Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

Attributo da Writers' Trust of Canada

Altri nomi: Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist (Inglese)
134 opere / 135 copie 19,965 libri 674 recensioni ½ 4.0
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 mostra altro 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. mostra meno
Fasi:
Tutto, Winner (27), Shortlist (108)
Anni:
Tutto, 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)
Annunciati:
Novembre 2023: Vincitore2023 Recenti

Winner 27

OperaAnno
Ordinary Notes di Christina Sharpe2023
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure di Dan Werb2022
Permanent Astonishment: A Memoir di Tomson Highway2021
Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts di Jessica J. Lee2020
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir di Jenny Heijun Wills2019
All Things Consoled: A daughter's memoir di Elizabeth Hay2018
Life on the Ground Floor di James Maskalyk2017
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War di Deborah Campbell2016
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva di Rosemary Sullivan2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate di Naomi Klein2014
The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan di Graeme Smith2013
A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape di Candace Savage2012
Mordecai: The Life & Times di Charles Foran2011
What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past di James Fitzgerald2010
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life di Brian Brett2009
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood di Taras Grescoe2008
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust di Anna Porter2007
The Book of Revenge di Dragan Todorovic2006
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed di John Vaillant2005
The Second Tree: Stem Cells, Clones, Chimeras, and Quests for Immortality di Elaine Dewar2004
Virtual clearcut, or, the way things are in my hometown di Brian Fawcett2003
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes From a Life in Shield Country di Jake MacDonald2002
Il signore del tempo di Clark Blaise2001
Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History di Erna Paris2000
Walking Since Daybreak : A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century di Modris Eksteins1999
Stolen Life: Journey Of A Cree Woman di Rudy Wiebe1998
Small mercies: A boy after war di Ernest Hillen1997

Shortlist 108

OperaAnno
My Road from Damascus di Jamal Saeed2023
Ordinary Notes di Christina Sharpe2023
Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls di Angela Sterritt2023
Ordinary Wonder Tales di Emily Urquhart2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World di John Vaillant2023
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change di Geoff Dembicki2022
Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir di Tara McGowan-Ross2022
The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging di Debra Thompson2022
Making Love with the Land: Essays di Joshua Whitehead2022
NISHGA di Jordan Abel2021
On Foot to Canterbury: A Son's Pilgrimage (Wayfarer) di Ken Haigh2021
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity di Darrel J. McLeod2021
Disorientation: Being Black in the World di Ian Williams2021
Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) di Lorna Crozier2020
Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos di Steven Heighton2020
Shame On Me di Tessa McWatt2020
The Way Home di David A. Neel2020
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground di Alicia Elliott2019
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person di Anna Mehler Paperny2019
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward di Tanya Talaga2019
The Art of Leaving: A Memoir di Ayelet Tsabari2019
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, and the Art of Resistance (The Regina Collection) di Will Aitken2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir di Terese Marie Mailhot2018
In Praise of Blood di Judi Rever2018
The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family di Lindsay Wong2018
Tomboy Survival Guide di Ivan Coyote2017
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation di Kyo Maclear2017
All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others di Carol Off2017
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City di Tanya Talaga2017
Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? di Ian Brown2016
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story di Matti Friedman2016
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies di Ross King2016
Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary di Sonja Larsen2016
Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo di Eliott Behar2015
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent (Writers in Residence) di Douglas Coupland2015
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation di Dean Jobb2015
Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire di Lynette Loeppky2015
Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them di Susan Delacourt2014
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design di Charles Montgomery2014
Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online di Paula Todd2014
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage di Kathleen Winter2014
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America di Thomas King2013
The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be di J. B. MacKinnon2013
This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla di Andrew Steinmetz2013
Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother di Priscila Uppal2013
Intolerable di Kamal Al-Solaylee2012
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age di Modris Eksteins2012
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile di Taras Grescoe2012
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit di Jj Lee2012
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe di Charlotte Gill2011
John A: The Man Who Made Us di Richard J. Gwyn2011
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound di Grant Lawrence2011
Why Not?: Fifteen Reasons to Live di Ray Robertson2011
Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven di Ross King2010
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me di Sarah Leavitt2010
The Ptarmigan's Dilemma: An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself di John Theberge2010
The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das di Merrily Weisbord2010
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World di Wade Davis2009
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds di Trevor Herriot2009
The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: And Other Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships di Erika Ritter2009
Les suites per violoncello: da Johann Sebastian Bach a Pablo Casals: storia e misteri di un capolavoro barocco di Eric Siblin2009
Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting di Carl Honoré2008
Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City di Mark Kingwell2008
The Gift of Thanks: The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude di Margaret Visser2008
Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself di Russell Wangersky2008
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History di Katherine Ashenburg2007
The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture di Tim Bowling2007
Fortune's A River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America di Barry Gough2007
God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery di Douglas Hunter2007
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention di Charlotte Gray2006
Ride the Rising Wind di Barbara Kingscote2006
This Is My Country, What's Yours? di Noah Richler2006
Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest di Rudy Wiebe2006
Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa di Stephen Lewis2005
Dead Man in Paradise di J. B. MacKinnon2005
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Mureder of Reena Virk di Reena Virk2005
Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown di Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall2004
Jacob's Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness di Trevor Herriot2004
What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered di Patrick Lane2004
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific di Charles Montgomery2004
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages di Mark Abley2003
If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground di J. Edward Chamberlin2003
The End of Elsewhere: Travels Among the Tourists di Taras Grescoe2003
Sahara: A Natural History di Marq de Villiers2003
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die di Katherine Ashenburg2002
A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle di Andrew Clark2002
Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt di Marni Jackson2002
A Promise of Salt di Lorie Miseck2002
As Near to Heaven by Sea: A History of Newfoundland and Labrador di Kevin Major2001
I segreti delle mummie di Heather Pringle2001
Jane Austen di Carol Shields2001
The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story di Jack Todd2001
Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus di Donald Harman Akenson2000
The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World di Hugh Brody2000
Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec di Taras Grescoe2000
Out of Poverty di John Stackhouse2000
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World di Robert Bringhurst1999
History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction di Jacalyn Duffin1999
After Daniel: A Suicide Survivor's Tale di Moira Farr1999
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir di Wayne Johnston1999
Isaiah Berlin. Ironia e libertà di Michael Ignatieff1998
Progeny of ghosts : travels in Russia and the old empire di David Manicom1998
The Follow : A True Story di Linda Spalding1998
The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus di Charles Wilkins1998
Mrs. King : The Life and Times of Isabel MacKenzie King di Charlotte Gray1997
Power in the blood : land, memory, and a southern family di John Bentley Mays1997
Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy's Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse di Ruth Teichroeb1997
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood di Eileen Whitfield1997

Descrizioni

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, Scritto da un membro)
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, Scritto da un membro)

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