The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

Sponsored by Rogers Communications Inc.
Winner $15,000; Finalists $2,000

Established in 1997, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year's best novel or short-story collection.

The Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize

Sponsored by Pearson Canada
Winner $15,000; Finalists $2,000

Originally established by Viacom and the Writers' Trust of Canada, Pearson Canada took over sponsorship of this prize in 1999. This award is for a work of non-fiction that, in the opinion of the judges, shows the highest literary merit.

The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize

Sponsored by Claire Drainie Taylor & Nathan A. (Nat) Taylor
$10,000

The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize is awarded annually for the best work of biography, autobiography, or personal memoir. It was created in 1998 in the name of two men who made significant contributions to Canadian culture and entertainment: Nathan (Nat) A. Taylor is one of the country's leading entertainment impresarios and a founder of Cineplex. John Drainie (1916-1966) was a prominent member of Canada’s first generation of professional actors. These two outstanding individuals are linked through writer and actor Claire Drainie Taylor, who was married to John from 1942 until his death in 1966, and who is now married to Nat Taylor.

	Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize	The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize	The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
	The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

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Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust - hardcover
By Anna Porter - $37.95

Winner of the 2007 Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.Finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of t...

 

The Book of Negroes - trade paperback
By Laurence Hill - $24.95

Winner of the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Longlisted for the 2007 Giller Prize.Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her vi...

 

Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar - hardcover
By Janice Gross Stein - $35.00

With our troops now committed until 2009, The Unexpected War exposes the poverty of Canadian foreign policy, arguing that Canada’s various military missions in Afghanistan have been ad hoc in natur...