# Warwick Prize for Writing

The Warwick Prize for Writing was an international literary prize, worth £25,000, that was given biennially for writing excellence in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that changes with every award. It was launched by the University of Warwick in July 2008. Past nominations included scientific research, novels, poems, e-books and plays. Works were open to be nominated by staff, students and alumni of Warwick University, and since 2014, the publishing industry.

## The Prize Management Group

The Prize Management Group of the Warwick Prize for Writing was made up of senior professors and administrative staff drawn from across the faculties and included the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. The Prize Management Group was responsible for the administration of the prize, including agreeing the rules, the guidelines for the judges and the arrangements for the award of the prize. The Prize Management Group was also responsible for choosing the judging panel.

## History
### 2009

The theme for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing was "complexity". A longlist of 20 candidate titles was announced in November 2008, followed by a shortlist of six titles announced on 22 January 2009. The winner, Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine, was announced on 24 February 2009.
China Miéville, award-winning writer of weird fiction, chaired the panel of five judges. Professor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, provided a vital link between the Prize Management Group and the Judging Panel. The journalist Maya Jaggi, author and translator Maureen Freely and literary blogger Stephen Mitchelmore completed the Judging Panel.

### 2011

Michael Rosen chaired the panel of five judges for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing, and was joined by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Professor Nigel Thrift, award-winning author Jenny Uglow, Times Literary Editor Erica Wagner and writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster Baroness Lola Young.
The theme for the 2011 award was "colour". The winning book was Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage.

### 2013

The judges for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2013 were Ian Sansom of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick (Chair), Marina Warner CBE and Ed Byrne, Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
2013 was the first time the prize was won by a poet.

### 2015

The 2015 judging panel was chaired by A. L. Kennedy, accompanied by author and academic Robert Macfarlane, actress and director Fiona Shaw, physician and writer Gavin Francis, and Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler.
The theme for the 2015 prize was "Instinct". The winning book was Redeployment by Phil Klay.

## Winners and nominees

| Year | Author | Translator(s) | Title | Result |
| 2009 | Naomi Klein | | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Won |
| 2009 | Lisa Appignanesi | | Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Francisco Goldman | | The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Stuart Kauffman | | Reinventing the Sacred | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Alex Ross | | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Enrique Vila-Matas | Jonathan Dunne | Montano's Malady | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot | | The Tiger That Isn't | Longlist |
| 2009 | John Burnside | | Glister | Longlist |
| 2009 | Mike Davis | | Planet of Slums | Longlist |
| 2009 | Rachel Blau DuPlessis | | Torques: Drafts 58–76 | Longlist |
| 2009 | John Hughes | | Someone Else | Longlist |
| 2009 | Thomas Legendre | | The Burning | Longlist |
| 2009 | David N. Livingstone | | Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins | Longlist |
| 2009 | Robert Macfarlane | | The Wild Places | Longlist |
| 2009 | James Martin | | The Meaning of the 21st Century | Longlist |
| 2009 | Ian McDonald | | Brasyl | Longlist |
| 2009 | Joseph O'Neill | | Netherland | Longlist |
| 2009 | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Anne McLean | The Informers | Longlist |
| 2009 | Ivan Vladislavic | | Portrait with Keys | Longlist |
| 2009 | James Walvin | | The Trader, The Owner, The Slave | Longlist |
| 2011 | Peter Forbes | | Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage | Won |
| 2011 | Nadeem Aslam | | The Wasted Vigil | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Aminatta Forna | | The Memory of Love | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Peter D. McDonald | | The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Michael Taussig | | What Color is the Sacred? | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Derek Walcott | | White Egrets | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Mark Bradley | | Colour and Meaning in Ancient Rome | Longlist |
| 2011 | Jasper Fforde | | Shades of Grey | Longlist |
| 2011 | Rachel Polonsky | | Molotov's Magic Lantern | Longlist |
| 2011 | Lisa Robertson | | Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip | Longlist |
| 2011 | Iain Sinclair | | Hackney, That Rose Red Empire | Longlist |
| 2013 | Alice Oswald | | Memorial | Won |
| 2013 | Jim Al-Khalili | | Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Amy Espeseth | | Sufficient Grace | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Cordelia Fine | | Delusions of Gender | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Etgar Keret | | Suddenly, a Knock on the Door | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Robert Macfarlane | | The Old Ways | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Julian Barnes | | The Sense of an Ending | Longlist |
| 2013 | Jonathan Franzen | | Freedom | Longlist |
| 2013 | Amitav Ghosh | | River of Smoke | Longlist |
| 2013 | Robert Gray | | Cumulus | Longlist |
| 2013 | Thomas Keneally | | The Daughters of Mars | Longlist |
| 2013 | Nidaa Khoury | | Book of Sins | Longlist |
| 2015 | Phil Klay | | Redeployment | Won |
| 2015 | Karen Joy Fowler | | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Rebecca Goss | | Her Birth | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Karl Ove Knausgaard | Don Bartlett | A Man in Love | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Marilynne Robinson | | Lila | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Mark Vanhoenacker | | Skyfaring | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Sara Baume | | Spill Simmer Falter Wither | Longlist |
| 2015 | Lyndall Gordon | | Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and a Daughter | Longlist |
| 2015 | Cynan Jones | | The Dig | Longlist |
| 2015 | Armand Marie Leroi | | The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science | Longlist |
| 2015 | Louise Stern | | Ismael and His Sisters | Longlist |
| 2015 | Bryan Stevenson | | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Longlist |
| 2015 | Jeff VanderMeer | | Annihilation | Longlist |