Kathryn Mockler, Raina Delisle win top Victoria Book Prizes Winners Kathryn Mockler and Raina Delisle were chosen from more than 50 books by a jury from the local literary arts community. Mike Devlin Oct 16, 2024 10:00 PM Share by Email Share on Facebook Share on X Share on LinkedIn Print Share via Text Message Previous Next 1 / 1 Kathryn Mockler has won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. DAVID POOLMAN Advertisement Expand Listen to this article 00:01:47 Winners of the Victoria Book Prizes were announced Wednesday, with authors Kathryn Mockler and Raina Delisle earning top honours.
Mockler won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize, which recognizes the year’s best fiction, non-fiction, or poetry book by a writer from the Capital Regional District, for Anecdotes . Delisle took home the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize, which celebrates the best book published in the children’s and youth literature genre by an author from the Capital Regional District, for Breaking News: Why Media Matters . Both winners were chosen from more than 50 books published between April 2023 and March 2024 by a jury from the local literary arts community.
Each author receives $5,000 as part of their award. The winners were announced by Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto and co-sponsor Brian Butler during a gala at the Union Club of British Columbia on Wednesday night. “Both winners of this year’s City of Victoria book prizes demonstrate an acute awareness of the society we inhabit and t.