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Espeseth and Fine shortlisted for Warwick Prize

Australian author Amy Espeseth and Australia-based UK academic Cordelia Fine have been shortlisted for the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing.

The shortlist was announced at a ceremony at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 30 August. The shortlisted titles are:

  • Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science (Jim Al-Khalili, Allen Lane)
  • Sufficient Grace (Amy Espeseth, Scribe)
  • Delusions of Gender (Cordelia Fine, Icon)
  • Suddenly, A Knock on the Door (Etgar Keret, Vintage)
  • The Old Ways (Robert Macfarlane, Hamish Hamilton)
  • Memorial (Alice Oswald, Faber).

 

The £25,000 (A$41,437) prize is presented biennially by the University of Warwick in the UK. This year’s prize is presented for works of fiction, nonfiction or poetry, written in English by a living author and published between 1 May 2010 and 31 March 2013. The titles were nominated by staff and students of Warwick University, and for the first time this year, by staff and students at Monash University in Melbourne following the establishment of an alliance between the two universities. The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London on 24 September.

The Warwick Prize was first presented in 2009 to Naomi Klein for The Shock Doctrine (Penguin). As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Australian authors Tom Keneally and Robert Gray were also longlisted for this year’s prize for The Daughters of Mars (Vintage) and Cumulus (John Leonard Press) respectively.

For more information about the prize, visit the Warwick University website here.

 

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