Toronto biographer Rosemary Sullivan wins the prestigious 2016 RBC Taylor Prize
Toronto biographer Rosemary Sullivan wins the prestigious 2016 RBC Taylor Prize

Toronto biographer Rosemary Sullivan wins the prestigious 2016 RBC Taylor Prize

Another award, another win for the biography of Joseph Stalin’s daughter penned by Sullivan, who thanked Stalin’s granddaughter for the access.

Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan is the winner of the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction. The $25,000 award was announced on Monday afternoon.

Stalin’s Daughter was one of five finalists for the honour, including Ian Brown’s Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?; Camilla Gibb’s This Is Happy; David Halton’s Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada’s Voice at War; and Wab Kinew’s The Reason You Walk.

Established in 1998 to commemorate historian and writer Charles Taylor’s pursuit of excellence in the field of literary non-fiction, the privately funded prize is presented annually to the author whose book best combines a superb command of the English language, an elegance of style and a subtlety of thought and perception.

Sitting on this year’s three-member jury were Susanne Boyce, Joseph Kertes and Stephen J. Toope.

Agencies/Canadajournal




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