Camilla Gibb explains why writing ’This Is Happy’ was a godsend
Camilla Gibb’s haunting memoir, a finalist for the 2016 RBC Taylor prize, heads to the heart of what family means
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RBC Taylor Prize
Plum Johnson wins the 2015 RBC Taylor Prize
The gobsmacked author rose wonderfully to the occasion, writes Brian Bethune
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: Plum Johnson’s They Left Us Everything
Plum Johnson’s family memoir changed as she cleared out the family house
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: M.G. Vassanji, bound by East Africa’s call
Drawing on his sense of ‘mad belonging,’ M.G. Vassanji crafted an insider’s account of his place of birth
RBC Taylor Prize Nominees: Barbara Taylor’s The Last Asylum
Historian Barbara Taylor weaves her story into the larger one of psychiatric hospitals
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: David O’Keefe on the secrets of Dieppe
David O’Keefe discovered the real motive behind the poorly planned raid where so many Canadians died
RBC Taylor Prize nominees: Kathleen Winter’s ’Boundless’
The Northwest Passage brought Kathleen Winter to a land too eloquent for fiction.