LaPlante wins Wellcome prize

Publication Date: Thu, 10/11/2011 - 08:40 Debut novelist Alice LaPLante has won the third Wellcome Trust Book Prize for her tale of a "brilliant mind in terminal decline". Turn of Mind (Harvill Secker) beat Philip Roth's Nemesis as well as titles by Sarah Manguso, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ann Patchett and Louisa Young to the £25,000 prize, awarded last night (9th November). The Wellcome Trust Book Prize rewards works of fiction and non-fiction on the theme of health and medicine. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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