How often do you get to hear from an international line-up of critically acclaimed authors about the creative process as well as explore the broader context of medicine and literature?

Every year, the Wellcome Trust Book Prize celebrates the best of medicine in literature by awarding £25 000 for the finest fiction or non-fiction book centred on medicine. This event is your chance to hear from some of the shortlisted authors about their work.

Speakers

Alice LaPlante, author of 'Turn of Mind'

Sarah Manguso, author of 'The Two Kinds of Decay'

Louisa Young, author of 'My Dear I Wanted To Tell You'

Facilitator

Anne Karpf, writer, journalist and sociologist

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More information on all of the shortlisted authors and their books is available here: www.wellcomebookprize.org

Speaker biographies

Alice LaPlante is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and teaches writing there as well as at San Francisco State University. She has been published in 'Epoch', 'Southwest Review' and other literary journals, and her non-fiction has appeared in 'Forbes ASAP', 'Discover' and 'Business Week'. She has written four books of non-fiction. 'Turn of Mind' is her first novel.

Sarah Manguso is the author of two books of poetry and the short-story collection 'Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape', included with story collections by Dave Eggers and Deb Olin Unferth in McSweeney's 'One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box'. One of the rising stars of the American literary scene, she has won honours for her writing including a Pushcart Prize, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, the Truman Capote Fellowship at the University of Iowa and the Isabella Gardner Fellowship at the MacDowell Colony.

Louisa Young was born in London. She was for many years a freelance journalist, working mostly for the motorcycle press, for 'Marie Claire' and for the 'Guardian'. She has travelled widely and published ten books. She lives in London and Italy with her daughter and the composer Robert Lockhart. She is the adult half of Zizou Corder, authors of the best-selling 'Lionboy' trilogy, which is published in 36 languages.