Star reporter on Taylor Prize list

The Star’s Tanya Talaga has been nominated for the $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize for her book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City.

She joins nine other authors on the long list for the well-regarded nonfiction prize.

Talaga’s book has been nominated for numerous prizes this year, including the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the 2018 B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.

The RBC Taylor Prize was set up in 1993 to honour journalist Charles Taylor The short list will be announced Jan. 10 with the winner revealed Feb. 26. Deborah Dundas