PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award is awarded by the PEN American Center for writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences.[1] The award includes a cash prize of $10,000.[2]
The award was founded by scientist and author Dr. Edward O. Wilson, activist and actor Harrison Ford, and the E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.[2] The award was inaugurated in 2011.[3]
Examples of published works that exemplify the quality of writing the award is designed to acknowledge include Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) and James Watson's The Double Helix (1969), which contribute 'to the public’s understanding of scientific principles at work in the world today.'[2]
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by International PEN affiliates in over 145 PEN centers around the world. The PEN American Center awards have been characterized as being among the "major" American literary prizes.[4]
Award winners
- Winner: Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Runner-up: David Abram, Becoming Animal
- Winner: James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Runner-up: Donovan Hohn, Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them[9]
- Winner: Leonard Mlodinow, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
- Runner-up: David G. Haskell, The Forest Unseen
- Winner: Carl Hart, High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society
- Winner: Joshua Horwitz, War of the Whales: A True Story
- 2016 [16]
- Winner: Lauren Redniss, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future
References
- ↑ PEN American Center Literary Awards
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- ↑ http://www.pen.org/literature/2016-pene-o-wilson-literary-science-writing-award
External links
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