Presenting the five authors nominated for the literary nonfiction award
Trophy and a book
The five authors shortlisted for this year’s Charles Taylor Prize are:
The winner, who will take home $25,000 for penning a work of Canadian nonfiction that “best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style, and a subtlety of thought and perception,” will be announced on Mar. 4, 2013.
Andrew Westoll won the prize last year for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery.