Welcome to BC BookWorld's Information Station!
We're a newspaper about books. We've been around since 1987. We aspire to middle-brow usefulness. Four times per year, we produce Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about literature.
Our newspaper is available via more than 900 non-virtual distributors, or by subscription. We believe people can make up their own minds as to what they ought to read -- so we provide lively, up-to-date, unbiased news.
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This separate
site at www.abcbookworld.com provides instant bibliographical and
biographical information for more than 9000 authors. British Columbia-related
authors can contribute factual data about their careers by emailing us at
with the following information:
- Name
- Date and place of birth
- Place of residence
- Arrival in Canada and BC, if relevant
- Ancestral background if relevant
- Other employment
- Books published, most recent first; include publisher and year of publication
- Literary awards
- Biographical Details (No reviews)
- URL to photo
We reserve the right to exclude content and to edit or re-write all submissions to suit the public service-oriented style of the site.
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award
The GEORGE WOODCOCK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD annually honours an outstanding literary career in British Columbia. Since 1994, the City of Vancouver (Mayor of Vancouver's office), the Vancouver Public Library, and a non-profit society (Pacific BookWorld News Society, founded in 1988) have been working in partnership to jointly sponsor and present an annual prize to a senior B.C. author. Find out more about the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award here.
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