In keeping with the vision and goals of Wellcome Trust, the Book Prize "celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature",[1] including fiction and non-fiction.
[2] The winner receives £30,000 making it "one of the most remunerative literature awards on offer.
"[3] The current prize for medicine in literature was inaugurated in 2009, but there was an older award with the same name.
In 1998, Wellcome Trust began offering a prize that would enable a practicing life scientist to take time off and write a science book for the general reader.
[5] The timetable of key dates is longlist in February, shortlist in March and winner in May.