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Writers' Trust of Canada Awards 2012

The 2012 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards went to Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozy (Fiction), A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savage (Nonfiction) and Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio (Political Writing). 15 books were finalists across 3 categories.

Winners

Fiction

  1. Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozysource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape by Candace Savagesource (opens in a new tab)

Political Writing

  1. Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintiosource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Fiction

  1. Carnival by Rawi Hagesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Inside by Alix Ohlinsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Purchase by Linda Spaldingsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Tinsmith by Tim Bowlingsource (opens in a new tab)

Nonfiction

  1. Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes by Kamal Al-Solayleesource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the crisis of Truth in the Modern Age by Modris Eksteinssource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit by JJ Leesource (opens in a new tab)

Political Writing

  1. Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health-Care System Needs to Be Dragged into the 21st Century by Jeffrey Simpsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoesource (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Merger Delusion: How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal by Peter Trentsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. What We Talk About When We Talk About War by Noah Richlersource (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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