Wellcome Book Prize
{{short description|Literary award}}
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| name = Wellcome Book Prize
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| awarded_for = topics of health and medicine in literature
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| sponsor = Wellcome Trust
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| location = United Kingdom
| year = 2009
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| website = [http://wellcomebookprize.org/ Wellcome Book Prize]
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Wellcome Book Prize (2009–2019 — paused) is an annual British literary award sponsored by Wellcome Trust. In keeping with the vision and goals of Wellcome Trust, the Book Prize "celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature",[http://www.wellcomebookprize.org/about-the-wellcome-book-prize/index.htm About the Wellcome Trust Book Prize] including fiction and non-fiction."Prize for medicine in literature." The Times (United Kingdom) [serial online]. October 11, 2012. Available from: Newspaper Source Plus, Ipswich, MA. Item: 7EH1489323595. Accessed September 30, 2012. The winner receives £30,000 making it "one of the most remunerative literature awards on offer.""New medicine book prize." The Bookseller (17 October 2008), Pg. 6 (1)). Gale Document Number: GALE|A188642463
The current prize for medicine in literature was inaugurated in 2009, but there was an older award with the same name. In 1998, Wellcome Trust began offering a prize that would enable a practicing life scientist to take time off and write a science book for the general reader.Frances M. Ashcroft. Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival. See [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nuw-IScFekMC&pg=PR15 Acknowledgments], pg.xv Applicants would submit a book outline and sample chapter, winners would then be obligated to write and publish the book. It appears the only winner was Michael J. Morgan for The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space (2001), before the prize (for science writing) was discontinued.
From 2009 to 2012 it was called the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. In 2013 there was no award however there were changes to the prize including an increase in prize money from £25,000 to £30,000.{{cite web|url=http://www.wellcomebookprize.org/Past-prizes/2013/index.htm|title=2013: No prize awarded|year=2013|publisher=Wellcome Book Prize|access-date=2 December 2013}} The timetable of key dates is longlist in February, shortlist in March and winner in May.{{Cite web|url=https://www.readings.com.au/news/the-wellcome-book-prize-longlist-2019|title=The Wellcome Book Prize longlist 2019|website=www.readings.com.au|language=en|access-date=2019-02-06}}
In 2019, the prize announced that it had "decided to take a pause and reflect".{{cite web |url=https://wellcomebookprize.org/what-is-new/wellcome-book-prize-will-be-taking-pause |title=Wellcome Book Prize will be taking a pause |work=wellcomebookprize.org |date=21 May 2019 |access-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525232823/https://wellcomebookprize.org/what-is-new/wellcome-book-prize-will-be-taking-pause|archive-date=25 May 2019}}
Winners and shortlisted nominees
References
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External links
- [https://wellcomebookprize.org/ Wellcome Book Prize], official website.
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Category:Awards established in 2009
Category:2009 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:British non-fiction literary awards