Date: 22 March 2011 (announcement of winner)
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 is 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. The winner of this award will receive £50,000 and the opportunity to take up a short placement at The University of Warwick.
Shortlisted works this year include The Wasted Vigil, a novel by Pakistani-born Nadeem Aslam about war in our time told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Nadeem Aslam is the author of two previous novels, both of which were long-listed for the Man Booker Prize: Maps for Lost Lovers, winner of the Kiriyama Prize and a New York Times Notable Book, and Season of the Rainbirds. He is also the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Aslam now lives in England.
The Warwick Prize for Writing 2011 shortlist:
The winner will be announced in London on 22 March 2011.
More information here.
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 is 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. The winner of this award will receive £50,000 and the opportunity to take up a short placement at The University of Warwick.
Shortlisted works this year include The Wasted Vigil, a novel by Pakistani-born Nadeem Aslam about war in our time told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan. Nadeem Aslam is the author of two previous novels, both of which were long-listed for the Man Booker Prize: Maps for Lost Lovers, winner of the Kiriyama Prize and a New York Times Notable Book, and Season of the Rainbirds. He is also the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship. Aslam now lives in England.The Warwick Prize for Writing 2011 shortlist:
- "The Wasted Vigil" by Nadeem Aslam
- "Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage" by Peter Forbes
- "The Memory of Love" by Aminatta Forna
- "The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences" by Peter D. McDonald
- "What Color is the Sacred?!" by Michael Taussig
The winner will be announced in London on 22 March 2011.
More information here.
