Author Kit Pearson wins Lieutenant Governor's Award

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      The West Coast Book Prize Society, organizers of the annual B.C. Book Prizes, announced today that Kit Pearson is this year’s winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.

      The prize and its $5,000 purse recognize Pearson’s long-time “mastery in that most traditional of genres, the novel for young readers”, the WCBPS media release states. An Edmonton native who grew up in Vancouver, the 66-year-old author has specialized in historical Canadian settings for her stories, such as her Guests of War trilogy from the late ’80s and early ’90s, about children evacuated from Britain to Canada during the Second World War. These have been highly popular with what is arguably one of the more discerning audiences for fiction, who commit fully to books they like, and who can smell condescension from storytellers a mile away.

      Pearson was selected for the honour by a jury composed of children’s author Sarah Ellis, CBC producer Sheila Peacock, and Munro’s Books manager Jessica Walker. She’ll receive the award from Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon at the B.C. Book Prizes Gala, slated for the Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel on May 3.

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