TORONTO - Tim Cook, who captured the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, has been named a member of the jury that will select next year's winner.
Noreen Taylor, chair of the board of trustees of the Charles Taylor Foundation, said Wednesday the jury will consist of Cook, journalist and Carleton University Prof. Andrew Cohen and award-winning translator Sheila Fischman.
Cook, a First World War historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa as well as an adjunct research professor at Carleton, won this year's $25,000 prize for "Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1917 - 1918."
Cook and Cohen both live in Ottawa while Fischman lives in Montreal. Her work has won three Governor General's Literary Awards.
The jury will announce the short list for The 2010 prize Jan. 5 and the winner will be announced Feb. 8 in Toronto.
