Immigration: Indian Poet

Documentary Filmmaker Dept: Weisbord is nominated for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, which the jury described as "an idiosyncratic account of an unusual cross-cultural friendship between a Canadian documentary filmmaker and a celebrated, controversial Indian poet.", according to Montreal Gazette. - Charles Foran for the Mordecai Richler biography Mordecai: The Life & Times, published by Knopf Canada, which the jury described as "a rich and compelling portrait." Montreal writer Merrily Weisbord is among the nominees for the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. Weisbord's work joins a compelling biography of one of Canada's most acclaimed authors, an investigation of Canada's most prolific serial killer, and a new study of seven of Canada's most celebrated painters among the nominees for the $25,000 prize, which were announced yesterday at a news conference in Toronto. The other nominees are: As reported in the news.
@t mordecai richler biography, knopf canada