Annabel Lyon has swept through literary award short lists with her novel The Golden Mean. (Random House Canada)

Three debut novels, including the much-lauded The Golden Mean, have scooped nominations for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, one of seven B.C. book prizes.

The Golden Mean, a novel about Aristotle teaching the young Alexander the Great, has swept Canada's fiction prizes this year, with nods for the Giller, the Governor-General's Literary Award and the Canadian First Novel Award.

Vancouver writer Annabel Lyon also was winner of the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Two other debut novels — Daniel O'Thunder by Ian Weir and Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison by Cathleen With — are also nominated for B.C.'s fiction prize, along with a debut short story collection, Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis.

Willis was a GG Award nominee, and Weir is a First Novel Award finalist for his book about a prize-fighting evangelist.

The final contender for the fiction prize is Michael Turner for 8 x 10, a novel about war, immigration, and dislocation in which the characters have no names. Turner, author of the 1999 book, The Pornographer's Poem, is known for experimenting with unusual writing styles.

Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, Brian Brett's affecting exploration of small mixed farming, which gives a scathing critique of modern agribusiness, got multiple nominations, as the West Coast Book Prize Society released its lists on Thursday.

Already winner of the Writers Trust Non-Fiction Prize, Trauma Farm is now a finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award voted on by B.C. booksellers, the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, a prize for contributing to understanding of B.C., and the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize.

Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia, which tells the fascinating stories behind B.C. place names, earned nominations for two awards for author Andrew Scott. It updates a work created in 1909 by Captain John T. Walbran.

Nominees for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:

• Gillian Jerome, Red Nest ( Nightwood Editions).
• Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp Press).
• Miranda Pearson, Harbour (Oolichan Books).
• Fred Wah, is a door (Talonbooks).
• David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (Harbour Publishing).

Nominees for the Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize:

• Ehor Boyanowsky, Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts: In the Wild with Ted Hughes (Douglas & McIntyre).
• Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books).
• Lorna Crozier, Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir (Greystone Books).
• Charles Demers, Vancouver Special (Arsenal Pulp Press).
• Brian Payton, The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness (Doubleday Canada).

Nominees for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize:

• Neil Boyd, Larry Campbell, Lori Culbert, A Thousand Dreams: Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future (Greystone Books).
• Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (Greystone Books).
• Lorne Dufour, Jacob's Prayer (Caitlin Press).
• Ian Gill, All That We Say is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation (Douglas & McIntyre).
• Andrew Scott, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia (Harbour Publishing).

Nominees for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize :

• Kristin Butcher, Return to Bone Tree Hill ( Thistledown Press).
• Rachelle Delaney, The Ship of Lost Souls (HarperCollins Canada).
• Sylvia Olsen, Counting on Hope (Sono Nis Press).
• Carrie Mac, The Gryphon Project, Penguin Group (Canada).
• Robin Stevenson, Inferno (Orca Book Publishers).

Nominees for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize:

• Robert Bateman, author/illustrator, Vanishing Habitats (Scholastic Canada).
• Fiona Bayrock, author, Carolyn Conahan, illustrator, Bubble Homes and Fish Farts (Charlesbridge Publishing).
• Jennifer Lloyd, author, Ashley Spires, illustrator, Ella's Umbrellas (Simply Read Books).
• Kari-Lynn Winters, author, Christina Leist, illustrator, On My Walk (Tradewind Books).
• Frieda Wishinsky, author, Dean Griffiths, illustrator, Maggie Can't Wait (Fitzhenry & Whiteside).

Nominees for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award, an award for publishers and authors:

• Brian Brett and Greystone Books, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.
• Masako Fukawa, Stanley Fukawa, and Harbour Publishing, Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC's Japanese Canadian Fishermen.
• Dal Richards, Jim Taylor, and Harbour Publishing, One More Time: The Dal Richards Story.
• Andrew Scott and Harbour Publishing, Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names: A Complete Reference to Coastal British Columbia.
• Michael Yahgulanaas and Douglas & McIntyre, Red: A Haida Manga.

Winners will be announced April 7 in Vancouver.