The bestselling Canadian book about the Fort McMurray wildfire, has been shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

“Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast” by 62-year old Vancouver author John Vailant is one of five non-fiction books in the running for the $25,000 prize which is administered by the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

It previously won the prestigious U.K.-based Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

The award will be handed out at the Politics and the Pen gala on May 7th to a work of political writing that has the potential to shape or influence thinking on Canadian political life.’