The Book Prize Index

Wainwright Prize

A program-level overview of Wainwright Prize categories currently represented in The Book Prize Index.

NonfictionAward program
Categories
2
Active
2
Historical
0
Records
173
Books
173
First year
2014
Latest year
2025

Official site

Open source

Coverage

2 categories represented

Notes

British prize for adult nature and conservation writing. The corpus includes adult winners and shortlists through 2025, plus official longlists from 2021 onward. Children's and illustrated-book categories are outside this corpus.

Source coverage

100%

Sourced records

173 of 173

Active categories

2 active / 0 historical

Categories

CategoryYearsSubjectRecords
Nature Writing2014-presentNonfiction107›
Conservation Writing2020-presentNonfiction66›