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2006 Finalists - Nonfiction

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:: Winners


Finalists:
:: Fiction
:: Poetry
:: Drama
:: Nonfiction
:: Children's text
:: Children's illustration
:: Translation

:: Winners news release (includes French-language fwinners info)
:: Finalists news release (includes French-language finalists info)

:: Juries

CooperAfua Cooper, Toronto, for The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal
(HarperCollins Publishers, an imprint of HarperCollins Canada; distributed by HarperCollins Canada) (ISBN 0-00-200553-0 (bound) / 0-00-639279-2 (paper))

Through Afua Cooper’s deft re-creation, Marie-Joseph Angélique speaks to us in a voice that cannot be ignored or suppressed any longer – that of the resistance to slavery. Angélique is a rebel, a woman who must die and who speaks truth to power.

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KingRoss King, Woodstock, Oxon, UK (formerly of Saskatchewan), for The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Bond Street Books, an imprint of Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 0-385-66102-9)

Ross King brings the world of late-nineteenth century France alive in this original, meticulously-researched tour de force. His finely-wrought portrait of a decade is as masterful as the lives of the artists he chronicles.

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ReberSusanne Reber, Richmond Hill (ON), and Robert Renaud, Ottawa, for Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
(Random House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 0-679-31307-9 (bound) / 0-679-31308-7 (paper))

Starlight Tour documents in clear, direct prose the death of Neil Stonechild. With compassion and grace, it exposes what has become all too ordinary, in language that refuses to victimize the family.

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StrangeloveMichael Strangelove, Ottawa, for The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
(University of Toronto Press; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 0-8020-3898-0 (bound) / 0-8020-3818-2 (paper))

The Empire of Mind argues a strong thesis in a direct, limpid and combative style – a blend of academic structure and fierce commitment to an idea. Here is a book with a bone to pick, a wake-up call with a radical political agenda.

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WiesenthalChristine Wiesenthal, Edmonton, for The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
(University of Toronto Press; distributed by the publisher) (ISBN 0-8020-3635-X)

A sophisticated, richly-researched, exhaustively-documented literary postmortem, The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther raises compelling questions about the life, work and reputation of an icon of Canadian poetry.

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