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With the decision going down to the wire, the jurors of The Charles Taylor Prize awarded the 2012 Award for Best Canadian Non-Fiction Book to Andrew Westoll for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary Monday in Toronto at the King Edward Hotel.
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Childhood memories come back disjointed, sometimes out of focus with blurry edges but the primary memory front and center. In Afflictions & Departures by Madeline Sonik that quality shines through.
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Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis takes readers on a wild journey that gives a true insight why George Mallory's three attempts at pushing to the top of Mount Everest took place.
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A forest takes a thousand years to grow and flourish. Have we humans changed the course of the forest so much that the soil no longer has the power to keep mighty trees alive?
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JJ Lee's book "The Measure of A Man The Story of a Father, A Son and A Suit" takes readers on the journey of understanding a father with each thread and seam altering his suit.
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To write is to breathe. For the authors on the short list for this year's Charles Taylor Prize, that statement is realized as you listen to the five discuss how their books came into being.
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This year the jurors of the Charles Taylor Prize devoted themselves to the 115 books submitted by 35 publishers to find the best of the best in Canadian literary non-fiction.
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On Monday the 10th Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction was awarded to Charles Foran of Peterborough, Ontario, for his book Mordecai: The Life and Times.
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The 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction was awarded to author Ian Brown at a gala luncheon in Toronto on February 8.
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Charles Taylor Prize Headlines
 Andrew Westoll has won the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for his book The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, which depicts research chimps as they live out the remainder of their lives in a Quebec animal sanctuary.
 An expansive examination of George Mallory and the quest to tackle Mount Everest, a look at tree-planting culture and a memoir blending the history of menswear with a man's recollection of his father are competing for the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction.
Recalling the interviews that made Charles Taylor famous
Sierra Leone victims share hopes over Charles Taylor verdict
International judges begin giving a verdict in the war crimes case against former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, after a historic five-year trial.
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On Monday the winner of the Charles Taylor Prize was announced in Toronto at the King Edward Hotel
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