Two Greater Victoria authors were recognized for their literary achievements at a gala held on October 14th at the Union Club of British Columbia.  Patrick Lane, author of Red Dog, Red Dog, was presented with the 6th Annual City of Victoria Butler Book Prize.  Penny Draper, author of Graveyard of the Sea, was named the winner of the 2nd Annual Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize.

National bestseller Red Dog, Red Dog, set in a small B.C. interior town during the 1950’s, focuses on two brothers bound together by family loyalty and inarticulate love.  The book marks Lane’s fiction debut following an award-winning collection of over twenty books of poetry.

Set in 1906, Graveyard of the Sea is about Nell, a young girl residing with her family in a lighthouse on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island.  She learns Morse code and becomes a hero after saving a stricken ship from joining the graveyard of the sea.

Learn more about the authors: Penny Draper; Patrick Lane.

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