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The Prize Management Group of the Warwick Prize for Writing was made up of senior professors and administrative staff drawn from across the faculties and included the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. The Prize Management Group was responsible for the administration of the prize,
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in July 2008. Past nominations included scientific research, novels, poems, e-books and plays. Works were open to be nominated by staff, students and alumni of Warwick University, and since 2014, the publishing industry.
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was an international literary prize, worth £25,000, that was given biennially for writing excellence in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that changes with every award. It was launched by the
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including agreeing the rules, the guidelines for the judges and the arrangements for the award of the prize. The Prize Management Group was also responsible for choosing the judging panel.
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chaired the panel of five judges for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing, and was joined by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Professor
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of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick (Chair),
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The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences
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The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences
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and writer, cultural critic, public speaker and broadcaster Baroness
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Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800
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Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
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The theme for the 2015 prize was 'Instinct'. The winner is in
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The theme for the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing was
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi?
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The judges for the Warwick Prize for Writing 2013 were
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2013 was the first time the prize was won by a poet.
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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University of Warwick
A. L. Kennedy
Gavin Francis
Tony Wheeler
Marilynne Robinson
Lila
Phil Klay
Redeployment
Rebecca Goss
Karen Joy Fowler
Mark Vanhoenacker
Skyfaring
Karl Ove Knausgaard
A Man in Love
Ian Sansom
Marina Warner
Ed Byrne
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Jim Al-Khalili
Amy Espeseth
Cordelia Fine
Delusions of Gender
Etgar Keret
Robert Macfarlane
Alice Oswald
Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
Jonathan Franzen
Freedom

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