Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Given by Writers' Trust of Canada

Andre Navne: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist (Engelsk)
134 Works / 135 Items 19,965 Bøger 674 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 vis mere 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. vis mindre
Stages:
Alle, Winner (27), Shortlist (108)
Years:
Alle, 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)

Winner 27

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

Shortlist 108

VærkÅr
My Road from Damascus af Jamal Saeed2023
Ordinary Notes af Christina Sharpe2023
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls af Angela Sterritt2023
Ordinary Wonder Tales af Emily Urquhart2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World af John Vaillant2023
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change af Geoff Dembicki2022
Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir af Tara McGowan-Ross2022
The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging af Debra Thompson2022
Making Love with the Land: Essays af Joshua Whitehead2022
NISHGA af Jordan Abel2021
On Foot to Canterbury: A Son's Pilgrimage (Wayfarer) af Ken Haigh2021
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity af Darrel J. McLeod2021
Disorientation: Being Black in the World af Ian Williams2021
Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) af Lorna Crozier2020
Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos af Steven Heighton2020
Shame On Me af Tessa McWatt2020
The Way Home af David A. Neel2020
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground af Alicia Elliott2019
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person af Anna Mehler Paperny2019
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward af Tanya Talaga2019
The Art of Leaving: A Memoir af Ayelet Tsabari2019
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, and the Art of Resistance (The Regina Collection) af Will Aitken2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir af Terese Marie Mailhot2018
In Praise of Blood af Judi Rever2018
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family af Lindsay Wong2018
Tomboy Survival Guide af Ivan Coyote2017
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation af Kyo Maclear2017
All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others af Carol Off2017
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City af Tanya Talaga2017
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? af Ian Brown2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story af Matti Friedman2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies af Ross King2016
Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary af Sonja Larsen2016
Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo af Eliott Behar2015
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent (Writers in Residence) af Douglas Coupland2015
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation af Dean Jobb2015
Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire af Lynette Loeppky2015
Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them af Susan Delacourt2014
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design af Charles Montgomery2014
Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online af Paula Todd2014
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage af Kathleen Winter2014
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America af Thomas King2013
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be af J. B. MacKinnon2013
This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla af Andrew Steinmetz2013
Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother af Priscila Uppal2013
Intolerable af Kamal Al-Solaylee2012
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age af Modris Eksteins2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile af Taras Grescoe2012
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit af Jj Lee2012
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe af Charlotte Gill2011
John A: The Man Who Made Us af Richard J. Gwyn2011
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound af Grant Lawrence2011
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live af Ray Robertson2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven af Ross King2010
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me af Sarah Leavitt2010
The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself af John Theberge2010
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das af Merrily Weisbord2010
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World af Wade Davis2009
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds af Trevor Herriot2009
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: And Other Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships af Erika Ritter2009
The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece af Eric Siblin2009
Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting af Carl Honoré2008
Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City af Mark Kingwell2008
The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude af Margaret Visser2008
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself af Russell Wangersky2008
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History af Katherine Ashenburg2007
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture af Tim Bowling2007
Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America af Barry Gough2007
God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery af Douglas Hunter2007
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention af Charlotte Gray2006
Ride the Rising Wind af Barbara Kingscote2006
This Is My Country, What's Yours? af Noah Richler2006
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest af Rudy Wiebe2006
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa af Stephen Lewis2005
Dead Man in Paradise af J. B. MacKinnon2005
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Mureder of Reena Virk af Reena Virk2005
Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown af Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall2004
Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness af Trevor Herriot2004
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered af Patrick Lane2004
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific af Charles Montgomery2004
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages af Mark Abley2003
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground af J. Edward Chamberlin2003
The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists af Taras Grescoe2003
Sahara: A Natural History af Marq de Villiers2003
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die af Katherine Ashenburg2002
A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle af Andrew Clark2002
Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt af Marni Jackson2002
A Promise of Salt af Lorie Miseck2002
As Near to Heaven by Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador af Kevin Major2001
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead af Heather Pringle2001
Jane Austen af Carol Shields2001
The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story af Jack Todd2001
Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus af Donald Harman Akenson2000
The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World af Hugh Brody2000
Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec af Taras Grescoe2000
Out of Poverty af John Stackhouse2000
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World af Robert Bringhurst1999
History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction af Jacalyn Duffin1999
After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale af Moira Farr1999
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir af Wayne Johnston1999
Isaiah Berlin: A Life af Michael Ignatieff1998
Progeny of ghosts : travels in Russia and the old empire af David Manicom1998
The Follow : A True Story af Linda Spalding1998
The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus af Charles Wilkins1998
Mrs. King : The Life and Times of Isabel MacKenzie King af Charlotte Gray1997
Power in the blood : land, memory, and a southern family af John Bentley Mays1997
Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse af Ruth Teichroeb1997
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood af Eileen Whitfield1997

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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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