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 . APRIL 2nd – Big Big Day For Three Canadian Book Prizes Today is an important day for three book prizes – one prize announces its grand winner tonight, while two other prizes announce their shortlists this morning . In Ottawa this evening, the Writer’s Trust will be awarding the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing . The winner will receive $25,000, the runner-ups received $2,,5000. The shortlist has five authors including one who is a past RBC Taylor Prize winner and one a RBC Taylor Prize finalist: • Margaret MacMillan - The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 • RBC CTP winner: Charles Montgomery - Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design • Donald J. Savoie -Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why • RBC CTP Finalist Graeme Smith -The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan • Paul Wells - The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 – This morning the John W. Dafoe Boo

Noreen Taylor and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction help promote Canadian books in the United Kingdom The Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction is giving the nation's book industry assistance in marketing Canadian literature to the people of the United Kingdom. At the International Festival Of Authors (IFOA), held in Toronto over the past two weeks, Noreen Taylor, the founder of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, donated nearly 140 non-fiction books to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), to be used by the Canada High Commission in London, England. The books, all non-fiction titles, were entered for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize. On stage at IFOA Ms Taylor presented a signed copy of the winning book, Richard Gwyn's "John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. MacDonald, Volume One: 1815-1867 to John Bonar of DFAIT. Pictured left to right are: Authors Lewis Desoto and Richard Gwyn (sea