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Wellcome Book Prize Winner 2018

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Rebecca Wallersteiner

This week, Irish author Mark O’Connell won the prestigious £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize 2018 for his critically acclaimed debut To Be a Machine. Edmund De Waal, Chair of Judges, 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, said his book was ‘a passionate, entertaining and cogent examination of those who would choose to live forever.” To Be a Machine: […]

2018 Wellcome Book Prize – longlist announced

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Rebecca Wallersteiner

In 1959, CP Snow wrote that “the intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.” He was referring to the estrangement between scientists and literary intellectuals, but his words could have as true for science and the visual arts. Although arts and science are often seen as […]