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. It was presented bi-annually until 2004. At the 2004 awards ceremony, it was announced that the Charles Taylor Prize would become an annual award.

1 Winners and Nominees
- 1.1 2000
- 1.2 2002
- 1.3 2004
- 1.4 2005
- 1.5 2006

[edit] Winners and Nominees

[edit] 2000

Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion
Lisa Appignanesi, Losing the Dead
Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows
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