Westwood Authors Fill RBC Taylor Prize Shortlist

By Westwood Creative ArtistsJanuary 15, 2014January 17th, 2014News

I’m pleased to announce that the following WCA titles have made the shortlist for the RBC Taylor Prize:

Charlotte Gray’s THE MASSEY MURDER
Thomas King’s THE INCONVENIENT INDIAN
Graeme Smith’s THE DOGS ARE EATING THEM NOW

The RBC Taylor Prize is awarded annually to the author whose book best combines an excellent command of the English language, an elegance of style, quality of thought, and subtlety of perception. The Prize consists of $25,000 for the winning author and $2,000 for each of the runners up.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.thecharlestaylorprize.ca/

Westwood Creative Artists

Westwood Creative Artists is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected literary agencies. We take enormous pride in our superbly talented roster of clients, and in the phenomenal recognition their work receives from publishers, critics, and award juries in North America and throughout the world. Working out of the historic Chelsea Shop, in Toronto’s Huron-Sussex neighbourhood, our staff of fourteen includes eight literary agents who are supported by a dedicated administrative and bookkeeping staff, in-house international rights and film/TV and multimedia rights teams, and an outstanding network of twenty-five international co-agencies. We take great pride in the enthusiastic response to our list from publishers around the world and in the wide praise our writers receive from Canadian and international critics. We are honoured that many of the writers we represent have won and been shortlisted for such esteemed prizes as the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Westwood Authors Fill RBC Taylor Prize Shortlist

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