They've announced the longlist for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize -- which: "celebrates medicine in literature" (and is worth £25,000).
Admirably: "Books published in English translation are eligible"; interestingly (and oddly) none of the fourteen longlisted titles appears to be a translation. Are there so few books-in-translation that 'celebrate medicine in literature' ? Apparently so .....
Admirably: "Books published in English translation are eligible"; interestingly (and oddly) none of the fourteen longlisted titles appears to be a translation. Are there so few books-in-translation that 'celebrate medicine in literature' ? Apparently so .....