The novel ‘Murmur’ wins author Will Eaves the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize, presented Wednesday evening (May 1) in London.
Wellcome’s 10th Anniversary Shortlist Names Authors from Five Nations
The Wellcome Book Prize shortlist highlights work from independent publishers Canongate, CB Editions, Oneworld, and Text Publishing. And the Selfies announce their first year’s honors.
Wellcome Book Prize Announces Its 10th Anniversary Longlist
Almost evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction, the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize longlist features issues of gender, identity, mental health and medicine.
Wellcome Book Prize Goes to Mark O’Connell for ‘To Be a Machine’
Mark O’Connell wins the Wellcome Book Prize for surveying transhumanist ideas of “improving our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better.”
Wellcome Book Prize’s 2018 Shortlist: Five of Six Titles Are by Women
Themed on medical science and society’s relationship to it, the Wellcome Book Prize announces a shortlist for 2018 that includes four debuts. One title is a novel, one is a memoir, and four are nonfiction.
Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist Announced at London Book Fair
In its unusual criteria of stories that “engage with some aspect of medicine, health, or illness,” the Wellcome Prize is for fiction and nonfiction