All entries for Tuesday 03 March 2009
March 03, 2009
Warwick Prize for Writing
Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/newsandevents/intnews2/prizeforwritingwinner
Naomi Klein has been announced as the winner of the first Warwick Prize for Writing. Canadian journalist Klein's winning book The Shock Doctrine was chosen from a diverse shortlist of six international titles.
The six shortlisted books all offered a different interpretation of this year's theme of complexity and ranged from music criticism and scientific theory to Spanish fiction.
Read more about the six shortlisted writers
Chair judge China Miéville, award-winning author of fantasy fiction, announced the winner at a ceremony held in the Arts Centre, which was attended by the Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor.