Alan Twigg

Alan Twigg, founder of BC BookWorld, has written twenty books and produced seven films. When the award-winning Twigg was accorded a Doctorate of Literature from Simon Fraser University in 2022, the university described him as “British Columbia’s leading man of letters.”

He received the 13th annual Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2016. In 2015, he was inducted as a member of the Order of Canada. In 2011, he received the Mayor of Vancouver’s Literary Arts Award. In 2007, he became the second person to accept the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University “to recognize and support leaders in the humanities who are not necessarily part of the academy.” In 2000, he was the inaugural recipient of the Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions to literature and publishing. Visit him online at www.alantwigg.com.

Ronsdale books by Alan Twigg

Aboriginality: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Vol. 2
The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
Moon Madness: Dr. Louise Aall, Sixty Years of Healing in Africa
Out of Hiding: Holocaust Literature of British Columbia
Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800–1850
Tolstoy’s Words To Live By: Sequel to A Calendar of Wisdom
Undaunted: The Best of BC BookWorld