Subscribe via RSS 2.0The Charles Taylor Prize commemorates Charles Taylor's pursuit of excellence in the field of literary non-fiction. The prize will be awarded to the author whose book best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style, and a subtlety of thought and perception.
The prize consists of $25,000 for the winning author as well as promotional support to help all shortlisted book stand out in the national media, bookstores and libraries. Author whose books have been shortlisted for the Prize will be brought to Toronto for the awards ceremony. The winner will be invited to read at both the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and at the Vancouver International Writers Festival on Granville Island this fall.
For more information, visit www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca.
John A.: The Man Who Made Us - hardcoverBy Richard Gwyn - $37.00
Winner of the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded...
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest - trade paperbackBy Rudy Wiebe - $22.00
Winner of the 2007 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.A beautiful, moving memoir of a boy’s coming of age, infused with a deep love of the land, from one of Canada’s most cherished and a...
Dead Man in Paradise - trade paperbackBy J. B. Mackinnon - $22.95
Winner of the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.Shortlisted for the 2006 Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.A nephew’s search for the truth about his uncle’s murder in the Do...
Belonging: Home Away from Home - trade paperbackBy Isabel Huggan - $22.00
Winner of the 2004 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. The long-awaited new book from the acclaimed short story writer, author of The Elizabeth Stories and You Never Know.Belonging is...
Jane Austen: A Life - trade paperbackBy Carol Shields - $15.50
Winner of the 2002 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a w...
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir - trade paperbackBy Wayne Johnston - $21.00
Winner of the 2000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.Baltimore's Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Ava...
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