RBC Taylor Prize Goes to Rosemary Sullivan

Mar 08, 2016

Rosemary Sullivan won the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize and its $25,000 purse on Monday for her book Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (HarperCollins). The award recognizes nonfiction that combines the English language with style and a subtlety of of thought and perception.

Sullivan, who lives in Toronto, has written poetry, short fiction, biography, literary critcism, and articles. Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva also recently won the Weston Prize and the BC National Book Award for Canadian Nonfiction.

2016 finalists included Ian for Brown for Sixty: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? (Random House Canada); Camilla Gibb for This Is Happy (Doubleday Canada); David Halton for Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War (McClelland & Stewart); and Wab Kinew for The Reason You Walk, (Viking Canada) — each received a $2,000 honorarium and extensive publicity.

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