Jury and Call for Submissions Announced for $35,000 2010 Donner Prize

TORONTO, Nov. 3 /CNW/ - Allan Gotlieb, Chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation, today announced the official Call for Submissions and Jury for the thirteenth annual Donner Prize.  In a statement released in Toronto, he says, "The Donner Canadian Foundation has put the call out to publishers to send us this year's best books on Canadian public policy. We are eagerly awaiting this year's submissions, and are even more eager to see which book will take home the $35,000 prize in April."

Mr. Gotlieb also announced this year's prize Jury. "It is my pleasure to announce that the Honourable Anne McLellan will return as this year's jury chair. We are also pleased to welcome two new jurors: Marcel Boyer and Kevin Lynch, who will join our returning jurors Wendy Dobson and Denis Stairs."

Marcel Boyer is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Université de Montréal; Research Associate, Department of Economics, École Polytechnique de Paris; Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute, CIRANO and CIREQ; and Vice-president of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues.

Kevin Lynch is Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group. Prior to joining BMO, Mr. Lynch built a distinguished career in the Government of Canada, serving as Clerk of the Privy Council, Secretary to the Cabinet, and Head of the Public Service of Canada.

Returning to the jury are Wendy Dobson, Professor and Co-director of the Institute for International Business in the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Dr. Dobson is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government and a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute; and Denis Stairs, a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a past-President of the Canadian Political Science Association. The founding Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dr. Stairs was Dalhousie's Vice President (Academic and Research) from 1988 to 1993.

The Donner Canadian Foundation, one of Canada's largest foundations, created the prize to encourage increased research into public policy in Canada and to promote the discussion of policy issues in the public arena. The winner of the Donner Prize, the award for best book on Canadian public policy, will receive $35,000, with $5,000 being awarded to the other shortlisted titles (to a maximum of five titles). In giving this annual award, the Foundation seeks to not only broaden policy debate, but also to increase general awareness of the importance of policy discourse.

Books submitted for the prize should focus on Canadian public policy issues, for example: regulatory and legal reform, public finance, the environment, urban affairs, health care, and education reform. Submissions must be written by Canadian citizens, but they may be published by non-Canadian publishing houses, so long as the books have implications for Canada. For the 2010 prize, books that are written by Canadians in either English or French, between January 1, and December 31, 2010, are eligible. See www.DonnerBookPrize.com for complete rules regarding eligibility and submission procedures.

The $35,000 Donner Prize for 2009 was awarded to THE POLITICS OF LINKAGE: POWER, INTERDEPENDENCE and IDEAS IN CANADA-US RELATIONS by Brian Bow (UBC Press). The $5,000 shortlisted titles were: Who Owns the Arctic: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North by Michael Byers (Douglas & McIntyre), A Thousand Dreams:  Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the Fight for Its Future by Larry Campbell, Neil Boyd & Lori Culbert (Greystone Books), and Branding Canada: Projecting Canada's Soft Power through Public Diplomacy by Evan H. Potter (McGill-Queen's University Press).

The deadline for submissions for this year's prize is November 30. A shortlist will be announced in late March 2011, and the winner will be proclaimed at a gala dinner in Toronto in April 2011.

For further information:

Sherry Naylor, Prize Manager
MDG & Associates
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [email protected]
www.donnerbookprize.com