Jonathan Ball welcomes the announcement that Jonny Steinberg’s Three-Letter Plague: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great Epidemic has been shortlisted for the inaugural Wellcome Trust Book Prize. The Trust aims to award £25,000 award yearly for the best fiction or non-fiction book centered on medicine:
Jonny Steinberg's Three-Letter Plague: A Young Man's Journey Through a Great Epidemic, a vivid narrative non-fiction examining the AIDS crisis in South Africa, has been shortlisted for the first ever Wellcome Trust Book Prize, a prestigious new £25,000 award for outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health, illness or medicine. The winner will be announced at an awards reception at Wellcome Collection in London on 4 November 2009. Jonny Steinberg will be in the UK at the end of October for events leading up to the prize announcement, and for the announcement itself.
The winner will be announced on 4 November. Good luck to Steinberg!
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October 15th, 2009 @10:10 #
Holding thumbs for Johnny. Three-Letter Plague is exceptional -- one of the best books I read this year.
November 12th, 2009 @18:34 #
Keeper by Andrea Gillies won the prize, edging out Steinberg et al.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2009/WTX057337.htm
November 13th, 2009 @00:05 #
Humph. Keeper must be exceptional if it beat Three-Letter Plague.