RBC Taylor Prize

Given by Charles Taylor Foundation

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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 näytä lisää historian and writer. The prize comes with a monetary value of $25,000. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (19), Finalist (70), Longlist (52)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2020 (5), 2019 (9), 2018 (10), 2017 (12), 2016 (11), 2015 (11), 2014 (12), 2013 (15), 2012 (11), 2011 (5), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (5), 2007 (3), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (5), 2002 (6), 2000 (6)

Winner 19

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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series) (tekijä: Mark Bourrie)2020
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road (tekijä: Kate Harris)2019
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (tekijä: Tanya Talaga)2018
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (tekijä: Ross King)2017
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (tekijä: Rosemary Sullivan)2016
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir (tekijä: Plum Johnson)2015
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (tekijä: Thomas King)2014
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (tekijä: Andrew Preston)2013
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery (tekijä: Andrew Westoll)2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times (tekijä: Charles Foran)2011
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (tekijä: Ian Brown)2010
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 (tekijä: Tim Cook)2009
John A: The Man Who Made Us (tekijä: Richard J. Gwyn)2008
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (tekijä: Rudy Wiebe)2007
Dead Man in Paradise (tekijä: J. B. MacKinnon)2006
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific (tekijä: Charles Montgomery)2005
Belonging (tekijä: Isabel Huggan)2004
Jane Austen (tekijä: Carol Shields)2002
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir (tekijä: Wayne Johnston)2000

Finalist 70

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Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? (tekijä: Robyn Doolittle)2020
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (tekijä: Jessica Mcdiarmid)2020
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World (tekijä: Ziya Tong)2020
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator (tekijä: Timothy C Winegard)2020
Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood (tekijä: Bill Gaston)2019
Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music (tekijä: Ian Hampton)2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir (tekijä: Elizabeth Hay)2019
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age (tekijä: Darrel J. McLeod)2019
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) (tekijä: Stephen R. Bown)2018
Life on the Ground Floor (tekijä: James Maskalyk)2018
In the Name of Humanity (tekijä: Max Wallace)2018
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz (tekijä: Max Eisen)2017
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story (tekijä: Matti Friedman)2017
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World (tekijä: Marc Raboy)2017
This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications (tekijä: Diane Schoemperlen)2017
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? (tekijä: Ian Brown)2016
This Is Happy (tekijä: Camilla Gibb)2016
Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War (tekijä: David Halton)2016
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir (tekijä: Wab Kinew)2016
One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada's Tragedy at Dieppe (tekijä: David O'Keefe)2015
The Last Asylum (tekijä: Barbara Taylor)2015
And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa (tekijä: M. G. Vassanji)2015
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (tekijä: Kathleen Winter)2015
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country (tekijä: Charlotte Gray)2014
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be (tekijä: J. B. MacKinnon)2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan (tekijä: Graeme Smith)2014
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life (tekijä: David Stouck)2014
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca (tekijä: Carol Bishop-Gwyn)2013
Warlords: Borden;mackenzie King And Canada's World Wars (tekijä: Tim Cook)2013
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (tekijä: Sandra Djwa)2013
Leonardo and the Last Supper (tekijä: Ross King)2013
Into the silence (tekijä: Wade Davis)2012
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (tekijä: Charlotte Gill)2012
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit (tekijä: Jj Lee)2012
Afflictions and Departures (tekijä: Madeline Sonik)2012
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women (tekijä: Stevie Cameron)2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (tekijä: Ross King)2011
The Geography of Arrival (tekijä: George Sipos)2011
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das (tekijä: Merrily Weisbord)2011
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 (tekijä: John English)2010
René Lévesque (tekijä: Daniel Poliquin)2010
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst (tekijä: Kenneth Whyte)2010
Sugar: A Bittersweet History (tekijä: Elizabeth Abbott)2009
Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World (tekijä: Ana Siljak)2009
Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy (tekijä: Kevin Bazzana)2008
The Film Club: A Memoir (tekijä: David Gilmour)2008
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (tekijä: Lorna Goodison)2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust (tekijä: Anna Porter)2008
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968 (tekijä: John English)2007
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (tekijä: Ross King)2007
The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Sorrow and Joy (tekijä: James Chatto)2006
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 (tekijä: Laura M. Mac Donald)2006
The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter (tekijä: John Terpstra)2006
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark (tekijä: Christopher Dewdney)2005
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered (tekijä: Patrick Lane)2005
A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq (tekijä: Paul William Roberts)2005
In The Shadow Of Silence (tekijä: Gertrud Baer)2004
Lake of the Prairies (tekijä: Warren Cariou)2004
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground (tekijä: J. Edward Chamberlin)2004
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (tekijä: Margaret MacMillan)2004
Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World (tekijä: Clark Blaise)2002
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten (tekijä: Michael David Kwan)2002
The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text (tekijä: A. B. McKillop)2002
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood (tekijä: Nega Mezlekia)2002
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (tekijä: Margaret Visser)2002
Losing the Dead (tekijä: Lisa Appignanesi)2000
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found (tekijä: Wayson Choy)2000
The Warrior's Honor (tekijä: Michael Ignatieff)2000
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century (tekijä: Witold Rybczynski)2000
Always give a penny to a blind man : a memoir (tekijä: Eric Wright)2000

Longlist 52

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Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir (tekijä: Mark Critch)2019
Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country (tekijä: David Johnston)2019
Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience (tekijä: Allan Levine)2019
Heart Berries: A Memoir (tekijä: Terese Marie Mailhot)2019
How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays (tekijä: Mandy Len Catron)2018
Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (tekijä: Daniel Coleman)2018
The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to Freedom (tekijä: Mohamed Fahmy)2018
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World (tekijä: Michael Harris)2018
A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land (tekijä: Adam Shoalts)2018
Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China (tekijä: Jan Wong)2018
Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD (tekijä: Roméo Dallaire)2017
An intimate wilderness : Arctic voices in a land of vast horizons (tekijä: Norman Hallendy)2017
The Killer Whale Who Changed the World (tekijä: Mark Leiren-Young)2017
Quinn: The Life of a Hockey Legend (tekijä: Dan Robson)2017
Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer (Life Writing) (tekijä: Kenneth Sherman)2017
Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve (tekijä: Alexandra Shimo)2017
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 (tekijä: Bill Waiser)2017
Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History (tekijä: Andrew Cohen)2016
Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa (tekijä: Will Ferguson)2016
Zoroaster's Children: and Other Travels (tekijä: Marius Kociejowski)2016
Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway (tekijä: Siobhan Roberts)2016
The Prison Book Club (tekijä: Ann Walmsley)2016
Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead (tekijä: Michael Winter)2016
The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943 (tekijä: Tim Cook)2015
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection (tekijä: Michael Harris)2015
Tämä muuttaa kaiken : kapitalismi vs ilmasto (tekijä: Naomi Klein)2015
Berlin : Imagine a city (tekijä: Rory MacLean)2015
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (tekijä: Charles Montgomery)2015
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising (tekijä: Alexandra Richie)2015
The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us (tekijä: Carolyn Abraham)2014
Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation (tekijä: Mary Janigan)2014
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (tekijä: Margaret MacMillan)2014
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit (tekijä: Witold Rybczynski)2014
Without Honour (tekijä: Rob Tripp)2014
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad (tekijä: Alison Wearing)2014
Little Ship of Fools: Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic (tekijä: Charles Wilkins)2014
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades (tekijä: Marcello Di Cintio)2013
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (tekijä: Modris Eksteins)2013
A Season in Hell (tekijä: Robert Fowler)2013
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (tekijä: Chrystia Freeland)2013
March Forth: The Inspiring True Story of a Canadian Soldier's Journey of Love, Hope and Survival [Hardcover] (tekijä: Trevor Greene)2013
Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives That Changed Canada (tekijä: Sandra Martin)2013
What We Talk About When We Talk About War (tekijä: Noah Richler)2013
Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century (tekijä: Jeffrey Simpson)2013
Epistolophilia : writing the life of Ona Šimaitė (tekijä: Julija Sukys)2013
The Universe Within (tekijä: Neil Turok)2013
Kiihkeä maa (tekijä: Carmen Aguirre)2012
The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan (tekijä: Ryan Flavelle)2012
John A: The Man Who Made Us (tekijä: Richard J. Gwyn)2012
Facing the Hunter (tekijä: David Adams Richards)2012
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live (tekijä: Ray Robertson)2012
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism (tekijä: Joel Yanofsky)2012

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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 prize comes with a monetary value of $25,000. (English, Member-written)
RBC 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 winner and $2,000 for each of the runners up. (English, Member-written)

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