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Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner is the
2010 CBC Canada Reads 2010 winner!

The announcement was made on March 12, 2010 after a week of debates on CBC Radio, hosted by Jian Ghomeshi.

Other nominees included Ann-Marie MacDonald for Fall On Your Knees (defended by Perdita Felicien), Douglas Coupland for Generation X and Wayson Choy for The Jade Peony!

CBC Canada ReadsCheck out the CBC Canada Reads website for more information!

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Congratulations to the winner of The Writers' Trust of Canada's 2009 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing:

John English for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1968-2000

The other nominees included Dr. James Maskalyk for Six Months in Sudan and Terry Gould for Murder Without Borders

The winner was announced at the Politics and the Pen event in Ottawa on March 10, 2010. Visit The Writers' Trust website for more information.

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The winner of the $25,000 2010 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction has been announced - congratulations to:

Ian Brown for The Boy in the Moon

Our other nominees included:
John English for Just Watch Me
Kenneth Whyte for The Uncrowned King

The winner was announced on Feb. 8, 2010. Visit www.TheCharlesTaylorPrize.ca for more information.

Rabindranath Maharaj

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Rabindranath Maharaj author of The Amazing Absorbing Boy

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Henning Mankell

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Henning Mankell author of The Man from Beijing

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George Fetherling
George Fetherling author of Walt Whitman's Secret

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Ian Brown
Ian Brown author of The Boy in the Moon

Ian Brown in conversation with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio's Q.
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