Warwick Prize for Writing
The Warwick Prize for Writing was an international literary prize, worth £25,000, that was given biennially for writing excellence in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that changes with every award.[1] It was launched by the University of Warwick in July 2008. Past nominations included scientific research, novels, poems, e-books and plays.[2] Works were open to be nominated by staff, students and alumni of Warwick University, and since 2014, the publishing industry.[1]
The Prize Management Group
The Prize Management Group of the Warwick Prize for Writing was made up of senior professors and administrative staff drawn from across the faculties and included the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. The Prize Management Group was responsible for the administration of the prize, including agreeing the rules, the guidelines for the judges and the arrangements for the award of the prize. The Prize Management Group was also responsible for choosing the judging panel.
2015
The 2015 judging panel was chaired by A. L. Kennedy, accompanied by author and academic Robert Macfarlane, actress and director Fiona Shaw, physician and writer Gavin Francis, and Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler.
The theme for the 2015 prize was 'Instinct'. The winner is in bold.
| Author | Shortlist titles |
|---|---|
| Marilynne Robinson | Lila |
| Phil Klay | Redeployment |
| Rebecca Goss | Her Birth |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves |
| Mark Vanhoenacker | Skyfaring |
| Karl Ove Knausgaard, translator Don Bartlett | A Man in Love |
2013
The judges for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2013 were Ian Sansom of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick (Chair), Marina Warner CBE and Ed Byrne, Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
2013 was the first time the prize was won by a poet.
Winner is in bold.[3]
| Author | Shortlist titles |
|---|---|
| Jim Al-Khalili | Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science |
| Amy Espeseth | Sufficient Grace |
| Cordelia Fine | Delusions of Gender |
| Etgar Keret | Suddenly, a Knock on the Door |
| Robert Macfarlane | The Old Ways |
| Alice Oswald | Memorial |
| Author | Additional longlist titles |
|---|---|
| Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending |
| Jonathan Franzen | Freedom |
| Amitav Ghosh | River of Smoke |
| Robert Gray | Cumulus |
| Thomas Keneally | The Daughters of Mars |
| Nidaa Khoury | Book of Sins |
2011
The theme for the 2011 award was "colour".[1]
Michael Rosen chaired the panel of five judges for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing, and was joined by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Professor Nigel Thrift, award-winning author Jenny Uglow, Times Literary Editor Erica Wagner and writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster Baroness Lola Young.
Winner is in bold.[4]
| Author | Shortlist titles |
|---|---|
| Nadeem Aslam | The Wasted Vigil |
| Peter Forbes | Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage |
| Aminatta Forna | The Memory of Love |
| Peter D McDonald | The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences |
| Michael Taussig | What Color is the Sacred? |
| Derek Walcott | White Egrets |
| Author | Longlist titles |
|---|---|
| Nadeem Aslam | The Wasted Vigil |
| Mark Bradley | Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome |
| Jasper Fforde | Shades of Grey |
| Peter Forbes | Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage |
| Aminatta Forna | The Memory of Love |
| Peter D McDonald | The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences |
| Rachel Polonsky | Molotov's Magic Lantern |
| Lisa Robertson | Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip |
| Iain Sinclair | Hackney, That Rose Red Empire |
| Michael Taussig | What Color is the Sacred? |
| Derek Walcott | White Egrets |
2009
The theme for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing was complexity. A longlist of 20 candidate titles was announced in November 2008, followed by the shortlist of six titles announced on 22 January 2009. The winner, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, was announced on 24 February 2009.
China Miéville, award-winning writer of weird fiction, chaired the panel of five judges. Professor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, provided a vital link between the Prize Management Group and the Judging Panel. The journalist Maya Jaggi, the author and translator Maureen Freely and the literary blogger Stephen Mitchelmore completed the Judging Panel.
Winner is in bold.[5]
| Author | Shortlist titles |
|---|---|
| Lisa Appignanesi | Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 |
| Francisco Goldman | The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? |
| Stuart A Kauffman | Reinventing the Sacred |
| Naomi Klein | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |
| Alex Ross | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century |
| Enrique Vila-Matas (trans. Jonathan Dunne) | Montano's Malady |
| Author | Longlist titles |
|---|---|
| Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot | The Tiger That Isn't |
| Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Torques: Drafts 58-76 |
| John Burnside | Glister |
| Mike Davies | Planet of Slums |
| John Hughes | Someone Else |
| Thomas Legendre | The Burning |
| David Livingstone | Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins |
| Robert Macfarlane | The Wild Places |
| James Martin | The Meaning of the 21st Century |
| Ian McDonald | Brasyl |
| Joseph O'Neill | Netherland |
| Juan Gabriel Vasquez (trans. Anne McLean) | The Informers |
| Ivan Vladislavic | Portrait with Keys |
| James Walvin | The Trader The Owner The Slave |
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c About the prize, official website.
- ^ "Comparing apples and pears, a new writing prize is the first to accept entries across all genres, from novels to scientific research", New Scientist, 21 March 2009, p. 45. Article quote: "Complexity was the theme of the first Warwick prize for writing, the only cross-disciplinary writing competition in any format."
- ^ Liz Bury (25 September 2013). "Alice Oswald wins Warwick prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^ Benedicte Page (24 March 2011). "Cultural history of camouflage wins Warwick Prize for Writing". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
- ^ Alison Flood (24 February 2009). "Outstanding 'complexity' wins Naomi Klein £50,000 inaugural Warwick prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
References
- Official website
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