Twigg, Alan
Alan Twigg
Ronsdale books by Alan Twigg:
- First Invaders: The Literary Origins of British Columbia
- Aboriginality: The Literary Origins of British Columbia, Vol. 2
- Thompson’s Highway: British Columbia’s Fur Trade, 1800–1850
- Tibetans in Exile: The Dalai Lama & the Woodcocks
- The Essentials: 150 Great B.C. Books & Authors
- Undaunted: The Best of BC BookWorld
- Moon Madness: Dr. Louise Aall, Sixty Years of Healing in Africa
- Tolstoy’s Words To Live By: Sequel to A Calendar of Wisdom
- Out of Hiding
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
