Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
1 appearances
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Edition 9 (2005) Winner
John Vaillant
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Jon Vaillant
Aliases:
John H. Vaillant
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1962-01-01 （Massachusetts, United States）
- Nationality
- Canadian, American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Massachusetts (birth to 1998) → Vancouver (since 1998)
Career
- Occupations
- Journalist, Writer
- Active Years
- 2005-2024
- Influenced By
- George Eman Vaillant, George Clapp Vaillant
- Nominations
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2015 shortlist (The Jaguar's Children), Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2023 finalist (Fire Weather), National Book Award for Nonfiction 2023 finalist (Fire Weather)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Governor General's Award | The Golden Spruce | Non-fiction | — | winner |
| 2005 | Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize | The Golden Spruce | — | — | winner |
| 2010 | British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction | The Tiger | — | — | winner |
| 2012 | Nicolas Bouvier Prize | The Tiger | — | — | winner |
| 2014 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prize | — | Nonfiction | — | winner |
| 2023 | Baillie Gifford Prize | Fire Weather | Non-Fiction | — | winner |
Governor General's Award
2005
Work:
The Golden Spruce
Category:
Non-fiction
Result:
winner
Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
2005
Work:
The Golden Spruce
Result:
winner
British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
2010
Work:
The Tiger
Result:
winner
Nicolas Bouvier Prize
2012
Work:
The Tiger
Result:
winner
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2014
Category:
Nonfiction
Result:
winner
Baillie Gifford Prize
2023
Work:
Fire Weather
Category:
Non-Fiction
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
1 appearances
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Edition 2 (2014) Winner
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
1 appearances
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Edition 25 (2023) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
2005 Non-fictionDealt with the felling of the Golden Spruce (Kiidk'yaas) on Haida Gwaii by Grant Hadwin.
Environmental destructionIndigenous cultureNature worship
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
2010 Non-fictionA man-eating tiger incident in 1997 in Russia's Primorsky Krai.
WildlifeHuman-nature conflictSurvival
Adaptations
- [Film] / Plan B (optioned)
Translations
- Translated into 16 languages
The Jaguar's Children
2015 FictionA novel about an undocumented Mexican immigrant trapped inside an empty water truck tank abandoned in the desert.
ImmigrationSurvivalBorders
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
2023 Non-fictionFollows the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire and the anthropological history between humans and fire in the context of climate change.
Climate changeWildfiresHumans and fire
Bibliography
- The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
- The Jaguar's Children
- Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Narrative nonfictionJournalistic styleResearch-intensive
- Recurring Motifs
- Human-nature conflictEnvironmental crisisPower of the wild
Legacy
Internationally acclaimed master of narrative nonfiction exploring complex human-nature relationships, winner of numerous prestigious literary awards.
Trivia
- Son of Harvard psychiatrist and social scientist George Eman Vaillant.
- Grandson of archaeologist George Clapp Vaillant.
- Married to potter, writer, and anthropologist Nora Walsh.