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Miriam Toews on short list for U.K.’s lucrative Wellcome Book Prize
Original Publication Date: March 9, 2015 7:37AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 8:28PM
LONDON – Canadian author Miriam Toews has made the short list for the U.K.’s Wellcome Book Prize for her widely acclaimed novel “All My Puny Sorrows.”
The story of a Canadian writer trying to help her sister through mental health issues is up against five other titles for the prize, which is worth 30,000 pounds (about C$57,000).
“All My Puny Sorrows” (Faber) won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in November and made the short list for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Its competition for the Wellcome Book Prize is a mix of fiction and non-fiction, including “The Iceberg” by Marion Coutts (Atlantic) and “Do No Harm” by Henry Marsh (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).
The short list is rounded out by “Bodies of Light” by Sarah Moss (Granta), “The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being” by Alice Roberts (Quercus) and “My Age of Anxiety” by Scott Stossel (Windmill Books).
Author Bill Bryson chaired the jury, which included BBC presenter Razia Iqbal, academic Uta Frith, writer Mark Haddon and lawyer Helena Kennedy.
The winner will be announced on April 29.
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