Charles Taylor Prize enlists original jury

The three Canadian authors who presided over the inaugural awarding of the Charles Taylor Prize will return to judge the literary non-fiction prize's 10th edition.

Novelist Neil Bissoondath, literature professor and author Eva-Marie Kroller and writer and journalist David Macfarlane will serve as jurors for the 2011 prize, Charles Taylor Foundation board chair Noreen Taylor announcedlate Tuesday.

First presented in 2000 and originally awarded every other year, the Charles Taylor Prize was established in memory of the Canadian essayist, author and former Globe and Mail correspondent, who died in 1997.

In 2004, the $25,000 prize became an annual honour.

Each year, its mandate is to celebrate "the author whose book best combines an excellent command of the English language, an elegance of style, quality of thought and subtlety of perception," according to organizers.

Past winners have included Carol Shields, Wayne Johnston, Rudy Wiebe, Ian Brown, Charles Montgomery and J.B. MacKinnon.

The shortlist for the 2011 edition will be issuednext Jan. 5,with the announcementof the winning author to follow on Feb. 14