Yesterday at a ceremony in Toronto, Thomas King was presented with the $25,000 RBC Taylor Prize for his non-fiction title The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Doubleday Canada).

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RBC Taylor Prize winner Thomas King

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RBC Taylor Prize finalist Charlotte Gray and 2011 winner Charles Foran

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RBC Taylor Prize founder and chair Noreen Taylor

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RBC Taylor Prize winner Thomas King with award founder and chair Noreen Taylor

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RBC Taylor Prize winner Thomas King, Random House of Canada president Kristin Cochrane, Taylor Prize nominee J.B. MacKinnon, and Penguin Random House Canada president and CEO Brad Martin

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RBC Taylor Prize finalists J.B. MacKinnon, Graeme Smith, and David Stouck

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RBC Taylor Prize jurors Andrew Westoll, Coral Ann Howells, and James Polk

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