Celebrating medicine in literature
What is medicine in literature?
Exploring the theme of medicine in fiction and non-fiction. Read more.
The judges
Read all about the 2009 judging panel.
• Jo Brand (Chair)
• Richard Barnett
• Quentin Cooper
• Gwyneth Lewis
• Raymond Tallis
Winner announced
The 2009 winner of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize is Andrea Gillies's 'Keeper'.
This was announced at the prize-giving event at London's Wellcome Collection on the evening of 4 November.
Find out more about all the shortlisted authors.
About the Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK, funding innovative biomedical research and medicine-related art.
Our activities include: Wellcome Collection, where you can find an ancient mummy and a DNA-sequencing robot together under one roof; the world-famous Wellcome Library; and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Europe's leading centre for genome sequencing.