Posted March 29, 2023 9:07 am ET
Norma Dunning is seen in an undated handout photo. Dunning is a finalist for the 2023 Sughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother”. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Writer’s Trust of Canada
Books on government intervention in Inuit and indigenous communities, so-called smart cities and climate change were nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
The winner of the $25,000 award, presented by the Writer’s Trust of Canada, will be announced May 10 at the Politics and the Pen Gala in Ottawa.
Norma Dunning was cast for Kinauvit?: What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother, while Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) made the shortlist for Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve Reconciliation.”
Dale Eisler running for “From Left to Right: Saskatchewan’s Political and Economic Transformation”.
Also nominated are Josh O’Kane for Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy and Chris Turner’s How to Be a Climate Optimist: Blueprints for a Better World.
The five finalists were selected by judges Terri E. Givens, Nik Nanos and Jacques Poitras.
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