Announcements

Press release: 2011 winner announced
9 November 2011
‘Turn of Mind’ by Alice LaPlante wins the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Read more

Press release: 2011 shortlist announced
6 October 2011
The shortlist for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize is announced. Read more

Press release: 2011 judging panel announced
15 July 2011
Chaired by Vivienne Parry, the panel includes Joanna Bourke, Roger Highfield, Tim Lott and Erica Wagner. Read more

Press release: 2010 winner announced
9 November 2010
'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot has won the second Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Read more

Press release: 2010 shortlist announced
7 October 2010
The shortlist for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize is announced. Read more

Press release: 2010 judging panel announced
27 April 2010
Chaired by Clive Anderson, the panel includes Maggie Gee, AC Grayling, Michael Neve and Alice Roberts. Read more

Press release: 2009 winner announced
4 November 2009
'Keeper' by Andrea Gillies wins first ever Wellcome Trust Book Prize. Read more

Press release: 2009 shortlist announced
8 October 2009
The Wellcome Trust Book Prize, a £25 000 award open to outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction on the the theme of health, illness or medicine, announces its first ever shortlist. Read more

Press release: Book prize announced at The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival
11 October 2008
The Wellcome Trust is offering a £25 000 annual prize for a work of newly published high-quality fiction or non-fiction that explores the theme of medicine or biomedical science. Read more