TORONTO - Canada's book awards season continues tonight with the announcement of the winner of this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.
This is the fifth year for the prize, which is billed as the richest annual literary award for a book of nonfiction published in Canada.
The winner will receive $60,000 at a red-carpet gala at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
This year's nominees include Vancouver-based author/artist Douglas Coupland for "Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent."
University of Toronto professor emeritus Rosemary Sullivan is a finalist for "Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva."
Eliott Behar, a war crimes prosecutor from Toronto, made the cut for "Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo."
