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Wellcome Book Prize 2018

The 2018 Wellcome Book Prize went to To Be a Machine by Mark O'Connell. 6 books made the shortlist and 12 the longlist.

Winner

  1. To Be a Machine by Mark O'Connellsource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. Mayhem by Sigrid Rausingsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀source (opens in a new tab)
  3. The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharrissource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The Vaccine Race by Meredith Wadmansource (opens in a new tab)
  5. With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannixsource (opens in a new tab)

Longlist

  1. Behave by Robert Sapolskysource (opens in a new tab)
  2. I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrellsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. In Pursuit of Memory by Joseph Jebellisource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLavertysource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Plot 29 by Allan Jenkinssource (opens in a new tab)
  6. The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smithsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Wellcome Book Prize

Winner, shortlist and (2017-2019) longlist of the Wellcome Book Prize (Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009-2012), for fiction and non-fiction about health and medicine. Year is the award year the prize uses. It ran 2009-2012 and 2014-2019; there was no prize in 2013, and in May 2019 Wellcome paused it, so nothing after 2019. The official site is gone, so every year comes from archive.org snapshots of wellcomebookprize.org/past-prizes/<year>. Longlists were first published in 2017; 2009-2016 cover the shortlist only. Titles are the short titles the prize site used. The 2010 page spells the Medic co-author 'John Nichols'; the author is John Nichol, with Tony Rennell.

Organization: Wellcome Trust. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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