TORONTO -- Tanya Talaga has won the $30,000 RBC Taylor Prize for "Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City" (House of Anansi Press).
The non-fiction book traces the lives and deaths of several teens in northern Ontario.
A three-member jury had chosen the five finalists for the award on Jan. 10.
Authors of the other shortlisted titles get $5,000 each.
The jurors read 153 books submitted by 110 Canadian and international publishers for this year's prize.
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