Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Given by Writers' Trust of Canada

Muut nimet: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist (englanti)
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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 näytä lisää 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. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (27), Shortlist (108)
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (6), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (5), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (4), 2004 (5), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5)
Announced:
marraskuu 2023: Winner2023 Viimeksi
syyskuu 2023: Shortlist2023 Viimeksi

Winner 27

TeosVuosi
Ordinary Notes (tekijä: Christina Sharpe)2023
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure (tekijä: Dan Werb)2022
Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir (tekijä: Tomson Highway)2021
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts (tekijä: Jessica J. Lee)2020
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir (tekijä: Jenny Heijun Wills)2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir (tekijä: Elizabeth Hay)2018
Life on the Ground Floor (tekijä: James Maskalyk)2017
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War (tekijä: Deborah Campbell)2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (tekijä: Rosemary Sullivan)2015
Tämä muuttaa kaiken : kapitalismi vs ilmasto (tekijä: Naomi Klein)2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan (tekijä: Graeme Smith)2013
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape (tekijä: Candace Savage)2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times (tekijä: Charles Foran)2011
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past (tekijä: James Fitzgerald)2010
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life (tekijä: Brian Brett)2009
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood (tekijä: Taras Grescoe)2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust (tekijä: Anna Porter)2007
The Book of Revenge (tekijä: Dragan Todorovic)2006
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (tekijä: John Vaillant)2005
The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality (tekijä: Elaine Dewar)2004
Virtual clearcut, or, the way things are in my hometown (tekijä: Brian Fawcett)2003
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes From a Life in Shield Country (tekijä: Jake MacDonald)2002
Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train and Changed the World (tekijä: Clark Blaise)2001
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History (tekijä: Erna Paris)2000
Walking Since Daybreak : A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century (tekijä: Modris Eksteins)1999
Stolen Life: Journey Of A Cree Woman (tekijä: Rudy Wiebe)1998
Small mercies: A boy after war (tekijä: Ernest Hillen)1997

Shortlist 108

TeosVuosi
My Road from Damascus (tekijä: Jamal Saeed)2023
Ordinary Notes (tekijä: Christina Sharpe)2023
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls (tekijä: Angela Sterritt)2023
Ordinary Wonder Tales (tekijä: Emily Urquhart)2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (tekijä: John Vaillant)2023
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change (tekijä: Geoff Dembicki)2022
Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir (tekijä: Tara McGowan-Ross)2022
The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging (tekijä: Debra Thompson)2022
Making Love with the Land: Essays (tekijä: Joshua Whitehead)2022
NISHGA (tekijä: Jordan Abel)2021
On Foot to Canterbury: A Son's Pilgrimage (Wayfarer) (tekijä: Ken Haigh)2021
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity (tekijä: Darrel J. McLeod)2021
Disorientation: Being Black in the World (tekijä: Ian Williams)2021
Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) (tekijä: Lorna Crozier)2020
Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos (tekijä: Steven Heighton)2020
Shame On Me (tekijä: Tessa McWatt)2020
The Way Home (tekijä: David A. Neel)2020
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (tekijä: Alicia Elliott)2019
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person (tekijä: Anna Mehler Paperny)2019
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward (tekijä: Tanya Talaga)2019
The Art of Leaving: A Memoir (tekijä: Ayelet Tsabari)2019
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, and the Art of Resistance (The Regina Collection) (tekijä: Will Aitken)2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir (tekijä: Terese Marie Mailhot)2018
In Praise of Blood (tekijä: Judi Rever)2018
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family (tekijä: Lindsay Wong)2018
Tomboy Survival Guide (tekijä: Ivan Coyote)2017
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation (tekijä: Kyo Maclear)2017
All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others (tekijä: Carol Off)2017
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (tekijä: Tanya Talaga)2017
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? (tekijä: Ian Brown)2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story (tekijä: Matti Friedman)2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (tekijä: Ross King)2016
Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary (tekijä: Sonja Larsen)2016
Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo (tekijä: Eliott Behar)2015
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent (Writers in Residence) (tekijä: Douglas Coupland)2015
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation (tekijä: Dean Jobb)2015
Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire (tekijä: Lynette Loeppky)2015
Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them (tekijä: Susan Delacourt)2014
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (tekijä: Charles Montgomery)2014
Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online (tekijä: Paula Todd)2014
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (tekijä: Kathleen Winter)2014
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (tekijä: Thomas King)2013
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be (tekijä: J. B. MacKinnon)2013
This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla (tekijä: Andrew Steinmetz)2013
Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother (tekijä: Priscila Uppal)2013
Intolerable (tekijä: Kamal Al-Solaylee)2012
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (tekijä: Modris Eksteins)2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (tekijä: Taras Grescoe)2012
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit (tekijä: Jj Lee)2012
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe (tekijä: Charlotte Gill)2011
John A: The Man Who Made Us (tekijä: Richard J. Gwyn)2011
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound (tekijä: Grant Lawrence)2011
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live (tekijä: Ray Robertson)2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (tekijä: Ross King)2010
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me (tekijä: Sarah Leavitt)2010
The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself (tekijä: John Theberge)2010
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das (tekijä: Merrily Weisbord)2010
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (tekijä: Wade Davis)2009
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds (tekijä: Trevor Herriot)2009
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: And Other Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships (tekijä: Erika Ritter)2009
The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece (tekijä: Eric Siblin)2009
Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting (tekijä: Carl Honoré)2008
Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City (tekijä: Mark Kingwell)2008
The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude (tekijä: Margaret Visser)2008
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself (tekijä: Russell Wangersky)2008
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (tekijä: Katherine Ashenburg)2007
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (tekijä: Tim Bowling)2007
Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America (tekijä: Barry Gough)2007
God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery (tekijä: Douglas Hunter)2007
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention (tekijä: Charlotte Gray)2006
Ride the Rising Wind (tekijä: Barbara Kingscote)2006
This Is My Country, What's Yours? (tekijä: Noah Richler)2006
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest (tekijä: Rudy Wiebe)2006
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa (tekijä: Stephen Lewis)2005
Dead Man in Paradise (tekijä: J. B. MacKinnon)2005
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Mureder of Reena Virk (tekijä: Reena Virk)2005
Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown (tekijä: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall)2004
Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness (tekijä: Trevor Herriot)2004
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered (tekijä: Patrick Lane)2004
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific (tekijä: Charles Montgomery)2004
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (tekijä: Mark Abley)2003
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground (tekijä: J. Edward Chamberlin)2003
The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists (tekijä: Taras Grescoe)2003
Sahara: A Natural History (tekijä: Marq de Villiers)2003
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die (tekijä: Katherine Ashenburg)2002
A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle (tekijä: Andrew Clark)2002
Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt (tekijä: Marni Jackson)2002
A Promise of Salt (tekijä: Lorie Miseck)2002
As Near to Heaven by Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador (tekijä: Kevin Major)2001
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead (tekijä: Heather Pringle)2001
Jane Austen (tekijä: Carol Shields)2001
The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story (tekijä: Jack Todd)2001
Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus (tekijä: Donald Harman Akenson)2000
The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World (tekijä: Hugh Brody)2000
Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec (tekijä: Taras Grescoe)2000
Out of Poverty (tekijä: John Stackhouse)2000
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World (tekijä: Robert Bringhurst)1999
History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction (tekijä: Jacalyn Duffin)1999
After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale (tekijä: Moira Farr)1999
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir (tekijä: Wayne Johnston)1999
Isaiah Berlin: A Life (tekijä: Michael Ignatieff)1998
Progeny of ghosts : travels in Russia and the old empire (tekijä: David Manicom)1998
The Follow : A True Story (tekijä: Linda Spalding)1998
The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus (tekijä: Charles Wilkins)1998
Mrs. King : The Life and Times of Isabel MacKenzie King (tekijä: Charlotte Gray)1997
Power in the blood : land, memory, and a southern family (tekijä: John Bentley Mays)1997
Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse (tekijä: Ruth Teichroeb)1997
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood (tekijä: Eileen Whitfield)1997

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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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