Will Eaves wins Wellcome book prize for fictionalised take on Alan Turing

Murmur, which depicts the mathematician ’s ordeal after he was convicted for having a gay lover, is hailed by judges as ‘a future classic’Will Eaves ’s fictionalised account of the chemical castration of Alan Turing, Murmur, was hailed as “a future classic” as it won the £30,000 Wellcome book prize on Wednesday night, only the third novel to win the award for science-related writing.Published by Charles Boyle ’s one-man-band press CB Editions, Murmur was up against both fiction and non-fiction for the prize, which goes to the book that best “illuminate[s] the many ways that health and medicine touch our lives”. It beat titles including Thomas Page McBee’s memoirAmateur, about becoming the first transgender man to box at Madison Square Gardens, and cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar ’sHeart, a history and memoir of the organ.Continue reading...
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