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Shortlist for the $25,000 2011 CHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE for literary non-fiction

At a news conference at Toronto's Le Meridien King Edward
Hotel, Noreen Taylor, prize founder and chair of the Charles Taylor Foundation,
announced that the jury — composed of well-known authors Neil Bissoondath (Québec
City), Eva-Marie Kraller (Vancouver), and David Macfarlane (Toronto) — read 153 Canadian-authored books, submitted by 44 publishers from across North America. The finalists are:

Stevie Cameron for On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of
Vancouver's Missing Women, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada ; Charles Foran for Mordecai: The Life & Times, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada; Ross King for Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven published by Douglas & McIntyre / McMichael Canadian Art Collection; George Sipos for The Geography of Arrival: A Memoir published by Gaspereau Press and Merrily Weisbord for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das published by McGill-Queen's University Press - (see judges comments)Winner Monday February 14