- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
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The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a Canadian literary award, presented annually by the Writers' Trust of Canada to the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer.
Canada's richest non-fiction prize, the winner receives a prize of C$60,000 and all finalists receive C$5,000.[1][2]
Sponsorship history
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First established in 1997, the award's original corporate sponsor was Viacom. Pearson Canada, an educational book publishing company, took over the award in 1999, and Nereus Financial, a stock brokerage, became the sponsor from 2006 to 2008. After Nereus dropped its sponsorship, the award had no corporate sponsor until 2011,[3] when philanthropist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Hilary Weston was announced as the award's new sponsor.[1]
Prior to Weston's patronage of the award, the prize was C$15,000 for the winner and C$2,000 for the finalists.
Nominees and winners
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner1997
- Ernest Hillen, Small Mercies: A Boy After War
- Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
- John Bentley Mays, Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family
- Ruth Teichroeb, Flowers on My Grave
- Eileen Whitfield, Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
1998
- Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
- Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life
- David Manicom, Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
- Linda Spalding, The Follow
- Charles Wilkins, The Circus at the Edge of the Earth
1999
- Modris Eksteins, Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of our Century
- Robert Bringhurst, A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
- Jacalyn Duffin, History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
- Moira Farr, After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor’s Tale
- Wayne Johnston, Baltimore’s Mansion: A Memoir
2000
- Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
- Donald Harman Akenson, Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
- Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World
- Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
- John Stackhouse, Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable
2001
- Clark Blaise, Time Lord
- Kevin Major, As Near to Heaven by Sea
- Heather Pringle, The Mummy Congress
- Carol Shields, Jane Austen
- Jack Todd, The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story
2002
- Jake MacDonald, Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
- Katherine Ashenburg, The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die
- Andrew Clark, A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle
- Marni Jackson, Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
- Lorie Miseck, A Promise of Salt
2003
- Brian Fawcett, Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown
- Mark Abley, Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
- J. Edward Chamberlin, If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground
- Taras Grescoe, The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists
- Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, Sahara: A Natural History
2004
- Elaine Dewar, The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality
- Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall, Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
- Trevor Herriot, Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness
- Patrick Lane, There is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden
- Charles Montgomery, The Last Heathen: Encounters With Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia
2005
- John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
- Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
- Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
- J.B. MacKinnon, Dead Man in Paradise
2006
- Dragan Todorovic, The Book of Revenge
- Charlotte Gray, Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell
- Barbara Kingscote, Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman’s Journey Across Canada
- Noah Richler, This is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada
- Rudy Wiebe, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
2007
- Anna Porter, Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
- Katherine Ashenburg, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
- Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture
- Barry Gough, Fortune’s a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
- Douglas Hunter, God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery
2008
- Taras Grescoe, Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
- Carl Honoré, Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting
- Mark Kingwell, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City
- Margaret Visser, The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social Ritual
- Russell Wangersky, Burning Down the House: Fighting Fire and Losing Myself
2009
- Brian Brett, Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life
- Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
- Trevor Herriot, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
- Erika Ritter, The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships
- Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
2010
- James FitzGerald, What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
- Ross King, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
- Sarah Leavitt, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me
- John Theberge and Mary Theberge, The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself
- Merrily Weisbord, The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das
2011
- Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
- Charlotte Gill, Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
- Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891
- Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
- Ray Robertson, Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live
References
- ^ a b "Writers' Trust non-fiction prize bumped up to $60,000". The Globe and Mail, May 11, 2011.
- ^ M.A. Orthofer, "Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Non-Fiction ", complete review, 26 October 2011.
- ^ "Nominees for Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction announced". National Post, September 20, 2011.
External links
Categories:- Canadian literary awards
- Non-fiction literary awards
- Awards established in 1997
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