Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize

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The Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize is awarded annually for the best work of non-fiction by a Canadian writer. For more information, visit the official site.

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2010

  • James FitzGerald – What Disturbs Our Blood

Also shortlisted:

  • Ross King – Defiant Spirits
  • Sarah Leavitt – Tangles
  • John Theberge, Mary Theberge – The Ptarmigan's Dilemma
  • Merrily Weisbord – The Love Queen of Malabar

2009

  • Brian Brett – Trauma Farm

Also shortlisted:

  • Wade Davis – The Wayfinders
  • Trevor Herriot – Grass, Sky, Song
  • Erika Ritter – The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath
  • Eric Siblin – The Cello Suites

2008

  • Taras Grescoe – Bottomfeeder

Also shortlisted:

  • Carl Honoré – Under Pressure
  • Mark Kingwell – Concrete Reveries
  • Margaret Visser – The Gift of Thanks
  • Russell Wangersky – Burning Down the House

2007

  • Anna Porter – Kasztner's Train

Also shortlisted:

  • Katherine Ashenburg – The Dirt on Clean
  • Tim Bowling – The Lost Coast
  • Barry Gough – Fortune's a River
  • Douglas Hunter – God's Mercies

2006

  • Dragan Todorovic – The Book of Revenge

Also shortlisted:

  • Charlotte Gray – Reluctant Genius
  • Barbara Kingscote – Ride the Rising Wind
  • Noah Richler – This is My Country, What's Yours?
  • Rudy Wiebe – Of This Earth

2005

  • John Vaillant – The Golden Spruce

Also shortlisted:

  • Rebecca Godfrey – Under the Bridge
  • Stephen Lewis – Race Against Time
  • J.B. MacKinnon – Dead Man in Paradise

2004

  • Elaine Dewar – The Second Tree

Also shortlisted:

  • Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall – Down to This
  • Trevor Herriot – Jacob's Wound
  • Patrick Lane – There is a Season
  • Charles Montgomery – The Last Heathen

2003

  • Brian Fawcett – Virtual Clearcut

Also shortlisted:

  • Mark Abley – Spoken Here
  • J. Edward Chamberlin – If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
  • Taras Grescoe – The End of Elsewhere
  • Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle – Sahara

2002

  • Jake MacDonald – Houseboat Chronicles

Also shortlisted:

  • Katherine Ashenburg – The Mourner's Dance
  • Andrew Clark – A Keen Soldier
  • Marni Jackson – Pain
  • Lorie Miseck – A Promise of Salt

2001

  • Clark Blaise – Time Lord

Also shortlisted:

  • Kevin Major – As Near to Heaven by Sea
  • Heather Pringle – The Mummy Congress
  • Carol Shields – Jane Austen
  • Jack Todd – The Taste of Metal

2000

  • Erna Paris – Long Shadows

Also shortlisted:

  • Donald Harman Akenson – Saint Saul
  • Hugh Brody – The Other Side of Eden
  • Taras Grescoe – Sacré Blues
  • John Stackhouse – Out of Poverty

1999

  • Modris Eksteins – Walking Since Daybreak

Also shortlisted:

  • Robert Bringhurst – A Story as Sharp as a Knife
  • Jacalyn Duffin – History of Medicine
  • Moira Farr – After Daniel
  • Wayne Johnston – Baltimore's Mansion

1998

Also shortlisted:

  • Michael Ignatieff – Isaiah Berlin
  • David Manicom – Progeny of Ghosts
  • Linda Spalding – The Follow
  • Charles Wilkins – The Circus at the Edge of the Earth

1997

  • Ernest Hillen – Small Mercies

Also shortlisted:

  • Charlotte Gray – Mrs. King
  • John Bentley Mays – Power in the Blood
  • Ruth Teichroeb – Flowers on My Grave
  • Eileen Whitfield – Pickford