About the prize

The Wellcome Trust Book Prize celebrates the best of medicine in literature by awarding £25 000 each year for the finest fiction or non-fiction book centred around medicine. On these pages you can read about this year's judges and find out everything you need to know about how the prize works.

By establishing the Book Prize, the Wellcome Trust aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about medicine and literature, reaching audiences not normally engaged with medical science.

Examples
of medicine in literature

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Three Junes Never Let Me Go Illness as Metaphor Love in the Time of Cholera The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Medical Detectives The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat The Sea The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
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Rules and entry

Important information for publishers and authors.

• Key dates
• Eligibility
• Submissions
• Judging criteria

The judges

Contacts

Email addresses and phone numbers for key book prize contacts.

• Submissions
• Media queries
• Wellcome Trust

FAQ

Find out more about the Wellcome Trust Book Prize.

Responses to some frequently asked questions.