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Tanya Talaga, shown in Toronto, Monday, Feb.26, 2018, has won the $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize for “Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City” (House of Anansi Press). THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Tom Sandler MANDATORY CREDIT
The $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize capped off Canada’s literary award season Feb. 26 by choosing Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City as its winner. One of the most acclaimed non-fiction titles of 2017—it also appeared on shortlists for the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and the $40,000 B.C. Non-Fiction Prize, two of the nation’ s three other prominent literary non-fiction awards—Seven Fallen Feathers is Talaga’s wrenching account of the lives of seven indigenous teens who died in Thunder Bay in the early 21st century, their fates almost as inexplicable in practical terms as they are morally indefensible.
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It evidently struck a chord among the Taylor’s three jurors: Anne Giardini, chancellor of Simon Fraser University; James Polk, writer, editor and publishing policy adviser in the Ontario government; and Christine Elliott, Ontario’s first patient ombudsman and possibly, depending on a pair of upcoming elections, the next premier of the province…

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Peter Carey. (Ulf Andersen/Getty)
Peter Carey has won the Booker Prize twice for fictional explorations of Australian history, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. Now, his new book A Long Way From Home addresses Australia’s Indigenous peoples’ experience. The novel’s protagonist, Irene Bobs, is married to one of the most charismatic motor salesmen in the state of Victoria (Carey’s own parents ran a car dealership). The funny duo enter the Redex Trial, a famous Australian automobile race of 16,000 kilometres on outback roads, which passed through Carey’s Victoria boyhood hometown of Bacchus Marsh. A Long Way From Home explores how Europeans took possession of ancient Aboriginal culture, and the crimes they committed along the way. (The Bobs’ navigator/map enthusiast, Willie, will discover he has Indigenous heritage.) One of only three writers to win the Booker twice, New York City-based Carey, 75, has produced diverse books ranging from the novel The Fat Man in History to the elegant memoir Wrong About Japan…

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