Titles about a renowned British Columbia architect, an esteemed Haida artist and Vancouver’s iconic Stanley Park are featured in the shortlist for the 2014 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia.
This annual prize, sponsored by UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society, recognizes the best scholarly book published on a B.C. subject by a Canadian author.
The three shortlisted titles are:
Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life by David Stouck (Douglas & McIntyre).
This book explores the internationally renowned architect’s life, a saga of contrasts and contradictions.
Charles Edenshaw by Robin Kathleen Wright, Daina Augaitis, Robert Davidson and James Hart (Black Dog Publishing).
Through stunning illustrations and accompanying text, this title celebrates a British Columbian of outstanding artistic accomplishment.
Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History by Sean Kheraj (UBC Press).
This text, enhanced by excellent illustrations, helps us understand that Vancouver’s Stanley Park exists as an ever-changing yet splendid invention by both humans and nature.
The winning title will be announced later this spring, and the $1,000 prize will be awarded at a reception on June 5, 2014 at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
About the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Book on British Columbia
The Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia was established in memory of Basil Stuart-Stubbs, a bibliophile, scholar and librarian who passed away in 2012. Stuart-Stubbs’s many accomplishments included serving as the University Librarian at UBC Library and as the Director of UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Stuart-Stubbs had a leadership role in many national and regional library and publishing activities. During his exceptional career, he took particular interest in the production and distribution of Canadian books, and was associated with several initiatives beneficial to authors and their readers, and to Canadian publishing.
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