29 April 2008
Robert Bringhurst Wins Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize

Gaspereau Press is thrilled to announce that Robert Bringhurst’s essay collection Everywhere Being is Dancing (2007) was selected as the winner of this year’s Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, one of seven BC Book Prizes awarded annually. The winners of the 2008 awards were announced at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala on Saturday 26 April 2008 at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver. As Bringhurst was unable to attend the ceremony, Scott McIntyre of Douglas & McIntyre accepted the award certificate on his behalf.

Fellow nominees for the non-fiction award were The 100-Mile Diet by J.B. MacKinnon & Alisa Smith (Random House Canada), Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden by Don Gayton (Thistledown), Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan (Thistledown) and The Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941–67 by Patricia E. Roy (UBC Press).

The BC Book Prizes, administered by the West Coast Book Prize Society, have celebrated the achievements of British Columbian writers and publishers since 1985. For more information about the awards and a complete list of the finalists and winning titles, please visit: www.bcbookprizes.ca

BACKGROUND
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design.

In Everywhere Being is Dancing, the companion volume to The Tree of Meaning (GP, 2006), Robert Bringhurst collects twenty pieces of thinking under the subversive principle that "everything is related to everything else." His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, involving the work of poets, musicians, artists and philosophers as varied as Aristotle, J.S. Bach, Empedokles, Glenn Gould, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Joan Miró, Plato, Ezra Pound, Skaay and Gary Snyder. Accompanying the English narrative are passages in Chinese, German, Greek, Haida, Navajo, Russian and Tlingit, including Bringhurst’s own translations of the fragments of Parmenides and Cháálatsoh’s Navajo narrative "The Origin of Horses." This is a book for readers who want to find the patterns and taste some of the vocabulary for themselves, and for those interested, like Bringhurst, in meeting languages part way. This book also won a first place in the 2008 Alcuin Awards for excellence in book design.

For more information, contact:
Beth Crosby, Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
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