‘The Trauma Cleaner’ shortlisted for Wellcome Book Prize
Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Text) is one of six books shortlisted for the UK’s Wellcome Book Prize.
The annual prize, worth £30,000 (A$56,076), is presented for books of fiction or nonfiction centred on medicine, health or illness.
Krasnostein’s book is a biography of trauma cleaner Sandra Pankhurst. It has already won numerous awards, including the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for nonfiction, the ABIA general nonfiction book of the year and the Dobbie Literary Award.
The winner will be announced on 1 May. To see the full shortlist, click here.
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