Book News: Richard Gwyn, Charles Taylor Prize January 15, 2009 / / News
The bookselllers in the room, the authors at the podium, they rank the Charles Taylor Prize in an echelon shared by Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction, and Griffin Prize for Poetry. All this literary splendour, within days of the announcement that the plug was pulled on the US, NBC-broadcast Quill Awards. Makes us feel good in a Canadian way, eh.
Richard Gwyn, whose book John A, The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald
Vol. One: 1815-1867, was published by our favourite rock-star publisher Anne Collins of Random House Canada, won this year’s Prize for literary fiction. Also nominated were David Gilmour, Lorna Goodison, Kevin Bazzana and Anna Porter.
(c) BookShorts Inc. Shot on location at Le Meridien King Edward Hotel March 3, 2008. With thanks to June Dickinson for her assistance.
