J.B. MacKinnon's The Once and Future World is nominated on the longlist for the RBC Taylor prize 2014 (Random House Canada) (Courtesy Random House Canada)
One previous winner, J.B. MacKinnon, is among the names on a longlist of nominees for the RBC Taylor Prize, honouring the best in literary non-fiction writing in Canada.
The announcement of the longlist for 2014 also signalled a change in name —it was previously known as The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, established in memory of Canadian writer and former newspaper correspondent Charles Taylor.
Handed out every year since 2000, the award highlights a work that "best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style, and a subtlety of thought and perception."
MacKinnon, who captured the top spot in 2006 for Dead Man in Paradise, is nominated again for The Once and Future World: Nature As it Was, As it is, As it Could Be.
The list includes:
- The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us by Carolyn Abraham.
- The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Century by Charlotte Gray.
- Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation by Mary Janigan.
- The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King.
- The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan.
- How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit by Witold Rybcynski.
- The Dogs are Eating Them Now: Our War in AfghanistanT by Graeme Smith.
- Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life by David Stouck.
- Without Honour: The True Story of the Shafia Family and the Kingston Canal Murders by Ron Tripp.
- Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter: Growing Up with a Gay Dad by Alison Wearing.
- Little Ship of Fools: 16 Rowers, 1 Improbable Boat, 7 Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic by Charles Wilkins.
Some of the authors have been previously nominated for other books as well. Charlotte Gray's Gold Digger was longlisted in 2011 while Margaret MacMillan (Paris 1919, 2004) and Witold Rybcynski (A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century, 2000) have both appeared on the shortlist.
The jurors — James Polk, Andrew Westoll and Coral Ann Howells — sifted through 124 submissions and will have to come up with a shortlist by Jan. 15th in the new year. The winner will be announced on March 10th.
The victor receives $25,000 and the runners up, $2000 each.
This year also marks the start of a new tradition where the winner will select an emerging author, who will get $10,000.
The 2013 winner was Andrew Preston for his book Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy.
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