Charles Taylor Prize
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.
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Winners and Nominees
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
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