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The shortlist for the 2013 Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing was announced this morning.

The nominees are:

Margaret MacMillan for The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
Charles Montgomery for Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Donald J. Savoie for Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher? How Government Decides and Why
Graeme Smith for The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
Paul Wells for The Longer I’m Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 —

Media coverage for the shortlist included:

The winner will be announced at the Politics & the Pen Gala in Ottawa on April 2.

The nominees for the 12th annual Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing have been announced, with bugs, border crossings, and — for this not-quite-yet-Canadian — a booster course in Canadian political history that will prove very useful when I get to sit the citizenship test.

Congratulations to Ron Graham, Richard Gwyn, Max & Monique Nemni and their translator George Tombs, Andrew Nikiforuk, and Jacques Poitras.

The winner will be announced at the Politics and the Pen Gala in Ottawa on April 25.

Watch a video about Shaughnessy Cohen’s “drive to find the truth,” how she got a reputation for having all the best gossip, and why Margaret Atwood thought her “a force of nature.”

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