RBC Taylor Prize

Utdelare: Charles Taylor Foundation

Andra namn: Charles Taylor Prize (engelska), Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (engelska)
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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 visa mer historian and writer. The prize comes with a monetary value of $25,000. visa färre
Stadier:
Alla, Winner (19), Finalist (70), Longlist (52)
År:
Alla, 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

VerkÅr
Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series) av Mark Bourrie2020
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road av Kate Harris2019
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City av Tanya Talaga2018
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies av Ross King2017
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva av Rosemary Sullivan2016
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir av Plum Johnson2015
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America av Thomas King2014
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy av Andrew Preston2013
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery av Andrew Westoll2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times av Charles Foran2011
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son av Ian Brown2010
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 av Tim Cook2009
John A: The Man Who Made Us av Richard J. Gwyn2008
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest av Rudy Wiebe2007
Dead Man in Paradise av J. B. MacKinnon2006
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific av Charles Montgomery2005
Belonging av Isabel Huggan2004
Jane Austen av Carol Shields2002
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir av Wayne Johnston2000

Finalist 70

VerkÅr
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? av Robyn Doolittle2020
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls av Jessica Mcdiarmid2020
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World av Ziya Tong2020
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator av Timothy C Winegard2020
Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood av Bill Gaston2019
Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music av Ian Hampton2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir av Elizabeth Hay2019
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age av Darrel J. McLeod2019
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) av Stephen R. Bown2018
Life on the Ground Floor av James Maskalyk2018
In the Name of Humanity av Max Wallace2018
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz av Max Eisen2017
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story av Matti Friedman2017
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World av Marc Raboy2017
This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications av Diane Schoemperlen2017
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? av Ian Brown2016
This Is Happy av Camilla Gibb2016
Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War av David Halton2016
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir av Wab Kinew2016
One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada's Tragedy at Dieppe av David O'Keefe2015
The Last Asylum av Barbara Taylor2015
And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa av M. G. Vassanji2015
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage av Kathleen Winter2015
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country av Charlotte Gray2014
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be av J. B. MacKinnon2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan av Graeme Smith2014
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life av David Stouck2014
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca av Carol Bishop-Gwyn2013
Warlords: Borden;mackenzie King And Canada's World Wars av Tim Cook2013
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page av Sandra Djwa2013
Leonardo and the Last Supper av Ross King2013
Into the silence av Wade Davis2012
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe av Charlotte Gill2012
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit av Jj Lee2012
Afflictions and Departures av Madeline Sonik2012
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women av Stevie Cameron2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven av Ross King2011
The Geography of Arrival av George Sipos2011
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das av Merrily Weisbord2011
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 av John English2010
René Lévesque av Daniel Poliquin2010
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst av Kenneth Whyte2010
Sugar: A Bittersweet History av Elizabeth Abbott2009
Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World av Ana Siljak2009
Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy av Kevin Bazzana2008
Filmklubben : [en sann historia om en far och en son - och massor av film] av David Gilmour2008
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island av Lorna Goodison2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust av Anna Porter2008
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968 av John English2007
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism av Ross King2007
The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Sorrow and Joy av James Chatto2006
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 av Laura M. Mac Donald2006
The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter av John Terpstra2006
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark av Christopher Dewdney2005
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered av Patrick Lane2005
A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq av Paul William Roberts2005
In The Shadow Of Silence av Gertrud Baer2004
Lake of the Prairies av Warren Cariou2004
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground av J. Edward Chamberlin2004
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World av Margaret MacMillan2004
Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World av Clark Blaise2002
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten av Michael David Kwan2002
The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text av A. B. McKillop2002
Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood av Nega Mezlekia2002
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church av Margaret Visser2002
Losing the Dead av Lisa Appignanesi2000
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found av Wayson Choy2000
Krigarens heder : etniska krig och det moderna samvetet av Michael Ignatieff2000
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century av Witold Rybczynski2000
Always give a penny to a blind man : a memoir av Eric Wright2000

Longlist 52

VerkÅr
Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir av Mark Critch2019
Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country av David Johnston2019
Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience av Allan Levine2019
Heart Berries: A Memoir av Terese Marie Mailhot2019
How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays av Mandy Len Catron2018
Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place av Daniel Coleman2018
The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to Freedom av Mohamed Fahmy2018
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World av Michael Harris2018
A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land av Adam Shoalts2018
Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China av Jan Wong2018
Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD av Roméo Dallaire2017
An intimate wilderness : Arctic voices in a land of vast horizons av Norman Hallendy2017
The Killer Whale Who Changed the World av Mark Leiren-Young2017
Quinn: The Life of a Hockey Legend av Dan Robson2017
Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer (Life Writing) av Kenneth Sherman2017
Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve av Alexandra Shimo2017
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 av Bill Waiser2017
Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History av Andrew Cohen2016
Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa av Will Ferguson2016
Zoroaster's Children: and Other Travels av Marius Kociejowski2016
Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway av Siobhan Roberts2016
The Prison Book Club av Ann Walmsley2016
Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead av Michael Winter2016
The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943 av Tim Cook2015
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection av Michael Harris2015
Det här förändrar allt : kapitalismen kontra klimatet av Naomi Klein2015
Berlin : Imagine a city av Rory MacLean2015
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design av Charles Montgomery2015
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising av Alexandra Richie2015
The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us av Carolyn Abraham2014
Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation av Mary Janigan2014
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 av Margaret MacMillan2014
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit av Witold Rybczynski2014
Without Honour av Rob Tripp2014
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad av Alison Wearing2014
Little Ship of Fools: Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic av Charles Wilkins2014
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades av Marcello Di Cintio2013
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age av Modris Eksteins2013
A Season in Hell av Robert Fowler2013
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else av Chrystia Freeland2013
March Forth: The Inspiring True Story of a Canadian Soldier's Journey of Love, Hope and Survival [Hardcover] av Trevor Greene2013
Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives That Changed Canada av Sandra Martin2013
What We Talk About When We Talk About War av Noah Richler2013
Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century av Jeffrey Simpson2013
Epistolophilia : writing the life of Ona Šimaitė av Julija Sukys2013
The Universe Within av Neil Turok2013
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter av Carmen Aguirre2012
The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan av Ryan Flavelle2012
John A: The Man Who Made Us av Richard J. Gwyn2012
Facing the Hunter av David Adams Richards2012
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live av Ray Robertson2012
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism av Joel Yanofsky2012

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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, Medlemsbidrag)
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, Medlemsbidrag)

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