and friends of Crozier were enchanted as she read from the memoir,
Small Beneath the Sky, this winter at the Lyric Theatre. If she comes by again, get your tickets early!
Sticking with our theme of West Coast literary prizes, we have this year's big winner at the
LA Times Book Prizes, Dave Eggers. Eggers' new non-fiction title
Zeitoun captured the prizes for both innovation and current interest. “
Zeitoun is a riveting, intimate, wide-scanning, disturbing, inspiring nonfiction account of a New Orleans married couple named Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun who were dragged through their own special branch of Kafkaesque (for once the adjective is unavoidable) hell after Hurricane Katrina. . ..” —James Wolcott,
Vanity Fair
A new category added this year was for graphic novel, and the winner, David Mazzucchelli has been receiving accolades across North America for his all grown up graphic novel
Asterios Polyp. “Mazzucchelli's funny, harrowing and thought-provoking graphic novel is a remarkable portrait of an architect who is forced to build a new life for himself.” –
San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of the Year
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