Warwick Prize for Writing

Given by University of Warwick

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The Warwick Prize for Writing was launched in 2008 and is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given every two years for show more an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme which will change with every award. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (4), Shortlist (20), Longlist (37)
Years:
All, 2015 (18), 2013 (11), 2011 (11), 2009 (21)

Winner 4

WorkYear
Redeployment by Phil Klay2015
Memorial by Alice Oswald2013
Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage by Peter Forbes2011
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein2009

Shortlist 20

WorkYear
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler2015
Her Birth by Rebecca Goss2015
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård2015
Lila by Marilynne Robinson2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker2015
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili2013
Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth2013
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine2013
Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret2013
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane2013
The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam2011
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna2011
The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences by Peter D. McDonald2011
What Color Is the Sacred? by Michael Taussig2011
White Egrets by Derek Walcott2011
Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 by Lisa Appignanesi2009
The Art of Political Murder. Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman2009
Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman2009
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross2009
Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas2009

Longlist 37

WorkYear
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume2015
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler2015
Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter by Lyndall Gordon2015
Her Birth by Rebecca Goss2015
The Dig by Cynan Jones2015
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård2015
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi2015
Lila by Marilynne Robinson2015
Ismael and His Sisters by Louise Stern2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson2015
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer2015
Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker2015
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes2013
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen2013
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh2013
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally2013
Book of Sins by Nidaa Khoury2013
Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome by Mark Bradley2011
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde2011
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky2011
Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip by Lisa Robertson2011
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair2011
The Numbers Game: The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News, in Politics, and in Life by Michael Blastland2009
The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland2009
The Glister by John Burnside2009
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis2009
Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Modern Poets) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis2009
Someone else : fictional essays by John Hughes2009
The Burning by Thomas Legendre2009
Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context) by David N. Livingstone2009
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane2009
The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future by James Martin2009
Brasyl by Ian McDonald2009
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill2009
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez2009
Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked by Ivan Vladislavić2009
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery by James Walvin2009

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The Warwick Prize for Writing was launched in 2008 and is an innovative literature prize that involves global competition, and crosses all disciplines. The Prize will be given every two years for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme which will change with every award. (English, Member-written)
discontinued (Russian, Member-written)

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