Triple honours for assisted death book

Journalist and broadcaster Sandra Martin is in contention for another major literary award for her acclaimed book on assisted death.

The Montreal-born author is on the short list for the $50,000 Donner Prize, awarded to the best public policy book written by a Canadian.

Martin won the $40,000 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices, also a finalist for the $10,000 John W. Dafoe Book Prize.

Donner Prize finalists also include L’integration des services en sante: Une approche populationnelle by Yves Couturier, Lucie Bonin and Louise Belzile; Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World by Juliet Johnson; A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin and Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control by Alex Marland.

The winner will be announced in Toronto on May 15.