Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Uitgereikt door Writers' Trust of Canada

Andere Namen: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist (Engels)
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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 toon meer 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. toon minder
Stages:
Alle, Winner (27), Shortlist (108)
Jaren:
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)
Aangekondigd:
november 2023: Winnaar2023 Recent

Winner 27

WerkJaar
Ordinary Notes door Christina Sharpe2023
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure door Dan Werb2022
Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir door Tomson Highway2021
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts door Jessica J. Lee2020
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir door Jenny Heijun Wills2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir door Elizabeth Hay2018
Life on the Ground Floor door James Maskalyk2017
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War door Deborah Campbell2016
de dochter van Stalin door Rosemary Sullivan2015
No time. Verander nu, voor het klimaat alles verandert door Naomi Klein2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan door Graeme Smith2013
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape door Candace Savage2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times door Charles Foran2011
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past door James Fitzgerald2010
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life door Brian Brett2009
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood door Taras Grescoe2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust door Anna Porter2007
The Book of Revenge door Dragan Todorovic2006
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed door John Vaillant2005
The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality door Elaine Dewar2004
Virtual clearcut, or, the way things are in my hometown door Brian Fawcett2003
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes From a Life in Shield Country door Jake MacDonald2002
Heer van de tijd een eenzaam genie en de uitvinding van de standaardtijd door Clark Blaise2001
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History door Erna Paris2000
Op de loop door Modris Eksteins1999
Stolen Life: Journey Of A Cree Woman door Rudy Wiebe1998
Small mercies: A boy after war door Ernest Hillen1997

Shortlist 108

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

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