The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011

The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 celebrates the best of 2010's new popular science writing for a general adult readership and is open to science books written for a non-specialist audience.

The longlist will be announced on 22 June 2011.

The shortlist will be announced on 27 September 2011.
The winner will be announced on 17 November 2011.

 This year’s judging panel is as follows:

·        Monica Ali (Chair), author of Untold Story, a novel inspired by Princess Diana, and three previous novels, was the 2010 Chair of the Man Asian Literary Prize, and is a visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University

·        Professor Jenny Clack FRS, Professor and Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University Museum of Zoology, at the University of Cambridge

·        Richard Holmes FBA, biographer and author of The Age of Wonder, the 2009 winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books

·        Robert Llewellyn, writer, actor and TV presenter, credits include Scrapheap Challenge, Red Dwarf and How Do They Do It?

·        Professor Cait MacPhee, Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Edinburgh

 The winner of the prize will receive £10k and the authors of the shortlisted books £1k.  Please see http://royalsociety.org/Science-Books/ for more details.