RBC Taylor Prize Shortlist Announced
On January 15, the finalists for the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize were announced. The award, formerly known as the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, 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".
In addition to sponsorship from RBC Wealth Management and the name change, a new award has been added. The RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writers Award will be given to a promising Canadian non-fiction writer between the ages of 18-35. The RBC Taylor Prize winner will select the winner of this award and will become a mentor for the writer chosen.
Finalists for the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize are:
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Arthur Erickson: an Architect's Life by David Stouck
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The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith
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The Inconvenient Indian: a Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
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The Massey Murder: a Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked the Nation by Charlotte Gray
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The Once and Future World: Nature as it is, as it was, as it could be by J.B. MacKinnon
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The winners of the RBC Taylor Prize and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writers Award will be announced on March 10.
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