RBC Taylor Prize

The RBC Taylor Prize, formerly known as 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 was inaugurated in 2000, and was presented biennially until 2004. At the 2004 awards ceremony, it was announced that the Charles Taylor Prize would become an annual award.

The award has a monetary value of $25,000.

The award adopted its present name in December 2013, when RBC Wealth Management was announced as the new corporate sponsor.^[1] In addition, under RBC's sponsorship the award is adding a second $10,000 award for an emerging Canadian literary non-fiction writer between the ages of 18 and 35, to be chosen by the winner of the main award. This award was presented for the first time at the 2014 ceremony.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner	Nominated
2000	Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion	Lisa Appignanesi, Losing the Dead Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood 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
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
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
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
2006	J. B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise	James Chatto, The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Corfu Laura M. Mac Donald, Curse of the Narrows: the Halifax Explosion of 1917 John Terpstra, The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter
2007	Rudy Wiebe, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest	John English, Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Vol. One: 1919-1968 Ross King, The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
2008	Richard Gwyn, John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald, Vol. One: 1815-1867	Kevin Bazzana, Lost Genius: The Story of a Forgotten Musical Maverick David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
2009	Tim Cook, Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918	Elizabeth Abbott, Sugar: A Bittersweet History Ana Siljak, Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Assassin, the Governor of St. Petersburg and Russia's Revolutionary World
2010	Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son	John English, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 Daniel Poliquin, René Lévesque Kenneth Whyte, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst
2011	Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times	Stevie Cameron, On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven George Sipos, The Geography of Arrival: A Memoir Merrily Weisbord, The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
2012	Andrew Westoll, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery	Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe JJ Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit Madeline Sonik, Afflictions & Departures: Essays
2013	Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy[2]	Carol Bishop-Gwyn, The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca Tim Cook, Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King, and Canada’s World Wars Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page Ross King, Leonardo and The Last Supper
2014[3]	Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America[4]	Charlotte Gray, The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country J. B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan David Stouck, Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
2015	Plum Johnson, They Left Us Everything[5]	David O'Keefe, One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe Barbara Taylor, The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times M. G. Vassanji, And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa Kathleen Winter, Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award

The RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award was instituted for the first time in 2014. The award is presented to an emerging writer selected by the winner of that year's primary award, and consists of $10,000 and a mentorship from the writer who made the selection.

The inaugural winner of the Emerging Writer Award, selected by Thomas King and announced on March 17, 2014, was Leanne Simpson.^[6]

References

External links

• RBC Taylor Prize