Shaughnessy Cohen Award
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The Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best non-fiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It was presented for the first time in 2000.
It is named in honour of Shaughnessy Cohen, a Liberal Member of Parliament who died in 1998. The award is sponsored by CTV.
[edit] Winners of the Shaughnessy Cohen Award
- 2000 - Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
- 2001 - Daniel Poliquin, In the Name of the Father: An Essay on Quebec Nationalism (translated by Don Winkler)
- 2002 - John Duffy, Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership and the Making of Canada
- 2003 - Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- 2004 - Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
- 2005 - Miriam Shuchman, The Drug Trial
- 2006 - Max Nemni, Monique Nemni (authors) and William Johnson (translator), Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944
- 2007 - Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang, The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar
