{"id":896,"date":"2016-10-14T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:59:30","slug":"writers-trust-weston-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/2016\/10\/14\/writers-trust-weston-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Trust Weston Prize shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Writers&#8217; Trust of Canada has announced that\u00a0<em>Pumpkinflowers<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>is one of five finalists for this year&#8217;s Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The winner of the prize, considered the \u201crichest annual literary award\u201d for a nonfiction book by a Canadian author, will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The other finalists are <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Ian Brown<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0for <em>Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-first Year: The Beginning of\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em>the End or the End of the Beginning?;<\/em>\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Deborah Campbell\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">for <em>A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em>Survival in the Shadow of War<\/em>,\u00a0Ross King<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0for <em>Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water\u00a0<\/em><\/span><em>Lilies<\/em>,\u00a0and <span class=\"s1\">Sonja Larsen<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0for <em>Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(More <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/arts\/books\/writers-trust-announces-finalists-for-nonfiction-prize-including-ian-brown-deborah-campbell-matti-friedman\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writers&#8217; Trust of Canada has announced that\u00a0Pumpkinflowers\u00a0is one of five finalists for this year&#8217;s Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction. The winner of the prize, considered the \u201crichest annual literary award\u201d for a nonfiction book by a Canadian author, will be announced at a ceremony in Toronto on Nov. 2. The other finalists are Ian Brown\u00a0for Sixty: A Diary of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattifriedman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}