The finalists for the 2016 Victoria Butler Book Prize were announced yesterday in Victoria. Celebrating thirteen years of literary excellence, the award is bestowed annually to authors of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry from the Greater Victoria area.
Included on this yearâs list of finalists is The Hunter and the Wild Girl by Pauline Holdstock. A haunting tale of loss and redemption set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century France, The Hunter and the Wild Girl was published to wide critical acclaim in 2015.
Also nominated for this yearâs Victoria Butler Book Prize are Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse (non-fiction, ECW Press), Becoming Lin by Tricia Dower (fiction, Caitlin Press), He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car by Arleen ParĂ© (poetry, Caitlin Press), and Double Dutch by Laura Trunkey (fiction, House of Anansi).
The winner will be announced at an Awards Gala on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Union Club of British Columbia at 805 Gordon Street.
