Press Release: Prizes and Awards
Call For Entries For 2010 Royal Society Prize For Science Books
Posted at 3:33PM Monday 01 Mar 2010
Entries for the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, which is among the world's leading non-fiction books prizes, are being accepted from today 1ST MARCH, 2010. The 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books will celebrate the best of 2009'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 £1000. Books submitted for the prize must have been published for the first time in English during 2009 and be available to buy in the UK. Full details of the prizes' regulations and eligibility criteria and the entry form are available on the Society's website at http://royalsociety.org/sciencebooks. An online entry form must be completed for each entry, and seven non-returnable copies of each entry submitted to the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG, UK by Thursday 1st April 2010. The Royal Society is celebrating its 350th anniversary in 2010, promoting a spirit of enquiry, excitement and engagement with science. The celebrations will include a ten-day festival of science and arts in partnership with Southbank Centre, London, and a wide range of exhibitions and events across the UK in partnership with numerous museums, galleries and other cultural institutions. In 2009 The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (Harper) was the overall winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Other previous winners include Mark Lynas, Robert Winston, Daniel Gilbert, Matt Ridley, Bill Bryson, Frances Dipper, Stephen Hawking, Jared Diamond, Kate Petty and Fran Balkwill. After being awarded the 2008 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Mark Lynas' Six degrees: Our future on a hotter planet enjoyed a boost of more than double sales figures in the months following the award. Due to funding issues the Junior Prize will not be offered this year. The Society is seeking longer-term support for the awards from 2011 onwards.
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