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Indian author selected for Wellcome Book Prize shortlist 2019: Here's the complete list

TNN | Last updated on - Mar 20, 2019, 17:24 IST
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The Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist 2019

The Wellcome Book Prize is an annual award for any book published in the last year, that "engages with some aspect of medicine, health or illness." The book has to be in English though translations published within the given time frame are acceptable. The book can be of any genre, fiction or non-fiction.

Here is the shortlist for 2019.
All photos: wellcomebookprize.org
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'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' by Ottessa Moshfegh

This book is a fiction on a girl living in New York. With a comfortable home and good education paid for by her inheritance, she seems to have it all. However, she chose to enter a drug-induced coma to deal with her emotions. The book has been described as "blackly funny" and supposed to give one a new perspective on alienation.
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​ 'The Trauma Cleaner: One woman’s extraordinary life in death, decay and disaster' by Sarah Krasnostein

This book is the autobiography of a truly extraordinary life. Sandra Pankhurst started life as a young boy who was adopted. After marrying, becoming a father and getting a divorce, he transits into a woman and becomes a trauma cleaner.
Photo: wellcomebookprize.org
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'Murmur' by Will Eaves

Though this book is a fiction, it's based on what the famous mathematician Alan Turing endured. The protagonist, Alec Pryor, describes the great bodily changes he's forced to endure and questions bodies, self, and computers in a dreamy poetic prose.
Photo: wellcomebookprize.org
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​ 'Mind on Fire' A memoir of madness and recovery' by Arnold Thomas Fanning

This book is a memoir and a wonderful exploration of what one suffering from a mental disorder endures. Starting with depression in his adolescence and going on to mania and suicidal thoughts in his 20's, the author had a hard life and describes it beautifully in his book.
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​ 'Heart: A History' by Sandeep Jauhar

This book is a memoir by cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar. While telling us about our steady organ, he tells stories of his patients, important discoveries like that of the pacemaker and also about his own family history of heart problems.
Photo: wellcomebookprize.org
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​ 'Amateur: A reckoning with gender, identity and masculinity' by Thomas Page McBee

This book is also a memoir. Told from the point of view of a transgender man, this book explores masculinity, particularly the correlation between masculinity and violence. As he learns boxing to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden, he learns important lessons about male culture and his body.
Photo: wellcomebookprize.org

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