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 most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner receives a prize of C$60,000 and all finalists receive C$5,000.[1][2]

Sponsorship history

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
Year Winner Nominated
1997 Ernest Hillen, Small Mercies: A Boy After War
1998 Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
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
2001 Clark Blaise, Time Lord
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
2005 John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
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 Fires 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
2012 Candace Savage, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape[4]
  • Kamal Al-Solaylee, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
  • Modris Eksteins, Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
  • Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
  • JJ Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
2013 Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
  • Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
  • J.B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
  • Andrew Steinmetz, This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
  • Priscila Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
2014[5] Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate[6]
2015[7] Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva[8]
  • Eliott Behar, Tell it to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo
  • Douglas Coupland, Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
  • Dean Jobb, Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
  • Lynette Loeppky, Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire
2016 Deborah Campbell, A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War[9]
  • Ian Brown, Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
  • Matti Friedman, Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier’s Story
  • Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
  • Sonja Larsen, Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
2017[10] James Maskalyk, Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine[11]
  • Ivan Coyote, Tomboy Survival Guide
  • Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
  • Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
  • Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
2018 Elizabeth Hay, All Things Consoled: A Daughter’s Memoir
  • Will Aitken, Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance
  • Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries
  • Judi Rever, In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
  • Lindsay Wong, The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
2019 Jenny Heijun Wills, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related[12]
  • Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
  • Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
  • Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward
  • Ayelet Tsabari, The Art of Leaving

References
  1. "Writers' Trust non-fiction prize bumped up to $60,000". The Globe and Mail, May 11, 2011.
  2. M.A. Orthofer, "Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Non-Fiction ", complete review, 26 October 2011.
  3. "Nominees for Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction announced" Archived 2013-01-04 at Archive.today. National Post, September 20, 2011.
  4. "Candace Savage’s prairie meditation takes Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize". Toronto Star, November 12, 2012.
  5. "Hilary Weston Prize 2014: The shortlist revealed!". CBC Books, September 17, 2014.
  6. "Naomi Klein wins 2014 Hilary Weston Prize". CBC Books, October 14, 2014.
  7. "Douglas Coupland, Rosemary Sullivan among Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction finalists". Quill & Quire, September 16, 2015.
  8. "Biography of Stalin’s daughter wins Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize". The Globe and Mail, October 6, 2015.
  9. "Rogers Writers’ Trust: Celebrating the 2016 winners". Maclean's, November 3, 2016.
  10. "Hilary Weston Prize shortlist announced". The Globe and Mail, September 20, 2017.
  11. "David Chariandy, Billie Livingston, and Diane Schoemperlen among the winners at the 2017 Writers’ Trust awards". Quill & Quire, November 14, 2017.
  12. Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
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