The Writers' Trust of Canada Reveals Shortlist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Submitted by kateburgess on March 3, 2016 - 1:19pm
The Writers' Trust of Canada has named the five finalists for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The prize, now in its sixteenth year, is awarded annually to a work of literary nonfiction that offers readers an informed and compelling perspective on Canadian politics, its players or principles.
This year's finalists were selected by a jury made up of Canadian military historian Tim Cook, author and Globe and Mail journalist Robyn Doolittle and McGill University professor and political commentator Antonia Maioni. The books they chose as finalists include a biography of Liberal reformer Paul Martin Sr., a portrait of influential public servant O.D. Skelton, a profile of Canada's 22nd Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a critique of Big Oil and the fracking industry and a reasoning for climate change as a human rights issue in Canada's North.
The winner will be announced in Ottawa on April 20, 2016 at the Politics and the Pen Gala. For more information, please visit the Writers' Trust of Canada website.
