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Charles Foran & the Weston Prize

9/20/2011 1:24:19 PM

Congrats to Charles Foran, a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Mordecai: The Life and Times.

The Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction announced five finalists for the 2011 prize on September 20, 2011, during a press conference in Toronto's Conservatory Theatre located within the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning. Each finalist will receive $5,000, with the eventual prizewinner receiving a total of $60,000.

This year's finalists are (click on image for more info):

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

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




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

The prize will be awarded in Toronto at Koerner Hall at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning during an event and after-party on October 25.

Finalists were selected by a three-member jury composed of Brian Brett, a writer and farmer from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia; Devyani Saltzman, a writer and curator of literary programming for Toronto’s Luminato Festival; and Russell Wangersky, a writer and editorial-page editor of the St. John’s Telegram.

As part of the education component of the prize, a teaching resource booklet has been created that will provide Canadian high-school educators with a tool to introduce the writing and ideas of the prize finalists to young readers. The booklet will be distributed to select schools across the country. It is also available for download.