“The conversation about autism is often very depressing, but Neurotribes ends on a very hopeful note about how to think differently about this condition. So this is a book about autism, but it is also about the human brain … about how we look at people who are different.”Īnd it is, she said, “deeply original – a wonderful piece of storytelling which is deeply researched and powerful in its message.”
He takes a problem and looks at it from different angles. Neurotribes, she said, “is a combination of different kinds of non-fiction techniques. But in the end we went with the book we felt would have the widest impact, and which represented in my view a transcendence of genre.” “Each in its own category is superior – the Jonathan Bate is clearly a brilliant biography Samanth Subramanian’s This Divided Island is a brilliant piece of journalism. “We had a very diverse shortlist,” she said. While Applebaum has said that the meeting to pick the shortlist was “truly contentious it’s hard to imagine how five people sitting in a room on a weekday morning could have disagreed more strongly”, picking their overall winner was “not a bitter debate”. “Silberman also excels at using stories and anecdotes to explain complex medical issues to a wide audience.”Īpplebaum was joined on the judging panel by the editor of Intelligent Life Emma Duncan the editor of New Scientist Sumit Paul-Choudhury the director of the China Centre at Oxford University, Professor Rana Mitter and film executive Tessa Ross. “Silberman’s compassionate journalism explores the impact of popular culture on perceptions of autism, and the impact of autism on the families of those who live with it,” said Applebaum. But Silberman’s book is the first popular science title to win the prize in its 17-year history. Previous winners of the £20,000 award include Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad Philip Hoare’s Leviathan or, the Whale and last year Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk.
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