The Gordon Montador Award was a Canadian literary award, presented by the

Writers' Trust of Canada The Writers' Trust of Canada (french: La Société d'encouragement aux écrivains du Canada) is a registered charity which provides financial support to Canadian writers. Founded by Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laure ...

to honour

non-fiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...

writing on social issues. Created in 1991 in memory of book editor and publisher Gordon Montador,"Award announced". ''

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'', September 18, 1991. the award was presented until 1999, when it was superseded by a reorganization of the Writers' Trust Awards. The

Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing is a Canadian literary award, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best nonfiction book on Canadian political and social issues. It has been presented annually in Ottawa at the Writer ...

, presented for the first time in 2000, encompassed much of the same subject area;Kate Jaimet, "Spirit of Shaughnessy Cohen lives on at literary dinner on Hill". ''

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'', May 4, 2000. although the Cohen award was never formally stated by the organization to be an official replacement for the Montador award, no new winner was ever announced for the Montador award after the Cohen award was introduced.

Winners and nominees

References

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