RBC Taylor Prize

Given by Charles Taylor Foundation

Autres noms: Charles Taylor Prize (Anglais), Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (Anglais)
140 oeuvres / 141 Items 26,011 Livres 916 critiques ½ 3.9
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 afficher plus historian and writer. The prize comes with a monetary value of $25,000. afficher moins
Stages:
Tous, Winner (19), Finalist (70), Longlist (52)
Années:
Tous, 2020 (5), 2019 (9), 2018 (10), 2017 (12), 2016 (11), 2015 (11), 2014 (12), 2013 (15), 2012 (11), 2011 (5), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (5), 2007 (3), 2006 (4), 2005 (4), 2004 (5), 2002 (6), 2000 (6)

Winner 19

ŒuvreAnnée
Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Untold Lives Series) par Mark Bourrie2020
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road par Kate Harris2019
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City par Tanya Talaga2018
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies par Ross King2017
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva par Rosemary Sullivan2016
They Left Us Everything: A Memoir par Plum Johnson2015
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America par Thomas King2014
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy par Andrew Preston2013
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery par Andrew Westoll2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times par Charles Foran2011
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son par Ian Brown2010
Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 par Tim Cook2009
John A: The Man Who Made Us par Richard J. Gwyn2008
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest par Rudy Wiebe2007
Dead Man in Paradise par J. B. MacKinnon2006
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific par Charles Montgomery2005
Belonging par Isabel Huggan2004
Jane Austen par Carol Shields2002
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir par Wayne Johnston2000

Finalist 70

ŒuvreAnnée
Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? par Robyn Doolittle2020
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls par Jessica Mcdiarmid2020
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World par Ziya Tong2020
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator par Timothy C Winegard2020
Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood par Bill Gaston2019
Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir in Music par Ian Hampton2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir par Elizabeth Hay2019
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age par Darrel J. McLeod2019
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) par Stephen R. Bown2018
Life on the Ground Floor par James Maskalyk2018
In the Name of Humanity par Max Wallace2018
By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz par Max Eisen2017
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story par Matti Friedman2017
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World par Marc Raboy2017
This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications par Diane Schoemperlen2017
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? par Ian Brown2016
This Is Happy par Camilla Gibb2016
Dispatches from the Front: The Life of Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War par David Halton2016
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir par Wab Kinew2016
One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada's Tragedy at Dieppe par David O'Keefe2015
The Last Asylum par Barbara Taylor2015
And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa par M. G. Vassanji2015
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage par Kathleen Winter2015
The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master and the Trial that Shocked a Country par Charlotte Gray2014
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be par J. B. MacKinnon2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan par Graeme Smith2014
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life par David Stouck2014
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca par Carol Bishop-Gwyn2013
Warlords: Borden;mackenzie King And Canada's World Wars par Tim Cook2013
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page par Sandra Djwa2013
Leonardo and the Last Supper par Ross King2013
Into the silence par Wade Davis2012
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe par Charlotte Gill2012
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit par Jj Lee2012
Afflictions and Departures par Madeline Sonik2012
On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women par Stevie Cameron2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven par Ross King2011
The Geography of Arrival par George Sipos2011
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das par Merrily Weisbord2011
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000 par John English2010
René Lévesque par Daniel Poliquin2010
The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst par Kenneth Whyte2010
Sugar: A Bittersweet History par Elizabeth Abbott2009
Angel of Vengeance: The "Girl Assassin," the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia's Revolutionary World par Ana Siljak2009
Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy par Kevin Bazzana2008
L'école des films par David Gilmour2008
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island par Lorna Goodison2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust par Anna Porter2008
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968 par John English2007
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism par Ross King2007
The Greek for Love: A Memoir of Sorrow and Joy par James Chatto2006
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 par Laura M. Mac Donald2006
The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter par John Terpstra2006
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark par Christopher Dewdney2005
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered par Patrick Lane2005
A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq par Paul William Roberts2005
In The Shadow Of Silence par Gertrud Baer2004
Lake of the Prairies par Warren Cariou2004
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground par J. Edward Chamberlin2004
Les artisans de la paix. Comment Lloyd George, Clemenceau et Wilson ont redessiné la carte du monde par Margaret MacMillan2004
Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World par Clark Blaise2002
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten par Michael David Kwan2002
The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text par A. B. McKillop2002
Dans le ventre d'une hyène par Nega Mezlekia2002
Géometrie de l'Amour - Espace, Temps, Mystere a Propos par Margaret Visser2002
Losing the Dead par Lisa Appignanesi2000
Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found par Wayson Choy2000
The Warrior's Honor par Michael Ignatieff2000
A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century par Witold Rybczynski2000
Always give a penny to a blind man : a memoir par Eric Wright2000

Longlist 52

ŒuvreAnnée
Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir par Mark Critch2019
Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country par David Johnston2019
Seeking the Fabled City: The Canadian Jewish Experience par Allan Levine2019
Heart Berries: A Memoir par Terese Marie Mailhot2019
How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays par Mandy Len Catron2018
Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place par Daniel Coleman2018
The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to Freedom par Mohamed Fahmy2018
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World par Michael Harris2018
A History of Canada in Ten Maps: Epic Stories of Charting a Mysterious Land par Adam Shoalts2018
Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China par Jan Wong2018
Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD par Roméo Dallaire2017
An intimate wilderness : Arctic voices in a land of vast horizons par Norman Hallendy2017
The Killer Whale Who Changed the World par Mark Leiren-Young2017
Quinn: The Life of a Hockey Legend par Dan Robson2017
Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer (Life Writing) par Kenneth Sherman2017
Invisible North: The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve par Alexandra Shimo2017
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 par Bill Waiser2017
Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History par Andrew Cohen2016
Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa par Will Ferguson2016
Zoroaster's Children: and Other Travels par Marius Kociejowski2016
Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway par Siobhan Roberts2016
The Prison Book Club par Ann Walmsley2016
Into the Blizzard: Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead par Michael Winter2016
The Necessary War, Volume 1: Canadians Fighting The Second World War:1939-1943 par Tim Cook2015
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection par Michael Harris2015
Tout peut changer par Naomi Klein2015
Berlin : Imagine a city par Rory MacLean2015
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design par Charles Montgomery2015
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising par Alexandra Richie2015
The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us par Carolyn Abraham2014
Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation par Mary Janigan2014
Vers la Grande guerre. Comment l'Europe a renoncé à la paix par Margaret MacMillan2014
How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit par Witold Rybczynski2014
Without Honour par Rob Tripp2014
Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad par Alison Wearing2014
Little Ship of Fools: Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic par Charles Wilkins2014
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades par Marcello Di Cintio2013
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age par Modris Eksteins2013
A Season in Hell par Robert Fowler2013
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else par Chrystia Freeland2013
March Forth: The Inspiring True Story of a Canadian Soldier's Journey of Love, Hope and Survival [Hardcover] par Trevor Greene2013
Working the Dead Beat: 50 Lives That Changed Canada par Sandra Martin2013
What We Talk About When We Talk About War par Noah Richler2013
Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health-Care System Needs to be Dragged into the 21st Century par Jeffrey Simpson2013
Epistolophilia : writing the life of Ona Šimaitė par Julija Sukys2013
The Universe Within par Neil Turok2013
Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter par Carmen Aguirre2012
The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan par Ryan Flavelle2012
John A: The Man Who Made Us par Richard J. Gwyn2012
Facing the Hunter par David Adams Richards2012
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live par Ray Robertson2012
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism par Joel Yanofsky2012

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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 prize comes with a monetary value of $25,000. (English, Member-written)
RBC TAYLOR PRIZE commemorates Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in the field of literary non-fiction. The Prize 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. The Prize consists of $25,000 for the winner and $2,000 for each of the runners up. (English, Member-written)

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