The Warwick Prize for Writing

Naomi Klein was awarded the first Warwick Prize for Writing for The Shock Doctrine. According to the University of Warwick's web site, the award is "an international cross-disciplinary award which will be given biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that will change with every award." This year's award is worth £50,000.

The theme for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing will be 'colour'.

Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine wins first Warwick Prize for Writing

Outstanding 'complexity' wins Naomi Klein £50,000 inaugural Warwick prize

I've just heard about the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing. This will the the third time the prize has been awarded with the winner due to be announced on 23 September in London. The previous two winners have been Naomi Klein for The Shock Doctrine and Peter Forbes for Dazzled and Deceived.

So the 2013 shortlist is as follows:
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili (Non-Fiction)
Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth (Fiction)
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine (Non-Fiction)
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (Fiction)
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane (Non-Fiction)
Memorial by Alice Oswald (Poetry)

Books not shortlisted but that appeared on the longlist were:
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Cumulus by Robert Gray
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally
Book of Sins by Nidaa Khoury

Thanks for posting this shortlist, geocroc. I don't own any of those books, but Suddenly, A Knock on the Door and The Old Ways interest me the most. BTW, Robert MacFarlane is the chair of judges for this year's Booker Prize.