BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Cathy Rentzenbrink

Cathy Rentzenbrink is a British memoirist, the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Last Act of Love (2015), which was also shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

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Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone (2009) is a novel written by Ethiopian-born Indian-American medical doctor and author Abraham Verghese.

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David France (writer)

David France (born 1959) is an American investigative reporter, non-fiction author, and filmmaker.

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Ed Yong

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a British-American science journalist and author.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author.

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Emma Henderson

Emma Henderson (born 1958) is a British writer.

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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity is a non-fiction book by Andrew Solomon published in November 2012 in the United States and two months later in the UK (under the title, Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love), about how families accommodate children with physical, mental and social disabilities and differences.

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Gareth F. Williams

Gareth Finlay Williams (9 February 1955 – 14 September 2016) was a Welsh language author who wrote novels for children and adults, as well as creating many television drama series.

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Hallucinations (book)

Hallucinations is a 2012 book written by the neurologist Oliver Sacks.

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Havi Carel

Havi Hannah Carel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol.

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Heart: A History

Heart: A History is a 2018 book by Sandeep Jauhar.

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Henry Marsh (neurosurgeon)

Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS (born 5 March 1950) is a British neurosurgeon and author, a pioneer of awake craniotomy techniques and of neurosurgical work in Ukraine.

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How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague is a 2012 American documentary film about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and the efforts of activist groups ACT UP and TAG.

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It's All in Your Head (book)

It's All in Your Head is a nonfiction book by neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan, in which she shares her past experiences in diagnosing patients with psychosomatic disorders.

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John M. Coates

John Coates is a neuroscientist and applied physiologist working on the biology of risk taking.

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John Nichol (RAF officer)

Adrian "John" Nichol is a retired Royal Air Force navigator who was shot down and captured during the Gulf War.

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Jonny Steinberg

Jonny Steinberg (born 22 March 1970) is a South African writer and scholar.

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Lindsey Fitzharris

Lindsey Fitzharris (born 1982) is an American author, medical historian, and television host.

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Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18, 1957) is an American author and journalist who lives in Portugal.

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Literary award

A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.

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Louisa Young

Louisa Young is a British novelist, songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work has appeared in 32 languages.

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Michael J. Morgan

Michael John Morgan FRS (born 25 August 1942) is a professor at City, University of London.

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Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews (born 1964) is a Canadian writer and author of nine books, including A Complicated Kindness (2004), All My Puny Sorrows (2014), and Women Talking (2018).

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Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif (born November 1964) is a British Pakistani writer and journalist who writes a monthly opinion piece in The New York Times. Hanif is the author of the critically acclaimed book A Case of Exploding Mangoes, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book.

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a 2018 novel by American author Ottessa Moshfegh.

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Nemesis (Roth novel)

Nemesis is a novel by Philip Roth published on October 5, 2010, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Nick Coleman (British writer)

Nick Coleman (born 1960) is a British writer.

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist.

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Paul Kalanithi

Paul Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer.

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Peter James (writer)

Peter J. James (born 22 August 1948) is a British writer of crime.

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Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Rose Tremain

Dame Rose Tremain (born 2 August 1943) is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.

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Sandeep Jauhar

Sandeep Jauhar is an Indian-American cardiologist and author based in Long Island.

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Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is an American-Australian non-fiction writer.

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Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet.

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Sarah Moss

Sarah Moss (born 1975) is an English writer and academic.

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Scott Stossel

Scott Hanford Stossel (born August 7, 1969) is an American journalist and editor.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author.

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Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Maria Elisabet Rausing (born 29 January 1962) is a Swedish philanthropist, anthropologist and publisher.

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So Much for That

So Much for That is a 2010 novel by Lionel Shriver.

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State of Wonder

State of Wonder is a 2011 novel by American author Ann Patchett.

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Steve Silberman

Steve Silberman is an American writer for Wired magazine and has been an editor and contributor there for more than two decades.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Butchering Art

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine is a 2017 historical nonfiction book by Lindsey Fitzharris that discusses the evolution of Victorian-era medicine between the 1840s and 1870s, along with how surgeon Joseph Lister revolutionized the practice of surgery to reduce the extremely high death rates of the time period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome_Book_Prize

Also known as Wellcome Trust Book Prize.

, So Much for That, State of Wonder, Steve Silberman, The Bookseller, The Butchering Art, The Canadian Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene: An Intimate History, The Guardian, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Lancet, The Last Act of Love, The Outrun, The Space Between Our Ears, Thomas Page McBee, Tim Parks, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust, When Breath Becomes Air, Will Eaves.

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See also

British fiction awards

British non-fiction literary awards

References