The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, established in 1985 as one of the BC Book Prizes, is awarded annually to the best work of fiction by a resident of British Columbia, Canada.

The award is named after novelist and short story writer Ethel Wilson, author of Swamp Angel (1954) and The Innocent Traveller (1949).

Contents 1 Winners and nominees 1.1 1985 1.2 1986 1.3 1987 1.4 1988 1.5 1989 1.6 1990 1.7 1991 1.8 1992 1.9 1993 1.10 1994 1.11 1995 1.12 1996 1.13 1997 1.14 1998 1.15 1999 1.16 2000 1.17 2001 1.18 2002 1.19 2003 1.20 2004 1.21 2005 1.22 2006 1.23 2007 1.24 2008 1.25 2009 1.26 2010 1.27 2011 1.28 2012 2 External links

  Winners and nominees

  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 x 10
• Ian Weir, Daniel O'Thunder
• Annabel Lyon, The Golden Mean
• Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories

  2011

• Gurjinder Basran, Everything Was Good-Bye
• 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
• Michael Christie, The Beggar's Garden
• Steven Price, Into The Darkness
• D.W. Wilson, Once You Break a Knuckle
• Frances Greenslade, Shelter

  External links

• BC Book Prizes