For more information about The Writers' Trust of Canada, sponsor of these awards, click here.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