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The Charles Taylor Prize is a Canadian
Canada

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 literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles Taylor
Charles P. B. Taylor

Charles Plunket Bourchier Taylor was a Canada journalist, author, essayist, and Thoroughbred horse racing owner and breeder.While studying at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Charles Taylor was part of the student broadcast team on CFRC-FM, the campus radio station....
, a noted Canadian historian and writer.

The award has a monetary value of $
Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or C$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies....
25,000.

The prize was inaugurated in 2000, and was presented biennially until 2004. At the 2004 awards ceremony, it was announced that the Charles Taylor Prize would become an annual award.








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The Charles Taylor Prize is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles Taylor
Charles P. B. Taylor

Charles Plunket Bourchier Taylor was a Canada journalist, author, essayist, and Thoroughbred horse racing owner and breeder.While studying at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Charles Taylor was part of the student broadcast team on CFRC-FM, the campus radio station....
, a noted Canadian historian and writer.

The award has a monetary value of $
Canadian dollar

The Canadian dollar is the currency of Canada. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or C$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies....
25,000.

The prize was inaugurated in 2000, and was presented biennially until 2004. At the 2004 awards ceremony, it was announced that the Charles Taylor Prize would become an annual award.

Winners and Nominees


2000

  • Wayne Johnston
    Wayne Johnston (author)

    Wayne Johnston is a Canada novelist.His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting....
    , Baltimore's Mansion
  • Lisa Appignanesi
    Lisa Appignanesi

    Lisa Appignanesi is a British writer, historian, campaigner for freedom of the press and President of the English branch of International PEN....
    ,     Losing the Dead
  • Wayson Choy
    Wayson Choy

    Wayson Choy, Order of Canada is a Canadian writer....
    ,     Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
    Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood

    Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a memoir by Wayson Choy. It was first published in 1999 by Viking Canada.The book recounts Choy's experiences growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown, Vancouver in the 1940s and 1950s....
  • Witold Rybczynski
    Witold Rybczynski

    Witold Rybczynski , is a Canada architecture, professor and writer.Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Poland parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada....
    ,     A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century
  • Eric Wright
    Eric Wright (writer)

    Eric Wright is a Canada writer of Mystery fiction novels.Born in London, England, Wright immigrated to Canada in 1951. He attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto....
    ,     Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man


2002

  • Carol Shields
    Carol Shields

    Carol Ann Shields, Order of Canada, Order of Manitoba, Royal Society of Canada was an United States-born Canada author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S....
    ,     Jane Austen
  • Clark Blaise
    Clark Blaise

    Clark Blaise is a Canada author.Born in Fargo, North Dakota, North Dakota, he currently lives in San Francisco, California. He has been married since 1963 to writer Bharati Mukherjee....
    , Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian who Missed His Train and Changed the World
  • Michael David Kwan, Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China
  • A. B. McKillop
    A. B. McKillop

    A.B. McKillop is currently Chancellor's Professor and Chair of the history department of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.McKillop was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and educated at the University of Manitoba and Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario ....
    , The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
  • Nega Mezlekia
    Nega Mezlekia

    Nega Mezlekia is an award winning Ethiopian writer who writes in English language. His first language is the Amharic language, but since the 1980s he has lived in Canada so speaks and writes in English....
    , Notes from the Hyena's Belly: Memories of my Ethiopian Boyhood
  • Margaret Visser
    Margaret Visser

    Margaret Visser is a writer and broadcaster who lives in Toronto, Barcelona, and South West France. Her subject matter is the history, anthropology, and mythology of everyday life....
    , The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church


2004

  • Isabel Huggan
    Isabel Huggan

    Isabel Huggan , is a prize-winning Canadian author of fiction and personal essays....
    , Belonging: Home Away From Home
  • Gertrud Mackprang Baer, In the Shadow of Silence: From Hitler Youth to Allied Internment, A Young Woman's Story of Truth and Denial
  • Warren Cariou
    Warren Cariou

    Warren Cariou is a writer and Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Manitoba. He received a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA and PhD from the University of Toronto ....
    ,     Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging
  • J. Edward Chamberlin, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
  • Margaret MacMillan
    Margaret MacMillan

    Margaret Olwen MacMillan DPhil, Order of Canada is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford....
    ,     Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World


2005

  • Charles Montgomery
    Charles Montgomery

    Charles Montgomery is an award-winning Canada writer and photojournalist.Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, he spent his formative years on a farm on Vancouver Island, and was educated at the University of Victoria and Langara College....
    ,     The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia
    The Last Heathen

    The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia is a book by Charles Montgomery, published in Canada by Douglas and McIntyre in 2004....
  • Christopher Dewdney
    Christopher Dewdney

    Christopher Dewdney was born in London, Ontario, Ontario, on May 9, 1951, and now lives in Toronto, where he is a professor at York University. Winner of the 2007 Harbourfront Festival Prize, he is the author of four books of non-fiction as well as eleven books of poetry....
    , Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
  • Patrick Lane
    Patrick Lane

    Patrick Lane is an award-winnig Canada poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel, Red Dog, Red Dog....
    , There is a Season: A Memoir in the Garden
  • Paul William Roberts
    Paul William Roberts

    Paul William Roberts is a Canada writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario.Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, Oxford University, where he gained a British undergraduate degree classification in English Language and Literature, Roberts moved permanently to Canada in 1980....
    , A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq


2006

  • J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise
  • James Chatto, The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Corfu
  • Laura M. Mac Donald, Curse of the Narrows: the Halifax Explosion of 1917
  • John Terpstra
    John Terpstra

    John Terpstra is a Canada poet and carpenter.During much of his childhood, he lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Alberta, but moved back to Ontario to attend high school in Hamilton, Ontario, where he lives today....
    ,     The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter


2007

  • Rudy Wiebe
    Rudy Wiebe

    Rudy Henry Wiebe is a Canada author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992....
    ,     Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
  • Ross King
    Ross King (author)

    Ross King is a Canadian-born novelist and historian now based in the United Kingdom. After starting his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, King began focusing his attention on non-fiction, and has since authored several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works....
    , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
  • John English
    John English

    John Richard English, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada is a Canada academic who has also been veryactive in Canadian public life.A native of Plattsville, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 from the University of Waterloo, a A.M....
    , Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Vol. One: 1919-1968


2008

  • Richard Gwyn
    Richard Gwyn

    Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, Order of Canada , Doctor of Laws is a Canada civil servant, journalist and author.Born in Bury St. Edmunds, England, the second son of Brigadier Philip Eustace Congreve Jermy-Gwyn, an Indian Army officer, and Elizabeth Edith Jermy-Gwyn he was educated at Stonyhurst College and the Royal Military Academy Sa...
    , John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald, Vol. One: 1815-1867
  • Kevin Bazzana
    Kevin Bazzana

    Kevin Bazzana is a Canada music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the influential Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould.A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Bazzana currently lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia....
    ,     Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick
  • David Gilmour
    David Gilmour (writer)

    David Gilmour is a Canada novelist and television journalist.He became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival in 1980, a post he held for four years....
    ,     The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
  • Lorna Goodison
    Lorna Goodison

    Lorna Goodison is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian literature of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan....
    ,     From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People
  • Anna Porter
    Anna Porter

    Anna Maria Porter is a Canada publisher and novelist.Born Anna Szigethy in Budapest, she emigrated to New Zealand in 1956 to escape the Soviet presence in Hungary....
    ,     Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust


2009

  • Tim Cook, Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918
  • Elizabeth Abbott, Sugar: A Bittersweet History
  • Ana Siljak, Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World


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