Hilary Westons' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

The Hilary Weston Trust Prize for Nonfiction is a new award that replaces the Writers' Trust prize for nonfiction which has been without a sponsor for a number of years now.  The $60 000 prize is sponsored by the former lieutenant governor of Ontario Hilary Weston.

This year's finalists are :

Charles Foran | Mordecai: The Life & Times 
Published by Knopf Canada

Charlotte Gill | Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting TribePublished by Greystone Books/David Suzuki Foundation

Richard Gwyn | Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times; Volume Two: 1867-1891Published by Random House Canada

Grant Lawrence | Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nudist Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
Published by Harbour Publishing

Ray Robertson | Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to LivePublished by Biblioasis