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Anna Porter has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book Ghosts of Europe, an examination of democracy in Central Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. She was presented with the $25,000 award at the Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa Wednesday night.The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future is published by Douglas & McIntyre. In their citation, the jury — L. Ian MacDonald, Rosemary Speirs and Paul Wells — called Porter “not only of a journalist on a personal odyssey back to her own origins in Communist Hungary, but of a gifted storyteller who shapes a historically consequential narrative.”
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