Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for NonfictionWinner

Given by Writers' Trust of Canada

Other Names: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist
27 Works 5,731 Books 168 Reviews ½ 4.0
The prize is awarded for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction, which includes, among other forms, works of personal or journalistic essays; memoirs; commentary; and criticism, both show more social and political; history; and biography. Finalist works will demonstrate a distinctive voice, and a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style, and technique. As of 2011, the winner of the prize recieves $60,000 and finalists each recieve $5000, making it the largest annual literary award for a book of nonfiction published in Canada. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (27), Shortlist (108)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 27

WorkYear
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe2023
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure by Dan Werb2022
Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir by Tomson Highway2021
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts by Jessica J. Lee2020
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun Wills2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir by Elizabeth Hay2018
Life on the Ground Floor by James Maskalyk2017
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War by Deborah Campbell2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith2013
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times by Charles Foran2011
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past by James Fitzgerald2010
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life by Brian Brett2009
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust by Anna Porter2007
The Book of Revenge by Dragan Todorovic2006
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant2005
The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality by Elaine Dewar2004
Virtual clearcut, or, the way things are in my hometown by Brian Fawcett2003
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes From a Life in Shield Country by Jake MacDonald2002
Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World by Clark Blaise2001
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History by Erna Paris2000
Walking Since Daybreak : A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century by Modris Eksteins1999
Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Rudy Wiebe1998
Small mercies: A boy after war by Ernest Hillen1997

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The prize is awarded for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction, which includes, among other forms, works of personal or journalistic essays; memoirs; commentary; and criticism, both social and political; history; and biography. Finalist works will demonstrate a distinctive voice, and a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style, and technique. As of 2011, the winner of the prize recieves $60,000 and finalists each recieve $5000, making it the largest annual literary award for a book of nonfiction published in Canada. (English, Member-written)
The prize is awarded for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction, which includes, among other forms, works of personal or journalistic essays; memoirs; commentary; and criticism, both social and political; history; and biography. Finalist works will demonstrate a distinctive voice, and a persuasive and compelling command of tone, narrative, style, and technique. (English, Member-written)

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