Kate Harris wins RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction for Lands of Lost Borders GlobeArts
Kate Harris has been awarded $30,000 as the winner of this year's RBC Taylor Prize for"Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road." The book's cover is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HOBill Gaston revisits childhood memories of his alcoholic father inIan Hampton’s first book, published when he was 83 by Porcupine’s Quill, is a memoir with an unusual trait—it’s written in the third person, with Hampton referring to himself as the titular Jan throughout.
The RBC Taylor Prize awards $5,000 to each finalist and an additional $25,000 to the winner. The award was established almost two decades ago to honour former Globe and Mail journalist Charles Taylor. Previous winners of the prize include Wayne Johnston, Isabel Huggan and Charles Foran. Tanya Talaga won last year’s prize for her 2017 bookExpand your mind and build your reading list with the Books newsletter.
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