Five finalists for $60,000 book prize

All five books nominated for the 2016 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize are from one publishing house: Penguin Random House, with four of its imprints represented.

On the short list are: Ian Brownfor Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-first Year: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning; Deborah Campbell for A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War; Matti Friedman for Pumpkinflowers: An Israeli Soldier’s Story; Ross King for Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies; and Sonja Larsen for Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary.

Each finalist will receive $5,000 with the winner receiving $60,000.

The winner will be announced at the Writers’ Trust awards ceremony on Nov. 2 at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Deborah Dundas