Shock Doctrine Winner of £50,000 Warwick Prize
Award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author Naomi Klein has nabbed the inaugural Warwick prize worth £50,000.
The newly announced biennial prize has self-consciously set out to break fresh ground as a prize, seeking not only to explore different themes, but also to explore "how writing evolves" and pick out its "moving edge". China Miéville, one of the 2009 judges commented: "Of course, that could mean anything and nothing, but because it's a prize that's deliberately interdisciplinary and 'inter-formal'." It may seem very much like judging apples and oranges.
"We kept coming back to the Klein book not just for its prescience and passion, but because of the 'systematicity' with which it builds a very sophisticated argument into a book that is both accessible and – odd though it sounds of such an angry work – beautiful," noted the panel.
More about The Shock Doctrine:
www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
More about The Warwick Prize:
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/feb/24/naomi-klein-warwick-prize
The 2009 Warwick Prize Shortlist:
community.indigo.ca/toptens/The-50-000-Warwick-Prize-Nonfiction-Editor/533431.html
