Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Given by Writers' Trust of Canada

Autres noms: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist (Anglais)
134 oeuvres / 135 Items 19,965 Livres 674 critiques 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 afficher plus 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. afficher moins
Stages:
Tous, Winner (27), Shortlist (108)
Années:
Tous, 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)
Annoncé:
Novembre 2023: Gagnant2023 Récent

Winner 27

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

Shortlist 108

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

Descriptions

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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