RBC Taylor Prize and Writer Thomas King

Writer Thomas King: But the 70-year-old, whose deeply personal story won the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction on Monday and the $40,000 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction last month, doesn't think he'll ever witness such a dialogue, according to CTV. "You can't have 400 years of government policy keeping native people down and then just simply turn around on a dime one day and undo all of that. Impossible." - Writer Thomas King of Guelph, Ont., says he hopes the recent awards love for his book "The Inconvenient Indian" will spawn a serious conversation about the state of native peoples in Canada. "That would be the most I could hope for, and I won't be alive to see that, because that's going to be a slow conversation and it's going to take years for that conversation to bear any fruit," King said in an interview after winning the Taylor Prize at a Toronto luncheon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.