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.

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Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner receives a prize of CA$ 60,000 and all finalists receive CA$ 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 CA$ 15,000 for the winner and CA$ 2,000 for the finalists.

Nominees and winners

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction winners
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1997 Ernest Hillen Small Mercies: A Boy After WarWinner [4]
Charlotte Gray Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King Shortlist [5]
John Bentley Mays Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern FamilyShortlist
Ruth Teichroeb Flowers on My GraveShortlist
Eileen Whitfield Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood Shortlist
1998 Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne JohnsonStolen Life: The Journey of a Cree WomanWinner [6]
Michael Ignatieff Isaiah Berlin: A LifeShortlist [7]
David Manicom Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old EmpireShortlist
Linda Spalding The FollowShortlist
Charles WilkinsThe Circus at the Edge of the EarthShortlist
1999 Modris Eksteins Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of our CenturyWinner [8]
Robert Bringhurst Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their WorldShortlist [9]
Jacalyn Duffin History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short IntroductionShortlist
Moira Farr After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's TaleShortlist
Wayne Johnston Baltimore's Mansion: A MemoirShortlist
2000 Erna Paris Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and HistoryWinner [10]
Donald Harman Akenson Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical JesusShortlist [11]
Hugh Brody The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the WorldShortlist
Taras Grescoe Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec Shortlist
John Stackhouse Out of Poverty: And into Something More ComfortableShortlist
2001 Clark Blaise Time LordWinner [12]
Kevin Major As Near to Heaven by SeaShortlist [13]
Heather Pringle The Mummy CongressShortlist
Carol Shields Jane AustenShortlist
Jack Todd The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s StoryShortlist
2002 Jake MacDonald Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield CountryWinner [14]
Katherine Ashenburg The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People DieShortlist [15]
Andrew ClarkKeen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold PringleShortlist
Marni Jackson Pain: The Fifth Vital SignShortlist
Lorie Miseck Promise of SaltShortlist
2003 Brian Fawcett Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My HometownWinner [16]
Mark Abley Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened LanguagesShortlist [17]
J. Edward Chamberlin If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common GroundShortlist
Marq de Villiers and Sheila HirtleSahara: A Natural HistoryShortlist
Taras Grescoe The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the TouristsShortlist
2004 Elaine Dewar The Second Tree: Of Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for ImmortalityWinner [18]
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City ShantytownShortlist [19]
Trevor Herriot Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of WildnessShortlist
Patrick Lane There is a Season: A Memoir in a GardenShortlist
Charles Montgomery The Last Heathen: Encounters With Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia Shortlist
2005 John Vaillant The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and GreedWinner [20]
Rebecca Godfrey Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena VirkShortlist [21]
Stephen Lewis Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa Shortlist
J.B. MacKinnon Dead Man in ParadiseShortlist
2006 Dragan Todorovic The Book of RevengeWinner [22]
Charlotte Gray Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham BellShortlist [23]
Barbara Kingscote Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across CanadaShortlist
Noah Richler This is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of CanadaShortlist
Rudy Wiebe Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal ForestShortlist
2007 Anna Porter Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the HolocaustWinner [24]
Katherine Ashenburg The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized HistoryShortlist [25]
Tim Bowling The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild CultureShortlist
Barry Gough Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest AmericaShortlist
Douglas Hunter God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of DiscoveryShortlist
2008 Taras Grescoe Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing SeafoodWinner [26]
Carl Honoré Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-ParentingShortlist [27]
Mark Kingwell Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the CityShortlist
Margaret Visser The Gift of Thanks: The Roots, Persistence and Paradoxical Meanings of a Social RitualShortlist
Russell Wangersky Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself Shortlist
2009 Brian Brett Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural LifeWinner [28]
Wade Davis The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern WorldShortlist [29]
Trevor Herriot Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland BirdsShortlist
Erika Ritter The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal RelationshipsShortlist
Eric Siblin The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque MasterpieceShortlist
2010 James FitzGerald What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the PastWinner [30]
Ross King Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of SevenShortlist [31]
Sarah Leavitt Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and MeShortlist
John Theberge and Mary ThebergeThe Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports ItselfShortlist
Merrily Weisbord The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala DasShortlist
2011 Charles Foran Mordecai: The Life & TimesWinner [32]
Charlotte Gill Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting TribeShortlist [33]
Richard Gwyn Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891Shortlist
Grant Lawrence Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound Shortlist
Ray Robertson Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to LiveShortlist
2012 Candace Savage A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape Winner [34]
Kamal Al-Solaylee Intolerable: A Memoir of ExtremesShortlist [34]
Modris Eksteins Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern AgeShortlist
Taras Grescoe Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the AutomobileShortlist
JJ Lee The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a SuitShortlist
2013 Graeme Smith The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in AfghanistanWinner [35]
Thomas King The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North AmericaShortlist [36]
J.B. MacKinnon The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could BeShortlist
Andrew Steinmetz This Great Escape: The Case of Michael ParylaShortlist
Priscila Uppal Projection: Encounters with My Runaway MotherShortlist
2014 Naomi Klein This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Winner [37]
Susan Delacourt Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose ThemShortlist [37]
Charles Montgomery Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Shortlist
Paula Todd Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies, and Predators OnlineShortlist
Kathleen Winter Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest PassageShortlist
2015 Rosemary Sullivan Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana AlliluyevaWinner [38]
Eliott Behar Tell it to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in KosovoShortlist [39]
Douglas Coupland Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-LucentShortlist
Dean Jobb Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the NationShortlist
Lynette Loeppky Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and DesireShortlist
2016 Deborah Campbell Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of WarWinner [40]
Ian Brown Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?Shortlist [41]
Matti Friedman Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier's StoryShortlist
Ross King Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water LiliesShortlist
Sonja LarsenRed Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl RevolutionaryShortlist
2017 James Maskalyk Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency MedicineWinner [42]
Ivan Coyote Tomboy Survival GuideShortlist [43]
Kyo Maclear Birds Art Life: A Field Guide to the Small and SignificantShortlist
Carol Off All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of OthersShortlist
Tanya Talaga Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Shortlist
2018 Elizabeth Hay All Things Consoled: A Daughter's MemoirWinner [44]
Will Aitken Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of ResistanceShortlist [45]
Terese Marie Mailhot Heart BerriesShortlist
Judi Rever In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic FrontShortlist
Lindsay Wong The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese FamilyShortlist
2019 Jenny Heijun Wills Older Sister. Not Necessarily RelatedWinner [46]
Alicia Elliott Mind Spread Out on the GroundShortlist [47]
Anna Mehler Paperny Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person Shortlist
Tanya Talaga All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward Shortlist
Ayelet Tsabari The Art of LeavingShortlist
2020 Jessica J. Lee Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts in Search of My Family's Past Winner [48]
Lorna Crozier Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats)Shortlist [48]
Steven Heighton Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on LesvosShortlist
Tessa McWatt Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and BelongingShortlist
David Neel The Way HomeShortlist
2021 Tomson Highway Permanent AstonishmentWinner [49]
Jordan Abel NishgaShortlist [50]
Ken Haigh On Foot to CanterburyShortlist
Darrel J. McLeod PeyakowShortlist
Ian Williams DisorientationShortlist
2022 Dan Werb The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a CureWinner [51]
Geoff Dembicki The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate ChangeShortlist [52]
Tara McGowan-Ross Nothing Will Be Different: A MemoirShortlist
Debra Thompson The Long Road Home: On Blackness and BelongingShortlist
Joshua Whitehead Making Love with the LandShortlist
2023 Christina Sharpe Ordinary NotesWinner [53]
Jamal Saeed My Road from DamascusShortlist [54]
Angela Sterritt Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
Emily Urquhart Ordinary Wonder Tales
John Vaillant Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

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