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Charles Taylor Prize
19 December 2011 - 12:58pm
For the first time, the Charles Taylor prize for literary nonfiction has produced a longlist. It seems the competition was too fierce to simply declare the shortlist. The 11 contenders for the $25,000 prize are as follows:
- Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, by Carmen Aguirre
- The Patrol: Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan, by Ryan Flavelle
- Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, by Charlotte Gill
- The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, by J.J. Lee
- Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Way of Life, by David Adams Richards
- Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, by Ray Robertson
- Afflictions and Departures: Essays, by Madeline Sonik
- The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery, by Andrew Westoll
- Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism, by Joel Yanofsky