The Last Island
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The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Alison Watt, first published in September 2002 by Harbour Publishing. In the book, the author chronicles her return to Triangle Island, a bird sanctuary off the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Watt spent four months studying tufted puffins with her mentor Anne Vallee, returning 16 years later after Vallee's death. The Last Island is written in "beautiful language combined with watercolour paintings" with the power to "transport the reader to the island".[2]
Awards and honours
The Last Island received the "Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour" in June 2012, for "the best in Canadian humour writing".[3] The book also received the 2003 "Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction".[2]
See also
References
- ^ Goodreads, The Last Island, Book review, Retrieved 11/26/2012
- ^ a b Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012
- ^ The Leacock Associates, Overseeing the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for humour writing, Retrieved 11/17/2012
External links
- Allison Watt, Home page, Retrieved 11/27/2012
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Winners of the Edna Staebler Award
- Susan Mayse, Ginger (1991)
- Marie Wadden, Nitassinan, (1992)
- Liza Potvin, White Lies (for my mother) and Elizabeth Hay, The Only Snow in Havana (1993)
- Linda Johns, Sharing a Robin's Life (1994)
- Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children (1995)
- George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy (1996)
- Anne Mullens, Timely Death (1997)
- Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King (1998)
- Michael Poole, Romancing Mary Jane (1999)
- Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows (2000)
- Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues (2001)
- Tom Allen, Rolling Home (2002)
- Alison Watt, The Last Island (2003)
- Andrea Curtis, Into the Blue (2004)
- Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret (2005)
- Francis Chalifour, After (2006)
- Linden MacIntyre, Causeway (2007)
- Bruce Serafin, Stardust (2008)
- Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House (2009)
- John Leigh Walters, A Very Capable Life (2010)
- Helen Waldstein Wilkes, Letters from the Lost (2011)
- Joshua Knelman, Hot Art (2012)
- Carol Shaben, Into the Abyss (2013)
- Arno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway (2014)
- Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats (2015)
- Ann Walmsley, The Prison Book Club (2016)
- Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo (2017)
- Pauline Dakin, Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood (2018)
- Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road (2019)
- Ann Hui, Chop Suey Nation (2020)
- Vicki Laveau-Harvie, The Erratics: A Memoir (2021)
- Jillian Horton, We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing (2022)
- Hilary Peach, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood (2023)
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