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The award recognizes and honours fine Canadian writing in the field of non-fiction. The genre includes essays, memoirs, criticism, history, literary journalism, and biography, among other forms.
This year's esteemed winner is:
Solar Dance : genius, forgery, and the crisis of truth in the modern age (M)
by Modris Eksteins
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"In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century. The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins' internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography of an era--from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall--that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today." - Publisher
Also for your consideration, the three runner-ups:
A Geography of Blood: unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape (M) by Candace Savage
A Season in Hell: my 130 days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda (M) by Robert R. Fowler
Pinboy: a memoir (M) by George Bowering
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