The Writers' Trust of Canada's Great Literary Awards
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The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize
The Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize honoured the year's best work of biography, autobiography, or personal memoir.
2005     A bed of red flowers : in search of my Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira
2004     Here be dragons : telling tales of people, passion and power by Peter C. Newman
2003
     The player : the life & times of Dalton Camp by Geoffrey Stevens
2002     Lake of the Prairies : a story of belonging by Warren Cariou
2001     Fatal passage : the true story of John Rae, the Arctic hero time forgot by Ken McGoogan
2000     River in a dry land : a prairie passage by Trevor Herriot
1999     Gabrielle Roy : a life by François Ricard ; translated by Patricia Claxton

The
Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
The prize is awarded for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction, which includes, among other forms, personal or journalistic essays, history, biography, memoirs, commentary, and criticism, both social and political. This award succeeds the Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize, which was established in 1997.
2017     Life on the ground floor : letters from the edge of emergency medicine by James Maskalyk
2016     A disappearance in Damascus : a story of friendship and survival in the shadow of war by Deborah Campbell
2015     Stalin's daughter : the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
2014     This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate by Naomi Klein
2013     The dogs are eating them now : our war in Afghanistan by Graeme Smith
2012     A geography of blood : unearthing memory from a prairie landscape by Candace Savage
2011     Mordecai : the life and times by Charles Foran
2010     What disturbs our blood : a son's quest to redeem the past by James FitzGerald
2009     Trauma farm : a rebel history of rural life by Brian Brett
2008     Bottomfeeder : a seafood lover's journey to the end of the food chain by Taras Grescoe
2007     Kasztner's train : the true story of Rezso Kasztner, unknown hero of the Holocaust by Anna Porter
2006     The book of revenge by Dragan Todorovic
2005     The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness and greed by John Vaillant
2004     The second tree : stem cells, clones, chimeras, and quests for immortality (American title) by Elaine Dewar
2003
     Virtual clearcut, or the way things are in my hometown by Brian Fawcett
2002
     Houseboat chronicles : notes from a life in shield country by Jake MacDonald
2001
     Time lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the creation of standard time by Clark Blaise
2000
     Long shadows : truth, lies, and history by Erna Paris
1999
     Walking since daybreak : a story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the heart of our century by Modris Eksteins
1998
     Stolen life : the journey of a Cree woman by Rudy Wiebe & Yvonne Johnson
1997
     Small mercies : a boy after war by Ernest Hillen

The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize recognizes Canadian writers of exceptional talent for the year's best novel or short-story collection
2017     Brother by David Chariandy
2016     Mysterious fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh
2015     Fifteen dogs : an apologue by André Alexis
2014     All my puny sorrows by Miriam Toews
2013     A beautiful truth by Colin McAdam
2012     Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy
2011     The Sisters brothers by Patrick deWitt
2010     Room by Emma Donoghue
2009     The golden mean by Annabel Lyon
2008     The flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews
2007     The book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

2006     Inside by Kenneth J. Harvey

2005     Three day road : a novel by Joseph Boyden
2004     Runaway : stories by Alice Munro
2003     Country of cold : stories of sex and death by Kevin Patterson
2002     Enemy women by Paulette Jiles
2001     When Alice lay down with Peter : a novel by Margaret Sweatman
2000     Afterimage : a novel by Helen Humphreys
1999     The city of yes by Peter Oliva
1998     The healer by Greg Hollingshead
1997     The origins of waves by Austin Clarke

Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing
This award is presented for a non-fiction book that captures a subject of political interest to the Canadian reader and enhances our understanding of the issue.
2017     Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city by Tanya Talaga
2016
     Brown : what being brown in the world today means (to everyone) by Kamal Al-Solaylee
2015     Stephen Harper by John Ibbitson
2014     Enlightenment 2.0 : restoring sanity to our politics, our economy, and our lives by Joseph Heath
2013     The longer I'm Prime Minister : Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006 – by Paul Wells
2012     Walls : travels along the barricades by Marcello Di Cintio
2011     Nation maker : Sir John A. Macdonald : his life, our times, volume two : 1867-1891 by Richard Gwyn
2010     The ghosts of Europe : journeys through central Europe's troubled past and uncertain future by Anna Porter
2009     Just watch me : the life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 by John English
2008     An imperfect offering : humanitarian action in the twenty-first century by James Orbinski
2007     The unexpected war : Canada in Kandahar by Janice Gross Stein & Eugene Lang
2006     Young Trudeau : son of Quebec, father of Canada, 1919-1944 by Max & Monique Nemni ; translated by William Johnson
2005     The drug trial by Miriam Shuchman
2004     Dark age ahead by Jane Jacobs
2003     Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda by Lt Gen. Roméo Dallaire
2002     Fights of our lives : elections, leadership and the making of Canada by John Duffy
2001     In the name of the father : an essay on Quebec nationalism by Daniel Poliquin ; translated by Don Winkler
2000     Long shadows : truth, lies and history by Erna Paris