Entries are being accepted
by the Royal Society from today [27 November 2012] for the world’s most
prestigious award for science writing. Publishers are invited to submit
their best science books for a non-specialist adult audience to the 2013 Royal
Society Winton Prize for Science Books.
The 2013 Royal Society
Winton Prize for Science Books will celebrate the best of 2012's new
popular science writing for a general adult readership. The Prize is open to
science books written for a non-specialist audience. The winner will receive
£10,000 and the authors of the short listed books £1,000.
Books can be submitted by
publishers from any country, but must have been published for the first time in
English during 2012 and be available to buy in the UK. In 2012 the Prize was
won by James Gleick’s The Information (Fourth Estate). Full
details of the prize’s regulations and eligibility criteria and the entry form
are available on the Society’s website at royalsociety.org/awards/science-books.
An online entry form must
be completed for each entry, and seven non-returnable copies of each entry
submitted to the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, 6-9 Carlton
House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK by Friday 8th February 2013.
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