Charles Taylor Prize
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The Charles Taylor Prize is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Charles Taylor Foundation to the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction. It is named for Charles Taylor, a noted Canadian historian and writer.
The award has a monetary value of $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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[edit] Winners and nominees
[edit] 2000
Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion- Lisa Appignanesi, Losing the Dead
- Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
- Witold Rybczynski, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century
- Eric Wright, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man
[edit] 2002
- Carol Shields, Jane Austen
- Clark Blaise, 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, The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
- Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly: Memories of my Ethiopian Boyhood
- Margaret Visser, The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
[edit] 2004
- Isabel Huggan, 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, Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging
- J. Edward Chamberlin, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
- Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
[edit] 2005
- Charles Montgomery, The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia
- Christopher Dewdney, Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
- Patrick Lane, There is a Season: A Memoir in the Garden
- Paul William Roberts, A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq
[edit] 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, The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter
[edit] 2007
- Rudy Wiebe, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
- Ross King, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
- John English, Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Vol. One: 1919-1968
[edit] 2008
- Richard Gwyn, John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald, Vol. One: 1815-1867
- Kevin Bazzana, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick
- David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
- Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People
- Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
[edit] 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
[edit] 2010
- Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son
- John English, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000
- Daniel Poliquin, René Lévesque
- Kenneth Whyte, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
[edit] 2011
- Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
- Stevie Cameron, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women
- Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
- George Sipos, The Geography of Arrival: A Memoir
- Merrily Weisbord, The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
[edit] 2012
- Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
- Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
- JJ Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit
- Madeline Sonik, Afflictions & Departures: Essays
- Andrew Westoll, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery
