LIVE VIDEO WEBCAST AVAILABLE VIA CNW - B-Roll Available for Download After Event - Canada's Most Prestigous Non-fiction Book Award Honours Canadian Authors

TORONTO, March 2, 2012 /CNW/ - The following live video is available via embed code and B-Roll is available via Video On-Demand web download:

STORY SUMMARY:

The Charles Taylor Prize For Literary Non-Fiction is Canada's most prestigious award for well written non-fiction books.  The Governor General will be in attendance on Monday March 5^th in Toronto as the $25,000 Award is presented to one author. Five authors are in the running (four of whom are from British Columbia - the fifth author, Andrew Westoll, lives in Ontario).

The 2012 Charles Taylor Prize Finalists and Their Books Are:

Wade Davis for Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, published by Knopf Canada

Charlotte Gill for Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe, published by Greystone Books in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation

J J Lee for The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, published by McClelland & Stewart

Madeline Sonik for Afflictions & Departures: Essays, published by Anvil Press

Andrew Westoll for The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery, published by HarperCollins Publishers

SHOT LIST:
Governor General at luncheon award
Noreen Taylor, founder of the Prize
Five Authors and their Books
The Drama of the Announcement
Interview with Winner

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