Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
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]
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 () = winner
1997
1998
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
2001
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
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
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