Hon. Hilary M. Weston welcomes guests to the announcement of the 2013 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction shortlist
On Wednesday, September 18 the shortlist for the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction was announced. For the second year, books nominated for the prize will be promoted at Loblaws stores across Canada, and so, also for the second year, we announced the finalists at a swish event at Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens. While the cutting of the giant Parmesan (really, it’s big) did draw its own crowd, the real stars of the morning were the five nominees.
They are:
- Thomas King for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- J.B. MacKinnon for The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
- Graeme Smith for The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan
- Andrew Steinmetz for This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
- Priscila Uppal for Projection: Encounters with my Runaway Mother
The winner will be announced on Monday, October 21.
Here’s some of the coverage from the shortlist announcement:
CBC Live (video)
CBC Books
Globe and Mail
National Post
Quill and Quire
Toronto Star
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