City of Vancouver News Release: Vancouver Remembered wins City of Vancouver Book Award

City of Vancouver News Release

January 29, 2008

Vancouver Remembered wins City of Vancouver Book Award

Artist and writer Michael Kluckner is the winner of the 2007 City of Vancouver Book Award for his work Vancouver Remembered (Whitecap Books), which reveals layers of changing colour and light in Vancouver’s evolving neighbourhoods.

Mayor Sam Sullivan presented the $2,000 award to Whitecap Books’ publisher Robert McCullough, who accepted on Kluckner’s behalf during a Vancouver City Council meeting on Tuesday.

An independent jury cited Kluckner’s stand-out work for its meticulous research and ability to paint a complex picture of Vancouver’s social histories, architecture and design. Using archival photos, images from pre-Expo 86 Vancouver, and his own beautifully illustrated watercolours, Kluckner traces his remembrances of a decline and rebirth of the city where he grew up in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Vancouver-born Kluckner is an advocate for arts, culture and heritage and has served on local, regional and national heritage foundations. As he writes in Vancouver Remembered, he has spent his career “summing up places.”

The City of Vancouver Book Award is presented annually to authors of books in any genre that demonstrate excellence and enhance our understanding of Vancouver’s rich history and culture. The independent jury who chose the 2007 winner and the four shortlisted titles included: University of B.C. English professor Glenn Deer; bookseller Marc Fournier; and author Karen X. Tulchinsky.

The other finalists for this year’s award were: Grant Arnold and Michael Turner for Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Douglas and McIntyre and the Vancouver Art Gallery); Anita Rau Badami for Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (Knopf Canada); and Brett Josef Grubisic for The Age of Cities (Arsenal Pulp Press).

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