Congratulations to WCA author Paul Wells, who has won this year’s $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006- (Random House Canada).
The Writers’ Trust of Canada handed out the honour at a gala in Ottawa on the 2nd of April.
The jury praised his book as “Impeccably researched, gorgeously written and deeply insightful…an essential read for all political junkies.”
For more information, please visit:
http://www.writerstrust.com/awards/shaughnessy-cohen-prize-for-political-writing.aspx
Jury Citation
Veteran political columnist Paul Wells has crafted a fast-paced, romping great read about a Prime Minister who is frequently described by the Parliamentary Press Gallery as dull, plodding, and inscrutable. Though viscerally funny and often biting, this book is never partisan or unfair. Impeccably researched, gorgeously written, and deeply insightful, The Longer I’m Prime Minister is an essential read for all political junkies.