Ian Brown Wins The 2009 Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction by McNally Robinson - Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:38am The Winner of the 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is Ian Brown for The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son.

Here is Ian Brown in conversation with Tim Falconer about The Boy in the Moon.

The jury, composed of authors Andrew Cohen and Tim Cook and translator Sheila Fischman, read 125 books and chose the winner from a shortlist of four. The remaining prize finalists are:

John English, author of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968 - 2000, published by Knopf Canada.

Daniel Poliquin, author of René Lévesque, published by Penguin Canada.

Kenneth Whyte, author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, published by Random House Canada.

The year 2010 marks the ninth awarding of the prestigious prize, which recognizes excellence in Canadian literary non-fiction. The award was established in 1998 to commemorate the life and work of one of Canada's foremost literary non-fiction writers, the late Charles Taylor. The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is presented to a Canadian author whose book best demonstrates a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style and a subtlety of thought and perception.

Congratulations to Ian Brown.

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