There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln (Alfred A. Knopf Canada). A riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Gabriel Allahdua’s Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada (Between the Lines). In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality (ECW Press). Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public […]
There are ten books on the 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize longlist and today we’re going to highlight Michelle Good’s Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada (HarperCollins Canada). A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide […]
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, we are pleased to announce that this year, there will be a longlist and a shortlist before the winner is announced. Our thanks to jurors Dale Barbour, Catherine Cook, and Gregory Mason. 2024 Longlist Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth. Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant […]
The John Wesley Dafoe Foundation is pleased to introduce the jurors for 2024 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize! This year, Dale Barbour, Catherine Cook, and Gregory Mason will be selecting a longlist, shortlist, and winner, to celebrate forty years of the prize. A ten-book longlist and five-book shortlist will be announced in the coming weeks, with […]
Power, Politics and Principles: Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948 by Taylor Hollanderwins$10,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for 2019. Taylor Hollander has won the 2019 John Wesley Dafoe Book Prize for Power, Politics and Principles: Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948 published by the University of Toronto Press. In making its selection from 38 submissions […]