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Writers' Trust of Canada Awards 2006

The 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards went to Inside by Kenneth Harvey (Fiction), The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia by Dragan Todorovic (Nonfiction) and Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944 by Max and Monique Nemni (Political Writing). 15 books were finalists across 3 categories.

Winners

Fiction

  1. Inside by Kenneth Harveysource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia by Dragan Todorovicsource (opens in a new tab)

Political Writing

  1. Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944 by Max and Monique Nemnisource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Fiction

  1. DeNiro’s Game by Rawi Hagesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Catherine Hanrahansource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrenssource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawsonsource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest by Rudy Wiebesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell by Charlotte Graysource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Ride the Rising Wind: One Woman’s Journey Across Canada by Barbara Kingscotesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. This is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada by Noah Richlersource (opens in a new tab)

Political Writing

  1. Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet by Carol Offsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume 1: 1919-1968 by John Englishsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Washington Diaries, 1981-1989 by Allan Gotliebsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Way it Works: Inside Ottawa by Eddie Goldenbergsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Writers' Trust of Canada Awards

Winners and finalists of four Writers' Trust of Canada book prizes, from the official prize history pages at writerstrust.com/writers-books/awards. No fallback sources were needed. The Writers' Trust does not publish longlists for these prizes, so there are no Longlist rows. Fiction is the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, renamed the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2019. Nonfiction is the Writers' Trust Nonfiction Prize, named the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction from 2011. Public Policy is the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy, first awarded in 2021. Political Writing is the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Year is the year the history pages give each prize. For Fiction, Nonfiction and Public Policy that is the award year. For Political Writing the pages give the book's year through 2019 (the prize was handed out the next spring) and the award year from 2021, so 2020 has no Political Writing entry. The pages list four books for Nonfiction 2007 and Public Policy 2021, 2024 and 2025. The Dayne Ogilvie Prize, the Latner Griffin Poetry Prize, the Nancy Flight editing prize and other career or person awards are left out. Translators are credited when the page credits them. Books that won one prize and were finalists for another appear in each category.

Organization: Writers' Trust of Canada. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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