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.

Sponsorship history

First established in 1997, the award's original corporate sponsor was Viacom. Pearson Canada, the regional branch of 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,[1] when Hilary Weston (a philanthropist and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario) was announced as the award's new sponsor.[2]

Canada's most lucrative non-fiction prize, the winner receives a cash sum of Template:Currency and all finalists receive Template:Currency.[2][3] Prior to Weston's patronage of the award, the prize would consist Template:Currency for the winner and Template:Currency for the finalists.

Nominees and winners

Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort". Small Mercies: A Boy After War Winner [4]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King Finalist [5]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Power in the Blood: Land, Memory, and a Southern Family
Script error: No such module "Sort". Flowers on My Grave
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". and Yvonne Johnson Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman Winner [6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Isaiah Berlin: A Life Finalist [7]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the Old Empire
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1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Heart of our Century Winner [8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [9]
Script error: No such module "Sort". History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Script error: No such module "Sort". After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale
Script error: No such module "Sort". Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History Winner [10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus Finalist [11]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec
Script error: No such module "Sort". Out of Poverty: And into Something More Comfortable
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Time Lord Winner [12]
Script error: No such module "Sort". As Near to Heaven by Sea Finalist [13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Script error: No such module "Sort". Jane Austen
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2002 Script error: No such module "Sort". Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country Winner [14]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign
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2003 Script error: No such module "Sort". Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown Winner [16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages Finalist [17]
Script error: No such module "Sort". If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Sheila Hirtle Sahara: A Natural History
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2004 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown Finalist [19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness
Script error: No such module "Sort". There is a Season: A Memoir in a Garden
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2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk Finalist [21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Script error: No such module "Sort". Dead Man in Paradise
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [22]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell Finalist [23]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman's Journey Across Canada
Script error: No such module "Sort". This is My Country, What's Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada
Script error: No such module "Sort". Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust Winner [24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [25]
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America
Script error: No such module "Sort". God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood Winner [26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting Finalist [27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
2009 Script error: No such module "Sort". Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life Winner [28]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [29]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
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2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past Winner [30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven Finalist [31]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother and Me
Script error: No such module "Sort". and Mary Theberge Script error: No such module "Sort".
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2011 Script error: No such module "Sort". Mordecai: The Life & Times Winner [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe Finalist [33]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891
Script error: No such module "Sort". Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
Script error: No such module "Sort". Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live
2012 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [34]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes Finalist [34]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
Script error: No such module "Sort". Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
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2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [35]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [36]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
Script error: No such module "Sort". This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
Script error: No such module "Sort". Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
2014 Script error: No such module "Sort". This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Winner [37]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them Finalist [37]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Script error: No such module "Sort". Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies, and Predators Online
Script error: No such module "Sort". Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
2015 Script error: No such module "Sort". Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Winner [38]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Tell it to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo Finalist [39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
Script error: No such module "Sort". Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
Script error: No such module "Sort". Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire
2016 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Winner [40]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Finalist [41]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier's Story
Script error: No such module "Sort". Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Script error: No such module "Sort". Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort". Life on the Ground Floor: Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine Winner [42]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Tomboy Survival Guide Finalist [43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Birds Art Life: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
Script error: No such module "Sort". All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
Script error: No such module "Sort". Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
2018 Script error: No such module "Sort". All Things Consoled: A Daughter's Memoir Winner [44]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo Van Hove, and the Art of Resistance Finalist [45]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Heart Berries
Script error: No such module "Sort". In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
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2019 Script error: No such module "Sort". Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related Winner [46]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Finalist [47]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
Script error: No such module "Sort". All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward
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2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts in Search of My Family's Past Winner [48]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) Finalist [48]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
Script error: No such module "Sort". Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort".
2021 Script error: No such module "Sort". Permanent Astonishment Winner [49]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nishga Finalist [50]
Script error: No such module "Sort". On Foot to Canterbury
Script error: No such module "Sort". Peyakow
Script error: No such module "Sort". Disorientation
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Winner [51]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "Sort". Finalist [52]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir
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Script error: No such module "Sort". Making Love with the Land
2023 Script error: No such module "Sort". Ordinary Notes Winner [53]
Script error: No such module "Sort". My Road from Damascus Finalist [54]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
Script error: No such module "Sort". Ordinary Wonder Tales
Script error: No such module "Sort". Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
2024 Script error: No such module "Sort". There Is No Blue Winner [55]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir Finalist [56]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Here After
Script error: No such module "Sort"., Jack Whalen Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen’s Tireless Fight for Justice
Script error: No such module "Sort". Everything and Nothing At All
2025 Script error: No such module "Sort". Theory of Water Winner [57]
Script error: No such module "Sort". One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Shortlist [58]
Script error: No such module "Sort". The Snag
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Script error: No such module "Sort". A Truce That is Not Peace

Weston International Award

In 2023, the Writers' Trust introduced the Weston International Award, a prize which honours international non-fiction writers. Unlike the Canadian award, the international award does not release a list of finalists in advance of the winner announcement, and honours the writer for their overall body of work rather than an individual book.

References

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